Analysis of Flip amiguities in Distributed Network Localization

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2007

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Kannan, Anushiya
Fidan, Baris
Mao, Guoqiang
Anderson, Brian

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Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE Inc)

Abstract

Accurate self-localization capability is highly desirable in wireless sensor networks. A major problem in trilateration based wireless sensor network localization that may introduce large errors in the location estimates is flip ambiguity. Recently the notion of robust quadrilaterals has been introduced as a way to identify possible flip ambiguities that otherwise corrupt localization computations. In this paper, we provide a formal geometric analysis of flip ambiguity problems using similar notions. The two main objectives of the paper are filling some technical gaps in the recent relevant works and developing a generic formal method for quantifying the likelihood of suffering from flip ambiguities for arbitrary sensor neighborhood geometries.

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Keywords: Computation theory; Computational geometry; Distributed parameter control systems; Error analysis; Ambiguities; Flip ambiguities; Wireless sensor networks

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Proceedings of 2007 Information, Decision and Control

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Conference paper

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