Design of Indoor Localization Systems with the Application of Sensor Fusion

Abstract

Localization in an indoor environment is a very promising domain due to its many applications in many fields especially in human and robotic indoor navigation and tracking. This thesis focuses on the development of an indoor positioning system based on con-sumer handheld devices. It reviews research in the domain of indoor positioning fol-lowed by a detailed discussion of a proposed system based on the sensor fusion of the wireless positioning data and the inertial measurement unit data. Wireless positioning discussed is based on the widely used WiFi networks and is in-dependent of infrastructure variations or the need of a recalibration phase which is usually needed in most of wireless positioning technologies.