A system and method for transient satellite doppler signal position determination by receiving multiple measured signals, determining transmission characteristics for those signals, determining orbital characteristics of satellites associated with those signals via a Doppler calculation, identifying the satellites from the transmission and orbital characteristics, determining a closest approach point responsive to identifying the satellites and the Doppler calculations, determining current positions of the satellites relative to the receiver from the closest approach point determinations via comparison to an orbital location-defining modeling equation associated with the first satellite, and determining a geolocation of the receiver responsive to each of the current position of the satellites relative to the receiver.

Systems and processes for position estimation for emitters outside of line of sight of fixed network nodes are disclosed. The positions of the mobile nodes are determined and the mobile nodes are time synchronized. Then, locations of one or more user equipments (UEs) are determined. The mobile radio network nodes may be air, land, or water-borne (e.g., mounted on drones, trains, boats, planes, automobiles, or the like). The UEs to be located may be a wide range of devices such as emergency transmitters, mobile phones, simple sensor nodes, and other Internet of Things (IoT) devices.

Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for radio direction finding with an iterative ambiguity resolution algorithm. An antenna array may receive an emitted signal. Two or more phase shifts in the received emitted signal may be determined between two or more pairs of antennas of the antenna array. A set of possible expected phase shifts may be generated from at least two of the measured phase shift. To determine the proper one of the set of expected phase shifts, a set of initial guesses for parameters of a fitting equation may be generated and then each may be optimized to determine optimized fitting parameters. From these optimized fitting parameters a direction of arrival of the emitted signal may be determined.

A method in a measuring station is described. The method includes determining a plurality of Time of Flights (TOFs) corresponding to plurality of beacons and determining an overall circular error probability ellipse (CEP) based at least in part upon a plurality of times of departure and a corresponding plurality of measuring station positions for each TOF. The method further includes determining at least one individual CEP of a plurality of individual CEPs if at least one of a predetermined time has elapsed and the measuring station has travelled a predetermined distance and determining a merged CEP, where the merged CEP includes the plurality of individual CEPs. Further, the merged CEP is determined to be a better CEP if the merged CEP is more consistent with the plurality of individual CEPs than with the overall CEP. The better CEP is usable to determine a location of a wireless device.

A method for geolocating an interference source in a communication-based transport system, wherein the communication-based transport system comprises: —a plurality of interference sources, distributed in a space and respectively emitting signal, —a vehicle, moving along a known trajectory, receiving the signal from the interference sources, and measuring the signal strength of the signal of only one interference source at a time instance; the method comprising: —separating the interference sources by clustering the signal strength of the signal with a clustering method; —estimating the locations of the interference sources in the space based on the separated interference sources.

A location server collects from access points at known locations in a venue, which is represented by grid locations defined by parameters accessible to the location server, (i) ultra wideband (UWB) location measurements for a UWB location technology based on UWB transmissions from mobile devices in the venue, and (ii) non-UWB location measurements for non-UWB location technologies based on non-UWB transmissions from the mobile devices. The location server associates the non-UWB location measurements for the non-UWB location technologies with the grid locations, using the UWB location measurements as reference measurements. The location server populates location calibration records for the grid locations of the venue with the non-UWB location measurements associated with the grid locations. The location server calibrates the non-UWB location technologies at the grid locations based on the non-UWB location measurements in the location calibration records associated with the grid locations.

Embodiments of the disclosure are drawn to apparatuses, systems, and methods for radio direction finding with an iterative ambiguity resolution algorithm. An antenna array may receive an emitted signal. Two or more phase shifts in the received emitted signal may be determined between two or more pairs of antennas of the antenna array. A set of possible expected phase shifts may be generated from at least two of the measured phase shift. To determine the proper one of the set of expected phase shifts, a set of initial guesses for parameters of a fitting equation may be generated and then each may be optimized to determine optimized fitting parameters. From these optimized fitting parameters a direction of arrival of the emitted signal may be determined.

An embodiment of the invention may include a method, computer program product and computer system for detecting a device. The embodiment may include a computing device that determines a Universally Unique Identifier (UUID) of a beacon of a second device. The computing device may determine a first location of the first device. The computing device may determine whether the UUID of the beacon of the second device matches a UUID in a list of UUIDs, where each UUID in the list of UUIDs corresponds to a beacon associated with a device. The computing device may transmitting the UUID of the beacon of the second device and the first location to a third device, based on determining the UUID of the beacon of the second device matches an entry in the list.

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling identifying a configuration of a set of uplink slots for the UE to transmit uplink reference signals to a satellite. The UE may transmit, to the satellite, a set of uplink reference signals on the set of uplink slots according to the configuration. The set of uplink reference signals may include sounding reference signals (SRSs), positioning references signals (PRSs), or both. In some implementations, the UE may transmit the set of uplink reference signals in accordance with one or more timing advance values, where the timing advance values are indicated to the satellite by the UE, pre-configured by the satellite, or both. The UE may then, from a network node, an indication of a position of the UE based on the set of uplink reference signals.

Disclosed is a route determining method of a moving object. The method includes determining, by a moving object including a determining unit and a control unit, a first node which is the closest to a current position and moving the moving object in the determined first node direction; determining, by the moving object, a first point included in a radio wave reachable area of the first node and allowing the moving object to go through the determined first point; determining, by the moving object, a second node which is the closest to the first point and moving the moving object to the determined second node direction; and determining, by the moving object, a second point included in a radio wave reachable area of the second node by considering the first node and the position of the first point and allowing the moving object to go through the second point.