Towards a rapidly deployable positioning system for emergency responders

2010 Ubiquitous Positioning Indoor Navigation and Location Based Service, UPINLBS 2010

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Muthukrishnan, Kavitha ^a   Dulman, Stefan ^a   Langendoen, Koen ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHARACTERISATION; EMERGENCY RESPONDERS; EMERGENCY RESPONSE; INERTIAL MEASUREMENTS; INERTIAL SENSING; KALMAN-FILTERING; LOCALISATION; LOCATION SYSTEMS; MOBILE SETTINGS; MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SCALING; PEDESTRIAN DEAD RECKONINGS; POSITIONING AND TRACKING; POSITIONING SYSTEM; RANGE MEASUREMENTS; SAFETY-CRITICAL; ULTRASOUND MEASUREMENT; UNKNOWN ENVIRONMENTS; VIABLE SOLUTIONS;

ALGORITHMS; FILTRATION; NAVIGATION; SENSORS; ULTRA-WIDEBAND (UWB);

ULTRASONICS;

EID: 78651459434     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/UPINLBS.2010.5654049     Document Type: Conference Paper

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