Abstract: Disclosed is an indoor positioning device which comprises a base, a light source mounted on the base, a rotating part, a rotating outer shell and a controller; the rotating outer shell is a hemispherical shell body or a shell body being tangent externally with a hemispherical surface; a luminous point is located at a spherical center of the rotating outer shell; the rotating outer shell is divided into a plurality of encoded rings, each encoded ring is divided into a plurality of encoding bits, a angle ? of each encoding bit in a latitudinal direction is 360/N degrees, different encoded rings has different arrangements of encoding bits; in each encoded ring, some encoding bits are in a transparent state, there is no arrangement of two continuous opaque encoding bits, some encoding bits arranged in a specified style constitute a start bit or an end bit; once a light barrier of the rotating part passes through an optical coupler, the light source generates a frequency hopping; a receiver senses an optical signa

Abstract: Disclosed is an indoor positioning device which comprises a base, a light source mounted on the base, a rotating part, a rotating outer shell and a controller; the rotating outer shell is a hemispherical shell body or a shell body being tangent externally with a hemispherical surface; a luminous point is located at a spherical center of the rotating outer shell; the rotating outer shell is divided into a plurality of encoded rings, each encoded ring is divided into a plurality of encoding bits, a angle ? of each encoding bit in a latitudinal direction is 360/N degrees, different encoded rings has different arrangements of encoding bits; in each encoded ring, some encoding bits are in a transparent state, there is no arrangement of two continuous opaque encoding bits, some encoding bits arranged in a specified style constitute a start bit or an end bit; once a light barrier of the rotating part passes through an optical coupler, the light source generates a frequency hopping; a receiver senses an optical signa

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-sensor indoor localization method and device. The method includes: an optical signal is received from a point light source using an optical sensor group having N optical sensors; the light intensity of the optical signal is obtained, the optical sensor group includes a polyhedron-shaped base where the normal vectors of each three faces are linearly independent, the N optical sensors are located on the faces of the base, and N?6; the current heading is obtained by a magnetic sensor group; a current unit normal vector is obtained; a system of at least three equations is established; the system of equations is solved to obtain an approximate solution of minimum residual, the approximate solution is regarded as the coordinates of the optical sensor group.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-sensor indoor localization method and device. The method includes: an optical signal is received from a point light source using an optical sensor group having N optical sensors; the light intensity of the optical signal is obtained, the optical sensor group includes a polyhedron-shaped base where the normal vectors of each three faces are linearly independent, the N optical sensors are located on the faces of the base, and N?6; the current heading is obtained by a magnetic sensor group; a current unit normal vector is obtained; a system of at least three equations is established; the system of equations is solved to obtain an approximate solution of minimum residual, the approximate solution is regarded as the coordinates of the optical sensor group.