Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire

Visible light positioning (VLP) has developed rapidly with the ubiquitous lighting infrastructure in recent years. Based on classic trilateration or triangulation, VLP usually requires at least three light sources which makes it infeasible in some scenarios where sparse LED luminaries are mounted. I...

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Main Authors: Jie Hao, Jing Chen, Ran Wang
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Language:English
Published: IEEE 2019-01-01
Series:IEEE Photonics Journal
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description Visible light positioning (VLP) has developed rapidly with the ubiquitous lighting infrastructure in recent years. Based on classic trilateration or triangulation, VLP usually requires at least three light sources which makes it infeasible in some scenarios where sparse LED luminaries are mounted. In this paper, we focus on VLP in such scenarios and propose a VLP method based on a single LED luminaire as the light transmitter and commercial off-the-shelf smartphone as the receiver. A critical problem that needs to be addressed is to derive the accurate orientation of the smartphone. Although the inertial measurement unit of the smartphone can be used to obtain the orientation, the measurement error severely degrades the positioning accuracy. To address the measurement error, this paper innovates in exploiting projective geometry to calibrate the orientation measurements. We build an experimental platform to evaluate the proposed VLP method. The experimental results show that the proposed VLP method can achieve a submeter accuracy and the indoor positioning errors are within 0.16 m by 90%.
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spelling doaj-art-69faf06d5d9f41048bcb4fe4f847ea352025-08-20T03:32:54ZengIEEEIEEE Photonics Journal1943-06552019-01-0111511310.1109/JPHOT.2019.29302098768057Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED LuminaireJie Hao0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1269-2097Jing Chen1Ran Wang2College of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, ChinaCollege of Computer Science and Technology, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Nanjing, ChinaVisible light positioning (VLP) has developed rapidly with the ubiquitous lighting infrastructure in recent years. Based on classic trilateration or triangulation, VLP usually requires at least three light sources which makes it infeasible in some scenarios where sparse LED luminaries are mounted. In this paper, we focus on VLP in such scenarios and propose a VLP method based on a single LED luminaire as the light transmitter and commercial off-the-shelf smartphone as the receiver. A critical problem that needs to be addressed is to derive the accurate orientation of the smartphone. Although the inertial measurement unit of the smartphone can be used to obtain the orientation, the measurement error severely degrades the positioning accuracy. To address the measurement error, this paper innovates in exploiting projective geometry to calibrate the orientation measurements. We build an experimental platform to evaluate the proposed VLP method. The experimental results show that the proposed VLP method can achieve a submeter accuracy and the indoor positioning errors are within 0.16 m by 90%.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8768057/Visible light positioningcomputer visioninertial measurement unitimage sensor
spellingShingle Jie Hao
Jing Chen
Ran Wang
Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire
IEEE Photonics Journal
Visible light positioning
computer vision
inertial measurement unit
image sensor
title Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire
title_full Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire
title_fullStr Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire
title_full_unstemmed Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire
title_short Visible Light Positioning Using A Single LED Luminaire
title_sort visible light positioning using a single led luminaire
topic Visible light positioning
computer vision
inertial measurement unit
image sensor
url https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8768057/
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