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Indoor Drone Localization and Tracking Based on Acoustic Inertial Measurement
Tsinghua University, China.
Tsinghua University, China.
RISE Research Institutes of Sweden, Digital Systems, Data Science.ORCID iD: 0000-0003-4560-9541
Tsinghua University, China.
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2024 (English)In: IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, ISSN 1536-1233, E-ISSN 1558-0660, Vol. 23, no 6, p. 7537-7551Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

We present Acoustic Inertial Measurement ($\textbackslashsf AIM$AIM), a one-of-a-kind technique for indoor drone localization and tracking. Indoor drone localization and tracking are arguably a crucial, yet unsolved challenge: in GPS-denied environments, existing approaches enjoy limited applicability, especially in Non-Line of Sight (NLoS), require extensive environment instrumentation, or demand considerable hardware/software changes on drones. In contrast, $\textbackslashsf AIM$AIM exploits the acoustic characteristics of the drones to estimate their location and derive their motion, even in NLoS settings. We tame location estimation errors using a dedicated Kalman filter and the Interquartile Range rule (IQR) and demonstrate that AIM can support indoor spaces with arbitrary ranges and layouts. We implement AIM using an off-the-shelf microphone array and evaluate its performance with a commercial drone under varied settings. Results indicate that the mean localization error of AIM is 46% lower than that of commercial UWB-based systems in a complex 10 x 10 m indoor scenario, where state-of-the-art infrared systems would not even work because of NLoS situations. When distributed microphone arrays are deployed, the mean error can be reduced to less than 0.5 m in a 20 m range, and even support spaces with arbitrary ranges and layouts.

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IEEE COMPUTER SOC , 2024. Vol. 23, no 6, p. 7537-7551
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Acoustic signal; drone; indoor tracking; microphone array
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Electrical Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Engineering
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ri:diva-77016DOI: 10.1109/TMC.2023.3335860OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ri-77016DiVA, id: diva2:1937520
Available from: 2025-02-13 Created: 2025-02-13 Last updated: 2025-02-13Bibliographically approved

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