ARFT: A Synchronized Multimodal RF-Acoustic Dataset for Positioning in Distributed Environments

Abstract

This paper documents the acoustic-radio fusion in Techtile (ARFT) dataset, a synchronized measurement campaign for distributed wireless sensing and positioning in the Techtile testbed. Ultrasonic and radio frequency (RF) signals are simultaneously transmitted and captured at multiple positions in a 2D spatial grid inside the Techtile testbed. Each acquisition cycle corresponds to one rover stop, one position sample, one acoustic recording and one RF snapshot. The RF modality is recorded as per-host pilot measurements and released as channel state information (CSI) tensors for 42 antennas mounted at the ceiling of the room. The acoustic chirp is recorded with 91 synchronized microphones and transmitted by a synchronized quasi omni-directional speaker. The campaign spans 5011 spatial position samples spanning a 5.57 m by 2.89 m area with complete RF and acoustic data. We detail how the measurements are recorded, quantify per-experiment coverage, describe the RF and acoustic data contents, and explain how the aligned modalities support RF-only, acoustic-only, and joint positioning workflows. Furthermore, a static acoustic positioning pipeline that performs anchor selection, pulse-compression ranging, and least squares (LS) localization is elaborated.