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Posterior-Contact Soft-ZUPT for Foot-Mounted Inertial Navigation: Uncertainty-Aware Pseudo-Observation Modeling.

Yanbiao Gao1, Zhongliang Deng1

  • 1School of Electronic Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876, China.

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This study enhances pedestrian positioning using foot-mounted inertial navigation by improving zero-velocity updates (ZUPTs). The new method offers better robustness and error suppression in challenging scenarios.

Keywords:
error-state Kalman filterfoot-mounted inertial navigationprobabilistic pseudo-observation modelingsoft ZUPTzero-velocity update

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Area of Science:

  • Robotics
  • Navigation Systems
  • Sensor Fusion

Background:

  • Foot-mounted inertial navigation is crucial for pedestrian positioning where external infrastructure is unreliable.
  • Performance relies heavily on zero-velocity updates (ZUPTs), which can be inaccurate during non-ideal foot-contact phases.
  • Existing methods struggle with overconfident ZUPTs during heel-strike and toe-off.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel ZUPT method that improves robustness and accuracy in foot-mounted inertial navigation.
  • To address the overconfidence issue of ZUPTs during non-ideal foot-contact phases.
  • To introduce a probabilistic approach for controlling ZUPT update strength.

Main Methods:

  • Formulated zero-velocity updates (ZUPTs) as probabilistic pseudo-observation modeling.
  • Introduced posterior-contact soft-ZUPT within a single error-state Kalman filter.
  • Controlled update strength using a detector-derived contact prior and an innovation-conditioned posterior.

Main Results:

  • Posterior-contact soft-ZUPT demonstrated improved robustness in difficult trials and suppressed upper-tail errors.
  • The method achieved competitive overall accuracy compared to baselines.
  • It yielded the best selected p95 and tail-risk values among compared methods.

Conclusions:

  • Probabilistic reliability modeling effectively softens ZUPTs for improved pedestrian navigation.
  • The proposed method enhances robustness without compromising overall accuracy.
  • It offers a lightweight, single-filter implementation suitable for practical applications.