A Constrained Kalman Filter for Wi-Fi-Based Indoor Localization with Flexible Space Organization.
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SUBMITTER: Sircoulomb V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8779188 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Jan
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A Constrained Kalman Filter for Wi-Fi-Based Indoor Localization with Flexible Space Organization.
Sircoulomb Vincent V Chafouk Houcine H
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) 20220106 2
This paper presents a constrained Kalman filter for Wi-Fi-based indoor localization. The contribution of this work is to introduce constraints on the object speed and to provide a numerically optimized form for fast computation. The proposed approach is suitable to flexible space organization, as in warehouses, and when objects can be spun around, for example barcode readers in a hand. We experimented with the proposed technique using a robot and three devices, on five different journeys, in a 6 ...[more]
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