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Therefore, the lightweight fingerprint-based indoor positioning approach is preferred for practical applications. In this paper, a novel multiple-bandwidth generalized regression neural network (GRNN) with the outlier filter indoor positioning approach (GROF) is proposed. The GROF method is based on the GRNN, for which we adopt a new kind of multiple-bandwidth kernel architecture to achieve a more flexible regression performance than that of the traditional GRNN. In addition, an outlier filtering scheme adopting the k-nearest neighbor (KNN) method is embedded into the localization module so as to improve the localization robustness against environmental changes. We discuss the multiple-bandwidth spread value training process and the outlier filtering algorithm, and demonstrate the feasibility and performance of GROF through experiment data, using a Universal Software Radio Peripheral (USRP) platform. The experimental results indicate that the GROF method outperforms the positioning methods, based on the standard GRNN, KNN, or backpropagation neural network (BPNN), both in localization accuracy and robustness, without the extra training sample requirement.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s18113723","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,1]],"date-time":"2018-11-01T11:31:47Z","timestamp":1541071907000},"page":"3723","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["GROF: Indoor Localization Using a Multiple-Bandwidth General Regression Neural Network and Outlier Filter"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"18","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-1412-2709","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Zhang","family":"Chen","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Communications Engineering, PLA Army Engineering University, Nanjing 210007, China"},{"name":"The 63th Institute, National University of Defense Technology, Nanjing 210007, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Jinlong","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"College of Communications Engineering, PLA Army Engineering University, Nanjing 210007, China"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2018,11,1]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"9263","DOI":"10.1016\/j.eswa.2015.08.013","article-title":"Comprehensive analysis of distance and similarity measures for Wi-Fi fingerprinting indoor positioning systems","volume":"42","author":"Montoliu","year":"2015","journal-title":"Expert Syst. 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