Global optimization for multiple transmitter localization

  • Authors:

  • Jill K. Nelson;Megan U. Hazen;Maya R. Gupta

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA;Department of Electrical Engineering, University of Washington, Seattle, WA

  • Venue:
  • MILCOM'06 Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE conference on Military communications
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

We propose a global optimization approach to locating multiple transmitters within a geographic area. A set of sensor nodes are assumed to be present in the region and to measure total power received at their respective locations. These measurements are communicated to a processing node, which uses particle swarm optimization to find the transmitter locations that minimize the difference between the true received power and the estimated power based on the chosen propagation model. Clustering is used to generate initial estimates of the transmitter locations, thereby increasing the likelihood that the particle-based optimizer reaches the global minimum. Simulation results show that global optimization is an effective method for multiple transmitter localization and that generating "smart" initial conditions via clustering can yield an average performance improvement of over 25% compared to random initial conditions.