A Tilt Visible Light Positioning System Based on Double LEDs and Angle Sensors

Visible light positioning (VLP) has been studied widely due to its high accuracy and low cost in the field of location-based services (LBS). However, many existing VLP systems have the requirements that the receiver should be placed horizontally and more than three LED lamps should be used, which are difficult to meet in practical scenarios. Therefore, it is necessary to develop a novel VLP algorithm for tilted conditions. An effective and simple VLP system while the receiver is tilted based on double-LED lamps is proposed in this paper. The vertical position can be determined by combining the information from angle sensors with geometric information. Through analyzing the imaging characteristics of the tilted state, we can utilize the relationship of similarity to calculate the location of the mobile receiver. Experimental results show that the positioning accuracy of our proposed algorithm can reach 5.48 cm.