Leica Geosystems赞助室内本地化竞赛

作为第15届传感器网络信息处理国际会议（IPSN）的一部分，Leica Geosystems与Microsoft和Google合作，于4月10日至11日与Microsoft和Google合作举办室内本地化竞赛。

Accurate indoor localisation has the potential to transform the way people navigate indoors in a similar way that GPS transformed the way people navigate outdoors.

当31日团队来到维也纳,奥地利this month, they set out to prove this potential. Armed with laser scanners, GNSS receivers, total stations and other measurement instruments, the teams set to work to prove this potential.

“We’ve held the indoor localistation competition since 2014 to bring teams working in this area together in a more effective way to further this exciting technology,” siad Dimitrios Lymberopoulos, an organiser of the event with Microsoft Research.

Competing for recognition, advancement

The competition was divided into two sections:

1. 2D类别

Participants were required to report X and Y coordinates of 15 pre-measured internal locations. No hardware was required as WiFi and IMU-based applications were used. Teams had three pre-defined WiFi access points to work with.

2. 3D类别

要求参与者报告15个预测内部位置的X，Y和Z坐标。使用了自定义硬件，包括UWB和Ultrasound。每个团队都可以在评估空间中使用五个锚固设备

在15个测试点中，每个团队都根据其平均本地化错误判断。错误越低，团队排名就越高。

“We had a great competition this year with teams showing innovative methods for indoor localisation,” said Lymberopoulos.

Delivering the best results with the Leica Pegasus:Backpack

Though not eligible for the final awards as a sponsor, theLeica Pegasus:Backpackdid compete in the 3D Category. Worn by Kris Morin, Leica Geosystems M3D Inertial Fusion manager, the Backpack reported the XYZ coordinates with an average localisation error of .053, the lowest in the category.

莫林说：“我们到达现场没有任何预映射，确定了我们的位置并建立了非常准确的网站地图。”“作为比赛中唯一同类的人，Pegasus：背包排名第一，并继续被证明是一个高度专业且精心设计的解决方案。”

可以查看比赛的最终结果here.