A Hidden Markov model for pedestrian navigation

Proceedings of the 2010 7th Workshop on Positioning, Navigation and Communication, WPNC'10

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 120-127

  Seitz, Jochen ^a   Vaupel, Thorsten ^b   Meyer, Steffen ^b   Boronat, Javier Gutiérrez ^b   Thielecke, Jörn ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

^b FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE FOR INTEGRATED CIRCUITS IIS   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Hidden Markov Models; Pedestrian navigation; Positioning; Wireless LAN

Indexed keywords

DEAD RECKONING; HIDDEN STATE; LOW-COST SENSORS; MOBILE PLATFORM; PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION; POSITIONING; PROCESSING POWER; STATE TRANSITIONS; STEP LENGTH ESTIMATIONS; WI-FI SIGNALS; WIRELESS LAN;

ACCELEROMETERS; ALGORITHMS; COMPASSES (MAGNETIC); MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; MAGNETIC FIELDS; NAVIGATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; WI-FI; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS;

EID: 78650741361     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/WPNC.2010.5650501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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