Environment-Aware RSSI Based Positioning Algorithm for Random Angle Interference Cancellation in Visible Light Positioning System

—Visible Light Positioning (VLP) is considered to be one of the most promising candidates for future Location Based Service (LBSs). The traditional Received Signal Strength Indication (RSSI) based VLP system is highly sensitized with receiver’s orientation. However, the assumption of the receiver’s orientation fixed or perfectly known is not realistic in practice. Thus, a random angle between receiver and the horizontal plane inevitably appears among localization, which extremely affects positioning results. This paper proposed an Environment-Aware RSSI based positioning algorithm for VLP system. It enables to mainly eliminate random angle interference without the help of extra equipment. The positioning error caused by random angle was theoretically analyzed and validated by numerical simulation. Moreover, a demonstration on a real 5G New Radio (NR) signal platform was implemented to verify the feasibility of our algorithm. According to the results, the average positioning error declined by 73.28%.