Cooperative Localization and Association of Commercial-Off-the-Shelf Sensors in Three-Dimensional Aircraft Cabin
- Publisher:
- Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Publication Type:
- Journal Article
- Citation:
- IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering, 2022, 19, (4), pp. 3508-3519
- Issue Date:
- 2022-10-01
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Sensory data is only meaningful if correctly associated with originating locations, e.g., in three-dimensional wireless sensor systems inside an aircraft cabin. Received signal strength is a cost-effective option to locate low-cost sensors due to its universal availability, but suffers from coarse ranging accuracy with multiplicative errors. This paper presents a new received signal strength-based approach to locating a large number of low-cost sensors given their possible three-dimensional installation points. Our approach achieves the accuracy which has not been achieved in the literature. The approach first cooperatively locates the sensors in the continuous three-dimensional spaces, then associates the continuous location estimates to the installation points, and finally refines the association with likelihood ascent search. A new convex relaxation-based optimization is designed for cooperative localization in continuous three-dimensional spaces. The Kuhn-Munkres algorithm is generalized for the association. Cramér-Rao Lower Bounds are derived to specify the local three-dimensional regions in which refinement is carried out to improve the final accuracy with little complexity overhead. The proposed approach is validated experimentally with signal strength measurements collected in a Fokker 100 passenger plane, achieves 100% accuracy in all experiments conducted, and outperforms state-of-the-art metaheuristics significantly with much shorter execution time. Note to Practitioners - This paper is motivated by a goal to realize various aircraft automation applications through three-dimensional localization and association of wireless sensors. For example, automatic identification of seat locations can be implemented efficiently with wireless sensors, which enables effortless re-association between control buttons in the seats and the corresponding functions after cabin refurbishment. Meanwhile, automatic detection of missing/misplaced safety equipment can be carried out to improve the efficiency of flight preparation. There currently lacks an received signal strength-based three-dimensional sensor association method in indoor environments. The theoretical framework proposed in this paper aims to utilize the readily available received signal strength measurements to associate Commercial-Off-The-Shelf sensors to their possible installation points. This approach avoids the requirement of labor-intensive fingerprinting effort and high-cost equipment. The proposed approach has been tested and evaluated using both synthetic data and real data collected in a passenger plane as a proof of concept.
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