Enhancing positioning accuracy in urban terrain by fusing data from a GPS receiver, inertial sensors, stereo-camera and digital maps for pedestrian navigation

Sensors (Switzerland)

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 6764-6801

  Barański, Przemyslaw ^a   Strumillo, Pawel ^a  

^a LODZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Dead reckoning; Digital maps; GPS; Monte Carlo; Particle filtering; Stereovision

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUDIOVISUAL EQUIPMENT; CITY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; HUMAN; INSTRUMENTATION; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING; UNIVERSITY; WALKING;

ALGORITHMS; CITIES; DEPTH PERCEPTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HUMANS; MAPS AS TOPIC; PHOTOGRAPHY; PROBABILITY; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; UNIVERSITIES; WALKING;

EID: 84863210678     PISSN: 14248220     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s120606764     Document Type: Article

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