通过聚类分组指纹数据,提升复杂室内环境定位精度。
From Global to Local: Cluster-Aware Learning for Wi-Fi Fingerprinting Indoor Localisation
- 先用空间或信号特征对指纹聚类,再在对应簇内定位。
- 在三个公开数据集上,定位误差显著降低,建筑级聚类效果最好。
- 适合大规模多层建筑,但会轻微影响楼层识别准确率。
Wi-Fi指纹定位仍是室内定位最实用的方案之一,但其性能常受限于指纹数据集规模与异质性、接收信号强度波动大,以及大范围多层环境带来的歧义。这些因素严重降低定位精度,尤其当全局模型未考虑结构约束时。本文提出一种基于聚类的方法,在定位前对指纹数据集进行结构化处理:利用空间或无线特征对指纹分组,可在建筑或楼层级别进行聚类。定位阶段,基于最强接入点的聚类估计将未知指纹分配至最相关簇,随后仅在选定簇内进行定位。该方法在三个公开数据集和多种机器学习模型上验证,结果表明定位误差持续下降,尤其在建筑级策略下表现更优,但伴随楼层检测准确率略有降低。这证明通过聚类显式结构化数据是实现可扩展室内定位的有效且灵活的方法。
原文摘要 · Abstract (English)
Wi-Fi fingerprinting remains one of the most practical solutions for indoor positioning, however, its performance is often limited by the size and heterogeneity of fingerprint datasets, strong Received Signal Strength Indicator variability, and the ambiguity introduced in large and multi-floor environments. These factors significantly degrade localisation accuracy, particularly when global models are applied without considering structural constraints. This paper introduces a clustering-based method that structures the fingerprint dataset prior to localisation. Fingerprints are grouped using either spatial or radio features, and clustering can be applied at the building or floor level. In the localisation phase, a clustering estimation procedure based on the strongest access points assigns unseen fingerprints to the most relevant cluster. Localisation is then performed only within the selected clusters, allowing learning models to operate on reduced and more coherent subsets of data. The effectiveness of the method is evaluated on three public datasets and several machine learning models. Results show a consistent reduction in localisation errors, particularly under building-level strategies, but at the cost of reducing the floor detection accuracy. These results demonstrate that explicitly structuring datasets through clustering is an effective and flexible approach for scalable indoor positioning.
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