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Document Type	thesis
Author Name	Amendolare, Vincent Thomas
URN	etd-050307-182009
Title	Synchronization in an Indoor Precision Location System
Degree	MS
Department	Electrical & Computer Engineering
Advisors	David Cyganski, Advisor R. James Duckworth, Committee Member John A. Orr, Committee Member
Keywords	state-space synchronization indoor location
Date of Presentation/Defense	2007-05-04
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis was conducted as part of the efforts related to WPI's Precision Personnel Location (PPL) project, the purpose of which is to locate emergency personnel in hazardous indoor environments using radio location techniques. A unique signal processing algorithm, sART, developed within the PPL project provides means to determine precise position estimates of a wideband transmitter from multipath corrupted signals captured by distributed receivers. This algorithm has synchronization requirements that can not be met without extraordinary expense and complexity by direct means. This thesis develops digital signal processing that achieves the necessary synchronization to satisfy the sART algorithm requirements without additional implementation complexity. The mathematical underpinnings of this solution are introduced and the results are evaluated in the context of experimental data.
Files	vamendolare_ms_thesis.pdf

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