Lagrange programming neural networks for time-of-arrival-based source localization

Finding the location of a mobile source from a number of separated sensors is an important problem in global positioning systems and wireless sensor networks. This problem can be achieved by making use of the time-of-arrival (TOA) measurements. However, solving this problem is not a trivial task because the TOA measurements have nonlinear relationships with the source location. This paper adopts an analog neural network technique, namely Lagrange programming neural network, to locate a mobile source. We also investigate the stability of the proposed neural model. Simulation results demonstrate that the mean-square error performance of our devised location estimator approaches the Cramér-Rao lower bound in the presence of uncorrelated Gaussian measurement noise. © 2013 Springer-Verlag London.