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Localization related videos and short discussion.
There are three video links on this page. All of them show
results of our particle filtering localization
techniques. The first two demonstrate infrastructure
based localization (a related paper can be found here), where the mobile node to
be localized is talking to fixed access points (in our case,
a single fixed access point). The third video demonstrates
ad hoc localization (a related paper can be found here) where nodes in an ad
hoc (or sensor) network can localize themselves based on
location estimated from other nodes in the network.
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Video 1: the first video
shows an outline of a small 1600 sqft (~150m2) house with a
single access point located in the left center room. The
mobile user is depicted with green circle. The belief of the
system about the user's location is represented by the small
red dots, i.e., the more (and the better) the red dots are
concentrated on the green circle, the better the system's
belief and estimate is. The video shows a real-life
walkthrough.
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Video 2: the second video
shows a similar situation to the first video. However, here
the filter's system model is a perfect model of the user's
movement profile. Such matching could be achieved by an
inertial navigation system on the tracked device. The video
clearly demonstrates the advantage of such approach.
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Video 3: the third video shows an
ad hoc localization scenario, where we are showing the
tracking of the green node. The nodes in the four corners
represented by triangles are anchors (i.e., they have
precise location information). The dashed circle around the
tracked node represents its average transmission radius. The
large black disc represents the mode of the particle filter,
i.e., the system's estimate on the green node. |
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