Position Tracking using Likelihood Modeling of Channel Features with Gaussian Processes

Recent localization frameworks exploit spatial information of complex channel measurements (CMs) to estimate accurate positions even in multipath propagation scenarios. State-of-the art CM fingerprinting(FP)-based methods employ convolutional neural networks (CNN) to extract the spatial information....

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Published in:arXiv.org 2022-03
Main Authors: Kram, Sebastian, Kraus, Christopher, Feigl, Tobias, Stahlke, Maximilian, Jörg, Robert, Mutschler, Christopher
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Artificial neural networks
Fingerprinting
Gaussian process
Indoor environments
Localization
Performance degradation
Propagation
Spatial data
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Summary:Recent localization frameworks exploit spatial information of complex channel measurements (CMs) to estimate accurate positions even in multipath propagation scenarios. State-of-the art CM fingerprinting(FP)-based methods employ convolutional neural networks (CNN) to extract the spatial information. However, they need spatially dense data sets (associated with high acquisition and maintenance efforts) to work well -- which is rarely the case in practical applications. If such data is not available (or its quality is low), we cannot compensate the performance degradation of CNN-based FP as they do not provide statistical position estimates, which prevents a fusion with other sources of information on the observation level. We propose a novel localization framework that adapts well to sparse datasets that only contain CMs of specific areas within the environment with strong multipath propagation. Our framework compresses CMs into informative features to unravel spatial information. It then regresses Gaussian processes (GPs) for each of them, which imply statistical observation models based on distance-dependent covariance kernels. Our framework combines the trained GPs with line-of-sight ranges and a dynamics model in a particle filter. Our measurements show that our approach outperforms state-of-the-art CNN fingerprinting (0.52 m vs. 1.3 m MAE) on spatially sparse data collected in a realistic industrial indoor environment.
ISSN:2331-8422