Leica Geosystems赞助室内本地化竞赛

As part of the 15th International Conference on Information Processing in Sensor Networks (IPSN), Leica Geosystems partnered with Microsoft and Google to host an Indoor Localisation Competition 10-11 April.

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.

When 31 teams descended on Vienna, Austria earlier 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.

“自2014年以来，我们举办了室内本地化竞赛，以更有效的方式将在该领域的团队融合在一起，以进一步推进这项激动人心的技术。”

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The competition was divided into two sections:

1. 2D类别

要求参与者报告15个预测量内部位置的X和Y坐标。由于使用了基于WiFi和IMU的应用程序，因此不需要硬件。团队有三个预定的WiFi访问点可以使用。

2. 3D类别

Participants were required to report X, Y and Z coordinates of 15 pre-measured internal locations. Custom hardware was used, including UWB and Ultrasound. Each team was allowed to use five anchor devices in the evaluation space

Each team was judged on its average localisation error across the 15 test points. The lower the error, the higher the team ranked.

Lymberopoulos说：“今年，我们的竞争激烈竞争，团队展示了室内本地化的创新方法。”

通过Leica Pegasus提供最佳效果：背包

虽然不符合赞助商的最终奖项，但Leica Pegasus:Backpack确实在3D类别中竞争。背包由Leica Geosystems M3D惯性融合经理Kris Morin佩戴，报告了XYZ坐标的平均定位误差为.053，类别中最低。

“We arrived on site without any pre-mapping, determined our location and built a very accurate map of the site,” said Morin. “As the only one of its kind in the competition, the Pegasus:Backpack ranked No. 1 and continues to prove to be a highly-precise and well-designed solution.”

可以查看比赛的最终结果here.