LSAB: Enhancing Spatio-temporal Efficiency of AoA Tracking Systems

Qingrui Pan, Zhenlin An, Lei Yang, Qiongzheng Lin

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Abstract / Description of output

Estimating the angle-of-arrival (AoA) of an RF source by using a large-sized antenna array is a classical topic in wireless systems. However, AoA tracking systems are not yet used for Internet of Things (IoT) in the real world due to their unaffordable cost. Many efforts, such as a time-sharing array, emulated array, and sparse array, were recently made to cut the cost. This work introduces a log-spiral antenna belt (LSAB), a new novel sparse “planar array” that could estimate the AoA of an IoT device in 3D space by using a few antennas connected to a single timeshare channel. Unlike the conventional arrays, LSAB deploys antennas on a log-spiral-shaped belt in a non-linear manner, following the theory of minimum resolution redundancy newly discovered in this work. One physical 8 × 8 uniform planar array (UPA) and four logical sparse arrays, including LSAB, were prototyped to validate the theory and evaluate the performance of sparse arrays. The extensive benchmark demonstrates that the performance of LSAB was comparable to that of a UPA, with similar degree of resolution; and LSAB could provide over 40% performance improvement than existing sparse arrays. We also prototyped a second LSAB adapted to an RFID system for localizing RFID tags at centimeter-level accuracy.
Original languageEnglish
Article number58
Pages (from-to)1-25
JournalACM Transactions on Sensor Networks
Volume18
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 30 Nov 2022

Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)

  • Localization
  • antenna array
  • AoA

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