Tracking for indoor RFID system with UKF and EKF

Due to the uncertainty of the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) measurements and limit of the placement of the readers, it's necessary to use the estimation method to obtain more accurate trajectory in RFID indoor tracking system. The traditional recursive estimation from K to K+1 sampling point may fail, because the measurement of RFID system is irregular sampling due to the data-driven measurement mechanism. This paper develops the tracking method for indoor RFID system, including estimation dynamic model based on the estimated states and nonlinear fusion estimation algorithm for variable-irregular sampling measurements. Two estimation methods are given based on the Extended Kalman filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman filter (UKF), respectively. The tracking performances are compared and the simulation results show that the performance of UKF can get better performance for indoor RFID tracking, especially in the low detection rate area.