Method of Improving Pedestrian Navigation Performance Based on Chest Card

Abstract

With the development of positioning technology, location services are constantly in demand by people. As a primary location service pedestrian navigation has two main approaches based on radio and inertial navigation. The pedestrian navigation based on radio is subject to environmental occlusion leading to the degradation of positioning accuracy. The pedestrian navigation based on micro-electro-mechanical system inertial measurement unit (MIMU) is less susceptible to environmental interference, but its errors dissipate over time. In this paper, a chest card pedestrian navigation improvement method based on complementary correction is proposed in order to suppress the error divergence of inertial navigation methods. To suppress attitude errors, optimal feedback coefficients are established by pedestrian motion characteristics. To extend navigation time and improve positioning accuracy, the step length in subsequent movements is compensated by the first step length. The experimental results show that the positioning accuracy of the proposed method is improved by more than 47% and 44% compared with the pure inertia-based method combined with step compensation and the traditional complementary filtering combined method with step compensation. The proposed method can effectively suppress the error dispersion and improve the positioning accuracy.