scholarly journals LLIO: Lightweight Learned Inertial Odometer

Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Jian Kuang ◽  
xiaoji niu

<div><div>The 3D position estimation of pedestrians is a vital module to build the connections between persons and things.</div><div>The traditional gait model-based methods cannot fulfill the various motion patterns.</div><div>And the various data-driven-based inertial odometry solutions focus on the 2D trajectory estimation on the ground plane, which is not suitable for AR applications.</div><div>TLIO (Tight Learned Inertial Odometry) proposed an inertial-based 3D motion estimator that achieves very low position drift by using the raw IMU measurements and the displacement predict coming from a neural network to provide low drift pedestrian dead reckoning.</div><div>However, TLIO is unsuitable for mobile devices because it is computationally expensive.</div><div>In this paper, a lightweight learned inertial odometry network (LLIO-Net) is designed for mobile devices.</div><div>By replacing the network in TLIO with the LLIO-Net, the proposed system shows similar accuracy but significantly improved efficiency.</div><div>Specifically, the proposed LLIO algorithm was implemented on mobile devices and compared the efficiency with TLIO.</div><div>The inference efficiency of the proposed system is 2-12 times that of TLIO.</div></div>

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Wang ◽  
Jian Kuang ◽  
xiaoji niu

<div><div>The 3D position estimation of pedestrians is a vital module to build the connections between persons and things.</div><div>The traditional gait model-based methods cannot fulfill the various motion patterns.</div><div>And the various data-driven-based inertial odometry solutions focus on the 2D trajectory estimation on the ground plane, which is not suitable for AR applications.</div><div>TLIO (Tight Learned Inertial Odometry) proposed an inertial-based 3D motion estimator that achieves very low position drift by using the raw IMU measurements and the displacement predict coming from a neural network to provide low drift pedestrian dead reckoning.</div><div>However, TLIO is unsuitable for mobile devices because it is computationally expensive.</div><div>In this paper, a lightweight learned inertial odometry network (LLIO-Net) is designed for mobile devices.</div><div>By replacing the network in TLIO with the LLIO-Net, the proposed system shows similar accuracy but significantly improved efficiency.</div><div>Specifically, the proposed LLIO algorithm was implemented on mobile devices and compared the efficiency with TLIO.</div><div>The inference efficiency of the proposed system is 2-12 times that of TLIO.</div></div>


Author(s):  
E. Gulo ◽  
G. Sohn ◽  
A. Afnan

<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> With the increasing number and usage of mobile devices in people’s daily life, indoor positioning has attracted a lot attention from both academia and industry for the purpose of providing location-aware services. This work proposes an indoor positioning system, primarily based on WLAN fingerprint matching, that includes various minor improvements to improve the positioning accuracy of the algorithm, as well as improve the quality and reduce the collection time of the reference fingerprints. In addition, a novel Path Evaluation and Retroactive Adjustment module is employed; it intends to improve the positioning accuracy of the system in a similar fashion to a Pedestrian Dead Reckoning implemented along with WLAN Fingerprint Matching in a Sensor Fusion system. The benefit of this approach being that it avoids the requirement of inertial sensor data, as well as its intensive computation and power use, while providing a similar accuracy improvement to Pedestrian Dead Reckoning. Our experimental results demonstrate that this may be a viable approach for positioning using mobile devices in an indoor environment.</p>


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-1
Author(s):  
Yarong Luo ◽  
Chi Guo ◽  
Jinteng Su ◽  
Wenfei Guo ◽  
Quan Zhang

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (18) ◽  
pp. 3727
Author(s):  
Chai ◽  
Chen ◽  
Wang

With the popularity of smartphones and the development of microelectromechanical system (MEMS), the pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) algorithm based on the built-in sensors of a smartphone has attracted much research. Heading estimation is the key to obtaining reliable position information. Hence, an adaptive Kalman filter (AKF) based on an autoregressive model (AR) is proposed to improve the accuracy of heading for pedestrian dead reckoning in a complex indoor environment. Our approach uses an autoregressive model to build a Kalman filter (KF), and the heading is calculated by the gyroscope, obtained by the magnetometer, and stored by previous estimates, then are fused to determine the measurement heading. An AKF based on the innovation sequence is used to adaptively adjust the state variance matrix to enhance the accuracy of the heading estimation. In order to suppress the drift of the gyroscope, the heading calculated by the AKF is used to correct the heading calculated by the outputs of the gyroscope if a quasi-static magnetic field is detected. Data were collected using two smartphones. These experiments showed that the average error of two-dimensional (2D) position estimation obtained by the proposed algorithm is reduced by 40.00% and 66.39%, and the root mean square (RMS) is improved by 43.87% and 66.79%, respectively, for these two smartphones.


Sensors ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (12) ◽  
pp. 4142 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Kuang ◽  
Xiaoji Niu ◽  
Peng Zhang ◽  
Xingeng Chen

This paper presents an ambient magnetic field map-based matching (MM) positioning algorithm for smartphones in an indoor environment. To improve the low distinguishability of a magnetic field fingerprint at a single point, a magnetic field sequence (MFS) combined with the measured trajectory contour coming from pedestrian dead-reckoning (PDR) is used for MM. Based on the fast approximation of magnetic field gradient, a Gauss-Newton iterative (GNI) method is used to find a rigid transformation that optimally aligns the measured MFS with a reference MFS coming from the magnetic field map. Then, the position of the reference MFS is used to control the position drift error of the inertial navigation system (INS) based PDR by an extended Kalman filter (EKF) and to further improve the accuracy of the trajectory contour. Finally, we conduct several experiments to evaluate the navigation performance of the proposed MM algorithm. The test results show that the position estimation error of the MM algorithm is 0.64 m (RMS) in an office building environment, 1.87 m (RMS) in a typical lobby environment, and 2.34 m (RMS) in a shopping mall environment.


Geomatics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 148-176
Author(s):  
Maan Khedr ◽  
Naser El-Sheimy

Mobile location-based services (MLBS) are attracting attention for their potential public and personal use for a variety of applications such as location-based advertisement, smart shopping, smart cities, health applications, emergency response, and even gaming. Many of these applications rely on Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) due to the degraded GNSS services indoors. INS-based MLBS using smartphones is hindered by the quality of the MEMS sensors provided in smartphones which suffer from high noise and errors resulting in high drift in the navigation solution rapidly. Pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) is an INS-based navigation technique that exploits human motion to reduce navigation solution errors, but the errors cannot be eliminated without aid from other techniques. The purpose of this study is to enhance and extend the short-term reliability of PDR systems for smartphones as a standalone system through an enhanced step detection algorithm, a periodic attitude correction technique, and a novel PCA-based motion direction estimation technique. Testing shows that the developed system (S-PDR) provides a reliable short-term navigation solution with a final positioning error that is up to 6 m after 3 min runtime. These results were compared to a PDR solution using an Xsens IMU which is known to be a high grade MEMS IMU and was found to be worse than S-PDR. The findings show that S-PDR can be used to aid GNSS in challenging environments and can be a viable option for short-term indoor navigation until aiding is provided by alternative means. Furthermore, the extended reliable solution of S-PDR can help reduce the operational complexity of aiding navigation systems such as RF-based indoor navigation and magnetic map matching as it reduces the frequency by which these aiding techniques are required and applied.


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