Mapless indoor localization by trajectory learning from a crowd

摘要

This paper suggests a mapless indoor localization using wifi received signal strength (RSS) of a smartphone, collected by multiple people. A new trajectory learning algorithm by combining a dynamic time warping and a machine learning technique is proposed in order to generate an alternative map. Moreover, we combine particle filter and Gaussian process (GP) for the position estimation, because it can use the alternative map as the probabilistic function (the prior), and can use probabilistic relationship (the likelihood) between wifi RSSs and location. Field experimental results confirm the usefulness of our algorithm when the map is not available and robustness against outliers, in that the accuracy of the proposed localization is similar to that using the true map information.