DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUS POSITIONING OF VEHICLES

    公开(公告)号:US20250060486A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-20

    申请号:US18724316

    申请日:2022-12-29

    Abstract: A positioning device for determining the location of a vehicle stationary or moving on roads of a given network from positioning signals broadcasted by satellites of at least one constellation of satellites, comprising: a first unit determining a plurality of possible current positions and a plurality of time stamps, configured to: generate local replicas of positioning signals; receive, positioning signals broadcasted by one or more satellites in view; process, for each possible current position and time stamp, a correlation function between a received positioning signal and a local replica; a second unit: determining a common error to all the satellites, correcting the correlation results using the common error, determining, for each possible current position of the vehicle, multi-satellite likelihoods; determining a position and time stamp by comparing the multi-satellite likelihoods.

    Method and system for calculating center GPS coordinates using spherical coordinates

    公开(公告)号:US11879985B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-23

    申请号:US18314066

    申请日:2023-05-08

    Inventor: Dane R Thompson

    CPC classification number: G01S19/50 A01G25/092

    Abstract: A method and system for determining center coordinates of a circular arc uses a position sensor, such as a GPS receiver, for receiving position coordinates for a plurality of points along the circular arc. The position coordinates for the plurality of points are then processed using an algorithm developed based on the geometric relationship for a cone inscribed in a sphere, with the sphere representing the Earth, the position coordinates defining points along a base perimeter of the cone, and an apex of the cone being located at the center of the Earth. A regression model is used to determine the center coordinates of the circular arc in a three-dimensional coordinate system without converting the position coordinates into two-dimensional coordinates. The method and system can be used to determine center coordinates for a center pivot sprinkler monitoring system or a vehicle guidance system.

    DEVICE AND METHOD FOR AUTONOMOUSLY LOCATING A MOBILE VEHICLE ON A RAILWAY TRACK

    公开(公告)号:US20220326395A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-13

    申请号:US17642694

    申请日:2019-09-12

    Applicant: THALES

    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention provide a method for locating, in a railroad frame of reference, a mobile vehicle traveling on railroad tracks of a railroad network. The method determines one or more railroad track segments on which the mobile vehicle is likely to be located by querying a cartographic database based on at least one location parameter. The cartographic database comprises data representing a vectorial description of at least one railroad track of the railroad network and data representing a description of one or more objects of the environment adjacent to the railroad tracks of the railroad network likely to interfere with the navigation signals received by the mobile vehicle. The method includes a step of generating the cartographic database comprising the steps of: receiving a measurement point cloud classified and geolocated in a coordinate system, the measurement point cloud being associated with the railroad network and with the adjacent environment, determining the topology of the railroad network based on geolocated and classified measurement points associated with the railroad network and a plurality of additional elements of the railroad network, modeling the geometry of the railroad tracks of the railroad network as a plurality of modeled railroad track segments, determining, from geolocated and classified measurement points associated with the adjacent environment, one or more adjacent objects, each of the adjacent objects being associated with one or more modeled railroad track segments, identifying, for each association between an adjacent object and one or more modeled railroad track segments, information representing the interference affecting the navigation signals.

    Multipath management for global navigation satellite systems

    公开(公告)号:US11415708B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-08-16

    申请号:US16957716

    申请日:2018-12-21

    Abstract: A positioning device includes a first GNSS receiver; a communication link configured to receive a spatial position, code measurements and carrier phase measurements of a second GNSS receiver; an input interface to a processing logic, the processing logic being configured to: calculate a position of the first positioning device from communicated data; and to estimate one or more parameters representative of multipath at the position of the first positioning device; wherein the communication link is configured to communicate to a second positioning device the parameters representative of multipath at the position of the first positioning device. Described developments comprise the use of multipath severity indicators, the determination of relative distances between receivers, validity conditions in time and/or space of multipath, various embodiments in a train or in a group of vehicles. Software aspects are discussed.

    Position and motion informed navigation system

    公开(公告)号:US11353596B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-06-07

    申请号:US16414666

    申请日:2019-05-16

    Abstract: A global positioning system (GPS) receiver and system for determining a geographical location associated with the GPS receiver using less than four GPS signals. The system can comprise a constraint module configured to receive one or more constraints that describe at least one characteristic of a GPS receiver when a number of GPS satellites within a line of sight to the GPS receiver is below a defined value. The system can further comprise a pseudo range calculation module configured to calculate a plurality of pseudo ranges between the GPS receiver and the number GPS satellites, wherein the plurality of pseudo ranges are to various orbital positions of the GPS satellites over a period of time; and a geographical location module configured to determine the geographical location of the GPS receiver using the plurality of pseudo ranges and known constraints of motion associated with the GPS receiver.

    METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR DETERMINING THE POINT LOCATION OF A STOPPED VEHICLE ON A STORAGE TRACK, USING VIRTUAL BEACONS

    公开(公告)号:US20220135096A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-05

    申请号:US16770581

    申请日:2019-06-13

    Applicant: THALES

    Inventor: Marc REVOL

    Abstract: A method for determining the point location of a vehicle stopped on one storage track among a set of storage tracks, using virtual beacons is provided. It determines and compares the likelihood of a plurality of hypotheses as to the stopped location of the vehicle, corresponding to a first set of NBe predefined virtual beacons Be(i), i varying from 1 to NBe, the respective positions of which are known in an amount of one virtual beacon per storage track, by correlating the GNSS geo-positioning signals received at various synchronization reset times of a second set by the GNSS receiver located on board the vehicle with predicted GNSS geo-positioning signals of replicas expected for the various positions of the virtual beacons of the first set at the various times. The detected holding position of the vehicle is the position that corresponds to the maximum likelihood.

    MULTI-LEVEL ALTITUDE MAP MATCHING

    公开(公告)号:US20220091280A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-24

    申请号:US17477744

    申请日:2021-09-17

    Abstract: A method is disclosed comprising: obtaining or gathering sample measurements, wherein one or more of the sample measurements are or comprise Global Navigation Satellite System, GNSS, available sample measurements, the one or more GNSS-available sample measurements respectively comprising information indicating that at least one GNSS signal is or was available at a respective location; matching, with a GNSS-availability altitude map, one or more of the GNSS-available sample measurements, wherein one or more of the respective locations are represented by the GNSS-availability altitude map; and based at least on the matching, determining or correcting altitude information respectively associated with one or more of the sample measurements. It is further disclosed an according apparatus, computer program and system.

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