Integrated indoor navigation system for ground vehicles with automatic 3-D alignment and position initialization

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 64, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1279-1292

  Atia, Mohamed M ^a   Liu, Shifei ^b   Nematallah, Heba ^c   Karamat, Tashfeen B ^a   Noureldin, Aboelmagd ^a  

^a ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^b HARBIN ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Extended Kalman Filter; Indoor Navigation; LiDAR Aided Navigation; Map Aided Navigation; MEMS based Inertial Sensors; Mobile Robots; Multisensor Fusion

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; ALIGNMENT; ELECTROMECHANICAL DEVICES; EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS; FLOORS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GROUND VEHICLES; IMAGE MATCHING; INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEMS; INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEMS; ITERATIVE METHODS; KALMAN FILTERS; LOCAL AREA NETWORKS; MEMS; MOBILE ROBOTS; NAVIGATION; OPTICAL RADAR; ROBOTS; RSS; SENSOR DATA FUSION; STANDARDS; TRACKING (POSITION); VEHICLES; WIRELESS LOCAL AREA NETWORKS (WLAN);

AIDED NAVIGATIONS; GLOBAL NAVIGATION SATELLITE SYSTEMS; IN-DOOR NAVIGATIONS; INERTIAL SENSOR; ITERATIVE CLOSEST POINT ALGORITHM; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; MICRO ELECTROMECHANICAL SYSTEM (MEMS); NORMALIZED CROSS CORRELATION;

NAVIGATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84928023593     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2015.2397004     Document Type: Article

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