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Dennis Melamed

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IROS Conference 2022 Conference Paper

Learnable Spatio-Temporal Map Embeddings for Deep Inertial Localization

Dennis Melamed
Karnik Ram
Vivek Roy
Kris Kitani

Indoor localization systems often fuse inertial odometry with map information via hand-defined methods to reduce odometry drift, but such methods are sensitive to noise and struggle to generalize across odometry sources. To address the robustness problem in map utilization, we propose a data-driven prior on possible user locations in a map by combining learned spatial map embeddings and temporal odometry embeddings. Our prior learns to encode which map regions are feasible locations for a user more accurately than previous hand-defined methods. This prior leads to a 49% improvement in inertial-only localization accuracy when used in a particle filter. This result is significant, as it shows that our relative positioning method can match the performance of absolute positioning using bluetooth beacons. To show the gen-eralizability of our method, we also show similar improvements using wheel encoder odometry. Our code will be made publicly available † 1 project page: https://rebrand.ly/learned-map-prior.

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AAAI Conference 2021 Conference Paper

IDOL: Inertial Deep Orientation-Estimation and Localization

Scott Sun
Dennis Melamed
Kris Kitani

Many smartphone applications use inertial measurement units (IMUs) to sense movement, but the use of these sensors for pedestrian localization can be challenging due to their noise characteristics. Recent data-driven inertial odometry approaches have demonstrated the increasing feasibility of inertial navigation. However, they still rely upon conventional smartphone orientation estimates that they assume to be accurate, while in fact these orientation estimates can be a significant source of error. To address the problem of inaccurate orientation estimates, we present a two-stage, data-driven pipeline using a commodity smartphone that first estimates device orientations and then estimates device position. The orientation module relies on a recurrent neural network and Extended Kalman Filter to obtain orientation estimates that are used to then rotate raw IMU measurements into the appropriate reference frame. The position module then passes those measurements through another recurrent network architecture to perform localization. Our proposed method outperforms state-of-the-art methods in both orientation and position error on a large dataset we constructed that contains 20 hours of pedestrian motion across 3 buildings and 15 subjects. Code and data are available at https: //github. com/KlabCMU/IDOL.

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