A Semi-Supervised Learning Approach for Ranging Error Mitigation Based
  on UWB Waveform
Yuxiao Li Santiago Mazuelas Yuan Shen
Localization systems based on ultra-wide band (UWB) measurements can have
unsatisfactory performance in harsh environments due to the presence of
non-line-of-sight (NLOS) errors. Learning-based methods for error mitigation
have shown great performance improvement via directly exploiting the wideband
waveform instead of handcrafted features. However, these methods require data
samples fully labeled with actual measurement errors for training, which leads
to time-consuming data collection. In this paper, we propose a semi-supervised
learning method based on variational Bayes for UWB ranging error mitigation.
Combining deep learning techniques and statistic tools, our method can
efficiently accumulate knowledge from both labeled and unlabeled data samples.
Extensive experiments illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed method under
different supervision rates, and the superiority compared to other fully
supervised methods even at a low supervision rate.