Title
Data Information Fusion from Multiple Access Points for WiFi-Based Self-localization
Date Issued
01 April 2019
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
University of Tokyo
Publisher(s)
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Abstract
In this letter, we propose a novel approach for fusing information from multiple access points in order to enhance WiFi-based self-localization. A common approach for designing WiFi-based localization systems is to learn location-to-signal strength mappings for each access point in an environment. Each mapping is then used to compute the likelihood of the robot's location conditioned on sensed signal strength data, yielding as many likelihood functions as mappings are available. Office buildings typically have from several tens to a few hundreds of access points, making it essential to properly combine all available likelihoods into a single, coherent, joint likelihood that yields precise likelihoods, yet is not overconfident. While most research has focused on techniques for learning these mappings and improving data acquisition; research on techniques to adequately fuse them has been neglected. Our approach for data information fusion is based on information theory and yields considerably better joint distributions than previous approaches. Furthermore, through extensive testing, we show that these joint likelihoods considerably increase the system's localization performance.
Start page
269
End page
276
Volume
4
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Robótica, Control automático
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-85063305334
Source
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
ISSN of the container
23773766
Sponsor(s)
Manuscript received September 9, 2018; accepted November 15, 2018. Date of publication December 7, 2018; date of current version January 4, 2019. This letter was recommended for publication by Associate Editor S. Julier and Editor E. Marchand upon evaluation of the reviewers’ comments. This work was supported by Tough Robotics Challenge, ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan). (Corresponding author: Renato Miyagusuku.) The authors are with the Department of Precision Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan (e-mail:, miyagusuku@robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp; yamashita@robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp; asama@robot.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp). Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/LRA.2018.2885583 Fig. 1. WiFi fingerprinting approaches learn location-to-signal strength mappings for each access point available from a training dataset. Using these mappings, the likelihood of locations is computed given new sensor measurements. Finally, all likelihood functions are combined into a joint likelihood distribution that can then be used by any probabilistic localization algorithm. In this work we focus on data information fusion algorithms which enable the computation of efficient joint likelihoods.
This work was supported by Tough Robotics Challenge, ImPACT Program of the Council for Science, Technology, and Innovation (Cabinet Office, Government of Japan).
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