TY - GEN
T1 - A Laser-Aided Inertial Navigation System (L-INS) for human localization in unknown indoor environments
AU - Hesch, Joel A.
AU - Mirzaei, Faraz M.
AU - Mariottini, Gian Luca
AU - Roumeliotis, Stergios
PY - 2010/8/26
Y1 - 2010/8/26
N2 - This paper presents a novel 3D indoor Laser-aided Inertial Navigation System (L-INS) for the visually impaired. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) fuses information from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and a 2D laser scanner, to concurrently estimate the six degree-of-freedom (d.o.f.) position and orientation (pose) of the person and a 3D map of the environment. The IMU measurements are integrated to obtain pose estimates, which are subsequently corrected using line-to-plane correspondences between linear segments in the laser-scan data and orthogonal structural planes of the building. Exploiting the orthogonal building planes ensures fast and efficient initialization and estimation of the map features while providing human-interpretable layout of the environment. The L-INS is experimentally validated by a person traversing a multistory building, and the results demonstrate the reliability and accuracy of the proposed method for indoor localization and mapping.
AB - This paper presents a novel 3D indoor Laser-aided Inertial Navigation System (L-INS) for the visually impaired. An Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) fuses information from an Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) and a 2D laser scanner, to concurrently estimate the six degree-of-freedom (d.o.f.) position and orientation (pose) of the person and a 3D map of the environment. The IMU measurements are integrated to obtain pose estimates, which are subsequently corrected using line-to-plane correspondences between linear segments in the laser-scan data and orthogonal structural planes of the building. Exploiting the orthogonal building planes ensures fast and efficient initialization and estimation of the map features while providing human-interpretable layout of the environment. The L-INS is experimentally validated by a person traversing a multistory building, and the results demonstrate the reliability and accuracy of the proposed method for indoor localization and mapping.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509693
DO - 10.1109/ROBOT.2010.5509693
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77955823828
SN - 9781424450381
T3 - Proceedings - IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation
SP - 5376
EP - 5382
BT - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010
T2 - 2010 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2010
Y2 - 3 May 2010 through 7 May 2010
ER -