iMag: Accurate and Rapidly Deployable Inertial Magneto-Inductive Localisation

Wei, Bo, Trigoni, Niki and Markham, Andrew (2018) iMag: Accurate and Rapidly Deployable Inertial Magneto-Inductive Localisation. In: 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). IEEE, pp. 99-106. ISBN 978-1-5386-3082-2

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Abstract

Localisation is of importance for many applications. Our motivating scenarios are short-term construction work and emergency rescue. Not only is accuracy necessary, these scenarios also require rapid setup and robustness to environmental conditions. These requirements preclude the use of many traditional methods e.g. vision-based, laser-based, Ultra-wide band (UWB) and Global Positioning System (GPS)-based localisation systems. To solve these challenges, we introduce iMag, an accurate and rapidly deployable inertial magneto-inductive (MI) localisation system. It localises monitored workers using a single MI transmitter and inertial measurement units with minimal setup effort. However, MI location estimates can be distorted and ambiguous. To solve this problem, we suggest a novel method to use MI devices for sensing environmental distortions, and use these to correctly close inertial loops. By applying robust simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM), our proposed localisation method achieves excellent tracking accuracy, and can improve performance significantly compared with only using an inertial measurement unit (IMU) and MI device for localisation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Magneto-inductive device, Inertial measurements, Localisation, SLAM
Subjects:	G400 Computer Science
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Computer and Information Sciences
Depositing User:	Becky Skoyles
Date Deposited:	23 Oct 2018 11:38
Last Modified:	11 Oct 2019 18:45
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/36405

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