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  • Open Access
16 Citations
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Indoor Localization System Based on RSSI-APIT Algorithm

  • Xiaoyan Shen,
  • Boyang Xu and
  • Hongming Shen

5 December 2023

An indoor localization system based on the RSSI-APIT algorithm is designed in this study. Integrated RSSI (received signal strength indication) and non-ranging APIT (approximate perfect point-in-triangulation test) localization methods are fused with...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,956 Views
21 Pages

Fault Localization Using TrustRank Algorithm

  • Xin Fan,
  • Kaisheng Wu,
  • Shuqing Zhang,
  • Li Yu,
  • Wei Zheng and
  • Yun Ge

15 November 2023

Spectrum-based fault localization (SBFL), a widely recognized technique in automated fault localization, has limited effectiveness due to its disregard for the internal information of the program under test suites. To overcome this limitation, a nove...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,732 Views
24 Pages

An Enhanced Food Digestion Algorithm for Mobile Sensor Localization

  • Shu-Chuan Chu,
  • Zhi-Yuan Shao,
  • Ning Zhong,
  • Geng-Geng Liu and
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan

29 August 2023

Mobile sensors can extend the range of monitoring and overcome static sensors’ limitations and are increasingly used in real-life applications. Since there can be significant errors in mobile sensor localization using the Monte Carlo Localizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,050 Views
27 Pages

FPGA-Based Particle Swarm Collaborative Target Localization Algorithm for UAV Swarms

  • Chuanhao Zhang,
  • Changsheng Li,
  • Zhipeng Chen,
  • Haojie Li and
  • Hang Yu

14 April 2025

To achieve precise collaborative localization of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in hardware environments, this paper presents an field-programmable gate array-based particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm aimed at enhancing the localiza...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,966 Views
12 Pages

In everyday life, 5G-based localization technology is commonly used, but non-line-of-sight (NLOS) environments can block the propagation of the localization signal, thus preventing localization. In order to solve this problem, this paper proposes a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
8,070 Views
17 Pages

31 August 2016

Localization is an essential requirement in the increasing prevalence of wireless sensor network (WSN) applications. Reducing the computational complexity, communication overhead in WSN localization is of paramount importance in order to prolong the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,445 Views
18 Pages

Software Fault Localization Based on SALSA Algorithm

  • Xin Fan,
  • Zuxiong Shen,
  • Zhenlei Fu and
  • Yun Ge

16 February 2025

In software development, debugging is the most tedious and time-consuming phase. Therefore, various automated fault localization techniques have been proposed to assist debugging. Among existing fault localization techniques, Spectrum-Based Fault Loc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,430 Views
30 Pages

23 July 2019

Node localization, which is formulated as an unconstrained NP-hard optimization problem, is considered as one of the most significant issues of wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Recently, many swarm intelligent algorithms (SIAs) were applied to solve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,549 Views
9 Pages

Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction Based on Single-Molecule Localization Algorithm

  • Lixin Liu,
  • Meijie Qi,
  • Yujie Liu,
  • Xinzhu Xue,
  • Danni Chen and
  • Junle Qu

Fluorescence imaging is an important and efficient tool in cell biology and biomedical research. In order to observe the dynamics of biological macromolecules such as DNA, RNA and proteins in live cells, it is extremely necessary to surpass the Abbe...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,116 Views
22 Pages

The study of techniques to estimate the position of mobile devices with a high level of accuracy and robustness is essential to provide advanced location based services in indoor environments. An algorithm to enable mobile devices to estimate their p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
4,741 Views
15 Pages

17 June 2021

As localization represents the main backbone of several wireless sensor networks applications, several localization algorithms have been proposed in the literature. There is a growing interest in the multi-hop localization algorithms as they permit t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
525 Views
28 Pages

Mobile Robot Localization Based on the PSO Algorithm with Local Minima Avoiding the Fitness Function

  • Božidar Bratina,
  • Dušan Fister,
  • Suzana Uran,
  • Izidor Mlakar,
  • Erik Rot Weiss,
  • Kristijan Korez and
  • Riko Šafarič

10 October 2025

Localization of a semi-humanoid mobile robot Pepper is proposed based on the particle swarm optimization algorithm (PSO) that is robust to the disturbance perturbations of LIDAR-measured distances from the mobile robot to the walls of the robot real...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,106 Views
14 Pages

29 October 2023

This study aims to enhance the localization of the inner and outer circles of the iris while addressing issues of excessive invalid computations and inaccuracies. To achieve this objective, diverse methods are employed to improve the process to varyi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
3,563 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2023

Node localization in two-dimensional (2D) and three-dimensional (3D) space for wireless sensor networks (WSNs) remains a hot research topic. To improve the localization accuracy and applicability, we first propose a quantum annealing bat algorithm (Q...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,567 Views
11 Pages

Location information is crucial in various location-based applications, the nodes in location system are often deployed in the 3D scenario in particle, so that localization algorithms in a three-dimensional space are necessary. The existing RFID thre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,715 Views
16 Pages

Genetic Algorithm Approach to the 3D Node Localization in TDOA Systems

  • Javier Díez-González,
  • Rubén Álvarez,
  • David González-Bárcena,
  • Lidia Sánchez-González,
  • Manuel Castejón-Limas and
  • Hilde Perez

9 September 2019

Positioning asynchronous architectures based on time measurements are reaching growing importance in Local Positioning Systems (LPS). These architectures have special relevance in precision applications and indoor/outdoor navigation of automatic vehi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
4,619 Views
20 Pages

Energy Efficient Range-Free Localization Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Rekha Goyat,
  • Mritunjay Kumar Rai,
  • Gulshan Kumar,
  • Rahul Saha and
  • Tai-Hoon Kim

19 August 2019

In this paper, an energy-efficient localization algorithm is proposed for precise localization in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and the process is accomplished in three steps. Firstly, the beacon nodes discover their one-hop neighbor nodes with add...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,395 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2024

In this study, several 3-dimensional (3-D) parameter estimation and localization algorithms for wireless near-field (NF) sources are proposed employing the uniform circular array (UCA) structure. In the single-base-station case, the algebraic relatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
314 Views
20 Pages

8 December 2025

For gas source localization in three-dimensional space, the leakage diffusion of the gas source is first modeled as a superposition of multiple Gaussian puffs. An improved Fireworks Optimization Algorithm is then proposed, which incorporates elements...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,591 Views
18 Pages

Meta-Heuristic Device-Free Localization Algorithm under Multiple Path Effect

  • Huajing Li,
  • Ning Li,
  • Yan Guo,
  • Hao Yuan and
  • Binghan Lei

5 July 2023

In the scenario of device-free localization under multiple effects, the accuracy of localization based on compressed sensing theory is severely affected. Most existing localization techniques directly ignore multiple path effects. However, it is not...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,345 Views
12 Pages

Robust Moth-Inspired Algorithm for Odor Source Localization Using Multimodal Information

  • Shunsuke Shigaki,
  • Mayu Yamada,
  • Daisuke Kurabayashi and
  • Koh Hosoda

28 January 2023

Odor-source localization, by which one finds the source of an odor by detecting the odor itself, is an important ability to possess in order to search for leaking gases, explosives, and disaster survivors. Although many animals possess this ability,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
732 Views
16 Pages

ωk MUSIC Algorithm for Subsurface Target Localization

  • Antonio Cuccaro,
  • Angela Dell’Aversano,
  • Maria Antonia Maisto,
  • Rosa Scapaticci,
  • Adriana Brancaccio and
  • Raffaele Solimene

15 August 2025

This paper addresses the problem of subsurface target localization from single-snapshot multimonostatic and multifrequency radar measurements. In this context, the use of subspace projection methods—known for their super-resolution capabilities...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,059 Views
16 Pages

24 December 2024

The growth of the modern information technology sector and the safe use of electrical equipment depend on accurate lightning localization monitoring. However, along with the increase in the number of lightning localization equipment and monitoring st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,555 Views
19 Pages

An Efficient Algorithm for Partial Discharge Localization in High-Voltage Systems Using Received Signal Strength

  • Umar F. Khan,
  • Pavlos I. Lazaridis,
  • Hamd Mohamed,
  • Ricardo Albarracín,
  • Zaharias D. Zaharis,
  • Robert C. Atkinson,
  • Christos Tachtatzis and
  • Ian A. Glover

16 November 2018

The term partial discharge (PD) refers to a partial bridging of insulating material between electrodes that sustain an electric field in high-voltage (HV) systems. Long-term PD activity can lead to catastrophic failures of HV systems resulting in eco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,182 Views
19 Pages

An Opposition-Based Learning Black Hole Algorithm for Localization of Mobile Sensor Network

  • Wei-Min Zheng,
  • Shi-Lei Xu,
  • Jeng-Shyang Pan,
  • Qing-Wei Chai and
  • Pei Hu

6 May 2023

The mobile node location method can find unknown nodes in real time and capture the movement trajectory of unknown nodes in time, which has attracted more and more attention from researchers. Due to their advantages of simplicity and efficiency, inte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,799 Views
11 Pages

4 November 2009

A detection and tracking algorithm for ferromagnetic objects based on a two stage Levenberg Marquardt Algorithm (LMA) is presented. The procedure is applied to localization and magnetic moment estimation of ferromagnetic objects moving in the vicinit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,349 Views
18 Pages

Two-Point Localization Algorithm of a Magnetic Target Based on Tensor Geometric Invariant

  • Cheng Chi,
  • Dan Wang,
  • Ronghua Tao,
  • Jianwei Li,
  • Ye Wang,
  • Zhentao Yu and
  • Lu Yu

30 March 2024

Currently, magnetic gradient tensor-based localization methods face challenges such as significant errors in geomagnetic field estimation, susceptibility to local optima in optimization algorithms, and inefficient performance. In addressing these iss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,556 Views
11 Pages

A Novel Joint TDOA/FDOA Passive Localization Scheme Using Interval Intersection Algorithm

  • Lingyu Ai,
  • Min Pang,
  • Changxu Shan,
  • Chao Sun,
  • Youngok Kim and
  • Biao Zhou

13 September 2021

Due to the large measurement error in the practical non-cooperative scene, the passive localization algorithms based on traditional numerical calculation using time difference of arrival (TDOA) and frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) often have no...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,665 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2020

At present, range-free localization algorithm is the mainstream of node localization method, which has made tremendous achievements. However, there are few algorithms that can be used in concave regions, and the existing algorithms have defects such...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
2,656 Views
21 Pages

18 May 2022

Aiming at the problems of slow convergence and low accuracy of the traditional sparrow search algorithm (SSA), a multi-strategy improved sparrow search algorithm (ISSA) was proposed. Firstly, the golden sine algorithm was introduced in the location u...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,181 Views
19 Pages

22 February 2025

The deep-sea landing vehicle (DSLV) swarm exploration system is a novel platform for the detection of marine mineral resources. A high-precision cooperative localization system with Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL), Doppler Velocity Log (DVL), and electro...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
116 Views
15 Pages

13 January 2026

Buried ferromagnetic targets such as unexploded ordnance generate an additional magnetic field to the main geomagnetic field, which manifests as a magnetic anomaly signal for localization. This paper presents an alternative scheme for localization by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,441 Views
23 Pages

An Enhanced Localization Approach for Energy Conservation in Wireless Sensor Network with Q Deep Learning Algorithm

  • Sreeja Balachandran Nair Premakumari,
  • Prakash Mohan and
  • Kannimuthu Subramanian

28 November 2022

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have distributed a collection of tiny sensor nodes deployed randomly in the given symmetry environment to sense natural phenomena. The sensed data are disseminated symmetrically to the control station using multi-hop co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
132 Citations
7,494 Views
20 Pages

A Multi-Objective DV-Hop Localization Algorithm Based on NSGA-II in Internet of Things

  • Penghong Wang,
  • Fei Xue,
  • Hangjuan Li,
  • Zhihua Cui,
  • Liping Xie and
  • Jinjun Chen

15 February 2019

Locating node technology, as the most fundamental component of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) and internet of things (IoT), is a pivotal problem. Distance vector-hop technique (DV-Hop) is frequently used for location node estimation in WSN, but it h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
14,729 Views
22 Pages

Localization Algorithm Based on a Spring Model (LASM) for Large Scale Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Wanming Chen,
  • Tao Mei,
  • Max Q.-H. Meng,
  • Huawei Liang,
  • Yumei Liu,
  • Yangming Li and
  • Shuai Li

15 March 2008

A navigation method for a lunar rover based on large scale wireless sensornetworks is proposed. To obtain high navigation accuracy and large exploration area, highnode localization accuracy and large network scale are required. However, thecomputatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
292 Views
29 Pages

27 December 2025

Magnetic localization technology plays a significant role in medical device navigation and human–computer interaction. However, existing localization methods based on local optimization suffer from poor initial solutions and slow convergence. T...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,101 Views
19 Pages

Recently, the map matching-assisted positioning method based on micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) inertial devices has become a research hotspot for indoor pedestrian positioning; however, these are based on existing indoor electronic maps. In t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,279 Views
19 Pages

5 April 2024

Robotic odor source localization (OSL) is a technology that enables mobile robots or autonomous vehicles to find an odor source in unknown environments. An effective navigation algorithm that guides the robot to approach the odor source is the key to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,150 Views
15 Pages

Chaotic Mapping Lion Optimization Algorithm-Based Node Localization Approach for Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Abdelwahed Motwakel,
  • Aisha Hassan Abdalla Hashim,
  • Hayam Alamro,
  • Hamed Alqahtani,
  • Faiz Abdullah Alotaibi and
  • Ahmed Sayed

25 October 2023

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) contain several small, autonomous sensor nodes (SNs) able to process, transfer, and wirelessly sense data. These networks find applications in various domains like environmental monitoring, industrial automation, healt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
108 Citations
5,856 Views
30 Pages

1 June 2019

Wireless sensor networks, as an emerging paradigm of networking and computing, have applications in diverse fields such as medicine, military, environmental control, climate forecasting, surveillance, etc. For successfully tackling the node localizat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,797 Views
28 Pages

14 May 2024

Underwater mobile acoustic source target localization encounters several challenges, including the unknown propagation speed of the source signal, uncertainty in the observation platform’s position and velocity (i.e., platform systematic errors...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,669 Views
18 Pages

The efficient operation of smart farms relies on the precise monitoring of farm environmental information, necessitating the deployment of a large number of wireless sensors. These sensors must be integrated with their specific locations within the f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,414 Views
24 Pages

11 July 2023

Accurate localization is a critical task in underwater navigation. Typical localization methods use a set of acoustic sensors and beacons to estimate relative position, whose geometric configuration has a significant impact on the localization accura...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,013 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2017

A novel localization method based on multiple signal classification (MUSIC) algorithm is proposed for positioning an electric dipole source in a confined underwater environment by using electric dipole-receiving antenna array. In this method, the bou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,224 Views
17 Pages

13 June 2019

To reduce the negative effect on sound source localization when the source is at an extreme angle and improve localization precision and stability, a theoretical model of a three-plane five-element microphone array is established, using time-delay va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,844 Views
36 Pages

31 July 2022

This paper considers the problem of finding the position of a passive target using noisy time difference of arrival (TDOA) measurements, obtained from multiple transmitters and a single receiver. The maximum likelihood (ML) estimator’s objectiv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,909 Views
20 Pages

12 October 2023

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are applied in many fields, among which node localization is one of the most important parts. The Distance Vector-Hop (DV-Hop) algorithm is the most widely used range-free localization algorithm, but its localization a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,357 Views
14 Pages

15 June 2022

Partial discharge (PD) localization in an air-insulated substation (AIS) can be used to assess insulation conditions efficiently. Many localization methods have been reported during the past few years. However, the error of the localization results h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
30 Citations
5,626 Views
17 Pages

11 May 2017

In traditional localization methods for synthetic aperture radar (SAR), the range sum estimation and Doppler centroid estimation (DCE) are required. The DCE error can influence the localization accuracy greatly. In addition, the target height informa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,647 Views
19 Pages

13 January 2022

In view of traditional point-line feature visual inertial simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) system, which has weak performance in accuracy so that it cannot be processed in real time under the condition of weak indoor texture and light and...

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