Pedestrian dead reckoning system with phone location awareness algorithm

In this paper we present a PDR (Pedestrian Dead Reckoning) system with a phone location awareness algorithm. PDR is a device which provides position information of the pedestrian. In general, the step length is estimated using a linear combination of the walking frequency and the acceleration variance for the mobile phone. It means that the step length estimation accuracy is affected by coefficients of the walking frequency and the acceleration variance which are called step length estimation parameters. Developed PDR is assumed that it is embedded in the mobile phone. Thus, parameters can be different from each phone location such as hand with swing motion, hand without any motion and pants pocket. It means that different parameters can degrade the accuracy of the step length estimation. Step length estimation result can be improved when appropriate parameters which are determined by phone location awareness algorithm are used. In this paper, the phone location awareness algorithm for PDR is proposed.