Non-GPS navigation with the personal dead-reckoning system

Lauro Ojeda; Johann Borenstein

doi:10.1117/12.718691

2 May 2007 Non-GPS navigation with the personal dead-reckoning system

Lauro Ojeda, Johann Borenstein

Proceedings Volume 6561, Unmanned Systems Technology IX; 65610C (2007) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718691
Event: Defense and Security Symposium, 2007, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

This paper introduces a positioning system for walking persons, called "Personal Dead-reckoning" (PDR) system. The PDR system does not require GPS, beacons, or landmarks. The system is therefore useful in GPS-denied environments, such as inside buildings, tunnels, or dense forests. Potential users of the system are military and security personnel as well as emergency responders. The PDR system uses a small 6-DOF inertial measurement unit (IMU) attached to the user's boot. The IMU provides rate-of-rotation and acceleration measurements that are used in real-time to estimate the location of the user relative to a known starting point. In order to reduce the most significant errors of this IMU-based system−caused by the bias drift of the accelerometers−we implemented a technique known as "Zero Velocity Update" (ZUPT). With the ZUPT technique and related signal processing algorithms, typical errors of our system are about 2% of distance traveled. This typical PDR system error is largely independent of the gait or speed of the user. When walking continuously for several minutes, the error increases gradually beyond 2%. The PDR system works in both 2-dimensional (2-D) and 3-D environments, although errors in Z-direction are usually larger than 2% of distance traveled. Earlier versions of our system used an impractically large IMU. In the most recent version we implemented a much smaller IMU. This paper discussed specific problems of this small IMU, our measures for eliminating these problems, and our first experimental results with the small IMU under different conditions.

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Lauro Ojeda and Johann Borenstein "Non-GPS navigation with the personal dead-reckoning system", Proc. SPIE 6561, Unmanned Systems Technology IX, 65610C (2 May 2007); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.718691

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