Indoor pedestrian navigation using foot-mounted IMU and portable ultrasound range sensors

Sensors

Volumn 11, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 7606-7624

  Girard, Gabriel ^a,b   Côté, Stéphane ^b   Zlatanova, Sisi ^c   Barette, Yannick ^b,d   St Pierre, Johanne ^b   van Oosterom, Peter ^c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^b BENTLEY SYSTEMS   (United States)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Indoor localization; Inertial tracking; Model based navigation; Ultrasound range sensors

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; COMPUTER; CONSTRUCTION WORK AND ARCHITECTURAL PHENOMENA; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOOT; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY; SAFETY; SELF HELP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STATISTICAL MODEL; ULTRASOUND; WALKING;

ACOUSTICS; COMPUTERS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FACILITY DESIGN AND CONSTRUCTION; FOOT; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MOTION; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAFETY; SELF-HELP DEVICES; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; ULTRASONICS; WALKING;

EID: 80052159336     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s110807606     Document Type: Article

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