@inproceedings{MoschevikinGalovReginyaetal.2013, author = {Alex Moschevikin and Aleksandr Galov and Sergey Reginya and Alexander Volkov and Axel Sikora}, title = {The Impact of NLOS Components in Time-of- Flight Networks for Indoor Positioning Systems}, series = {Proceedings of the the 2013 IEEE 7th International Conference on Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems (IDAACS)}, volume = {2}, publisher = {IEEE}, isbn = {978-1-4799-1429-6 (Elektronisch)}, doi = {10.1109/IDAACS.2013.6662727}, pages = {455 -- 460}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Ranging errors are inevitable in all local positioning systems, including those based on Time-of-Flight (ToF) technique. Results of experiments show that the major cause for these errors is a signal degradation from multipath propagation. This effect is especially critical in case of Non-Light-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions. This paper describes causes that affects ranging errors for nanoLOCâ„¢-TOF-technology and presents estimations for the probability density functions of such errors under different NLOS conditions. The provided estimations allow the improvement of the accuracy of the localization through the subsequent mitigation of the ranging errors from the measurements. Additionally, it is proposed to increase the number of cases of NLOS-conditions for the improvement of the accuracy.}, language = {en} }