As the importance of GNSS to civilian infrastructure increases, the ability to detect and localise sources of interference that disrupts its operation becomes increasingly important. In order to calculate the time-delay measurements in a Time Difference Of Arrival (TDOA) based localisation system for localising interference to GPS within the GNSS Environmental Monitoring System (GEMS), data col...

Cognitive Radio Network (CRN) is an emerging technology used to solve spectrum shortage problems in wireless communications. In CRN, unlicensed secondary users (SUs) and licensed primary (PUs) use resources at the same time by avoiding any interference from SUs. However, sensing process CRN often disturbed a security issue known as Primary User Emulation Attack (PUEA). PUEA one of main issues t...

The partial discharge (PD) leads to catastrophic failure of the medium voltage (MV) switchgear insulation. Determination PD source (defect) location in high (HV) equipment is very important maintenance procedures and isolating root cause generation. In this paper, transient earth (TEV) detection method was used acquire defect-initiated signals a simulated MV model. An array four TEV sensors wer...

A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of sensor nodes (SNs) with wireless communication capabilities for specific sensing tasks. Among different applications, wireless location technologies which are designated to estimate the position of SNs (Geziciet al., 2005) (Haraet al., 2005) (Patwari et al., 2005)have drawn a lot of attention over the past few decades. There are increasing demands for...

In the unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) case, the estimation of a future position with a present one is one of the most important techniques (Madhavan & Schlenoff, 2004). Generally, the famous global positioning system (GPS) has been widely used for position tracking because of its good performance (Torrieri, 1984; Kim et al., 2006). However, there exist some defects. For example, it needs a separ...

Problem Description The thesis consists of: 1-Study and understating of the UWB technology 2-Study and understanding of methods and principals for/behind positioning using the UWB technology. 3-Identification of a few suitable methods for practical implementation of such functionality. 4-Comparison of these methods and recommendation of one of them as the most suitable implementation method. Su...

This paper presents a three-dimensional (3-D) localization system for ultra-wideband (UWB) impulsive noise sources. The localization algorithm is in terms of time difference of arrival (TDOA). Firstly, a feasibility study of the 3-D localization scheme is carried out numerically. Then, the effectiveness and limitation of the scheme are revealed. Our proposal is validated by measurement in an op...