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Characterization of Multipath Effects in Indoor Positioning Systems by AoA and PoA Based on Optical Signals
Álvaro De-La-Llana-Calvo1, José-Luis Lázaro-Galilea2, Alfredo Gardel-Vicente3
1Department of Electronics, University of Alcalá, Alcalá de Henares, 28801 Madrid, Spain. alvaro.llana@uah.es.
Abstract:
In this paper, we characterize and measure the effects of the errors introduced by the multipath when obtaining the position of an agent by means of Indoor Positioning Systems (IPS) based on optical signal. These effects are characterized in Local Positioning Systems (LPSs) based on two different techniques: the first one by determining the Angle of Arrival (AoA) of the infrared signal (IR) to the detector; and the second one by working with the measurement of the Phase shift of signal Arrival from the transmitter to a receiver (PoA). We present the obtained results and conclusions, which indicate that using Position Sensitive Devices (PSD) the multipath effects for AoA have little impact on the measurement, while for PoA the positioning errors are very significant, making the system useless in many cases.
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