Robust ultrasonic indoor positioning using transmitter arrays

Abstract

As time-delay based ultrasound positioning often is noise sensitive at long ranges, the goal of the research reported here is to achieve sub-room ultrasound positioning with other methods. By combining a portable ultrasound receiver which measures signal strength with a transmitter array that sends steered, coded beams inside a room, the tag can determine which beam it is located in and carry out fine-positioning. The concept is demonstrated in an experiment using a 40 kHz system with 4-7 transmitter elements.