A New Three-Dimensional Indoor Positioning Mechanism Based on Wireless LAN

Jiujun Cheng, Yueqiao Cai, Qingyang Zhang, Junlu Cheng and Chendan Yan

Mathematical Problems in Engineering, 2014, vol. 2014, 1-7

Abstract:

The researches on two-dimensional indoor positioning based on wireless LAN and the location fingerprint methods have become mature, but in the actual indoor positioning situation, users are also concerned about the height where they stand. Due to the expansion of the range of three-dimensional indoor positioning, more features must be needed to describe the location fingerprint. Directly using a machine learning algorithm will result in the reduced ability of classification. To solve this problem, in this paper, a “divide and conquer” strategy is adopted; that is, first through k-medoids algorithm the three-dimensional location space is clustered into a number of service areas, and then a multicategory SVM with less features is created for each service area for further positioning. Our experiment shows that the error distance resolution of the approach with k-medoids algorithm and multicategory SVM is higher than that of the approach only with SVM, and the former can effectively decrease the “crazy prediction.”

Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1155/2014/862347

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