Ultrasound-aided pedestrian dead reckoning for indoor navigation

Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Mobile Computing and Networking, MOBICOM

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 31-36

  Fischer, Carl ^a   Muthukrishnan, Kavitha ^b   Hazas, Mike ^a   Gellersen, Hans ^a  

^a LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Indoor navigation; Pedestrian dead reckoning; Search and rescue; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

DEAD RECKONING SYSTEMS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; EXPERIMENTAL DATUM; GUIDANCE PERFORMANCE; INDOOR NAVIGATION; INERTIAL SENSORS; MAGNETIC INTERFERENCES; NAVIGATION SUPPORTS; NODE LOCATIONS; PEDESTRIAN DEAD RECKONING; SAFETY-CRITICAL; SEARCH AND RESCUE; SIMULATION RESULTS; SYSTEM-BASED; ULTRASOUND; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; INTERACTIVE COMPUTER SYSTEMS; MOBILE COMPUTING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SENSORS; ULTRASONIC TRANSMISSION; ULTRASONICS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WIRELESS NETWORKS;

NAVIGATION;

EID: 60349110364     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1410012.1410020     Document Type: Conference Paper

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