To mitigate the NLOS (non-line-of-sight) error of UWB (ultra-wideband) ranging caused by obstructions in dense multi-path environments
an effective NLOS error mitigation method is proposed in this paper.The principles and characteristics of NLOS error are considered
and based on the path loss model of UWB signal
through comparing the energy of paths arriving at different time
the NLOS error estimation is formulated
which is further used to calibrate the original ranging result.A less computational and low complex path detection algorithm is proposed to implement the method.Measured data is used to test the proposed method
and the results show that the ranging precision can be improved significantly.