scholarly journals Enhanced Heuristic Drift Elimination with Adaptive Zero-Velocity Detection and Heading Correction Algorithms for Pedestrian Navigation

Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 951 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruihui Zhu ◽  
Yunjia Wang ◽  
Baoguo Yu ◽  
Xingli Gan ◽  
Haonan Jia ◽  
...  

As pedestrian dead-reckoning (PDR), based on foot-mounted inertial sensors, suffers from accumulated error in velocity and heading, an improved heuristic drift elimination (iHDE) with a zero-velocity update (ZUPT) algorithm was proposed for simultaneously reducing the error in heading and velocity in complex paths, i.e., with pathways oriented at 45°, curved corridors, and wide areas. However, the iHDE algorithm does not consider the changes in pedestrian movement modes, and it can deteriorate when a pedestrian walks along a straight path without a pre-defined dominant direction. To solve these two problems, we propose enhanced heuristic drift elimination (eHDE) with an adaptive zero-velocity update (AZUPT) algorithm and novel heading correction algorithm. The relationships between the magnitude peaks of the y-axis angular rate and the detection thresholds were established only using the readings of the three-axis accelerometer and the three-axis gyroscopic, and a mechanism for constructing temporary dominant directions in real time was introduced. Real experiments were performed and the results showed that the proposed algorithm can improve the still-phase detection accuracy of a pedestrian at different movement motions and outperforms the iHDE algorithm in complex paths with many straight features.

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (21) ◽  
pp. 4782 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yong Hun Kim ◽  
Min Jun Choi ◽  
Eung Ju Kim ◽  
Jin Woo Song

This research proposes an algorithm that improves the position accuracy of indoor pedestrian dead reckoning, by compensating the position error with a magnetic field map-matching technique, using multiple magnetic sensors and an outlier mitigation technique based on roughness weighting factors. Since pedestrian dead reckoning using a zero velocity update (ZUPT) does not use position measurements but zero velocity measurements in a stance phase, the position error cannot be compensated, which results in the divergence of the position error. Therefore, more accurate pedestrian dead reckoning is achievable when the position measurements are used for position error compensation. Unfortunately, the position information cannot be easily obtained for indoor navigation, unlike in outdoor navigation cases. In this paper, we propose a method to determine the position based on the magnetic field map matching by using the importance sampling method and multiple magnetic sensors. The proposed method does not simply integrate multiple sensors but uses the normalization and roughness weighting method for outlier mitigation. To implement the indoor pedestrian navigation algorithm more accurately than in existing indoor pedestrian navigation, a 15th-order error model and an importance-sampling extended Kalman filter was utilized to correct the error of the map-matching-aided pedestrian dead reckoning (MAPDR). To verify the performance of the proposed indoor MAPDR algorithm, many experiments were conducted and compared with conventional pedestrian dead reckoning. The experimental results show that the proposed magnetic field MAPDR algorithm provides clear performance improvement in all indoor environments.


2017 ◽  
Vol 2017 ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Miguel Ortiz ◽  
Mathieu De Sousa ◽  
Valerie Renaudin

The motivations, the design, and some applications of the new Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) navigation device, ULISS (Ubiquitous Localization with Inertial Sensors and Satellites), are presented in this paper. It is an original device conceived to follow the European recommendation of privacy by design to protect location data which opens new research toward self-contained pedestrian navigation approaches. Its application is presented with an enhanced PDR algorithm to estimate pedestrian’s footpaths in an autonomous manner irrespective of the handheld device carrying mode: texting or swinging. An analysis of real-time coding issues toward a demonstrator is also conducted. Indoor experiments, conducted with 3 persons, give a 5.8% mean positioning error over the 3 km travelled distances.


2013 ◽  
Vol 437 ◽  
pp. 870-875 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhong Liang Deng ◽  
Fei Peng Xie ◽  
Yan Pei Yu ◽  
Xiao Hong Zhao ◽  
Zhuang Yuan

In order to solve the discontinuity of navigation and positioning in indoor signal coverage blind areas, and false region judgment caused by positioning error, an integrated method combining Wireless Positioning System (WPS), Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) and Map Matching (MM) is presented in this paper. By using the combination of Kalman filtered WPS and PDR information, inertial information and geographic information, pedestrian position could be evaluated. Through experiment, this method effectively increased positioning accuracy of the system as well as greatly improved the user experience.


2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (8) ◽  
pp. 2996-3003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ling-Feng Shi ◽  
Yu-Le Zhao ◽  
Gong-Xu Liu ◽  
Sen Chen ◽  
Yue Wang ◽  
...  

2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying Guo ◽  
Qinghua Liu ◽  
Xianlei Ji ◽  
Shengli Wang ◽  
Mingyang Feng ◽  
...  

Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) is an essential technology for positioning and navigation in complex indoor environments. In the process of PDR positioning and navigation using mobile phones, gait information acquired by inertial sensors under various carrying positions differs from noise contained in the heading information, resulting in excessive gait detection deviation and greatly reducing the positioning accuracy of PDR. Using data from mobile phone accelerometer and gyroscope signals, this paper examined various phone carrying positions and switching positions as the research objective and analysed the time domain characteristics of the three-axis accelerometer and gyroscope signals. A principal component analysis algorithm was used to reduce the dimension of the extracted multidimensional gait feature, and the extracted features were random forest modelled to distinguish the phone carrying positions. The results show that the step detection and distance estimation accuracy in the gait detection process greatly improved after recognition of the phone carrying position, which enhanced the robustness of the PDR algorithm.


Sensors ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (10) ◽  
pp. 1578 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaochun Tian ◽  
Jiabin Chen ◽  
Yongqiang Han ◽  
Jianyu Shang ◽  
Nan Li

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