Monte carlo‐based indoor rfid positioning with dual‐antenna joint rectification

• A novel Monte Carlo‐based indoor radio‐frequency identification (RFID) positioning scheme is proposed for dual‐antenna RFID systems with the cooperation of dual‐antenna joint rec-tification. By deploying reference passive RFID tags on the ground to establish an RFID tag‐based map, indoor self‐positioning of a moving platform carrying an RFID reader with two forward‐look-ing antennas can be simply implemented by looking up the positions of responded RFID tags at each time step of movement, and estimating the platform position by using the proposed Monte Carlo‐based algorithm. To improve the positioning accuracy of Monte Carlo‐based positioning, each antenna channel, with its own footprint on the ground, may rectify its position estimation by using the tag position information interrogated by the other antenna channel. The algorithm for dual-antenna rectification is proposed. The performance of the proposed Monte Carlo‐based self‐posi-tioning scheme is demonstrated by both simulation and experiment tests. Some factors in a practical indoor‐positioning system, such as the reference tag distribution pattern, reader antenna footprint size, and footprint overlap, are discussed. Some guide rules for deploying the RFID indoor‐posi-tioning system are also reported. 

Subject headings

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

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

Keyword

Accuracy

Antenna

Indoor positioning

Monte Carlo

Radio‐frequency identification

Ultra‐high frequency

Publication and Content Type

ref (subject category)

art (subject category)