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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"Indoor Navigation"”.
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Image Retrieval using Landmark Indexing for Indoor Navigation
… a large database of overlapping images of an indoor environment. The procedure extracts visual features from images using selected computer vision techniques, and processes the extracted features to create a reduced list of features annotated with the frame numbers they appear in. This method …
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Indoor navigation for passengers in underground transit stations using smartphones
… solve a lot of their daily problems, among which navigation is one of the most fundamental tasks. Estimating the locations of pedestrians and tracking them in an indoor environment is a long sought after research goal. This thesis develops a smartphone-based indoor navigation system specifically …
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Multimodal Data Integration for Real-Time Indoor Navigation Using a Smartphone
<p>We propose an integrated solution of indoor navigation using a smartphone, especially for assisting people with special needs, such as the blind and visually impaired (BVI) individuals. The system consists of three components: hybrid modeling, real-time navigation, and client-server …
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Analysis of the Position-Dependent Error in FTM RTT Indoor Navigation
… access point) provides a promising method for indoor positioning. Accurate indoor positioning is a requirement for a wide range of applications, such as asset tracking, indoor navigation, and contact tracing. Unfortunately, the error of reported FTM RTT distance measurements has been shown to …
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Exploring the Use of Wearables to Enable Indoor Navigation for Blind Users
… to lower mobility. Especially in the case of indoor environments where the use of GPS is impossible, this task becomes even harder.However, advancements in mobile and wearable computing pave the path to new cheap assistive technologies that can make the lives of people with VI easier.Wearable …
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Indoor navigation efficiency improvement in intelligent assistive systems (IAS) using neural networks
This thesis addresses the fundamental issue of indoor home navigation in Intelligent Assistive Systems (IAS). The issue of inefficient indoor home navigation exists in IAS because of the inefficient indoor home scene and object recognition. The problem is therefore addressed by developing different …
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Mindful navigation with guiding light : design considerations for projector based indoor navigation assistance system
… technology. Research has shown how automated navigation assistance systems lead users to be disengaged from the space through which they are traveling, resulting in poor recollection of the environment and poorer situational decision-making. This disengagement and mindlessness can potentially …
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Requeriments per a la implantació d'un sistema de navegació indoor
… of the project is to provide an overview of the indoor navigation software components, as well as the creation of indoor map and navigation graph.
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Floor Plan Based Indoor Vision Navigation Using Smart Device
… almost every smart phone and tablet. Therefore, navigation using those intelligent gadgets becomes a must-have function. GPS has been widely employed for outdoor navigation, while its performance suffers from severe degradation in challenging scenarios such as urban canyon and indoor. Due to the …
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Efficient ranging-sensor navigation methods for indoor aircraft
… perform. Often, these tasks include traversing indoor environments where radio links are unreliable, hindering the use of remote pilot links or ground-based control, and effectively eliminating Global Positioning System (GPS) signals as a potential localization method. As a result, any vehicle …
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Computer Vision Algorithms for Mobile Camera Applications
… algorithms for activity monitoring, guidance and navigation of unmanned vehicles, autonomous driving and driver assistance, by using data from one or more of these sensors. In this thesis, we focus on multiple mobile camera applications, and present lightweight algorithms suitable for embedded …
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Bayesian Inference for Nonlinear Dynamical Systems : Applications and Software Implementation
… is simultaneous localization and mapping for indoor navigation using ultrasonic range-finders.
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Visual Inertial Odometry with Sparse Deep Learning
In the field of indoor navigation, visual and inertial sensors are essential to localizing a robot. Visual Inertial Odometry (VIO) systems try to figure out the position and orientation of a robot by analyzing data from cameras and inertial sensors. As state-of-the-art VIO systems achieve …
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Multi-Objective Generation of Pareto-Optimal Perception Architectures for Autonomous Robotic Systems
… problem. Two case studies, long-range outdoor navigation on a Clearpath Jackal and short-range indoor navigation on ANYmal-C, demonstrate the framework’s ability to generate Pareto-optimal sensor architectures under vastly different ROI definitions and operating conditions. In the Jackal study, …
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INTELLIGENT ALGORITHMS FOR HIGH ACCURACY INDOOR POSITIONING AND TRACKING
… problems and distinctive requirements in the indoor environment, indoor positioning is still undergrowth and has attracted a lot of research and development in recent times. It can be said that finding an extensive solution like GPS in outdoor positioning will be nearly impossible. We need to …
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Applied Aerial Autonomy for Reliable Indoor Flight and 3D Mapping
… Systems (UAS) are essential for safely exploring indoor environments damaged by shelling, fire, floods, and structural collapse. These systems can gather critical visual and locational data, aiding in hazard assessment and rescue planning without risking human lives. Reliable UAS deployments …
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Communication technologies and data processing for safety
… focuses on the safety precautions in outdoor and indoor environments, safety communication and Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and proposes solutions to ensure secure and reliable communications between forces deployed in the field and their dispatch center, which is often of decisive …
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SMARTGUIDE: Revolutionizing the Depth and Dependability of Vision-Impaired Navigation
… innovative solutions for safe, independent navigation. Traditional aids like canes, guide dogs, and GPS offer basic support but lack the sophistication to provide contextual understanding, precise navigation, or real-time hazard alerts. This project presents SmartGuide, a mobile app designed …
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On Distributed and Acoustic Sensing for Situational Awareness
… as environmental monitoring, asset tracking, indoor navigation, etc.</p> <p>This thesis consists of two separate applications of such mobile sensors. In this first part, we study decentralized inference problems with dependent observations in wireless sensor networks. Two separate problems are …
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A Bayesian occupancy grid filter for robust pedestrian dead reckoning
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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