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Applying a ToF/IMU-Based Multi-Sensor Fusion Architecture in Pedestrian Indoor Navigation Methods

The advancement of indoor Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) based on the low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) has been long reviewed in the field of pedestrian localization. There are various sources of error in these systems which lead to unstable and unreliable positioning results, especially...

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Autores principales: Farhangian, Farzan, Sefidgar, Mohammad, Landry, Rene Jr.
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: MDPI 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8196976/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34067380
http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21113615
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description The advancement of indoor Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) based on the low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) has been long reviewed in the field of pedestrian localization. There are various sources of error in these systems which lead to unstable and unreliable positioning results, especially in long term performances. These inaccuracies are usually caused by imperfect system modeling, inappropriate sensor fusion models, heading drift, biases of IMUs, and calibration methods. This article addresses the issues surrounding unreliability of the low-cost Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS)-based pedestrian INS. We designed a novel multi-sensor fusion method based on a Time of Flight (ToF) distance sensor and dual chest- and foot-mounted IMUs, aided by an online calibration technique. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is accounted for estimating the attitude, position, and velocity errors, as well as estimation of IMU biases. A fusion architecture is derived to provide a consistent velocity measurement by operative contribution of ToF distance sensor and foot mounted IMU. In this method, the measurements of the ToF distance sensor are used for the time-steps in which the Zero Velocity Update (ZUPT) measurements are not active. In parallel, the chest mounted IMU is accounted for attitude estimation of the pedestrian’s chest. As well, by designing a novel corridor detection filter, the heading drift is restricted in each straightway. Compared to the common INS method, developed system proves promising and resilient results in two-dimensional corridor spaces for durations of up to 11 min. Finally, the results of our experiments showed the position RMS error of less than 3 m and final-point error of less than 5 m.
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spelling pubmed-81969762021-06-13 Applying a ToF/IMU-Based Multi-Sensor Fusion Architecture in Pedestrian Indoor Navigation Methods Farhangian, Farzan Sefidgar, Mohammad Landry, Rene Jr. Sensors (Basel) Article The advancement of indoor Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) based on the low-cost Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) has been long reviewed in the field of pedestrian localization. There are various sources of error in these systems which lead to unstable and unreliable positioning results, especially in long term performances. These inaccuracies are usually caused by imperfect system modeling, inappropriate sensor fusion models, heading drift, biases of IMUs, and calibration methods. This article addresses the issues surrounding unreliability of the low-cost Micro-Electro-Mechanical System (MEMS)-based pedestrian INS. We designed a novel multi-sensor fusion method based on a Time of Flight (ToF) distance sensor and dual chest- and foot-mounted IMUs, aided by an online calibration technique. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) is accounted for estimating the attitude, position, and velocity errors, as well as estimation of IMU biases. A fusion architecture is derived to provide a consistent velocity measurement by operative contribution of ToF distance sensor and foot mounted IMU. In this method, the measurements of the ToF distance sensor are used for the time-steps in which the Zero Velocity Update (ZUPT) measurements are not active. In parallel, the chest mounted IMU is accounted for attitude estimation of the pedestrian’s chest. As well, by designing a novel corridor detection filter, the heading drift is restricted in each straightway. Compared to the common INS method, developed system proves promising and resilient results in two-dimensional corridor spaces for durations of up to 11 min. Finally, the results of our experiments showed the position RMS error of less than 3 m and final-point error of less than 5 m. MDPI 2021-05-22 /pmc/articles/PMC8196976/ /pubmed/34067380 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s21113615 Text en © 2021 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
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