PERMANENT SYSTEM FOR THE 3D LOCATION OF A PERSON MOVING AROUND INSIDE A BUILDING

摘要

The invention relates to a system for accurately locating and positioning a person moving or standing still inside a hostile or severely damaged environment. For a person walking through any given environment, the location system continuously provides coordinates for positioning said person within the environment relative to the entry point thereof. The location system uses the morphological data of the person and integrates the movement of the person in real time by acquiring features of the person's pace as the result of simultaneously combining the angles formed by the ankles, the knees and the hips of the person when walking, measured by electrogoniometers and interpreted according to the calculation method developed by the inventors. The location system outdoes other existing solutions for locating a person in a difficult environment, such as, for example, that corresponding to the inside of an underground building, partially collapsed and filled with opaque smoke, without the system having any risk of faults in the measurements since it does not resort to tracking by waves or by any vision-based system. The location system is especially designed and adapted to enable the movement and location of rescue teams in disaster environments.