It is important to be able to find the position of a sensor remotely from a collection of receive signals indoors and outdoors. This is useful when tracking a person's location indoors. The use of GPS is inadequate when used inside. A closed form expression of the integral related to the coupling between two small loop antennas in the near and far fields has been derived. The inverse problem is then solved to locate a transmitter given arbitrary orientation and position based on a received signal. Due to the size of the problem, Maple has been used to assist various computations and simplifications. Two successful approaches to the inverse problem are proposed and tested - one using Procrustes method and one using a self-developed determinant method - providing a complete proof of concept.

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Creator

• Janice, Brian Andrew
• Steinmetz, Scott A.
• Lowe, Matthew Steven

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050109-094825

Advisor

• Cyganski, David
• Heinricher, Arthur C.

Year

• 2009

Date created

• 2009-05-01

Resource type

• Major Qualifying Project

Major

• Mathematical Sciences
• Electrical & Computer Engineering

Rights statement

• In Copyright