The role of colinearity of sensors in target localization using distance measurements

  • Authors:
  • Vaishali P. Sadaphal;Bijendra N. Jain

  • Affiliations:
  • Tata Research Development Design Center, Pune, India;Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, India

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th ACM international conference on Modeling, analysis and simulation of wireless and mobile systems
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

We consider estimating the location of a target moving in a 2D plane by combining distance measurements from multiple sensors. Given that available energy in sensors is at a premium, it must be conserved by selecting fewer number of sensors to measure distance and communicate to a central tracker. While elsewhere we have presented various heuristics which together can form the basis for selection of a minimum of three sensors, in this paper we provide a theoretical basis for the heuristic that suggests that the three sensors must not be colinear.