Contemporary public buildings are becoming conglomerates of open, semi‐open and
closed spaces, with indoor, outdoor and underground sections. For humans and robots to …

Context of indoor navigation The objective of this research is to define and to implement a
dedicated data model for indoor applications. Based on this specific model, route guidance …

As we realize that we spend most of our time in increasingly complex indoor environments,
applications to assist indoor activities (eg guidance) have gained a lot of attention in the …

Pedestrians have often ways in unfamiliar urban environment or in complex buildings. In
these cases they need guidance to reach their targets, for example a specific room in a local …

Abstract Indoor Location Based Services (LBS), such as indoor navigation and tracking, still
have to deal with both technical and non-technical challenges. For this reason, they have …

This paper deals with the perception subsystem of a mobile robot which must navigate in a
structured environment. We will consider the exploration task; the robot must build …

Location is one of the most important elements of context in ubiquitous computing. In this
paper we describe a location model, a spatial-aware communication model and an …

Navigation systems help users access unfamiliar environments. Current technological
advancements enable users to encapsulate these systems in handheld devices, which …

People in unfamiliar environments often need navigation guidance to reach a destination.
Research has found that compared to outdoors, people tend to lose orientation much more …

Navigation models are explicit representations of geometrical and topological information of
physical environments that can be utilized for map-matching of indoor positioning data. This …