Title
A regression model-based method for indoor positioning with compound location fingerprints
Abstract
This paper proposed and evaluated an estimation method for indoor positioning. The method combines location fingerprinting and dead reckoning differently from the conventional combinations. It uses compound location fingerprints, which are composed of radio fingerprints at multiple points of time, that is, at multiple positions, and displacements between them estimated by dead reckoning. To avoid errors accumulated from dead reckoning, the method uses short-range dead reckoning. The method was evaluated using 16 Bluetooth beacons installed in a student room with the dimensions of 11 x 5 m with furniture inside. The Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) values of the beacons were collected at 30 measuring points, which were points at the intersections on a 1 x 1 m grid with no obstacles. A compound location fingerprint is composed of RSSI vectors at two points and a displacement vector between them. Random Forests (RF) was used to build regression models to estimate positions from location fingerprints. The root mean square error of position estimation was 0.87 m using 16 Bluetooth beacons. This error is lower than that received with a single-point baseline model, where a feature vector is composed of only RSSI values at one location. The results suggest that the proposed method is effective for indoor positioning.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1080/10095020.2019.1612599
GEO-SPATIAL INFORMATION SCIENCE
Keywords
Field
DocType
Indoor positioning,integrated estimation,radio fingerprinting,dead reckoning,machine learning,non-linear regression
Beacon,Computer vision,Regression analysis,Fingerprint,Dead reckoning,Artificial intelligence,Random forest,Mathematics,Grid,Bluetooth,Displacement (vector)
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
22.0
SP2
1009-5020
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tomofumi Takayama100.34
Takeshi Umezawa2265.63
Nobuyoshi Komuro36010.11
Noritaka Osawa49921.03