Design and Implementation of 3D Real-Time Positioning and Tracking Algorithms in FPGA for Location Estimation

With the rapid development of wireless communication systems and various emerging applications, software implementations could not satisfy the real-time applications of location-based services (LBS). This article presents a three-dimensional (3D) localization algorithms based on positioning and tracking approaches. The proposed real-time positioning and tracking approaches are implemented with field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). The hardware implementation of the FPGA-based algorithms can improve the traditional matrix operation approaches, and it has advantages of high portability, low cost, and low executing time for LBS applications.