An as-rigid-as-possible approach to sensor network localization

  • Authors:
  • Lei Zhang;Ligang Liu;Craig Gotsman;Steven J. Gortler

  • Affiliations:
  • Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China;Technion, Haifa, Israel;Harvard University, Cambridge MA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Sensor Networks (TOSN)
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We present a novel approach to localization of sensors in a network given a subset of noisy inter-sensor distances. The algorithm is based on “stitching” together local structures by solving an optimization problem requiring the structures to fit together in an “As-Rigid-As-Possible” manner, hence the name ARAP. The local structures consist of reference “patches” and reference triangles, both obtained from inter-sensor distances. We elaborate on the relationship between the ARAP algorithm and other state-of-the-art algorithms, and provide experimental results demonstrating that ARAP is significantly less sensitive to sparse connectivity and measurement noise. We also show how ARAP may be distributed.