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ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026

Motion-State-Aware Adaptive Step-Length Smartphone PDR for GPS-Denied Pedestrian Localization.

Huabang Liu, Wanfeng Dou, Hexing Wang

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Article in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland), 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Huabang LiuSchool of Mathematics and Statistics, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066000, China.ORCID 0009-0005-0904-2092
Wanfeng DouSchool of Computer and Electronic Information, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, China.ORCID 0000-0001-9915-0479
Hexing WangSchool of Computer and Communication Engineering, Northeastern University at Qinhuangdao, Qinhuangdao 066000, China.

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Abstract

Smartphone-based pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR) provides an infrastructure-free solution for two-dimensional (2D) planar localization in GPS-denied environments, but its open-loop nature makes it sensitive to accumulated step-length and heading errors. These errors grow when pedestrian actions and phone carrying modes change, because conventional methods use a fixed step-length model with a constant Weinberg coefficient. This paper proposes a motion-state-aware PDR method with two key designs. First, a joint motion state defined by action type and carrying mode is recognized from smartphone sensor data using a random-forest classifier. Second, the Weinberg coefficient is modeled through two adaptive variants: a state-wise linear model as the main lightweight adaptation mechanism, and a Transformer-enhanced extension that uses historical step-feature sequences to provide additional temporal smoothing for the per-step coefficient

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adaptive step-length modelingdecoder-only TransformerGPS-denied pedestrian localizationjoint motion statepedestrian dead reckoning (PDR)smartphone sensors

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PMID42590689
PMCPMC13468752

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