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Indoor Positioning

Indoor positioning technology estimates the spatial coordinates of humans and robots by leveraging sensor data such as accelerometer signals from smartphones and Wi-Fi signal measurements. It has broad applications in indoor navigation, smart factories, and beyond. At the Real-World Intelligence Laboratory, we conduct research on multimodal indoor positioning, integrating not only inertial and Wi-Fi data but also audio signals and GPS signals observable indoors, enabling more robust and accurate localization in real-world environments.

Related Publications

Figure for Acoustic-assisted Indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning

Acoustic-assisted Indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning

Yang Wang, Heng Zhou, Takuya Maekawa
ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers,

We proposed a method to improve the accuracy of indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) by utilizing acoustic signal cues.

Indoor PositioningPDRAcoustic Signal
Figure for Predicting Signal Reception Information from GNSS Satellites in Indoor Environments without Site Survey: Towards Opportunistic Indoor Positioning Based on GNSS Fingerprinting

Predicting Signal Reception Information from GNSS Satellites in Indoor Environments without Site Survey: Towards Opportunistic Indoor Positioning Based on GNSS Fingerprinting

Heng Zhou, Takuya Maekawa
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT), (Aug. 2024)

We propose a method to predict signal reception information from GNSS satellites in indoor environments without a prior site survey, based on GNSS fingerprinting.

Indoor PositioningGNSSFingerprintingSite Survey
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GPS-assisted Indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning

Zhou Heng and Takuya Maekawa
Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies (IMWUT),

We proposed a method to improve indoor Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) accuracy assisted by GPS signals.

PDRGPS-assistedNavigation