Carrying Position Independent User Heading Estimation for Indoor Pedestrian Navigation with Smartphones

This paper proposes a novel heading estimation approach for indoor pedestrian navigation using the built-in inertial sensors on a smartphone. Unlike previous approaches constraining the carrying position of a smartphone on the user’s body, our approach gives the user a larger freedom by implementing...

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Main Authors: Zhi-An Deng, Guofeng Wang, Ying Hu, Yang Cui
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2016-05-01
Series:Sensors
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Online Access:http://www.mdpi.com/1424-8220/16/5/677