Dynamic World Models from Ray-tracing

  • Authors:
  • R. K. Harle;A. Hopper

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • PERCOM '04 Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications (PerCom'04)
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

Context-aware computing systems demand an accurateand up-to-date world model which computationally representsthe environment they oversee. Systems to date tend tohave small-scale implementations with hand-programmedworld models.In real environments, manual creation and maintenanceof such models is infeasible. This paper presents a novelmethod of using signals propagating in a multilaterationpositioning system to assist in creating and maintainingmodels of a dynamic world. It builds on a previous methodfor discovering objects in static environments.The methods are implemented and evaluated using areal positioning system. They are shown to build three-dimensionaloccupancy grids of indoor volumes, and havethe capability of modifying those grids as time proceeds andthe environment is reconfigured.