A 3D Indoor Positioning Method of Wireless Network with Single Base Station in Multipath Environment

Abstract

The proliferation of indoor location-based services has increased the demand of indoor positioning technology. Severe multipath and coherence effects are the difference between signal propagation indoors and outdoors. Most existing indoor localization methods build their models in 2-dimensional space and try to avoid the influence of multipath. We propose a method to realize 3-dimensional indoor positioning with single base station by using multipath channel. The angles of multipath coherent signals are estimated by MIMO antenna and the delays are estimated by OFDM signal. To avoid the complicated calculation in joint estimation of angles and delays in 3-dimensional space, the angles and delays are estimated separately and matched by the proposed algorithm. The line-of-sight channel is differentiated by time delay, and the reflection paths for non-line-of-sight channels are established with angle information and indoor maps. Finally, combine the angle information of the reflection paths and the line-of-sight path to obtain the target position in 3-dimensional indoor space. We verified the method through simulation in an indoor space of 6 m × 8 m × 4.5 m . The positioning errors are submeter level in 95 % cases and less than 0.4m in 60 % cases. The proposed method requires only one base station and can be applied in most wireless networks. Compared with existing indoor localization methods, it has lower computational complexity and higher application potential.

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