Wi-Fi/MARG Integration for Indoor Pedestrian Localization

Autor: Zengshan Tian, Yue Jin, Mu Zhou, Zipeng Wu, Ze Li
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
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Zdroj: Sensors, Vol 16, Iss 12, p 2100 (2016)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 1424-8220
16122100
DOI: 10.3390/s16122100
Popis: With the wide deployment of Wi-Fi networks, Wi-Fi based indoor localization systems that are deployed without any special hardware have caught significant attention and have become a currently practical technology. At the same time, the Magnetic, Angular Rate, and Gravity (MARG) sensors installed in commercial mobile devices can achieve highly-accurate localization in short time. Based on this, we design a novel indoor localization system by using built-in MARG sensors and a Wi-Fi module. The innovative contributions of this paper include the enhanced Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) and Wi-Fi localization approaches, and an Extended Kalman Particle Filter (EKPF) based fusion algorithm. A new Wi-Fi/MARG indoor localization system, including an Android based mobile client, a Web page for remote control, and a location server, is developed for real-time indoor pedestrian localization. The extensive experimental results show that the proposed system is featured with better localization performance, with the average error 0.85 m, than the one achieved by using the Wi-Fi module or MARG sensors solely.
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