KD-EKF: Knowledge-Distilled Adaptive Covariance EKF for Robust UWB/PDR Indoor Localization

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2603.18027v1
• Date: Fri, 06 Mar 2026 03:12:52 GMT
• Title: KD-EKF: Knowledge-Distilled Adaptive Covariance EKF for Robust UWB/PDR Indoor Localization
• Abstract summary: indoor localization provides centimeter-level accuracy and low latency.<n>Measurement reliability degrades severely under Non-Line-of-Sight conditions.<n>Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) provides infrastructure-free motion estimation.
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• License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/
• Abstract: Ultra-wideband (UWB) indoor localization provides centimeter-level accuracy and low latency, but its measurement reliability degrades severely under Non-Line-of-Sight (NLOS) conditions, leading to meter-scale ranging errors and inconsistent uncertainty characteristics. Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU)-based Pedestrian Dead Reckoning (PDR) complements UWB by providing infrastructure-free motion estimation; however, its error accumulates nonlinearly over time due to bias and noise propagation. Fusion methods based on Extended Kalman Filters (EKF) and Particle Filters (PF) can improve average localization accuracy through probabilistic state estimation. However, these approaches typically rely on manually tuned measurement covariances. Such fixed or heuristically tuned parameters are hard to sustain across varying indoor layouts, NLOS ratios, and motion patterns, leading to limited robustness and poor generalization of measurement uncertainty modeling in heterogeneous environments. To address this limitation, this work proposes an adaptive measurement covariance scaling framework in which reliability cues are learned from historical UWB/PDR trajectories. A large teacher model is employed offline to generate temporally consistent next-position predictions from structured UWB/PDR sequences, and this behavior is distilled into a lightweight student model suitable for real-time deployment. The student model continuously regulates EKF measurement covariances based on prediction residuals, enabling environment-aware fusion without manual re-tuning. Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed KD-EKF framework significantly reduces localization error, suppresses error spikes during Line-of-Sight (LOS)/NLOS transitions, and mitigates long-term drift compared to fixed-parameter EKF, thereby improving measurement robustness across diverse indoor environments.

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