Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition

Owing to autonomy and continuity, a pedestrian navigation system (PNS) has been widely deployed, which is based on the micro electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit (MEMS-IMU) and the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS). However, altitude information cannot be effectively obtaine...

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Main Authors: Ming Xia, Chuang Shi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2020-01-01
Series:IEEE Access
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Online Access:https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9109282/
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description Owing to autonomy and continuity, a pedestrian navigation system (PNS) has been widely deployed, which is based on the micro electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit (MEMS-IMU) and the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS). However, altitude information cannot be effectively obtained in this system by the double integral of vertical acceleration because of the altitude channel divergent of SINS. The study is aimed at improving the accuracy and robustness of altitude estimation through a novel method based on foot-mounted MEMS-IMU. More specifically, the proposed method exploits the adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to recognize vertical motion modes including horizontal, downstairs, and upstairs movements. Then, the pseudo height model based on both motion modes and the stair height is constructed for stair walking with different height. Finally, the pseudo measurements from the pseudo height model are integrated with the data from motion prediction through the extended Kalman filter (EKF). Experimental results show that the overall classification accuracy of ANFIS can reach up to 99.1%. Since ANFIS is utilized to assist height estimation, the cumulative height error accounts for about 1.2% over a total height of 44 m when a pedestrian walks up and down six floors without external facility and barometric pressure support. It is concluded that the ANFIS-based height estimation method can achieve better vertical positioning performance for PNS than the existing approaches in terms of accuracy and robustness.
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spelling doaj.art-06002cba614c41af9673b17af01ea8e12022-12-21T19:54:28ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362020-01-01810471810472710.1109/ACCESS.2020.30003139109282Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion RecognitionMing Xia0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6552-3377Chuang Shi1School of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, ChinaSchool of Electronic and Information Engineering, Beihang University, Beijing, ChinaOwing to autonomy and continuity, a pedestrian navigation system (PNS) has been widely deployed, which is based on the micro electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit (MEMS-IMU) and the strapdown inertial navigation system (SINS). However, altitude information cannot be effectively obtained in this system by the double integral of vertical acceleration because of the altitude channel divergent of SINS. The study is aimed at improving the accuracy and robustness of altitude estimation through a novel method based on foot-mounted MEMS-IMU. More specifically, the proposed method exploits the adaptive network-based fuzzy inference system (ANFIS) to recognize vertical motion modes including horizontal, downstairs, and upstairs movements. Then, the pseudo height model based on both motion modes and the stair height is constructed for stair walking with different height. Finally, the pseudo measurements from the pseudo height model are integrated with the data from motion prediction through the extended Kalman filter (EKF). Experimental results show that the overall classification accuracy of ANFIS can reach up to 99.1%. Since ANFIS is utilized to assist height estimation, the cumulative height error accounts for about 1.2% over a total height of 44 m when a pedestrian walks up and down six floors without external facility and barometric pressure support. It is concluded that the ANFIS-based height estimation method can achieve better vertical positioning performance for PNS than the existing approaches in terms of accuracy and robustness.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9109282/Altitude estimationANFISEKFMEMS-IMUmotion moderobustness
spellingShingle Ming Xia
Chuang Shi
Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition
IEEE Access
Altitude estimation
ANFIS
EKF
MEMS-IMU
motion mode
robustness
title Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition
title_full Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition
title_fullStr Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition
title_full_unstemmed Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition
title_short Autonomous Pedestrian Altitude Estimation Inside a Multi-Story Building Assisted by Motion Recognition
title_sort autonomous pedestrian altitude estimation inside a multi story building assisted by motion recognition
topic Altitude estimation
ANFIS
EKF
MEMS-IMU
motion mode
robustness
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9109282/
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