IP Library Granted Patent US 11,894,880
Granted Patent B2
US 11,894,880 · App. 17/312,803 · Granted Feb 6, 2024

Automatic fine-grained radio map construction and adaption

Inventors: Han Zou (Berkeley, CA); Costas J. Spanos (Lafayette, CA); Yuxun Zhou (Chicago, IL)
Assignee: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
H04B17/318G06N3/08H04B17/21H04W16/225
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Quick Facts
Patent No.
US 11,894,880
App. No.
17/312,803
Filed
Jun 10, 2021
Granted
Feb 6, 2024
Kind
B2
Art Unit
2462
USPC
370/252
Abstract

An automatic wireless fine-grained ratio map construction and adaptation system may include a Gaussian process regression (GPR) model constructed with real wireless received signal strength (RSS) measurements collected in a free space to provide coarse RSS estimation in a constrained space, and a generative adversarial network (GAN) to provide fine-grained RSS estimation in the constrained space by using an output of GPR as an input for a generator of GAN, modeling the irregular RSS distributions in complex indoor environments. The system may generate realistic RSS data in the constrained space that has not been manually site-surveyed.

Claims (26)

1. An automatic wireless fine-grained ratio map construction and adaptation system, comprising:

a sensor configured to collect real wireless received signal strength (RSS) measurements in a free space;

a processor configured to construct a Gaussian process regression (GPR) model based at least in part on the real wireless RSS measurements collected by the sensor in the free space to provide coarse RSS estimation in a constrained space; and

a generator of a generative adversarial network (GAN) configured to provide fine-grained RSS estimation in the constrained space by using an output of the GPR as an input for the generator of the GAN.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the system is further configured to model the irregular RSS distributions in complex indoor environments.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the system is further configured to generate realistic RSS data in the constrained space that has not been manually site surveyed.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the environment can be classified as the free space where the sensor can access freely.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the environment can be classified as the constrained space where the sensor cannot access easily or where the noise of its measurement is high.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein the processor is configured to construct the GPR model by using the RSS measurements at calibration points as well as their two-dimensional coordinates collected by the sensor in the free space to capture anomalous RSS variations on a rough level.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the processor is further configured to construct the GPR model by providing a coarse RSS estimation at the calibration points and adopting them as the input for the generator of the GAN instead of random noise.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the nonlinear relations between the spatial and radio space captured by the GPR can be inherited by the GAN.

9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the generative adversarial network (GAN) is configured to reveal the irregular RSS distribution in an environment that is not explored by the GPR.

10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the generative adversarial network (GAN) is configured to synthesize realistic RSS data to fool a discriminator of the GAN while the discriminator of the GAN tries to distinguish whether the data is real or fake.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein providing the fine-grained RSS estimation comprises leveraging the GPR model to generate coarse estimations and use them as the input for the generator of the GAN.

12. The system of claim 11 , wherein the output of the generator of the GAN is the fine-grained RSS estimation.

13. A method, comprising:

a sensor of an automatic wireless fine-grained ratio map construction and adaptation system collecting real wireless received signal strength (RSS) measurements in a free space;

a processor of the automatic wireless fine-grained ratio map construction and adaptation system constructing a Gaussian process regression (GPR) model based at least in part on the real wireless RSS measurements collected by the sensor in the free space to provide coarse RSS estimation in a constrained space; and

a generator of a generative adversarial network (GAN) of the automatic wireless fine-grained ratio map construction and adaptation system providing fine-grained RSS estimation in the constrained space by using an output of the GPR as an input for the generator of the GAN.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising modeling the irregular RSS distributions in complex indoor environments.

15. The method of claim 14 , further comprising generating realistic RSS data in the constrained space that has not been manually site surveyed.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the processor constructing the GPR model includes the processor using the RSS measurements at calibration points as well as their two-dimensional coordinates collected by the sensor in the free space to capture anomalous RSS variations on a rough level.

17. The method of claim 16 , further comprising the processor constructing the GPR model by providing a coarse RSS estimation at the calibration points and adopting them as the input for the generator of the GAN instead of random noise.

18. The method of claim 13 , further comprising the GAN revealing the irregular RSS distribution in an environment that is not explored by the GPR.

19. The method of claim 13 , further comprising the GAN synthesizing realistic RSS data to fool a discriminator of the GAN while the discriminator of the GAN tries to distinguish whether the data is real or fake.

20. The method of claim 13 , wherein the generator providing the fine-grained RSS estimation comprises the generator leveraging the GPR model to generate coarse estimations and use them as the input for the generator of the GAN.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jun 10, 2021
From: ZOU, HAN; SPANOS, COSTAS J.; ZHOU, YUXUN
To: THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
Reel/Frame 056503/0748 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62779956 · Dec 14, 2018
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