Visible light positioning (VLP) has received widespread attention in indoor positioning research and applications due to its advantages such as low cost, high accuracy, and extensive deployment in existing infrastructure. However, VLP systems experience a significant decline in localization performance when obstructed or tilted at the receiver end. To address this issue, a VLP/INS tightly coupled navigation system enhanced by adding motion constraints is proposed, which uses an inertial measurement unit for inclination estimation and applies filtering and fusion techniques at the raw observation level of the sensor to mitigate the effects of obstructions. In practical tests, the system achieved an average positioning accuracy of 10.27 cm, with accuracy improvements of 35.34% and 63.19% compared to pure VLP under occlusion and tilt situations, respectively, resulting in higher accuracy and robustness than existing methods.
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