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arxiv: 2604.17474 · v1 · submitted 2026-04-19 · 📡 eess.SP

Integrated Sensing, User Location and Orientation Estimation in RIS-Assisted Dynamic Rich Scattering Environment

Anum Umer , Ivo M\"u\"ursepp , Muhammad Mahtab Alam This is my paper

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A biLSTM controller enables adaptive RIS sensing and sequential beamforming to localize users with low error in dynamic rich-scattering environments.

A machine-rendered reading of the paper's core claim, the machinery that carries it, and where it could break.

This paper tackles user equipment localization and orientation estimation indoors where signals bounce off many moving objects and create complex paths. It proposes that the base station uses reconfigurable intelligent surfaces to sense the environment adaptively, then refines RIS configurations and beamforming vectors at the base station and user equipment over successive uplink pilots. A bidirectional LSTM network serves as the controller that learns temporal patterns in the received signals to guide this progressive focusing. Simulations across different RIS placements, numbers of scatterers, and sensing element counts show the method maintains low localization error and robustness.

Core claim

The paper claims that training a bidirectional long-short term memory network to capture temporal dependencies in sequential pilot measurements allows the base station to first adaptively sense the rich scattering environment and then design RIS configurations together with base station and user equipment beamforming vectors that progressively focus onto the user equipment, thereby achieving low localization error and orientation estimation that remains robust under varying numbers of moving scatterers, RIS installations, and sensing elements.

What carries the argument

biLSTM network controller that processes the sequence of pilot measurements to perform adaptive sensing of the RSE and then sequentially designs the RIS configuration, BS beamforming, and UE beamforming vectors for progressive focusing.

If this is right

  • Adaptive sensing with RIS reduces localization error compared to non-adaptive approaches in dynamic environments.
  • The sequential design process achieves progressive focusing using only the sequence of uplink pilots.
  • Performance remains robust across different distributed RIS placements and varying numbers of moving scatterers.
  • Both location and orientation estimation are supported in narrowband MIMO RIS-assisted uplink systems.

Where Pith is reading between the lines

These are editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

  • The learned controller might allow localization without building explicit geometric models of every scatterer.
  • Extending the approach to multi-user scenarios would require retraining the network on joint pilot sequences.
  • Hardware validation in actual indoor spaces with moving people would test whether simulation-trained robustness transfers.

Load-bearing premise

The biLSTM network trained on simulated data generalizes to real dynamic rich-scattering environments and sequential pilot transmissions provide sufficient information for progressive focusing without model mismatch.

What would settle it

If real indoor measurements with moving scatterers show that localization error stays high or fails to improve after additional pilot-based adaptation steps, the adaptive sensing claim would be falsified.

Figures

Figures reproduced from arXiv: 2604.17474 by Anum Umer, Ivo M\"u\"ursepp, Muhammad Mahtab Alam.

Figure 1
Figure 1. Figure 1: Depiction of the investigated RSE. The RSE contains NE dipoles. Their positions include a fixed black dipole fence forming the enclosure boundary and multiple clusters of colored dipoles located at different positions inside the enclosure, representing SOs. The black dipoles remain stationary throughout the simulations, whereas the colored dipoles change position randomly in each realization. The positions… view at source ↗
Figure 2
Figure 2. Figure 2: Block diagram of the proposed UE localization approach with adaptive sensing in RIS-assisted RSE. with joint optimized design of RIS configuration, BS and UE beamforming vectors. A common approach is to address the problem in a simpler yet greedy manner by reducing the estimation RMSE at every time step. However, evaluating the exact objective in (10) requires high dimensional integration, which is difficu… view at source ↗
Figure 4
Figure 4. Figure 4: RMSE of UE localization versus SNR for NRIS = 100, T = 21 and M = 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_4.png] view at source ↗
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Figure 5. Figure 5: CDF of proposed and baseline approaches versus RMSE of [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p010_5.png] view at source ↗
Figure 6
Figure 6. Figure 6: RMSE of UE localization versus NRIS under various distributed RIS installations with SNR= 30dB, T = 21, M = 4 [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p011_6.png] view at source ↗
Figure 7
Figure 7. Figure 7: RMSE of SOs localization versus time frames T for different number of SRIS for SNR= 30dB, NRIS = 100, M = 4. multipath propagation. Increasing the number of RIS elements enhances signal gain, but the lack of directional richness limits the achievable localization accuracy. When RIS panels are mounted on two walls in Figure 6b, localization RMSE is significantly reduced, as reflections from multiple directi… view at source ↗
Figure 8
Figure 8. Figure 8: RMSE of UE and SOs localization versus SNR for different number of SOs for NRIS = 100, T = 21, SRIS = 8. UE and SOs localization performance is illustrated in Fig￾ure 8. The results indicate that increasing M leads to higher estimation RMSE across all considered SNR values in UE location, orientation, and SOs localization. This performance degradation is primarily caused by the increased complexity of the … view at source ↗
read the original abstract

This paper investigates an uplink user equipment (UE) location and orientation estimation problem in an indoor rich-scattering environment (RSE) for a multiple-input-multiple-output (MIMO) narrowband reconfigurable intelligent surfaces (RIS)-assisted communication system. The localization problem in RSE is challenging as the uplink pilot signal undergoes multiple interactions with the RIS and dynamic scattering objects (SOs). This paper proposes an approach where base station (BS) adaptively senses the environment with the help of RIS. Based on this sensing, it sequentially designs RIS configuration, BS beamforming and UE beamforming vectors, using the sequence of pilot transmissions from the UE to the BS, with an objective of progressively focusing them onto the UE. Towards this end, we train a bidirectional long-short term memory (biLSTM) network based controller to capture the temporal dependencies between measurements to first adaptively sense the RSE and then design RIS, BS and UE beamforming vectors to localize the UE. We evaluate the proposed approach under various RSE conditions such as various distributed RIS installations, varying number of randomly moving SOs and sensing RIS elements. Simulation results illustrate that it effectively enables adaptive sensing to achieve low localization error with robustness in various RSEs.

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Referee Report

2 major / 2 minor

Summary. The manuscript proposes a biLSTM network controller that processes sequential uplink pilot transmissions to adaptively configure RIS phase shifts, BS beamformers, and UE beamformers for joint sensing and UE location/orientation estimation in a MIMO narrowband RIS-assisted system operating in dynamic indoor rich-scattering environments with moving scattering objects. The approach aims to progressively focus the beams onto the UE, with performance evaluated exclusively via simulations across varying RIS placements, numbers of moving SOs, and sensing elements.

Significance. If the simulation results hold under closer scrutiny, the work could contribute to integrated sensing and communication by showing how recurrent networks can handle temporal dependencies in pilot sequences for adaptive beam design without explicit multipath modeling. The robustness claims across multiple RSE configurations represent a practical strength for dynamic scenarios, though the absence of real-world validation or theoretical bounds limits broader impact.

major comments (2)
  1. [Simulation Results] § Simulation Results: The claims of 'low localization error' and 'robustness in various RSEs' rest on simulation outcomes, but the section provides no details on training data generation (e.g., SO movement models, pilot sequence lengths, or channel realizations), exact error metrics (position RMSE, orientation error in degrees), number of Monte Carlo runs, or comparisons to baselines such as fixed RIS configurations or non-adaptive estimators. This undermines quantitative assessment of the central performance claims.
  2. [Proposed Method] § Proposed Method (biLSTM controller description): The training procedure for the bidirectional LSTM does not address sensitivity to model mismatch between simulated and real dynamic RSEs, such as unmodeled phase noise at the RIS or imperfect SO velocity knowledge, which is load-bearing for the generalization assumption underlying the adaptive sensing results.
minor comments (2)
  1. [Abstract] The abstract would be strengthened by including at least one quantitative performance figure (e.g., typical RMSE value) and a brief mention of the number of scenarios tested.
  2. [System Model] Notation for the beamforming vectors (RIS, BS, UE) and the biLSTM input/output dimensions could be summarized in a table for clarity.

Simulated Author's Rebuttal

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We thank the referee for the constructive and detailed comments on our manuscript. We address each major comment point by point below, providing clarifications and indicating the revisions made to strengthen the paper.

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  1. Referee: [Simulation Results] § Simulation Results: The claims of 'low localization error' and 'robustness in various RSEs' rest on simulation outcomes, but the section provides no details on training data generation (e.g., SO movement models, pilot sequence lengths, or channel realizations), exact error metrics (position RMSE, orientation error in degrees), number of Monte Carlo runs, or comparisons to baselines such as fixed RIS configurations or non-adaptive estimators. This undermines quantitative assessment of the central performance claims.

    Authors: We agree that the Simulation Results section requires more explicit details to support the performance claims. In the revised manuscript, we have expanded this section to include full descriptions of the training data generation process (SO movement models, pilot sequence lengths, and channel realization methods), the precise error metrics employed (position RMSE and orientation error), the number of Monte Carlo runs, and direct comparisons to the suggested baselines including fixed RIS configurations and non-adaptive estimators. These additions enable a clearer quantitative assessment of the results. revision: yes

  2. Referee: [Proposed Method] § Proposed Method (biLSTM controller description): The training procedure for the bidirectional LSTM does not address sensitivity to model mismatch between simulated and real dynamic RSEs, such as unmodeled phase noise at the RIS or imperfect SO velocity knowledge, which is load-bearing for the generalization assumption underlying the adaptive sensing results.

    Authors: The biLSTM is trained and tested under the exact simulated channel and dynamics model used throughout the paper, with robustness evaluated by varying the number of moving SOs, RIS placements, and sensing elements. We acknowledge that the original manuscript does not explicitly analyze sensitivity to unmodeled real-world effects such as RIS phase noise or imperfect SO velocity knowledge. In the revised version, we have added a dedicated paragraph in the Proposed Method section discussing these potential mismatches, their implications for generalization, and identifying them as topics for future investigation. revision: partial

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full rationale

The paper proposes a biLSTM-based controller trained on simulated uplink pilot sequences to sequentially adapt RIS configurations, BS beamforming, and UE beamforming for UE localization and orientation estimation in dynamic rich-scattering environments. All reported results consist of forward simulations evaluating localization error under varied conditions (different RIS placements, numbers of moving scatterers, sensing elements). No derivation chain reduces a claimed prediction or first-principles result to its own inputs by construction; there are no self-definitional steps, fitted parameters renamed as predictions, or load-bearing self-citations that substitute for independent justification. The method is a data-driven adaptive controller whose performance is assessed empirically via simulation, rendering the evaluation self-contained.

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Abstract-only review yields no explicit free parameters, axioms, or invented entities beyond standard assumptions of MIMO channel models and neural network training.

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