313 results about "Gps global positioning system" patented technology

An interactive multimedia tour guide provides a user with packaged tours in a multimedia format that includes directions and useful information about a selected tour. The packaged tours are composed of principle and ancillary points of interest. A user profile is developed which is used to generate a preference mask for the user. The preference mask is used to select only those ancillary points of interest that would be of most interest to the user. The selected tour is stored on a portable self-contained electronic system which includes a GPS navigation system and cell phone. The system includes voice recognition software and speech synthesis software to provide the user with a verbal interface That provides directions and information on various points of interest during the tour. Combined with optional camera, the interactive multimedia tour guide allows for rapid identification and editing of pictures or videos made on a tour.

The invention relates to a voice-controlled vehicle GPS navigating system and the method for realizing the same, comprising the following steps of: 1, an electric map module make the place names in a map into a place name list, and the place name list is used as a distinguishing set for a voice distinguishing module and then is sent to the voice distinguishing module; 2, the start-up key of the voice distinguishing module is turned on; 3, the voice distinguishing module receives input voice and extracts characters of the input voice; 4, voice recognition is performed after abstracting the characters; 5, after the voice recognition is finished, a plurality of candidates are output for the final affirmation of users; 6, the final results affirmed by users are transmitted to the electric map module and then is mapped into corresponding map coordinate to be displayed on a screen. The invention not only simplified the operation procedures of GPS device, but also provides safeguards for drivers, and the invention, at the same time, facilitates the popularization of GPS.

A personal traffic congestion avoidance system for drivers of motor vehicles traveling on roadways in motor vehicles with GPS-based navigational systems. The system includes a GPS-based navigational system that includes a GPS receiver connected to a visual display, a map database and a wireless communication device for communicating with a remote computer over a wireless communication network. The GPS-based navigation system continuously determines the motor vehicle exact physical location in a region that is intermittently or continuously uploaded to a remote computer via the wireless communication network. The remote computer is connected to a traffic monitoring database or service that provides current traffic affecting events in the region thereto. When a traffic affecting event is located in the designated vicinity of the current location of the motor vehicle, on the current roadway used by the motor vehicle, or on a roadway that may affect the traffic on the current roadway, an alert warning is generated and delivered to the GPS-based navigational system and displayed on the visual display. The driver may ignore the warning or take an alternative route to avoid the traffic congestion.

The invention provides an unmanned-gyroplane system used for automatic inspection of bridges and tunnels and a navigation method, belonging to the field of automatic detection of bridge and tunnel diseases. According to the invention, aimed at the characteristics of bridge and tunnel areas, the unmanned gyroplane inspection system which realizes autonomous navigation in virtue of GPS, laser radar and IMU is designed; and the system realizes autonomous inspection of an open bridge area by using a GPS navigation system and autonomous inspection of a closed tunnel area by using a laser radar navigation system, dodging of bridges, tunnels and motor vehicles via an automatic evadible system, and shooting of images of key areas, wherein the images are sent back to a ground station, and thematic pictures of diseases of bridge and tunnels are generated by the ground station and provided to related personnel for use. The unmanned-gyroplane system provided by the invention has the characteristics of mobility and flexibility in the process of inspection and has the advantages of a wide inspection coverage area, unblocking of traffic, real-time returning of live shots, etc.

An inertial (“INS”) / GPS receiver includes an INS sub-system which incorporates, into a modified Kalman filter, GPS observables and / or other observables that span previous and current times. The INS filter utilizes the observables to update position information relating to both the current and the previous times, and to propagate the current position, velocity and attitude related information. The GPS observable may be delta phase measurements, and the other observables may be, for example, wheel pick-offs (or counts of wheel revolutions) that are used to calculate along track differences, and so forth. The inclusion of the measurements in the filter together with the current and the previous position related information essentially eliminates the effect of system dynamics from the system model. A position difference can thus be formed that is directly observable by the phase difference or along track difference measured between the previous and current time epochs. Further, the delta phase measurements can be incorporated in the INS filter without having to maintain GPS carrier ambiguity states. The INS sub-system and the GPS sub-system share GPS and INS position and covariance information. The receiver time tags the INS and any other non-GPS measurement data with GPS time, and then uses the INS and GPS filters to produce INS and GPS position information that is synchronized in time. The GPS / INS receiver utilizes GPS position and associated covariance information and the GPS and / or other observables in the updating of the INS filter. The INS filter, in turn, provides updated system error information that is used to propagate inertial current position, velocity and attitude information. Further, the receiver utilizes the inertial position, velocity and covariance information in the GPS filters to speed up GPS satellite signal re-acquisition and associated ambiguity resolution operations

A mobile digital video surveillance recorder with GPS mapping capability is provided that is carried by a vehicle and equipped with a plurality of channel inputs. An associated monitor can be carried by the vehicle to allow the driver to view the camera images being recorded real-time, or the monitor can be located remotely for playback and review of the recorded images at a later time. The monitor displays a split screen that can display one or more images as taken from different cameras. Video feed from an associated GPS navigation system is piped into one of the video channel inputs such that GPS location with mapping is visually displayed as one of the remaining split-screen images on the monitor. The displayed data therefore presents concurrent images of camera video and GPS video feed so that the specific location of the vehicle at the time a camera image was recorded is presented.

The “Vehicle Tracking System and Game” integrates a GPS navigation system with invention specific hardware and software. A user installs a mobile unit on his race vehicle which features software allowing a processor connected to the electronics of the user's vehicle to communicate with an inertial navigation system which collects racing information, with a remote database which features software for various interactive real-time or virtual GPS Racing Games and processing the racing information of all users, and with a GPS system in real time. The mobile unit collects, processes, saves and transmits user specific racing information continuously throughout the game. This racing information is data of racing performance parameters specific to the game subscribed for by the user. The database processes and evaluates the received racing information, offsets this information with the users' basic input data and compares the information of all users.

A personal traffic congestion avoidance system for drivers of motor vehicles traveling on roadways in motor vehicles with GPS-based navigational systems. The system includes a GPS-based navigational system that includes a GPS receiver connected to a visual display, a map database and a wireless communication device for communicating with a remote computer over a wireless communication network. The GPS-based navigation system continuously determines the motor vehicle's exact physical location in a region that is intermittently or continuously uploaded to a remote computer via the wireless communication network. The remote computer is connected to a traffic monitoring database or service that provides current traffic affecting events in the region thereto. When a traffic affecting event is located in the designated vicinity of the current location of the motor vehicle, or on the current roadway used by the motor vehicle or on a roadway that may affect the traffic on the current roadway, an alert warning is generated and delivered to the GPS-based navigational system and displayed on the visual display. The driver may ignore the warning or take an alternative route to avoid the traffic congestion.

The invention discloses a system for remotely inquiring and reserving parking spaces of parking lots. The system consists of parking space sensors, concentrators, parking lot managing computers, a central processing computer, wired / wireless mobile communication networks, a parking space information receiving / transmitting device, a global positioning system (GPS) satellite navigation positioner, a city electronic traffic map, information processing management software, a parking-lot parking space database, a mobile phone payment system and a mobile phone short message platform. By the system, the parking lots nearby a destination and idle parking spaces in the parking lots can be inquired by vehicle owners in advance, vehicles can be driven to satisfying parking lots under the guiding action of a GPS navigation system, and satisfying idle parking spaces can be quickly and conveniently selected for parking the vehicles under the guiding action of a parking space distribution map, so that the phenomena of universally searching the parking lots aimlessly and universally searching the parking spaces in the parking lots aimlessly are prevented, and a large amount of time is saved and great convenience is provided for the vehicle owners. The vehicle owners can reserve the parking spaces in advance or eliminate the reservation.

The invention relates to the field of unmanned aerial vehicles, in particular to a full-automatic unmanned aerial vehicle control system. The system, which is characterized in that: a ground control system comprises a main control system mainly comprising a central controller, a main control computer, the internet network and a central antenna, a user computer as a human-computer interactive interface, and a GPS navigation system; a vehicle-mounted flight control system of the unmanned aerial vehicle is provided with an aerial vehicle controller, a networking antenna, a GPS antenna, a DSP, a navigation camera, and a sensor; and the main control system of the ground control system gets the remote internet control authority, the main control computer inputs a signal to the central controller, the signal is processed by the central controller, and then the remote wireless communication and control of the vehicle-mounted flight control system are achieved through the antennas. Compared with the prior art, the system has the advantages of having high automation degree, realizing various flight missions of the unmanned aerial vehicle, and being applied to low altitude remote sensing, aerial photography, monitoring, photography measurement, videography, communication data retransmission and the like.

A method and apparatus of vehicle positioning uses map matching as feedback for an integrated navigation system where a map and navigation system is coupled with an inertial navigation system (INS) using low-precision vehicle sensors when the vehicle passes through a tunnel or other area suffering from GPS signal loss. The method and apparatus operates to detect whether the vehicle has reached an entry point of a tunnel, and if so, immediately starts a map matching operation to match the current vehicle position with a road link of the tunnel. The current position determined by the map matching operation is feedbacked to an integration Kalman filter thereby correcting errors caused by the vehicle sensors. The method and apparatus resumes the normal navigation operation including GPS navigation as soon as it detects that the vehicle is out of the tunnel.

The invention discloses a multi-angle unmanned aerial survey system. The multi-angle unmanned aerial survey system is provided with a six-rotor-wing unmanned aerial vehicle, and each multi-view-angle inclined camera composed of five camera lenses is carried on the six-rotor-wing unmanned aerial vehicle. Each multi-view-angle inclined camera comprises a shooting unit, a controlling unit and a hanging unit. The six-rotor-wing unmanned aerial vehicle comprises an unmanned aerial vehicle flying platform system, a GPS, a flying controlling system, a remote sensing shooting system, a ground controlling system and a signal transmitting system. Ground images can be collected at the same time at multiple angles, in this way, the defect that according to a traditional aerial photography technology, shooting can be performed only at a vertical angle is overcome, the actual conditions of a ground feature can be reflected more really, and the defects in orthophotography are overcome; through integrating POS data, DSM data, vectors and others, a three-dimensional model establishing technology based on image intensive matching is established, a digital city model is rapidly and efficiently established, and therefore the working cost for three-dimensional model establishing is greatly lowered.

The invention relates to the technical field of navigation positioning, particularly to a navigation positioning technique based on multi-sensor data fusion. A GPS aided positioning system based on multi-sensor data fusion comprises a GPS navigation system, a gyroscope and accelerometer combined system, a data processing and fusion module and a map-matching module, wherein the GPS navigation system comprises a GPS module and a data collecting and processing module thereof and is used for acquiring the data of a carrier, such as GPS position, speed, time, number of satellites, and the degree of position accuracy; the gyroscope and accelerometer combined system comprises a gyroscope, an accelerometer and a data collecting and processing module and is used for acquiring the angular velocity,the speed and the accelerated speed of the carrier; the data processing and fusion module integrates the data acquired by the GPS navigation system and the gyroscope and accelerometer combined systemso as to obtain the position information of the carrier; and the map-matching module corrects the error of position information of the carrier outputted by a digital electronic map and the data processing and fusion module so as to obtain the final position information of the carrier. The invention also provides a GPS aided positioning method based on multi-sensor data fusion.

A method and system provides for notification to a user of registered devices that are in violation of local law using the Global Positioning System (GPS). One or more one or more devices in a mobile environment are registered with a GPS navigation system of the mobile environment. In response to the mobile environment moving from a first location to a second location, the GPS navigation system retrieves local law information that specifies or defines local law of the second location using GPS coordinates of the second location. It is next determined whether each device of the one or more devices registered with the GPS navigation system is in violation of the local law. If so, a user in the mobile environment is notified of each registered device that is in violation of the local law.

A method of compensating performance of low-cost MEMS (microelectro mechanical systems) inertial sensors in an integrated INS / GPS navigation system for automotive application is disclosed. The proposed method includes velocity and inertial sensor output conditions featured in ground vehicle dynamics. Using the conventional Kalman filter based INS / GPS system, implementation of the prescribed conditions in the present invention additionally to the GPS measurements shows accurate motion tracking even when GPS signal dropouts last for more than 2 minutes. Another aspect of the disclosure is an integrated INS / GPS navigation system which utilizes MEMS based inertial sensors for maintaining high position tracking accuracy even when a GPS signal is lost or unavailable for a long period of time by incorporating the predefined vehicle dynamics conditions when calculating optimum estimates through the Kalman filtering process.

An inertial (“INS”) / GPS receiver uses injected alignment data to determine the alignment of the INS sub-system when the receiver is in motion during start-up. The alignment data is determined from parameterized surface information, measured GPS velocity, and a known or predetermined angular relationship between the vehicle on which the receiver is mounted and an inertial measurement reference, or body, frame associated with the accelerometers and gyroscopes of the inertial measuring unit (“IMU”). The parameterized surface information, which provides a constraint, may be the orientation of the surface over which the vehicle that houses the receiver is moving. The receiver uses the initial GPS position to determine the location of the vehicle on the parameterized surface, and thus, the known surface orientation. The receiver then determines the roll, pitch and heading of the vehicle on the surface using the associated GPS velocity vector. Thereafter, the receiver uses the calculated roll, pitch and heading of the vehicle and the known or predetermined angular relationship between the vehicle and the IMU body frame to determine a rotation matrix that relates the IMU body frame to a computation or referenced frame used by the receiver.

A method of GPS accuracy adjustment for an integrated INS / GPS navigation system which utilizes microelectro mechanical systems (MEMS) based inertial sensors to mitigate multipath problems arising when a vehicle is in an area with many high-rise buildings is disclosed. Even when GPS measurement output values are deviated from that expected, the INS / GPS navigation system uses as many measurement outliers as possible without discarding, unless they are obvious error values. The measurement outliers occur when the integrated INS / GPS navigation system receives GPS signals which have transmitted through multipaths such as reflection by buildings, since the signal path lengths vary. Even in such a condition, rather than simply discarding such measurement outliers, the method utilizes the measurement outliers while adjusting the accuracy thereof depending on the degree of deviation. Since the integrated INS / GPS navigation system is able to utilize both the INS output and the GPS measurement, it is possible to maintain a practical level of accuracy in the position tracking when a vehicle is in an area of tall buildings.

The invention provides a GPS navigation system capable of automatically updating a map. The system comprises an electronic map data base, a navigation module, a road net data updating generation module, and a data comparison module, wherein the electronic map data base is used for storing the road net data of the electronic map of the system; the navigation module is used for finding out the navigation data guiding a navigation object to reach the set destination from the electronic map data base according to the current position information of the navigation object; the road net data updating generation module is used for recording the dynamic track of the moving navigation object according to the positioning information of the navigation object and taking the dynamic track as the current road net data; and the data comparison module is used for comparing the current road net data with the road net data of the electronic map in the electronic map data base and generating a data comparison result; and if the two groups of road net data are different, the currently updated road net data is stored in the electronic map data base so as to add the road net data information of the electronic map into the electronic map data base. When the navigation object moves, the system and the method can realize the automatic updating of the road net data of the electronic map and make the map show the actual road conditions more thoroughly, accurately and in detail so as to find out the best navigation route.

The invention relates to the field of cloud technology, and discloses a monitoring system and a monitoring method for dangerous operation behaviors of a driver on a cloud platform. The monitoring system comprises an on-vehicle end and a cloud-end server. The on-vehicle end is provided with an on-vehicle sensor module, a data acquisition system, a wireless communication module, a GPS receiver, a voice prompting and early-warning system, and a switch unit. Wireless communication technology is used for transmitting acquired sensor data information to the cloud-end server in real time, and furthermore a driver can selectively switch on the switch for realizing the function. The cloud-end server comprises a data storage system, a real-time road condition acquisition system, an expert system and a driving behavior analysis system. According to the expert system, a China national highway geographic information system, a road-side system and a GPS navigation system, the dangerous operation behavior of the driver is identified from the acquired sensor data information through the driving behavior analysis system, and furthermore dangerous behavior alarm information which is output according to decision of the cloud-end server is transmitted to the on-vehicle end and prompting is performed so that a vehicle owner masters the dangerous driving behavior himself in real time.

The invention discloses a logistics distribution management method which comprises steps as follows: goods owners upload goods source information to a logistics management center through operating terminals, vehicle owners unload vehicle source information to the logistics management center through intelligent mobile terminals, a monitoring module of the logistics management center matches the goods source information of the goods owners with the vehicle source information of the vehicle owners to recommend optimal goods sources and optimal vehicle sources, the vehicle owners plan out optimal transportation routes through a GPS (global positioning system) navigation system and perform real-time navigation, the vehicle owners and clients inquire in a logistics management platform to know real-time positions of goods, the vehicle owners generate electronic signatures and delivery information through the intelligent mobile terminals and upload the electronic signatures and the delivery information to the logistics management center after delivering the goods, and the logistics management center counts the transportation volume and sends logistics transportation management assessment information to the goods owners and the vehicle owners. With the adoption of the management method, management and matching by a logistics distribution center are more flexible, the success rate and effectiveness of logistics distribution are greatly increased, expenses of the goods owners and the vehicle owners are saved, and the service level is improved.

The aim of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for displaying a blind spot, which involve displaying at least one image of the surroundings of a vehicle, said image being provided by an imaging unit including a camera, a GPS navigation system, and / or a street-view receiver, so as to provide a driver with information on the blind spots of a front portion, a rear portion, and a side portion of a vehicle that are hidden by said vehicle and thus not easily seen within the field of view of the drive during the travel of the vehicle.

The invention discloses a control system of a sanitation robot, which achieves the automatic advance function of the sanitation robot by adopting a singlechip with an intelligent high-precision control chip as a processing core and using a GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation system. The cleaning function of small light garbage can be realized at fixed places by the following steps: using image acquisition and object recognition through a camera as main means for object acquisition and short-distance navigation; using a plurality of ultrasound wave probes as auxiliary navigation; then, processing the acquired image information through the singlechip; accurately positioning the collective position of objects; and grabbing an objective by calling a mechanical arm. The system is suitable for public squares 500 meters above a city proper and sidewalks around the public squares, residential districts, leisure pedestrian streets, sidewalks on two sides of the road and other more concentrated people stream areas. The system carries out environmental protection propaganda on passengers-by and travelers and has the remarkable characteristics of strong intellectualization, simple and convenient operation and favorable man-machine interactive interface.

The invention relates to the field of wireless network high-speed switching and high bandwidth communication under mobile environment, which aims at solving the technical problem of a system and a method for realizing bandwidth communication between highway vehicles, wherein, the system comprises base stations distributed and installed along the roadsides of highways and on-board wireless communication terminals, which all comply with the WLAN wireless access 802.11a / b / g / p standard, the base stations are connected by optical fibers to form a local area network, the on-board wireless communication terminal is also provided with the global positioning system (GPS) function. The on-board wireless communication equipment can synchronously establish radio links with a plurality of roadside base stations so as to realize the high bandwidth communication, the transmission rate of which is higher than the previous transmission rate by a plurality of times. When passing through the covered areas of different base stations at high speed, the vehicle can adopt the self-adaption rate selection and self-adaption flow method to gradually disconnect the links with gradually weak wireless signals, and establish the new links with gradually strong signals in sequence or in a great-leap-forward mode, thus realizing steady and extremely soft network switch, and ensuring communication continuity. The method supports the high-speed mobility of the vehicle, the multimedia broadband service of the mobile equipment and the large-scale network coverage, and realizes the bandwidth communication of highway vehicles.

A system for tracking high-dynamic targets by relaying semi-processed GPS signals to a remote signal processing station with a relatively small and efficient bandwidth is described. Such processed GPS signals can be provided in a high-dynamic environment without the assistance of an inertial measurement unit (IMU). One embodiment includes a hybrid translator that is a hybrid between a full GPS navigation system and a translator system. The modulated GPS signals, such as modulated C / A codes, are pre-processed to reduce the amount of information required to reconstruct the GPS signal received by the hybrid translator. For example, the GPS signals can be processed to a pseudo-range measurement and an indication of an amount of corruption of delta range in the pseudo-range measurement, which are then provided to signal processing at a remote location, such as at a ground station, via a wireless downlink.

The aim of the present invention is to provide an apparatus and method for displaying a blind spot, which involve displaying at least one image of the surroundings of a vehicle, said image being provided by an imaging unit including a camera, a GPS navigation system, and / or a street-view receiver, so as to provide a driver with information on the blind spots of a front portion, a rear portion, and a side portion of a vehicle that are hidden by said vehicle and thus not easily seen within the field of view of the drive during the travel of the vehicle.

A method and a device for control of tillage-free seeding machine seeding quantity are used for control of the tillage-free seeding machine seeding quantity of fine and little amount seeding and precise fertilization according to earth fertilizer quantity. The method comprises the following steps: a loading numerical information of seeding machine operation areas; b variable seeding feedback; c acquiring real time position coordinate information; and d precisely controlling fertilization according to prescriptions. The device comprises an onboard computer installed on the seeding machine, onboard global positioning system (GPS) navigation system, a variable seeding feedback device and a precise fertilization control device. The numerical information of the seeding machine operation areas is loaded on the onboard computer, the GPS navigation system, the variable seeding feedback device and the precise fertilization control device are respectively connected with the onboard computer through an onboard signal processing circuit.

The present invention relates to adaptive weighting feedback correcting and filtering method for combined SINS / GPS navigation system. The method includes the first utilizing observed position and speed quantities the GPS provides in Kalman filtering to estimate the SINS position error, speed error, attitude error and device error; and the subsequent calculating the measurability of the system state quantities in the system measurability analysis process and adaptive weighting feedback correction on the SINS with the normalized system measurability as the weighting feedback factor. The present invention has the advantages of high precision, less divergence and high navigation precision on airplane, missile, ship and ground vehicle.

This invention discloses a sort of high speed dynamic checking device of the railroad delimitation, it relates to a sort of railroad delimitation checking device. This invention uses synthetically several high-new technique in that the GPS global positioning system, the body measurement system, the dead rocking system, the auto-control, and so on. It realizes the measure and collection of the space geographical data and the attribute data to the objects which is in or near the railroad. It notes the actual photograph along the railroad real time. It provides the measurement result of the delimitation scene by the measurement function of the post treatment. This invention can shoot clear sight kinescope along the railroad too, it choices one point in the wheel path map, it can obtain expediently and fleetly the sight kinescope of this point and progress play. It helps to obtain the status message of the railroad establishment, and it progresses the conduction to the railroad capital. This invention is the same with this checking area of internal railroad delimitation, and has remarkable use value and economic returns.

The invention provides a method for accelerating cell switching in a moving environment when a vehicle runs on the road at a high speed. The method comprises the following steps: a vehicle wireless communication terminal obtains information of a neighbor wireless access point (AP) from a currently connected wireless AP and stores the information, obtains own geographical position information and target route according to own global positioning system (GPS) navigation system and computes wireless APs needing to be connected in next hop according to the direction of the target route and the geographical position information in the information of the neighbor wireless AP; and before cell switching, the vehicle wireless communication terminal transmits the information needing to be transmitted during switching to the wireless APs needing to be connected in next hop so as to prepare for switching in advance.

The invention relates to a differential GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) and INS (Inertial Navigation System) adaptive tightly-coupled navigation method based on an inertial measurement unit.Observation data of a Beidou (BD) navigation system and a GPS (Global Positioning System) navigation system are selected and combined to jointly serve as measurement information for combined filtering; the number of observation satellites is increased and further spatial distribution of the satellites is improved; in addition, data redundancy is improved, and the positioning precision is effectively improved; the number of the satellites which can be observed by the navigation system in complex environments such as urban canyons is added, so that the effectiveness of the navigation system iseffectively improved; by means of a BD / GPS information fusion technology, the dependency on a single system is reduced and the influence of GPS selection failure condition is eliminated.