ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring
Pose estimation of heavy construction equipment is the key technology for real-time safety monitoring in road construction sites where heavy equipment and workers on foot collaborate in proximity. Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios hold great promise among various sensing technologies for providing accurat...
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| author | Alireza Ansaripour Milad Heydariaan Kyungki Kim Omprakash Gnawali Hafiz Oyediran |
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| description | Pose estimation of heavy construction equipment is the key technology for real-time safety monitoring in road construction sites where heavy equipment and workers on foot collaborate in proximity. Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios hold great promise among various sensing technologies for providing accurate object localization in indoor and outdoor environments. However, in a road construction environment with heavy vehicles and equipment, the performance of UWB radios drastically declines because of blockages in the transmission signal between the transmitter and receiver causing Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) situations. To address this deficiency, our study presents a real-time pose estimating system called ViPER+ that can overcome NLOS situations and accurately determine the boundary of heavy construction equipment with multiple UWB tags attached to the surface of the equipment. To remove the impact of NLOS signals, we introduced an input correction method prior to localization to correct the input of the localization algorithm. Evaluation of ViPER+ in a real construction environment indicates that embedding NLOS detection technique in UWB-based pose estimation resulted in 40% improvements in location accuracy and 25% improvement in update rate compared to its previous implementation (ViPER). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d3446996a91a4ff29f0977f5ca767e9c2023-11-16T16:07:31ZengMDPI AGApplied Sciences2076-34172023-01-01133158110.3390/app13031581ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety MonitoringAlireza Ansaripour0Milad Heydariaan1Kyungki Kim2Omprakash Gnawali3Hafiz Oyediran4Department of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USADepartment of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USADurham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USADepartment of Computer Science, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77004, USADurham School of Architectural Engineering and Construction, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE 68588, USAPose estimation of heavy construction equipment is the key technology for real-time safety monitoring in road construction sites where heavy equipment and workers on foot collaborate in proximity. Ultra-wideband (UWB) radios hold great promise among various sensing technologies for providing accurate object localization in indoor and outdoor environments. However, in a road construction environment with heavy vehicles and equipment, the performance of UWB radios drastically declines because of blockages in the transmission signal between the transmitter and receiver causing Non-Line of Sight (NLOS) situations. To address this deficiency, our study presents a real-time pose estimating system called ViPER+ that can overcome NLOS situations and accurately determine the boundary of heavy construction equipment with multiple UWB tags attached to the surface of the equipment. To remove the impact of NLOS signals, we introduced an input correction method prior to localization to correct the input of the localization algorithm. Evaluation of ViPER+ in a real construction environment indicates that embedding NLOS detection technique in UWB-based pose estimation resulted in 40% improvements in location accuracy and 25% improvement in update rate compared to its previous implementation (ViPER).https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/3/1581safetylocation trackingconstruction equipmentUWBNLOSLOS |
| spellingShingle | Alireza Ansaripour Milad Heydariaan Kyungki Kim Omprakash Gnawali Hafiz Oyediran ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring Applied Sciences safety location tracking construction equipment UWB NLOS LOS |
| title | ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring |
| title_full | ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring |
| title_fullStr | ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring |
| title_full_unstemmed | ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring |
| title_short | ViPER+: Vehicle Pose Estimation Using Ultra-Wideband Radios for Automated Construction Safety Monitoring |
| title_sort | viper vehicle pose estimation using ultra wideband radios for automated construction safety monitoring |
| topic | safety location tracking construction equipment UWB NLOS LOS |
| url | https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3417/13/3/1581 |
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