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State of the Art: Inertial and Opportunistic Positioning

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  • Wednesday, 23 October 2013
  • 00:23 - 00:23
  • Duration: 21 mins
  • Publication date: 23 Oct 2013
  • Location: IETTV_Room, IETTV_Venue, London, United Kingdom
  • Part of event Locations and Beyond: Knowing Where You'll be Tomorrow (Means so Much More)

About the session

This talk reviews the latest advances on infrastructure-free indoor positioning using inertial and opportunistic positioning. It discusses the use of commodity smartphones as the core positioning device and the associated algorithms such as SLAM (Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping) that are gaining popularity.

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    Robert Harle

    University of Cambridge, Computer Laboratory, Lecturer

    Dr Robert Harle is a Lecturer at the University of Cambridge's world famous Computer Laboratory. He has worked in indoor positioning for over 12 years and pioneered the use of floorplans and inertial data to provide long-term submetre tracking for pedestrians. For further information, please visit www.cl.cam.ac.uk
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