Various indoor positioning techniques have been developed and widely applied in both manufacturing processes and people's lives.Due to the electromagnetic interference and multipath effects,traditional Wi-Fi,Bluetooth and other wireless locating technologies are difficult to achieve high accuracy.Modulated white LED can provide both illumination and location information to achieve highly accurate indoor positioning.In this paper,we first introduce several modulation methods of visible light positioning systems and compare the characteristics of different modulation methods.Then,we propose a viable indoor positioning scheme based on visible light communications and discuss two different demodulation methods.In the following,we introduce several positioning algorithms used in visible light communication system.Finally,the problems and prospects of the visible light communication based indoor positioning are discussed.