2020/03/31 by Jeongsik Choi, Yang-Seok Choi · 56 citations
Computer Science · Engineering · #Calibration #Computer science #Embedded system #Indoor and Outdoor Localization Technologies #Inertial Sensor and Navigation #Mobile device #Mobile radio #Mobile telephony #Ranging #Real-time computing #Telecommunications #Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems #cs.NI #eess.SP
paper · pdf · doi:10.1109/jiot.2020.3004774
published in IEEE Internet of Things Journal 8(1), 541-554 (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) · 14 pages, 16 figures, demo video is available: https://youtu.be/_FnznD1gxV0
openalex publication_date 2020/06/25 · arxiv created 2020/07/03 · arxiv updated 2020/07/07 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
As positioning solutions integrate multiple components to improve accuracy, the number of parameters that require calibration has increased. This article studies a calibration-free positioning technique using Wi-Fi ranging and pedestrian dead reckoning (PDR), where every parameter in the system is optimized in real time. This significantly decreases the time and effort required to perform manual calibration procedures and enables the positioning solution to achieve robust performance in various situations. Additionally, this article studies an efficient way of performing irregular Wi-Fi ranging procedures to improve battery life and network performance of mobile devices. The positioning performance of the proposed method was verified using a real-time Android application on several mobile devices under a large indoor office environment. Without any calibration, the proposed method achieved up to 1.38-m average positioning accuracy for received signal strength (RSS)-based ranging scenarios, which differs only by 30 cm from the benchmark assuming perfect calibration. In addition, the proposed method achieved up to 1.04-m accuracy for round trip time (RTT)-based ranging scenarios with a 40-MHz bandwidth configuration, which differs only by 10 cm from the benchmark.