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Exploring New Localization Applications Using a Smartphone

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Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles

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Localization is an enabling technology in many applications and services today and in the future. Satellite navigation often works fine for navigation , infotainment, and location-based services, and it is the dominating solution in commercial products today. A nice exception is the localization in Google Maps, where radio signal strength from WiFi and cellular networks are used as complementary information to increase accuracy and integrity. With the ongoing trend with more autonomous functions being introduced in our vehicles and with all our connected devices, most of them operated in indoor environments where satellite signals are not available; there is an acute need for new solutions. At the same time, our smartphones are getting more sophisticated in their sensor configuration. Therefore, in this chapter we present a freely available Sensor Fusion app developed in house, how it works, how it has been used, and how it can be used based on a variety of applications in our research and student projects.

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    URL: http://spoonphone.com/en/.

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    URL: http://shop.lenovo.com/se/sv/tango/.

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    The Sensor Fusion app is available from the Google Play store: https://goo.gl/0qNyU.

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    Available from the supporting homepage: http://sensorfusion.se/sfapp/.

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Acknowledgements

The first version of the Sensor Fusion app; it was developed in collaboration with HiQ (URL: http://www.hiq.se), funded by a Saab award in the name of former ceo Åke Svensson received by Prof. Fredrik Gustafsson. These contributions are gratefully acknowledged. The authors also want to thank their colleagues and the students who have contributed to the research described in this chapter, as well as the Swedish Research Council (vr), Vinnova, and the Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (ssf) for funding the described projects.

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    Fredrik Gustafsson & Gustaf Hendeby

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    Kristin Y. Pettersen

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Gustafsson, F., Hendeby, G. (2017). Exploring New Localization Applications Using a Smartphone. In: Fossen, T., Pettersen, K., Nijmeijer, H. (eds) Sensing and Control for Autonomous Vehicles. Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences, vol 474. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55372-6_8

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