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Indoor navigation is a foundational technology to assist the tracking and localization of humans, autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots in indoor spaces. Due to the lack of penetration of GPS signals in buildings, subterranean locales,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-08-12 Sudeep Pasricha

The operational environments in which a mobile robot executes its missions often exhibit non-flat terrain characteristics, encompassing outdoor and indoor settings featuring ramps and slopes. In such scenarios, the conventional…

Vertical localization, particularly floor separation, remains a major challenge in indoor positioning systems operating in GPS-denied multistory environments. This paper proposes a fully data-driven, graph-based framework for blind floor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2026-02-03 Rabia Yasa Kostas , Kahraman Kostas

Accurate indoor node localization is critical for practical Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) applications, as Global Positioning System (GPS) fails to provide reliable Line-of-Sight (LoS) conditions in most indoor environments. Real-world…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Ze Zhang , Qian Dong

WiFi-based indoor positioning has been extensively studied. A fundamental issue in such solutions is the collection of WiFi fingerprints. However, due to real-world constraints, collecting complete fingerprints at all intended locations is…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-07-30 Yu Chan , Pin-Yu Lin , Yu-Yun Tseng , Jen-Jee Chen , Yu-Chee Tseng

Localizing mobile robotic nodes in indoor and GPS-denied environments is a complex problem, particularly in dynamic, unstructured scenarios where traditional cameras and LIDAR-based sensing and localization modalities may fail.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Ehsan Latif , Ramviyas Parasuraman

Wireless Fidelity (WiFi) based indoor positioning is a widely researched area for determining the position of devices within a wireless network. Accurate indoor location has numerous applications, such as asset tracking and indoor…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Nayan Sanjay Bhatia , Katia Obraczka

We address the problem of localizing non-collaborative WiFi devices in a large region. Our main motive is to localize humans by localizing their WiFi devices, e.g. during search-and-rescue operations after a natural disaster. We use an…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-10-15 Mattia Carpin , Stefano Rosati , Mohammad Emtiyaz Khan , Bixio Rimoldi

Indoor localization becomes a raising demand in our daily lives. Due to the massive deployment in the indoor environment nowadays, WiFi systems have been applied to high accurate localization recently. Although the traditional model based…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2019-02-19 Chenlu Xiang , Zhichao Zhang , Shunqing Zhang , Shugong Xu , Shan Cao , Vincent LAU

Motivated by the goal of achieving long-term drift-free camera pose estimation in complex scenarios, we propose a global positioning framework fusing visual, inertial and Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) measurements in multiple…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-01-06 Bing Han , Zhongyang Xiao , Shuai Huang , Tao Zhang

Fingerprinting-based positioning significantly improves the indoor localization performance in non-line-of-sight-dominated areas. However, its deployment and maintenance is cost-intensive as it needs ground-truth reference systems for both…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2022-10-13 Maximilian Stahlke , George Yammine , Tobias Feigl , Bjoern M. Eskofier , Christopher Mutschler

Foot-mounted inertial positioning (FMIP) and fingerprinting based WiFi indoor positioning (FWIP) are two promising solutions for indoor positioning. However, FMIP suffers from accumulative positioning errors in the long term while FWIP…

Applications · Statistics 2017-04-12 Yang Gu , Caifa Zhou , Andreas Wieser , Zhimin Zhou

Simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) is paramount for unmanned systems to achieve self-localization and navigation. It is challenging to perform SLAM in large environments, due to sensor limitations, complexity of the environment,…

Accurate and robust indoor localization is critical for smart building applications, yet existing Wi-Fi-based systems are often vulnerable to environmental conditions. This work presents a novel indoor localization system, called LiGen,…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-31 Jie Lin , Hsun-Yu Lee , Ho-Ming Li , Fang-Jing Wu

With the growing integration of location based services (LBS) such as GPS in mobile devices, indoor position systems (IPS) have become an important role for research. There are several IPS methods such as AOA, TOA, TDOA, which use…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Erick Schmidt , David Akopian

This study demonstrates a WiFi indoor positioning system using Deep Learning algorithms. A new method using fitting function in MATLAB will be utilized to compute the path loss coefficient and log-normal fading variance. To reduce the…

Signal Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-07-06 Minxue Cai , Zihuai Lin

Received signal strength indicator (RSSI) is the primary representation of Wi-Fi fingerprints and serves as a crucial tool for indoor localization. However, existing RSSI-based positioning methods often suffer from reduced accuracy due to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Yibu Wang , Zhaoxin Zhang , Ning Li , Xinlong Zhao , Dong Zhao , Tianzi Zhao

This paper studies the indoor localisation of WiFi devices based on a commodity chipset and standard channel sounding. First, we present a novel shallow neural network (SNN) in which features are extracted from the channel state information…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-10-20 Peizheng Li , Han Cui , Aftab Khan , Usman Raza , Robert Piechocki , Angela Doufexi , Tim Farnham

Globally localizing a mobile robot in a known map is often a foundation for enabling robots to navigate and operate autonomously. In indoor environments, traditional Monte Carlo localization based on occupancy grid maps is considered the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-04-01 Haofei Kuang , Yue Pan , Xingguang Zhong , Louis Wiesmann , Jens Behley , Cyrill Stachniss

The ubiquitous presence of WiFi access points and mobile devices capable of measuring WiFi signal strengths allow for real-world applications in indoor localization and mapping. In particular, no additional infrastructure is required.…

Networking and Internet Architecture · Computer Science 2021-06-21 Bastian Schaefermeier , Gerd Stumme , Tom Hanika