#G01C21/188

LORENTZ FORCE VELOCIMETER

One or more Lorentz force velocimeters are provided. Each Lorentz force velocimeter is configured to sense electric field strength. Each Lorentz force velocimeter measures electric field strength due …

DRIVE·Jun 11·1 min read

G01C21/188 Honeywell International Inc.

METHODOLOGY FOR REAL TIME CORRECTION AND ADAPTATION OF FILTER MODEL FOR ROBUST VEHICLE ODOMETRY

A method for controlling a vehicle includes receiving input data. The input data includes sensor data from a plurality of sensors of a vehicle. The method further includes filtering the input data wit…

DRIVE·Feb 12·1 min read

G01C21/188 GM Global Technology Operations LLC

DEEP SMARTPHONE SENSORS FUSION FOR INDOOR POSITIONING AND TRACKING

A method of predicting a position of a portable electronic device in an indoor environment from sensor data is disclosed. The method comprises generating at least one absolute position prediction, whe…

DRIVE·Oct 22·1 min read

G01C21/188 NAVER LABS CORP [KR]

HYBRID INERTIAL/STELLAR NAVIGATION METHOD WITH HARMONIZATION PERFORMANCE INDICATOR

A navigation method of a vehicle equipped with a star tracking device, a first inertial measurement device and a satellite positioning device, the star tracking device and the first inertial measureme…

DRIVE·Mar 13·2 min read

G01C21/188 SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE

POSITIONING DEVICE, POSITIONING METHOD, AND PROGRAM

The present technology relates to a positioning apparatus, a positioning method, and a program that make it possible to perform positioning with a high degree of accuracy using an acceleration sensor …

DRIVE·Apr 10·1 min read

G01C21/188 SONY CORP [JP]

METHOD FOR DETECTING MALFUNCTIONS IN INERTIAL MEASUREMENT UNITS

A method for detecting malfunctions in inertial measurement units which are used in a vehicle to measure angular velocities and specific forces may have at least three inertial measurement units. Each…

DRIVE·Jan 4·1 min read

G01C21/188 Mercedes-Benz Group AG

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ERROR MITIGATION IN AN INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM

A method, apparatus and computer program product are configured to mitigate error in an inertial navigation system (INS) that relies upon a reference system to determine or update filter parameters. I…

DRIVE·Oct 5·2 min read

G01C21/188 HERE GLOBAL B.V.

PASSIVE COMBINED INDOOR POSITIONING SYSTEM AND METHOD BASED ON INTELLIGENT TERMINAL SENSOR

The passive combined indoor positioning system and method based on an intelligent terminal sensor, and is applied to the technical field of real-time positioning, can include a data collection module,…

DRIVE·Sep 28·1 min read

G01C21/188 China University of Mining and Technology

DELTA POSITION AND DELTA ATTITUDE AIDING OF INERTIAL NAVIGATION SYSTEM

Systems and methods for the external aiding of inertial navigation systems are described herein. In certain embodiments, a device includes an inertial navigation system. In some embodiments, the inert…

DRIVE·Sep 28·1 min read

G01C21/188 Honeywell International Inc.

HEAVY GOODS VEHICLE

A heavy goods vehicle includes a displacement calculator that calculates a displacement by multiplying an arc length per unit rotation angle of the outer circumference of a specified tire by the first…

DRIVE·Jul 13·1 min read

G01C21/188 JFE STEEL CORPORATION

Self-Adaptive Horizontal Attitude Measurement Method based on Motion State Monitoring

Disclosed is a self-adaptive horizontal attitude measurement method based on motion state monitoring. Based on a newly established state space model, a horizontal attitude angle is taken as a state va…

DRIVE·Oct 13·2 min read

G01C21/188 Harbin Engineering University

ESTIMATION DEVICE, ESTIMATION METHOD, PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR ESTIMATION

An estimation includes a dead reckoning unit, a map matching unit, and a parameter correction unit. The dead reckoning unit is configured to estimate a state quantity by dead reckoning based on (i) a …

DRIVE·Sep 1·1 min read

G01C21/188 DENSO CORPORATION

METHOD AND DEVICE FOR RESETTING AN INERTIAL UNIT OF A TRANSPORT MEANS ON THE BASIS OF INFORMATION DELIVERED BY A VIEWFINDER OF THE TRANSPORT MEANS

A method and a device resets an inertial unit of a transport on the basis of information delivered by a viewfinder of the transport. According to one embodiment: a horizontal velocity vector of the tr…

DRIVE·Jun 30·2 min read

G01C21/188 SAFRAN ELECTRONICS & DEFENSE

Dead Reckoning Correction Utilizing Patterned Light Projection

Dead reckoning correction utilizing patterned light projection is provided herein. An example method can include navigating a drone along a pattern using dead reckoning, the pattern having a plurality…

DRIVE·Apr 7·1 min read

G01C21/188 Ford Global Technologies, LLC

POSITIONING DEVICE AND POSITIONING METHOD

In a locator device, a dead reckoning part calculates a position of a subject vehicle by dead reckoning. A pseudorange smoothing part smooths a pseudorange between a GNSS satellite and a position of t…

DRIVE·Jul 15·2 min read

G01C21/188 Mitsubishi Electric Corporation

Elman neural network assisting tight-integrated navigation method without GNSS signals

The disclosure relates to a tight-integrated navigation method assisted by Elman neural network when GNSS signals are blocked based on the tight-integrated navigation system model of the INS and GNSS.…

DRIVE·Apr 1·1 min read

G01C21/188 Harbin Engineering University

POSITION OUTPUT DEVICE USING SATELLITE NAVIGATION SYSTEM

A position output device for outputting position data indicating a current position of an object, based on position data of a determined current position of the object as determined by a satellite nav…

DRIVE·Oct 15·2 min read

G01C21/188 TOKYO KEIKI INC [JP]

MOBILE TERMINAL, SYSTEM AND METHOD

One aspect of the present invention relates to a mobile terminal having an autonomous navigation function including a map application unit configured to perform map matching of a current position of t…

DRIVE·Oct 9·2 min read

G01C21/188 NTT DOCOMO INC [JP]

Systems and methods for navigation in a GPS-denied environment

Systems and methods for updating a navigation system are provided. In one implementation, a system includes: a navigation system configured to provide a navigational solution; at least one memory devi…

DRIVE·Oct 24·1 min read

G01C21/188 HONEYWELL INT INC [US]

Method and system for determining the attitude of an aircraft by multi-axial accelerometric measurements

The method involves determining an angle of pitch and/or an angle of heading and/or an angle of roll of an aircraft (100). A first pair of accelerometers (A5, A6) used for determination of the angle o…

DRIVE·Sep 5·1 min read

G01C21/188 THALES SA [FR]

Fault detection methods

A fault detection method uses inertial measurements provided by an inertial measurement unit (IMU) (2) to detect faults in position measurement equipment (PME) (4). The method uses at least one inerti…

DRIVE·Jun 22·2 min read

G01C21/188 CONVERTEAM TECHNOLOGY LTD [GB]

Velocity calculation device, velocity calculation method and associated navigation device

A velocity calculation device for a Personal Navigation Device (PND) includes a vertical direction acceleration detection unit (4) that is mounted on the PND, which is fixed on a mobile object, to det…

DRIVE·Mar 2·1 min read

G01C21/188 SONY CORP [JP]

Coning compensation in strapdown inertial navigation systems

The invention is a method for compensating for coning in a strapdown inertial navigation system which utilizes groups of five successive incremental angles of rotation of a body-fixed coordinate syste…

DRIVE·Mar 22·2 min read

G01C21/188 LITTON SYSTEMS INC [US]

Method and apparatus for compensating for acceleration errors and inertial navigation system employing the same

Provided are a method and apparatus for compensating for an acceleration error in an inertial navigation system (INS). The apparatus includes a motion detector that detects the motion of the INS and o…

DRIVE·Dec 22·1 min read

G01C21/188 SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO LTD [KR]

Position and heading error-correction method and apparatus for vehicle navigation systems

A vehicular navigational system (2) is provided that compensates for temperature-dependent drift of bias in a vehicle heading sensor (6) associated with a dead reckoning vehicle positioning system (12…

DRIVE·Jul 10·1 min read

G01C21/188 MOTOROLA INC [US]