Research Projects

Academic & Research Papers

A collection of Pozyx related academic papers.

October 1, 2019

Robot and Drone Localization in GPS-Denied Areas

Bijo Sebastian and Pinhas Ben-Tzvi - Part of the Mechatronics, The Science of Intelligent Machines

In this paper, the many facets of robot and drone coordination in GPS-denied areas are discussed, addressing issues associated with localization and coordinating multiple agents as they attempt to accomplish a common goal.

October 1, 2019

Using a local positioning system to track 2D motion

Paul R. DeStefano, Cora Siebert, and Ralf Widenhorn at the Department of Applied Physics of the Portland State University in Oregon, United States.

Tracking the motion of an object in 2D as a demonstration in a physics classroom or as a laboratory activity is difficult to accomplish in real-time with traditional equipment used by educators. A local positioning system (LPS), like the Pozyx Creator series LPS, has a potentially wide range of educational applications for introductory physics courses.

October 1, 2019

Teaching physics with a local positioning system

Cora Siebert, Paul R. DeStefano, and Ralf Widenhorn for the American Association of Physics Teachers.

Recently available local positioning systems (LPS) have the potential to be used for interactive physics laboratory activities and classroom demonstrations.

October 19, 2019

Multi-Sensor Accurate Forklift Location and Tracking Simulation in Industrial Indoor Environments

Valentín Barral, Pedro Suárez-Casal, Carlos J. Escudero and José A. García-Naya - Part of the Special Issue "Indoor Positioning Techniques"

This paper describes a real industrial problem (location and tracking of forklift trucks) that requires precise internal positioning and presents a study on the feasibility of meeting this challenge using UWB technology. To this end, a simulator of this technology was created based on UWB measurements from a set of real sensors.

October 29, 2019

Traversability Estimation Techniques for Improved Navigation of Tracked Mobile Robots

Bijo Sebastian - Dissertation submitted to the faculty of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy In Mechanical Engineering.

This dissertation explores ways to improve autonomous navigation in unstructured terrain conditions, with specific applications to unmanned casualty extraction in disaster scenarios.

October 29, 2019

Cooperative positioning for emergency responders using self IMU and peer-to-peer radios measurements

Ran Liu, Chau Yuen, Tri-Nhut Do, Meng Zhang, Yong Liang Guan, U-Xuan Tan

This paper proposes to combine IMU and radio measurements (i.e., peer-to-peer Wifi received signal strength and peer-to-peer UWB ranging) for the positioning of a group of mobile users in emergency response, where no fixed anchors and no infrastructure are available.

October 29, 2019

A UWB-based System for Localization inside Merchant Vessels

Francisco Bonnin-Pascual and Alberto Ortiz at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science of the University of the Balearic Islands in Palma de Mallorca, Spain.

In recent years, the idea of introducing robots in the inspection of ships is being investigated. This paper proposes contributions for the estimation of 3D position inside vessels, making use of UWB technology.

November 28, 2019

The Development of Dynamic Guidance and Navigation Algorithms for Autonomous On-Orbit Multi-Satellite Aggregation

David A. Barnhart, Ryan H. Duong, Lizvette Villafaña, Jaimin Patel & Shreyash Annapureddy in 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Washington D.C., United States, 21-25 October 2019.

This paper will present preliminary results of the first set of algorithmic experimentation in active autonomous GNC reconfiguration.

October 1, 2020

Support vector machine based real-time terrain estimation for tracked robots

Bijo Sebastian and Pinhas Ben-Tzvi

This paper describes the use of support vector machine (SVM) classifier for real-time terrain estimation to improve autonomous navigation of tracked mobile robots. It concludes with a detailed description on the application of real-time terrain estimation in improving autonomous navigation.

April 27, 2021

Relative Position Estimation Between Two UWB Devices with IMUs

Charles C. Cossette, Mohammed Shalaby, David Saussié, James R. Forbes, Jérôme Le Ny in: IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, vol. 6, no. 3, pp. 4313-4320, July 2021

This paper presents an algorithm that helps robots work collaboratively by determining the position of their neighbors, relative to themselves.

May 28, 2021

Moodoo: Indoor Positioning Analytics for Characterising Classroom Teaching [Best Paper Award, AIED2020] 2020, Australia

Martinez-Maldonado, R., Echeverria, V., Schulte, J., Shibani, A., Mangaroska, K. and Buckingham Shum, S. in: Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED2020)

This paper won the best paper award at the International Conference on AI in Education, 2020. It presents Moodoo, a system that models how teachers make use of classroom spaces by automatically analyzing indoor positioning traces.