Sensor Networks TDOA Self-Calibration: 2D Complexity Analysis and Solutions

05/20/2020

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by   Luca Ferranti, et al.

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Given a network of receivers and transmitters, the process of determining their positions from measured pseudo-ranges is known as network self-calibration. In this paper we consider 2D networks with synchronized receivers but unsynchronized transmitters and the corresponding calibration techniques,known as TDOA techniques. Despite previous work, TDOA self-calibration is computationally challenging. Iterative algorithms are very sensitive to the initialization, causing convergence issues.In this paper, we present a novel approach, which gives an algebraic solution to three previously unsolved scenarios. Our solvers can lead to a position error <1.2 robust to noise.