Two-mode navigation method for low-cost inertial measurement unit-based indoor pedestrian navigation

Abstract

The traditional inertial navigation system-based indoor pedestrian navigation method is not suitable to all the conditions, since its data fusion model is designed only for a single condition. In order to achieve better performance, a two-mode navigation method for indoor pedestrian navigation is proposed in this work, which includes the stance mode and the swing mode. When the person’s foot is in a stance phase, the stance mode is used to correct the velocity error and yaw error. When the person’s foot is in a swing phase, the swing mode works and only the yaw error is able to be corrected. For verification, a real indoor test has been done to assess the performance of the proposed two-mode method. The position root-mean-square error (RMSE) value is 1.9265 m during a 176-m traverse, and the RMSE of yaw is 0.20734 rad. These results demonstrate that our method is effective to reduce the error compared with the conventional schemes.

Keywords

Indoor pedestrian navigation inertial navigation system dead reckoning two mode

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