Enhanced Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Sensor Fusion for Firefighting [PDF]
Knowing the exact position of firefighters in a building during an indoor firefighting operation is critical to improving the efficiency and safety of firefighters.
Tobias Augustin, Daniel Ossmann
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An Improved Pedestrian Ttracking Method Based on Wi-Fi Fingerprinting and Pedestrian Dead Reckoning [PDF]
Wi-Fi based positioning has great potential for use in indoor environments because Wi-Fi signals are near-ubiquitous in many indoor environments. With a Reference Fingerprint Map (RFM), fingerprint matching can be adopted for positioning.
Bo Feng +3 more
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Gravity-Based Methods for Heading Computation in Pedestrian Dead Reckoning [PDF]
One of the common ways for solving indoor navigation is known as Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR), which employs inertial and magnetic sensors typically embedded in a smartphone carried by a user.
Adi Manos, Itzik Klein, Tamir Hazan
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Use of High Sensitivity GNSS Receiver Doppler Measurements for Indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning [PDF]
Dead-reckoning (DR) algorithms, which use self-contained inertial sensors combined with gait analysis, have proven to be effective for pedestrian navigation purposes. In such DR systems, the primary error is often due to accumulated heading drifts.
Gérard Lachapelle +3 more
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Improving Indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning for Smartphones under Magnetic Interference Using Deep Learning. [PDF]
As micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) technology continues its rapid ascent, a growing array of smart devices are integrating lightweight, compact, and cost-efficient magnetometers and inertial sensors, paving the way for advanced human motion ...
Zhu P, Yu X, Han Y, Xiao X, Liu Y.
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Combining Wi-Fi Fingerprinting and Pedestrian Dead Reckoning to Mitigate External Factors for a Sustainable Indoor Positioning System [PDF]
Wi-Fi-based indoor positioning systems are becoming increasingly prevalent in digital transitions; therefore, ensuring accurate and robust positioning is essential to supporting the growth in demand for smartphones’ location-based services.
Bhulakshmi Bonthu, Subaji Mohan
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Robust Pedestrian Dead Reckoning Integrating Magnetic Field Signals and Digital Terrestrial Multimedia Broadcasting Signals [PDF]
Currently, many positioning technologies complementary to Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) are providing ubiquitous positioning services, especially the coupling positioning of Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) and other signals.
Xiaoyan Liu +3 more
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On Fusing Wireless Fingerprints with Pedestrian Dead Reckoning to Improve Indoor Localization Accuracy. [PDF]
Accurate indoor positioning remains a critical challenge due to the limitations of single-source systems, such as signal instability and environmental obstructions.
Fernando GC +4 more
europepmc +2 more sources
A novel step detection technique for pedestrian dead reckoning based navigation
Precise step detection is an essential task for pedestrian dead reckoning based navigation. This study presents a novel step detection method using a Dynamic Weight Integrated Fuzzy C-Means (DWIFCM) algorithm.
Sushil Tiwari, Vinod Kumar Jain
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Real-Time Indoor Positioning Based on BLE Beacons and Pedestrian Dead Reckoning for Smartphones [PDF]
Nowadays, smartphones have become indispensable in people’s daily work and life. Since various sensors and communication chips have been integrated into smartphones, it has become feasible to provide indoor positioning using phones.
Zhiang Jin +4 more
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