Pedestrian Dead Reckoning with Low-Cost Foot-Mounted IMU Sensor

Abstract

In this paper, we researched Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) with one foot-mounted IMU sensor. The issues of PDR are magnetism noise and accumulated error due to the noise included in acceleration and gyro data. Two methods are proposed in this paper. First is the gait-phase-estimation method with pitch angle for the Zero Velocity Update algorithm. Second is a method for avoiding accumulated errors by updating the roll and pitch angles with acceleration. The two experiments were conducted to examine the error of gait-phase estimation and distance estimations. The relative error of distance was about 7.40% in the case of walking straight and about 12.27% in the case of a shifting travel direction.