Where am I? An Experiment in Indoor Localization in Harsh environment

K.V.S. Hari

June 16, 2017

Abstract

This talk will present the efforts in designing and developing a prototype  for indoor positioning of first responders,  like commandos and firefighters, in harsh environments. The system  assumes no availability of WiFi or GPS and is based on Inertial sensors (accelerometers and gyroscopes). The positions are obtained using data from Inertial measurement units embedded in a shoe, with zero-velocity updates fed to a Kalman Filter. The talk will present the performance of the system which was tested by first responders. The talk will also include a short video on the experiments carried out.
 

Brief Curriculum Vitae

K.V.S. Hari  received the B.E. (1983), M.Tech(1985) and PhD(1990) degrees from Osmania University, IIT Delhi, University of California at San Diego, respectively. Since 1992, he has been a Faculty Member at the Department of ECE, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, where he is currently a Professor and Chair. He has  been an Affiliated Professor in the Department of Signal Processing, KTH-Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden from 2010-2016 and a visiting faculty member at Stanford University, KTH  and Aalto Univ. He also worked at DL Research Lab (1985-87), and at  Research and Training Unit for Navigational Electronics, Hyderabad, India (1991).

His research interests are in developing signal processing algorithms for MIMO wireless communication systems, sparse signal recovery problems, indoor positioning, neuroscience and developing assistive technologies for the elderly. During his work at Stanford University, he worked on MIMO wireless channel modelling and is the co-author of the IEEE 802.16 (WiMAX) standard on wireless channel models for fixed-broadband wireless communication systems. He has been an Editor of EURASIP‘s Journal on Signal Processing from 2006-2016 and Senior Associate Editor of Sadhana - Academy Proceedings in Engineering Sciences, published by Springer from 2013 onwards. He is  a co-founder of the company, ESQUBE Communication Solutions, Bangalore. He is a Fellow of Indian NAE and a Fellow of IEEE.