Abstract
Visible light positioning has the potential to be a cost-effective technology for accurate indoor positioning. However, existing approaches often require large amounts of incoming data, usually in the form of high resolution images or dense lighting distributions. Additionally, a line of sight between transmitter and receiver is generally required at all times. In this work, we present a positioning approach that combines measurements from a camera, encoders and a gyroscope. We compare multiple algorithms for fusing these data, namely an extended Kalman filter, a particle filter and a hybrid approach. The end result is a system that provides location estimates even with sparse lighting distributions and temporary outages, yet achieves an average accuracy of 2 to 4 cm. Even in the 95th percentile of the cumulative error distribution, accuracy can be as low as 2 cm and is often lower than 10 cm. Moreover, due to the use of a low-resolution camera (640x480 pixels) and efficient fusion algorithms, the latency is relatively low on a standard laptop (between 5.6 and 21 milliseconds). Even on a low-cost embedded board, latency generally does not exceed 100 milliseconds. We validate our approach experimentally and show that it is robust under a wide range of illumination conditions.
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