The invention relates to an RFID positioning method based on an adaptive
deep belief network. The method comprises a step of laying the positions of a reader and reference tags, and calculating distances from the reference tags to the reader, a step of allowing the reader to send electromagnetic wave signals to the reference tags and receive
signal intensity RSSI values, and constructing a training
sample vector matrix, a step of constructing the adaptive
deep belief network, taking the RSSI value of each reference tag as an input value, and taking the distance d of each reference tag as an output value, a step of using a contrastive
divergence algorithm to complete the pretraining of a
network parameter, a step of using an adaptive moment
estimation method to adjust a weight of each layer of a
deep learning network, and a step of allowing the reader to send a
signal to a tag to be measured and receive an RSSI value, and using the
deep belief network to predict the position of the tag to be measured. According to the method, the adaptive deep belief network is used, a nonlinear relationship between a
signal intensity value and the distance is constructed, a
cross entropy cost function is used, and a problem of a slow learning rate is alleviated.