Wednesday, 10/25/2017
Four
researchers from the ALGORITMI Research Centre (ALGORITMI) of the School of
Engineering of the University of Minho (EEUM) were granted the first award at
the IPIN 2017 Indoor Localisation Competition. The 2017 edition took place in
Sapporo, Hokkaido, in Japan.
Adriano Moreira, Maria João Nicolau,
Filipe Menses and António Costa, researchers from the ALGORITMI, received the
first award in a competition on indoor positioning systems. The competition has
been organised since 2011 and in recent years has been held within the IPIN –
International Conference on Indoor Positioning and Indoor Navigation. This is
one of the most important conferences in the area of systems for positioning
and navigation in indoor spaces, with the 2011 edition taking place in
Guimarães.
The IPIN 2017 Indoor Localisation
Competition was organised in four strands: the first was for participants
seeking to determine their absolute position, in real time, using the sensors
of a mobile phone. The group made a path of dozen metres extension, walking
through corridors, rooms and stairs dispersed by several floors of a great
building. The second strand was similar to the first, but the mobile phones
were replaced by inertial systems, compass and atmospheric pressure sensors. In
the third strand, participants had to process a set of radio environment
readings and be able to accurately identify the corresponding location. The
fourth strand focused on specific systems for store management.
The RTLS@UM team, which participated in
the third strand, betted on three different approaches, which guaranteed the
first place when correctly estimating the building and determining the
coordinates of the various paths, with a final error of 3,48 metres. The
winning team had already reached the first place in 2015 and ranked the second
one in 2016.
The awarders are professors from the
Department of Informatics (DI) and Department of Information Systems (DSI) and
developed their scientific activities at the ALGORITMI. They also collaborate
with the Centre for Computer Graphics (CCG), UMinho’s interface.
A summary of the results is available
at: http://evaal.aaloa.org/2017/competition-results
+ info: http://algoritmi.uminho.pt/; http://www.ccg.pt/
