MULTI-HOP POSITIONING - Relative Positioning Method for GPS Wireless Sensor Network

Masayuki Saeki, Kenji Oguni

2012

Abstract

This paper presents a relative positioning method, called “multi-hop positioning”, which is suitable for raw GPS data collected by densely deployed L1 GPS receivers. The wireless sensor network employing an affordable L1 GPS receiver has been developed by the authors for monitoring displacement of large civil structures with high spatial resolution. In general, relative positioning of GPS sensors are performed between a single reference point and sensor nodes. On the other hand, in the newly developed approach, relative positioning is performed between all pair of sensor nodes in the network. Then, the best set of relative position vectors is selected to determine the location of sensor nodes. Experiments have been conducted using 53 sensor nodes equipped with an affordable L1 GPS receiver and the collected data are analysed by using the proposed method in a post-processing manner. The results show that the success rate of relative position estimate is considerably improved compared with the conventional approach.

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in Harvard Style

Saeki M. and Oguni K. (2012). MULTI-HOP POSITIONING - Relative Positioning Method for GPS Wireless Sensor Network . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS, ISBN 978-989-8565-00-6, pages 361-368. DOI: 10.5220/0003798503610368


in Bibtex Style

@conference{peccs12,
author={Masayuki Saeki and Kenji Oguni},
title={MULTI-HOP POSITIONING - Relative Positioning Method for GPS Wireless Sensor Network},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,},
year={2012},
pages={361-368},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003798503610368},
isbn={978-989-8565-00-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - Volume 1: PECCS,
TI - MULTI-HOP POSITIONING - Relative Positioning Method for GPS Wireless Sensor Network
SN - 978-989-8565-00-6
AU - Saeki M.
AU - Oguni K.
PY - 2012
SP - 361
EP - 368
DO - 10.5220/0003798503610368