Accurate pedestrian indoor navigation by tightly coupling foot-mounted IMU and RFID measurements

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 178-189

  Jiménez Ruiz, Antonio Ramón ^a   Seco Granja, Fernando ^a   Prieto Honorato, José Carlos ^a   Guevara Rosas, Jorge I ^a  

^a CSIC   (Spain)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; inertial navigation; Kalman filters; position measurement; RFID tags

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE RFID; ATTITUDE ERROR; DEAD RECKONING; DIFFERENT SPEED; DRIFT REDUCTION; ERROR-STATE; INDOOR NAVIGATION; INERTIAL MEASURING UNIT; INERTIAL NAVIGATION; OFFLINE; PATH-LOSS MODEL; POSITION ESTIMATION; POSITIONING ERROR; RECEIVED SIGNAL STRENGTH; RFID TAGS; WALKING PATHS; ZERO VELOCITY;

ERRORS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; KALMAN FILTERS; POSITION MEASUREMENT; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); RADIO NAVIGATION;

ACTIVE FILTERS;

EID: 83655192047     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2011.2159317     Document Type: Article

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