Niels Hadaschik

Radio-based locating systems allow for a robust and continuous tracking in industrial environments and are a key enabler for the digitalization of processes in many areas such as production, manufacturing, and warehouse management. Time difference of arrival (TDoA) systems estimate the time-of-flight (ToF) of radio burst signals with a set of synch...

The invention relates to a system for determination the position of a mobile user device (10). The system comprises a state determination device (120), comprising a transmitting unit (122) and a state determination unit (124), and the mobile user device (110), comprising a receiving unit (112) and a processor unit (114). The mobile user device (110...

Localization of wireless nodes within the IoT received much attention lately. However, strong constraints on power consumption, scalability, and complexity of the nodes pose a big challenge for localization techniques. This paper presents a concept for energy-efficient low-complexity localization based on Phase Difference of Arrival (PDoA). Besides...

In this paper we study the problem of estimating the unknown delay(s) in a system where we receive a linear combination of several delayed copies of a known transmitted waveform. This problem arises in many applications such as timing-based localization or wireless synchronization. Since accurate delay estimation requires wideband signals, traditio...

In this paper we introduce a wireless temporal synchronization scheme based on wideband signals of opportunity (SOO) such as DVB-T or LTE signals. Since these signals may not be decodable we show that it is necessary that one (reference) node broadcasts an excerpt of the SOO to all other nodes to provide a reference. However, the transmission of th...

In this paper we propose a temporal synchronization method using opportunistic signals for wireless networks. Instead of broadcasting a dedicated broadband signal throughout the network for synchronization, high-bandwidth opportunistic signals already existing in the environment can be used. To avoid the necessity that all the nodes in the network...

It has been proposed to jointly estimate the angles and delays of the paths in a multipath channel. It is interesting to investigate how this improves the precision of angle-of-arrival based localization systems. In this paper, we provide measurement results comparing the performance of ESPRIT-based algorithms for joint estimation to angle- and del...

The introduced system approach for wireless direct positioning with narrowband signals in difficult multipath scenarios is discussed. It is based on multiple distributed antenna arrays and applies covariance based estimators like, e.g. the MUSIC algorithm. The signals emitted from a mobile transmitter are received by multiple partially synchronised...