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Ultrasound-aided pedestrian dead reckoning for indoor navigation

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Ultrasound-aided pedestrian dead reckoning for indoor navigation. / Fischer, Carl; Muthukrishnan, Kavitha; Hazas, Michael et al.
ACM. 2008. p. 31-36.

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Fischer, C, Muthukrishnan, K, Hazas, M & Gellersen, H 2008, Ultrasound-aided pedestrian dead reckoning for indoor navigation. in ACM. pp. 31-36, MELT'08, San Francisco, CA, USA, 19/09/08. https://doi.org/10.1145/1410012.1410020

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Fischer C, Muthukrishnan K, Hazas M, Gellersen H. Ultrasound-aided pedestrian dead reckoning for indoor navigation. In ACM. 2008. p. 31-36 doi: 10.1145/1410012.1410020

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Fischer, Carl ; Muthukrishnan, Kavitha ; Hazas, Michael et al. / Ultrasound-aided pedestrian dead reckoning for indoor navigation. ACM. 2008. pp. 31-36

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