Patent ID: 8494556

Claim:
A method for the computer-supported calibrating of a propagation-time-based localization system, wherein the position of a mobile object in a predetermined environment can be determined in the localization system by registering propagation-time-based variables of a plurality of base stations belonging to a radio network, with the propagation-time-based variable of a respective base station representing the propagation time of signals between a radio unit belonging to the mobile object and the respective base station, with the method comprising: a) moving the mobile object within the predetermined environment and registering the propagation-time-based variables of the respective base stations therein at a plurality of measuring instants; b) assigning the minimum value of the propagation-time-based variables of a respective base station to a predefined minimum distance of the mobile object from the respective base station and the maximum value of the propagation-time-based variables of a respective base station to a predefined maximum distance of the mobile object from the respective base station; c) for a respective base station, scaling a predefined dependence between the distances of the mobile object from the respective base station and the propagation-time-based variables of the respective base station to the assigning of the minimum value to the minimum distance and of the maximum value to the maximum distance, with the scaled dependence serving to ascertain the distances of the mobile object from the base stations from the propagation-time-based variables when its position is being determined.