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3D ActionSLAM: wearable person tracking in multi-floor environments
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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:39 authored by Michael Hardegger, Daniel RoggenDaniel Roggen, Tröster GerhardWe present 3D ActionSLAM, a stand-alone wearable system that can track people in previously unknown multi-floor environments with sub-room accuracy. ActionSLAM stands for action-based simultaneous localization and mapping: It fuses dead reckoning data from a foot-mounted inertial measurement unit with the recognition of location-related actions to build and update a local landmark map. Simultaneously, this map compensates for position drift errors that accumulate in open-loop tracking by means of a particle filter. To evaluate the system performance, we analyzed 23 tracks with a total walked distance of 6,489 m in buildings with up to three floors. The algorithm robustly (93 % of runs converged) mapped the areas with a mean landmark positioning error of 0.59 m. As ActionSLAM is fully stand-alone and not dependent on external infrastructure, it is well suited for patient tracking in remote health care applications. The algorithm is computationally light-weight and runs in realtime on a Samsung Galaxy S4, enabling immediate location-aware feedback. Finally, we propose visualization techniques to facilitate the interpretation of tracking data acquired with 3D ActionSLAM.
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Personal and Ubiquitous ComputingISSN
1617-4909Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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1Volume
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123-141Department affiliated with
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2015-12-04First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
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