RF Ranging and Localization

1. J.J. Caffrey and G.L. Stuber, Overview of Radiolocation CDMA Cellular Systems, IEEE Communications Magazine, April 1998.
2. M.P. Wylie and J. Holtzman, The non-line of sight problem in mobile location estimation, 5th IEEE International Conference on Universal Personal Communications, 1996. Link
3. P.-C. Chen, A non-line-of-sight error mitigation algorithm in location estimation, IEEE Wireless Communications and Networking Conference, 1999.
4. W. Zhang, J. Luo, N. Mandayam, Mobile location estimation using time of arrivals in cdma systems, Technical Report 166, WINLAB, Rutgers University, 1998.
5. P. Bahl, V. Padmanabhan, RADAR: An In-building RF-based User Location and Tracking System, In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM, (Tel Aviv, Israel, March 2000). .pdf
6. N. Bulusu, J. Heidemann, D. Estrin, GPS-less low cost outdoor localization for very small devices, CS-TR-00-729, USC, April 2000. .pdf .ps
7. D. Niculescu and Badri Nath, Ad hoc Positioning System(APS), submitted to GLOBECOM 2001 .pdf

Acoustic Ranging and Localization

1. L. Girod, D. Estrin, "Robust Range Estimation Using Acoustic and Multimodal Sensing" (.ps) (.pdf) In submission to IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2001) , Maui, Hawaii, October 2001.
2. N. B. Priyantha, A. Chakraborty, H. Balakrishnan, "The Cricket Location-Support System," Proc. of the Sixth Annual ACM International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking (MOBICOM), August 2000. .ps .pdf
3. L. Girod, "Development and Characterization of an Acoustic Rangefinder" .pdf .ps USC-CS-TR-00-728, 2000.
4. A. Ward, A. Jones, A. Hopper, "A New Location Technique for the Active Office," IEEE Personal Communications, Vol. 4, No. 5, October 1997, pp 42-47. ps.Z

Camera/Optical based Depth-Finding

1. T. Kanade, M. Okutomi, T. Nakahara, "A Multiple-baseline Stereo Method," Proceedings of the 1992 DARPA Image Understanding Workshop, San Diego, CA, 1992.
2. Greg Welch, Gary Bishop, Leandra Vicci, Stephen Brumback, Kurtis Keller, D'nardo Colucci. "The HiBall Tracker: High-Performance Wide-Area Tracking for Virtual and Augmented Environments," Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology 1999 (VRST 99), University College London, December 20-22, 1999, pp. 1-10. (.pdf)

Position Estimation

1. L. Doherty, K. Pister, and L. Ghaoui, "Convex position estimation in wireless sensor networks", In Proc. IEEE INFOCOM April 2001.

Sensor Fusion

1. P. Goel, S. Roumeliotis, and G. Sukhatme, "Robust localization using relative and absolute position estimates," in Proceedings of the 1999 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 1999. ps.Z
2. S. I. Roumeliotis, G. S. Sukhatme, and G. A. Bekey. "Smoother-based 3-d attitude estimation for mobile robot localization," IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation , Detroit, May 10-15, 1998. ps.Z

• Radiocamera. Measures multipath signature of cellular signal and looks it up in a database to determine location. US Wireless
• Pinpoint. Uses measurement of RF time of flight from several installed base stations to estimate location indoors. Claims to acheive granularity of room-size or smaller. PinPoint

  J. Werb, C. Lanzi, ``Designing a positioning system for finding things and people,'' IEEE Spectrum, vol. 35, no. 9, September 1998.

• Ultra WideBand. Uses very fast pulse rates to yeild a wideband signal that can be detected and correlated with high spatial resolution. TimeDomain