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  • Signal Processing
  • Mobile Object Tracking
  • Wireless Communications

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  • Detecting and tracking moving objects is crucial in various applications.
  • Exploiting multipath propagation offers a unique sensing modality.
  • Existing methods may face challenges in non-cooperative scenarios.

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  • To develop and evaluate a method for detecting, localizing, and tracking moving, non-cooperative objects.
  • To leverage multipath propagation for improved object localization.
  • To assess the performance and accuracy of the proposed tracking approach.

Main Methods:

  • Formulating mobile scatterer localization as a nonlinear optimization problem.
  • Employing an iterative nonlinear least squares algorithm (Levenberg-Marquardt).
  • Utilizing an extended Kalman filter for recursive, time-based scatterer location estimation.

Main Results:

  • Derived performance bounds using classic and posterior Cramér-Rao lower bounds.
  • Validated the extended Kalman filter's applicability through simulations.
  • Achieved accurate sequential localization of a walking pedestrian in an outdoor setting.

Conclusions:

  • The proposed approach effectively detects, localizes, and tracks moving objects.
  • The method demonstrates high accuracy, with pedestrian localization achieving 0.8m at 90% confidence.
  • This technique shows significant potential for real-world object tracking applications.