Relative positioning technology

Abstract

In contrast to infrastructure supported location systems, relative positioning technology identifies the relative position of objects to each other solely based on local sensors and processing only. This tutorial provides background and hands-on experience over sensor technologies and modalities, measurement principles, systems, distributed algorithms and applications for relative positioning technologies. It will also give hands on insight to relative positioning using the RELATE relative positioning sensor network platform as an example. The tutorial will also discuss other practical issues as price, constraints for integration and use of relative positioning technology. The tutorial will be suitable also for people not familiar with positioning systems, algorithms and hardware.