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Indoor Navigation For Visually Impaired Person Using Inertial And Geomagnetic Information, Jayanth Ammanabrolu
Indoor Navigation For Visually Impaired Person Using Inertial And Geomagnetic Information, Jayanth Ammanabrolu
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Motivated by the need for assistance of indoor guidance for visually impaired persons (VIPs), a sensing system using inertial and geo-magnetic information has been developed to navigate a VIP person indoor. Orientation estimation, which is critical for indoor localization, is conducted using the information of the angular velocity, acceleration and geomagnetic field. By analyzing the characters of human gait, a method to eliminate the accumulated drift introduced by double integrations is introduced. By attaching the inertial sensor to the foot, the periodic stationary state will facilitate the drift correction. Also, the distinctive distortion of the geomagnetic field, which contains spatial …