Localization and Tracking Based on RFID Technologies

PhD Thesis Proposal Defence


Title: "Localization and Tracking Based on RFID Technologies"

by

Mr. Yiyang Zhao


Abstract:

RFID is an emerging technology, which is widely used in many areas, 
especially in tracking and localization for ubiquitous computing. Since 
the principles are quite different, the applications of localization of 
active and passive RFID tags make a great difference. In my research, both 
types are considered. To enable the pervasive usage of RFID systems in 
practice, a lot of challenges should be solved, including uncertain 
characteristics of RF signal in an indoor environment, blocking effects by 
moving objects and stochastically suitable reading performance of passive 
tags for different power levels. For dealing with above issues, I develop 
theoretical principles and design practical algorithms. Through 
implementations in real RFID systems, I evaluate my approaches and compare 
them with previous works. The results show the effectiveness and accuracy 
of my methods. The proposed approaches can be further applied to other 
application scenarios. In the future, I will mainly focus on the 
localization issue of passive RFID systems.


Date:     		Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Time:                   10:00am - 12:00noon

Venue:                  Room 3304
 			lifts 17/18

Committee Members:      Prof. Lionel Ni (Supervisor)
 			Dr. Shing-Chi Cheung (Chairperson)
 			Dr. Lei Chen
 			Dr. Yunhao Liu


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