Presentation 2017-01-26
Improvement of TDOA Localization Error by TSOA
Hiromi Miyazaki, Yoshio Kosuge, Toshiyuki Tanaka,
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Abstract(in English) TDOA (Time Difference of Arrival) localization estimates a target position from arrival time differences of radio signals by detecting the signals in a number of ground receiver stations. It is desired for aeronautical surveillance system to provide high performance aircraft positions compared with conventional radar. WAM (Wide Area Multilateration) using TDOA localization is able to achieve the high performance and has been implemented in Japan. In TDOA localization, position error increases rapidly outside the receiver collocation. So WAM receiver stations are generally collocated as surrounding the target coverage. However this collocation method brings a challenge as increasing the number of receiver stations according to the coverage expansion. On the other hand, TSOA (Time Sum of Arrival) localization estimates a target position using time sums from a pulse signal transmission time in a transmitter station to the signal arrival times reflected from the target in a number of receiver stations. It is expected that TSOA localization could mitigate position error, because TSOA has additional information as a signal transmission time compared with TDOA. This paper describes calculation methods and estimated errors for TDOA and TSOA. And evaluation results by computer simulation are indicated for improvement of position accuracy by TSOA.
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Keyword(in English) TDOA / TSOA / Multilateration / Localization / Error analysis
Paper # SANE2016-107
Date of Issue 2017-01-19 (SANE)

Conference Information
Committee SANE
Conference Date 2017/1/26(2days)
Place (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Place (in English) Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum
Topics (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Topics (in English) Positioning, navigation, Radar and general
Chair Hirokazu Kobayashi(Osaka Inst. of Tech.)
Vice Chair Takahide Mizuno(JAXA) / Toshifumi Moriyama(Nagasaki Univ.)
Secretary Takahide Mizuno(JAXA) / Toshifumi Moriyama(Mitsubishi Electric)
Assistant Atsushi Kezuka(ENRI) / Manabu Akita(Univ. of Electro-Comm.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Space, Aeronautical and Navigational Electronics
Language JPN
Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Sub Title (in Japanese) (See Japanese page)
Title (in English) Improvement of TDOA Localization Error by TSOA
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) TDOA
Keyword(2) TSOA
Keyword(3) Multilateration
Keyword(4) Localization
Keyword(5) Error analysis
1st Author's Name Hiromi Miyazaki
1st Author's Affiliation Electronic Navigation Research Institute(ENRI)
2nd Author's Name Yoshio Kosuge
2nd Author's Affiliation Electronic Navigation Research Institute(ENRI)
3rd Author's Name Toshiyuki Tanaka
3rd Author's Affiliation Nagasaki University(Nagasaki univ)
Date 2017-01-26
Paper # SANE2016-107
Volume (vol) vol.116
Number (no) SANE-427
Page pp.pp.65-70(SANE),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2017-01-19 (SANE)