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Pedestrian Indoor Localization Using Foot Mounted Inertial Sensors in Combination with a Magnetometer, a Barometer and RFID

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A system for pedestrian indoor localization is presented, which uses the data of an inertial sensor unit mounted on the foot of a person walking through an indoor or outdoor environment. The inertial sensor data are integrated to a position/orientation information using a classical strapdown navigation approach, while several additional sensor data and constraints, such as Zero Velocity Updates, magnetometer and barometer readings and the detection of spatially distributed RFID tags, are incorporated to the solution using an Unscented Kalman Filter. The work presents a custom sensor system development, describes the developed algorithms and evaluates several methods to reduce the drift, which usually comes with the integration of low cost inertial sensors.

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  1. Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, Hahn-Schickard-Gesellschaft e.V., Villingen-Schwenningen, Germany

    Michailas Romanovas, Vadim Goridko, Mohamed Bourouah, Ahmed Al-Jawad & Martin Traechtler

  2. Institute of Geodesy and Geoinformation, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universitaet Bonn, Bonn, Germany

    Lasse Klingbeil

  3. Fritz Huettinger Chair of Microelectronics, Department of Microsystems Engineering (IMTEK), Albert-Ludwigs-Universitaet Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

    Yiannos Manoli

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Romanovas, M. et al. (2013). Pedestrian Indoor Localization Using Foot Mounted Inertial Sensors in Combination with a Magnetometer, a Barometer and RFID. In: Krisp, J. (eds) Progress in Location-Based Services. Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34203-5_9

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