NDLI: Indoor waypoint navigation via magnetic anomalies

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Riehle, T.H. Anderson, S.M. Lichter, P.A. Condon, J.P. Sheikh, S.I. Hedin, D.S.
Copyright Year	2011
Description	Author affiliation: Koronis Biomedical Technologies, Inc. Maple Grove, MN, 55369, USA (Anderson, S.M.; Lichter, P.A.) \|\| ASTER Labs, Inc. Shoreview, MN 55126, USA (Sheikh, S.I.) \|\| Advanced Medical Electronics, Maple Grove, MN, 55369 USA (Hedin, D.S.) \|\| Advanced Medical Electronics, Maple Grove, MN 55369, USA (Condon, J.P.) \|\| Koronis Biomedical Technologies, Inc. Maple Grove, MN 55369, USA (Riehle, T.H.)
Abstract	A wide assortment of technologies have been proposed to construct indoor navigation services for the blind and vision impaired. Proximity-based systems and multilateration systems have been successfully demonstrated and employed. Despite the technical success of these technologies, broad adoption has been limited due to their significant infrastructure and maintenance costs. An alternative approach utilizing the indoor magnetic signatures inherent to steel-frame buildings solves the infrastructure cost problem; in effect the existing building is the location system infrastructure. Although magnetic indoor navigation does not require the installation of dedicated hardware, the dedication of resources to produce precise survey maps of magnetic anomalies represents a further barrier to adoption. In the present work an alternative leader-follower form of waypoint-navigation system has been developed that works without surveyed magnetic maps of a site. Instead the wayfarer's magnetometer readings are compared to a pre-recorded magnetic "leader" trace containing magnetic data collected along a route and annotated with waypoint information. The goal of the navigation system is to correlate the follower's magnetometer data with the leader's to trigger audio cues at precise points along the route, thus providing location-based guidance to the user. The system should also provide early indications of off-route conditions. As part of the research effort a smartphone based application was created to record and annotate leader traces with audio and numeric data at waypoints of interest, and algorithms were developed to determine (1) when the follower reaches a waypoint and (2) when the follower goes off-route. A navigation system utilizing this technology would enable a low-cost indoor navigation system capable of replaying audio annotations at precise locations along pre-recorded routes.
Starting Page	5315
Ending Page	5318
File Size	1003701
Page Count	4
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9781424441211
ISSN	1557170X
e-ISBN	9781457715891
e-ISBN	9781424441228
DOI	10.1109/IEMBS.2011.6091315
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2011-08-30
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Magnetometers Navigation Magnetic sensors Manganese Magnetic fields Indexes
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Signal Processing Biomedical Engineering Health Informatics Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

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