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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2016

An Indoor Positioning Method for Smartphones Using Landmarks and PDR.

Xi Wang, Mingxing Jiang, Zhongwen Guo, Naijun Hu, Zhongwei Sun, Jing Liu

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Xi WangDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China. abwangxi@163.com.
Mingxing JiangDepartment of Computer Foundation, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China. jiangmx@ouc.edu.cn.
Zhongwen GuoDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China. guozhw@ouc.edu.cn.
Naijun HuInformation Center, Administration for Industry and Commerce of Qingdao, Qingdao 266071, China. hunaijun@sina.com.
Zhongwei SunDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China. sunzhongwei0423@126.com.
Jing LiuDepartment of Computer Science and Technology, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China. liuj608@163.com.
Ocean University of China · CNQingdao Center of Resource Chemistry and New Materials · CN

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Abstract

Recently location based services (LBS) have become increasingly popular in indoor environments. Among these indoor positioning techniques providing LBS, a fusion approach combining WiFi-based and pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) techniques is drawing more and more attention of researchers. Although this fusion method performs well in some cases, it still has some limitations, such as heavy computation and inconvenience for real-time use. In this work, we study map information of a given indoor environment, analyze variations of WiFi received signal strength (RSS), define several kinds of indoor landmarks, and then utilize these landmarks to correct accumulated errors derived from PDR. This fusion scheme, called Landmark-aided PDR (LaP), is proved to be light-weight and suitable for real-time implementation by running an Android application designed for the experiment. We compared LaP with other PDR-based fusion approaches. Experimental results show that the proposed scheme can achieve a significant improvement with an average accuracy of 2.17 m.

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