Collaborative merging of radio SLAM maps in view of crowd-sourced data acquisition and big data

Batstone, Kenneth; Oskarsson, Magnus; Astrom, Kalle (2019). Collaborative merging of radio SLAM maps in view of crowd-sourced data acquisition and big data. Fred, Ana; De Marsico, Maria; di Baja, Gabriella Sanniti (Eds.). ICPRAM 2019 - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, 807 - 813. 8th International Conference on Pattern Recognition Applications and Methods, ICPRAM 2019. Prague, Czech Republic: SciTePress
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Authors:
Batstone, Kenneth ; Oskarsson, Magnus ; Astrom, Kalle
Editors:
Fred, Ana ; De Marsico, Maria ; di Baja, Gabriella Sanniti
Department:
Mathematics (Faculty of Engineering)
Mathematical Imaging Group
eSSENCE: The e-Science Collaboration
ELLIIT: the Linköping-Lund initiative on IT and mobile communication
Research Group:
Mathematical Imaging Group
Abstract:

Indoor localization and navigation is a much researched and difficult problem. The best solutions, usually use expensive specialized equipment and/or prior calibration of some form. To the average person with smart or Internet-Of-Things devices, these solutions are not feasible, particularly in large scales. With hardware advancements making Ultra-Wideband devices more accurate and low powered, this unlocks the potential of having such devices in commonplace around factories and homes, enabling an alternative method of navigation. Therefore, indoor anchor calibration becomes a key problem in order to implement these devices efficiently and effectively. In this paper, we present a method to fuse radio SLAM (also known as Time-Of-Arrival self-calibration) maps together in a linear way. In doing so we are then able to collaboratively calibrate the anchor positions in 3D to native precision of the devices. Furthermore, we introduce an automatic scheme to determine which of the maps are best to use to further improve the anchor calibration and its robustness but also show which maps could be discarded. Additionally, when a map is fused in a linear way, it is a very computationally cheap process and produces a reasonable map which is required to push for crowd-sourced data acquisition.

Keywords:
Big Data ; Crowdsourced ; Radio Slam ; Toa Self-calibration
ISBN:
9789897583513
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