Adding direction to a directionless world

This thesis focuses on the feasibility of adding a new dimension to spatial context referred to as orientation. Based on directional antennas and previous work in RSSI based radio distance estimation, this work shows that using directional antennas alone, the angle between two devices can be approximated. Furthermore, this thesis shows the effect of distance estimation error on angle estimation and how the number of samples affects the error in angle estimation.

Name thesis:degree_name

M.S.

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Science

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2012

Author dc:creator

• Trower, Matthew

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kravets, Robin H.

• localization
• wireless
• bluetooth
• proximity
• orientation

Statement dc:rights

• Copyright 2012 Matthew Trower

Language dc:language

en

Handle dc:identifier

http://hdl.handle.net/2142/30952

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/30952