Section: New Software and Platforms

Benchmarks Attitude Smartphones

Keywords: Experimentation - Motion analysis - Sensors - Performance analysis - Smartphone

Scientific Description

We investigate the precision of attitude estimation algorithms in the particular context of pedestrian navigation with commodity smartphones and their inertial/magnetic sensors. We report on an extensive comparison and experimental analysis of existing algorithms. We focus on typical motions of smartphones when carried by pedestrians. We use a precise ground truth obtained from a motion capture system. We test state-of-the-art attitude estimation techniques with several smartphones, in the presence of magnetic perturbations typically found in buildings. We discuss the obtained results, analyze advantages and limits of current technologies for attitude estimation in this context. Furthermore, we propose a new technique for limiting the impact of magnetic perturbations with any attitude estimation algorithm used in this context. We show how our technique compares and improves over previous works.

• Participants: Thibaud Michel, Hassen Fourati, Pierre Geneves and Nabil Layaida

• Partner: GIPSA-Lab

• Contact: Pierre Genevès, Thibaud Michel

• URL: http://tyrex.inria.fr/mobile/benchmarks-attitude/