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ROTATING A MEMS INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT FOR A FOOT-MOUNTED PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION

Khairi Abdulrahim1, Chris Hide2, Terry Moore2 and Chris Hill2
  • 1 Universiti Sains Islam Malaysia (USIM), Malaysia
  • 2 University of Nottingham, United Kingdom

Abstract

Pedestrian navigation especially indoors suffers from the unavailability of useful GNSS signals for positioning. Alternatively, a low-cost Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) positioning system that does not depend on the GNSS signal can be used for indoor navigation. However its performance is still compromised because of the fast-accumulating heading drift error affecting such a low-cost IMU sensor. This results in a huge positioning error when navigating more than a few seconds using only the low-cost sensor. In this study, real field trials results are presented when a foot-mounted IMU is rotated on a single axis. Two promising results have been obtained. First, it mitigates the heading drift error significantly and second, it increases the observability of IMU z-axis gyro bias error. This has resulted in a greatly reduced error in position for the low-cost pedestrian navigation system.

Journal of Computer Science
Volume 10 No. 12, 2014, 2619-2627

DOI: https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2014.2619.2627

Submitted On: 3 September 2014 Published On: 5 January 2015

How to Cite: Abdulrahim, K., Hide, C., Moore, T. & Hill, C. (2014). ROTATING A MEMS INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNIT FOR A FOOT-MOUNTED PEDESTRIAN NAVIGATION. Journal of Computer Science, 10(12), 2619-2627. https://doi.org/10.3844/jcssp.2014.2619.2627

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Keywords

  • Heading Drift
  • IMU
  • Pedestrian Navigation