Precise Indoor Path Planning Based on Hybrid Model of GeoSOT and BIM

Abstract

With the improvement of urban infrastructure and the increase in the coverage of high-rise buildings, the demand for location information services inside buildings is becoming more and more urgent. Moreover, indoor path planning, as a prerequisite and basis for realizing path guidance inside buildings, has become a research focus in the field of location services. This makes the accurate planning of indoor paths an urgent problem to be solved at present. This requires dynamic and precise planning from static fuzzy planning, and the corresponding scene converted from a two-dimensional plane to a three-dimensional one. However, most of the existing indoor path planning methods focus on the use of two-dimensional floor plans in buildings to build indoor maps and rely on traditional path search algorithms for pathfinding, which lack in the efficient use of the building’s own geometric and attribute information and lack consideration of the internal spatial topology of the building, making it difficult to meet the needs of indoor multi-layer continuous space path planning. Considering this relationship, it is difficult to meet the path planning needs of indoor multi-layer continuous spaces. In addition, the two-dimensional expression dominated by arrows and line drawings also greatly reduces the intuitiveness and interactivity of path expression. Regarding this, this paper combines the GeoSOT grid with accurate real geographic information and the BIM model and proposes an accurate indoor path planning method. Finally, using Guanlan Commercial Street in Baiyin City as the experimental object, the precise planning and generation of indoor paths and the interaction of visual displays on the web page are realized. It has been verified that the method has certain reference and application values for meeting the demand of location information services in buildings and building an integrated indoor–outdoor navigation service platform.

Keywords

• indoor path planning
• GeoSOT-A*
• GIS-BIM
• Map Topology Model