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Wireless capsule gastrointestinal endoscopy: direction of arrival estimation based localization survey
One of the significant challenges in Capsule Endoscopy (CE) is to precisely determine the pathologies location. The localization process is primarily estimated using the received signal strength from sensors in the capsule system through its movement in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Consequently, the wireless capsule endoscope (WCE) system requires improvement to handle the lack of the capsule instantaneous localization information and to solve the relatively low transmission data rate challenges. Furthermore, the association between the capsule’s transmitter position, capsule location, signal reduction and the capsule direction should be assessed. These measurements deliver significant information for the instantaneous capsule localization systems based on TOA (time of arrival) approach, PDOA (phase difference of arrival), RSS (received signal strength), electromagnetic, DOA (direction of arrival) and video tracking approaches are developed to locate the WCE precisely. The current article introduces the acquisition concept of the GI medical images using the endoscopy with a comprehensive description of the endoscopy system components. Capsule localization and tracking are considered to be the most important features of the WCE system, thus the current article emphasizes the most common localization systems generally, highlighting the DOA-based localization systems and discusses the required significant research challenges to be addressed
Space-partitioning with cascade-connected ANN structures for positioning in mobile communication systems
The world around us is getting more connected with each day passing by – new portable
devices employing wireless connections to various networks wherever one might be. Locationaware
computing has become an important bit of telecommunication services and industry. For
this reason, the research efforts on new and improved localisation algorithms are constantly
being performed. Thus far, the satellite positioning systems have achieved highest popularity
and penetration regarding the global position estimation. In spite the numerous investigations
aimed at enabling these systems to equally procure the position in both indoor and outdoor
environments, this is still a task to be completed.
This research work presented herein aimed at improving the state-of-the-art positioning
techniques through the use of two highly popular mobile communication systems: WLAN and
public land mobile networks. These systems already have widely deployed network structures
(coverage) and a vast number of (inexpensive) mobile clients, so using them for additional,
positioning purposes is rational and logical.
First, the positioning in WLAN systems was analysed and elaborated. The indoor test-bed,
used for verifying the models’ performances, covered almost 10,000m2 area. It has been chosen
carefully so that the positioning could be thoroughly explored. The measurement campaigns
performed therein covered the whole of test-bed environment and gave insight into location
dependent parameters available in WLAN networks. Further analysis of the data lead to
developing of positioning models based on ANNs.
The best single ANN model obtained 9.26m average distance error and 7.75m median distance
error. The novel positioning model structure, consisting of cascade-connected ANNs, improved
those results to 8.14m and 4.57m, respectively. To adequately compare the proposed
techniques with other, well-known research techniques, the environment positioning error
parameter was introduced. This parameter enables to take the size of the test environment into
account when comparing the accuracy of the indoor positioning techniques.
Concerning the PLMN positioning, in-depth analysis of available system parameters and
signalling protocols produced a positioning algorithm, capable of fusing the system received
signal strength parameters received from multiple systems and multiple operators. Knowing
that most of the areas are covered by signals from more than one network operator and even
more than one system from one operator, it becomes easy to note the great practical value of
this novel algorithm. On the other hand, an extensive drive-test measurement campaign,
covering more than 600km in the central areas of Belgrade, was performed. Using this algorithm and applying the single ANN models to the recorded measurements, a 59m average
distance error and 50m median distance error were obtained. Moreover, the positioning in
indoor environment was verified and the degradation of performances, due to the crossenvironment
model use, was reported: 105m average distance error and 101m median distance
error.
When applying the new, cascade-connected ANN structure model, distance errors were
reduced to 26m and 2m, for the average and median distance errors, respectively.
The obtained positioning accuracy was shown to be good enough for the implementation of a
broad scope of location based services by using the existing and deployed, commonly
available, infrastructure
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Design and Implementation of System Components for Radio Frequency Based Asset Tracking Devices to Enhance Location Based Services. Study of angle of arrival techniques, effects of mutual coupling, design of an angle of arrival algorithm, design of a novel miniature reconfigurable antenna optimised for wireless communication systems
The angle of arrival estimation of multiple sources plays a vital role in the field of array signal
processing as MIMO systems can be employed at both the transmitter and the receiver end
and the system capacity, reliability and throughput can be significantly increased by using array
signal processing. Almost all applications require accurate direction of arrival (DOA) estimation
to localize the sources of the signals. Another important parameter of localization systems is
the array geometry and sensor design which can be application specific and is used to
estimate the DOA.
In this work, various array geometries and arrival estimation algorithms are studied and then a
new scheme for multiple source estimation is proposed and evaluated based on the
performance of subspace and non-subspace decomposition methods. The proposed scheme
has shown to outperform the conventional Multiple Signal Classification (MUSIC) estimation
and Bartlett estimation techniques. The new scheme has a better performance advantage at
low and high signal to noise ratio values (SNRs).
The research work also studies different array geometries for both single and multiple incident
sources and proposes a geometry which is cost effective and efficient for 3, 4, and 5 antenna
array elements. This research also considers the shape of the ground plane and its effects on
the angle of arrival estimation and in addition it shows how the mutual couplings between the
elements effect the overall estimation and how this error can be minimised by using a decoupling
matrix.
At the end, a novel miniaturised multi element reconfigurable antenna to represent the receiver
base station is designed and tested. The antenna radiation patterns in the azimuth angle are
almost omni-directional with linear polarisation. The antenna geometry is uniplanar printed logspiral
with striplines feeding network and biased components to improve the impedance
bandwidth. The antenna provides the benefit of small size, and re-configurability and is very
well suited for the asset tracking applications
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