Distributed localization using acoustic Doppler

•  It is well-known that the motion of an acoustic source can be estimated from Doppler shift observations. It is however not obvious how to design a sensor network to efficiently deliver the localization service. In this work a rather simplistic motion model is proposed that is aimed at sensor networks with realistic numbersof sensor nodes. It is also described how to efficiently solve the associated least squares optimization problem by Gauss-Newton variable projection techniques, and how to initiate the numerical search from simple features extracted from the observed frequency series. The methods are evaluated by Monte Carlo simulations and demonstrated on real data by localizing an all-terrain vehicle. Itis concluded that the processing components included are fairly mature for practical implementations in sensor networks.

Subject headings

TEKNIK OCH TEKNOLOGIER  -- Elektroteknik och elektronik -- Signalbehandling (hsv//swe)

ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY  -- Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering -- Signal Processing (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Acoustic tracking

Sensor network

Acoustic Doppler

Localization

Variable projection

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