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However, current indoor positioning based on Bluetooth AOA\/AOD suffers from overly simplistic core algorithm implementations. When facing different application scenarios, the standalone AOA or AOD algorithms exhibit weak applicability, and they also encounter challenges such as poor positioning accuracy, insufficient real-time performance, and significant effects of multipath propagation. These existing problems and deficiencies render Bluetooth lacking an efficient implementation solution for indoor positioning. Therefore, this paper proposes a study on Bluetooth AOA and AOD indoor positioning algorithms. Through an analysis of the principles of Bluetooth\u2019s newly added direction-finding functionality and combined with research on array signal DOA estimation algorithms, the paper ultimately integrates the least squares algorithm to optimize positioning errors in terms of accuracy and incorporates an anti-multipath interference algorithm to address the impacts of multipath effects in different scenarios. Experimental testing demonstrates that the indoor positioning algorithms applicable to Bluetooth AOA and AOD can effectively mitigate accuracy errors and overcome multipath effects, exhibiting strong applicability and significant improvements in real-time performance.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/s24144579","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,15]],"date-time":"2024-07-15T14:15:49Z","timestamp":1721052949000},"page":"4579","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":17,"title":["Research and Implementation of Indoor Positioning Algorithm Based on Bluetooth 5.1 AOA and AOD"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"24","author":[{"given":"Kun","family":"Xiao","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu 610056, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Fuzhong","family":"Hao","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Grid Henan Electric Power Company, Zhengzhou 450018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Weijian","family":"Zhang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Grid Henan Electric Power Company, Zhengzhou 450018, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Nuannuan","family":"Li","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"State Grid Henan Electric Power Research Institute, Zhengzhou 450000, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Yintao","family":"Wang","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"School of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology, Chengdu 610056, China"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2024,7,15]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","unstructured":"Shi, W., Zhang, T., Huang, B., and Jia, B. 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