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In this paper, a positioning strategy utilizing ultra-wide band (UWB) and low-cost onboard sensors is proposed, aimed at tracking vehicles in typical urban scenarios (such as intersections). UWB tech offers the potential of achieving high ranging accuracy through its ability to resolve multipath and penetrate obstacles. However, not line of sight (NLOS) propagation still has a high occurrence in intricate urban intersections and may significantly deteriorate positioning accuracy. Hence, we present an autoregressive integrated moving average (ARIMA) model to first address the NLOS problem. Then, we propose a tightly-coupled multi sensor fusion algorithm, in which the fuzzy calibration logic (FCL) is designed and introduced to adaptively adjust the dependence on each received UWB measurement to effectively mitigate NLOS and multipath interferences. At last, the proposed strategy is evaluated through experiments. Ground test results validate that this low-cost approach has the potential to achieve accurate, reliable and continuous localization, regardless of the GPS working statue.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s19132867","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,28]],"date-time":"2019-06-28T11:20:26Z","timestamp":1561720826000},"page":"2867","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":14,"title":["Tightly-Coupled Vehicle Positioning Method at Intersections Aided by UWB"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"19","author":[{"given":"Huaikun","family":"Gao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Sipailou 2, Xuanwu District, Nanjing 210096, China"}]},{"given":"Xu","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Instrument Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Sipailou 2, Xuanwu District, Nanjing 210096, China"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2019,6,28]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"4","DOI":"10.1109\/TITS.2008.2011712","article-title":"In-car positioning and navigation technologies\u2014A survey","volume":"10","author":"Skog","year":"2009","journal-title":"IEEE Trans. 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