A robust and precise 3D indoor positioning system for harsh environments

2012 International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation, IPIN 2012 - Conference Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Blankenbach, Joerg ^a   Norrdine, Abdelmoumen ^a   Hellmers, Hendrik ^b  

^a RWTH AACHEN UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adaptive Filtering; Indoor Positioning; Localization; Magnetic Indoor Local Positioning System

Indexed keywords

3-D POSITION ESTIMATION; ADAPTIVE NOISE; CALIBRATION PROCEDURE; DIFFERENTIAL MEASUREMENTS; DIRECT CURRENT; EARTH'S MAGNETIC FIELD; ELECTRICAL DISTURBANCES; HARSH ENVIRONMENT; HYBRID SOLUTION; INDOOR ENVIRONMENT; INDOOR LOCALIZATION SYSTEMS; INDOOR POSITIONING; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; INTERFERENCE FIELD; LOCAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LOCALIZATION; LOW-COST SENSORS; MAGNETIC COIL; MOBILE STATION; MULTI-PATH EFFECT; MULTIPATH ERROR; NONE LINE OF SIGHTS (NLOS); OPTICAL WAVES; POSITIONING ACCURACY; POSITIONING SYSTEM; REAL TIME;

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; SPURIOUS SIGNAL NOISE; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

CALIBRATION;

EID: 84874265839     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IPIN.2012.6418863     Document Type: Conference Paper

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