Inertial-Based Joint Mapping and Positioning for Pedestrian Navigation

Digital cartography and automated mapping techniques based on GNSS positioning have transformed our relationship to the physical world. The convergence of these complementary technologies are supporting the growth of commercial and consumer location-based applications that benefit from the coupling of real-time information with maps that are more current than ever — at least in environments that have access to radio signals from orbiting GNSS satellites. Buildings, roads, mobile assets, points of interest, and people can be located outdoors based directly on GNSS-derived geographic coordinates or conventional addresses tied to these coordinates. Such advances, however, SLAM Dance