  Location knowledge in indoor environment using Indoor Positioning Systems
(IPS) has become very useful and popular in recent years. Indoor wireless
localization suffers from severe multi-path fading and non-line-of-sight
conditions. This paper presents a novel indoor localization framework based on
sensor fusion of Zigbee Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) using Received Signal
Strength (RSS). The unknown position is equipped with two or more mobile nodes.
The range between two mobile nodes is fixed as priori. The attitude (roll,
pitch, and yaw) of the mobile node are measured by inertial sensors (ISs). Then
the angle and the range between any two nodes can be obtained, and thus the
path between the two nodes can be modeled as a curve. Through an efficient
cooperation between two or more mobile nodes, this framework effectively
exploits the RSS techniques. This constraint help improve the positioning
accuracy. Theoretical analysis on localization distortion and Monte Carlo
simulations shows that the proposed cooperative strategy of multiple nodes with
extended Kalman filter (EKF) achieves significantly higher positioning accuracy
than the existing systems, especially in heavily obstructed scenarios.
