Human Odometer - Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University
Graphical depiction of the Human Odometer project
Human Odometer

Human Odometer is a system designed for situational awareness for firefighter tracking. Developed for the National Institute of Occupational Safety and Awareness and also Vetronics Technology Integration, Human Odometer is a configurable set of devices used for localization and position measurement. Information about a subject?s movement is tracked through GPS, motion measurement, acceleration detection, height detection, and orientation which are all interconnected to each other through a PAN (Personal Area Network) via Bluetooth.

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2005
An Analysis of the Human Odometer
Uland Wong, Catherine Lyons, and Scott Thayer
Tech. Report, CMU-RI-TR-05-47, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, September, 2005

past head

  • Scott Thayer

past staff

  • Jeffrey J Baker
  • David Kachmar
  • Joshua Kretzmer
  • Catherine Lyons
  • Lisa Michaux-Smith
  • Perry Rajnovic
  • Brian Romano
  • Michael Sabatini

past contact

  • Scott Thayer