Robust step counting for inertial navigation with mobile phones

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Robust step counting for inertial navigation with mobile phonesAuthor(s)
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2018-09-19Citation
G. Rodríguez, F. E. Casado, R. Iglesias, C. V. Regueiro, and A. Nieto, "Robust step counting for inertial navigation with mobile phones", Sensors (Switzerland), Vol. 18, Issue 919, article 3157, Sept. 2018, doi: 10.3390/s18093157
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[Abstract]: Mobile phones are increasingly used for purposes that have nothing to do with phone calls or simple data transfers, and one such use is indoor inertial navigation. Nevertheless, the development of a standalone application able to detect the displacement of the user starting only from the data provided by the most common inertial sensors in the mobile phones (accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer), is a complex task. This complexity lies in the hardware disparity, noise on data, and mostly the many movements that the mobile phone can experience and which have nothing to do with the physical displacement of the owner. In our case, we describe a proposal, which, after using quaternions and a Kalman filter to project the sensors readings into an Earth Centered inertial reference system, combines a classic Peak-valley detector with an ensemble of SVMs (Support Vector Machines) and a standard deviation based classifier. Our proposal is able to identify and filter out those segments of signal that do not correspond to the behavior of “walking”, and thus achieve a robust detection of the physical displacement and counting of steps. We have performed an extensive experimental validation of our proposal using a dataset with 140 records obtained from 75 different people who were not connected to this research.
Keywords
indoor-positioning
pedestrian dead reckoning
sensor fusion
step counting
pedestrian dead reckoning
sensor fusion
step counting
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1424-8220