A Novel Frequency Domain Visible Light Communication (VLC) Three-Dimensional Trilateration System for Localization in Underground Mining

Applied Sciences

Nicolas Krommenacker¹  Patrick Charpentier¹  David Zabala-Blanco²  Cesar Azurdia-Meza³  Ismael Soto⁴  Fabian Seguel⁴  Ali Dehghan Firoozabadi⁵  Daniel Iturralde⁶ 

[1] CRAN, CNRS UMR 7039, Université de Lorraine, BP 70239 Nancy, France;Department of Computing and Industries, Universidad Católica del Maule, Talca 3466706, Chile;Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Chile, Santiago 8370451, Chile;Department of Electrical Engineering, Universidad de Santiago de Chile, Santiago 9170124, Chile;Department of Electricity, Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana, Av. Jose Pedro Alessandri 1242, Santiago 7800002, Chile;Department of Electronical Engineering, Universidad del Azuay, Cuenca 010107, Ecuador;

关键词: light emitting diode;    photodetector;    source localization;    underground mining;    visible light communication;   

DOI  :  10.3390/app9071488

来源: DOAJ

【 摘 要 】

A new visible light communication (VLC) system is proposed for localization in underground mining. Existent systems, such as global positioning system (GPS) and systems based on mobile communication, are generally not useful in underground mining. The proposed system is based on a three-dimensional trilateration VLC localization scheme. This articles offers an evaluation of the proposed system in different evaluation scenarios in terms of the average localization error. The proposed algorithm localizes the source with an average localization estimation error of less than (16.4 cm), based on the source location. The average error is (3.5 cm) for subjects that are very close to the light-emitting-diode (LEDs).The obtained results show the superiority of the proposed method in comparison with traditional short range radio frequency technologies such as RFID, Wi-Fi and Zigbee, making it a feasible system for localizing objects in underground mining.

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