Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for improved position determination of vehicles
- Patent Title (中): 改进车辆位置确定的系统和方法
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Application No.: US12039601Application Date: 2008-02-28
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Publication No.: US08374783B2Publication Date: 2013-02-12
- Inventor: Frank Takac , Oliver Zelzer , William James Kellar
- Applicant: Frank Takac , Oliver Zelzer , William James Kellar
- Applicant Address: CH Heerbrugg
- Assignee: Leica Geosystems AG
- Current Assignee: Leica Geosystems AG
- Current Assignee Address: CH Heerbrugg
- Agency: Maschoff Gilmore & Israelsen
- Main IPC: G01C21/00
- IPC: G01C21/00 ; G01C21/30 ; G01C21/10 ; G08G1/123

Abstract:
Systems and methods for determining a position of a vehicle are described. The system includes at least one GNSS sensor mounted to the vehicle for receiving GNSS signals of a global positioning system and at least one physical sensor mounted to the vehicle for generating physical data indicative of a physical parameter of at least a part of the vehicle. The system also includes a recursive statistical estimator, such as a Kalman Filter, in communication with the GNSS sensor(s) for seeding the recursive statistical estimator with an output of the GNSS sensor(s) to determine an estimated position of the vehicle. A data fusion module combines the estimated position and velocity of the vehicle with the physical data thus generating combined data, which is used to seed the recursive statistical estimator to determine an updated estimated position of the vehicle.
Public/Granted literature
- US20090099774A1 SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED POSITION DETERMINATION OF VEHICLES Public/Granted day:2009-04-16
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