893 results about "Urban environment" patented technology

The navigation system method described herein could guide people around urban environments, detect guide and navigate them to destinations, add-on to the portable phone. We have focused on the task of detecting and navigating even in situations in which Global Positioning Systems (GPS) cannot provide this information, such as when the person is indoors or in crowded urban areas where there is no line of site to the GPS satellites. The information will be received directly from RF sensors and will display on the existing cellular phone as Bluetooth application

An apparatus, method for detecting critical areas and a pedestrian detection apparatus using the same are provided. An application of the pedestrian detection system is provided to help limit critical urban environment to particular areas. Contrary to traditional pedestrian detection systems that localize every pedestrians appearing in front of the subject vehicle, the apparatus first finds critical areas from urban environment and performs a focused search of pedestrians. The environment is reconstructed using a standard laser scanner but the subsequent checking for the presence of pedestrians is performed by incorporating a vision system. The apparatus identifies pedestrians within substantially limited image areas and results in boosts of timing performance, since no evaluation of critical degrees is necessary until an actual pedestrian is informed to the driver or onboard computer.

The parking detection system method described herein could guide people around urban environments, detect guide and navigate them to empty parking spaces, add-on to the car-based navigation systems that are popular today and or to the portable phone. We have focused on the task of detecting and navigating even in situations in which Global Positioning Systems (GPS) cannot provide this information, such as when the person is indoors or in crowded urban areas where there is no line of site to the GPS satellites. The parking information will be received directly from RF sensors and will display as a floating overlay on the existing cellular phone as Bluetooth application making the cellular phone a parking detector.

Systems for handling and/or dispensing hydrogen or a mixture of fuels containing hydrogen gas including refueling stations for hydrogen-powered vehicles. Pure hydrogen or various mixtures ratios of hydrogen and CNG may be dispensed. Hydrogen handling equipment may include a hydrogen generator, a pressurizing apparatus or compressor, pressure vessels, piping, valves, vent pipes, and/or a dispenser. Substantially vertical orientation of pressure vessels may reduce the amount of land required and facilitate installation in urban environments. Pressurization may take place before hydrogen generation to reduce the power required for pressurization. Safety features include enclosures and surrounding walls that lean away from the equipment. Any leaking hydrogen, fires, or explosions may be contained and/or directed upward, protecting human life and property. Systems may be shop assembled and certified.

The invention discloses an urban environment composition method for unmanned vehicles. Under the condition of being independent of external positioning sensors such as speedometers, GPS and inertial navigators, the trajectory tracking and environment map building of an unmanned vehicle are completed by just using few particles for 3D laser-point cloud data returned by a vehicle-mounted laser radar, thereby providing basis for the autonomous running of the unmanned ground vehicle in an unknown environment; and according to the invention, an ICP algorithm is applied to adjacent two frames of data so as to obtain a coarse estimation on the real position and posture of a vehicle, and then redundance is performed near the coarse estimation based on gaussian distribution. Although the coarse estimation is not the real position and posture of the vehicle, the coarse estimation is a high-probability area of the real position and posture of the vehicle, so that an effect of relatively accurate positioning and composition is achieved by using a small amount of particles in the process of subsequent redundance, thereby avoiding the fitting of a vehicle trajectory by using a large amount of particles in a traditional method, improving the efficiency of the algorithm, and effectively restraining a phenomenon of particle degeneracy caused by bad particle estimation.

A “smart parking” system and method for an urban environment based on a dynamic resource allocation approach. The system assigns and reserves an optimal resource (parking space) for a discrete user based on the user's objective function that combines proximity to destination with parking cost, while also ensuring that the overall parking capacity is efficiently utilized. The solution of each Mixed Integer Linear Program (MILP) is an optimal allocation based on current state information and subject to random events such as new user requests or parking spaces becoming available.

A method for presenting a perspective view of a real urban environment, augmented with associated geo-coded content, and presented on a display of a terminal device. The method comprises the steps of: connecting the terminal device to a server via a network; communicating user identification, user present-position information and at least one user command, from the terminal device to the server; processing a high-fidelity, large-scale, three-dimensional (3D) model of an urban environment, and associated geo-coded content by the server; communicating the 3D model and associated geo-coded content from said server to said terminal device, and processing said data layers and said associated geo-coded content, in the terminal device to form a perspective view of the real urban environment augmented with the associated geo-coded content. The 3D model comprises a data layer of 3D building models; a data layer of terrain skin model; and a data layer of 3D street-level-culture models. The processed data layers and the associated geo-coded content correspond to the user present-position, the user identification information, and the user command.

The invention discloses a vehicle positioning method. The method includes the following steps of obtaining initial first position information when a positioned vehicle enters a road, obtaining a lane change state through a visual system in the driving process, updating the first position information according to the lane change state, sending the first position information to a road side unit by the positioned vehicle through vehicle-road coordinative communication, obtaining second position information through signal analysis by the road side unit, fusing the first position information, the second position information and prestored road mathematic information through the road side unit, obtaining vehicle position information of the positioned vehicle, feeding final position information back to the positioned vehicle through real-time communication by the road side unit, and obtaining the specific position of the vehicle in a map. The vehicle positioning method is not limited by geography, accurate positioning can be completed in the urban environment with unsatisfactory GPS/DGPS accuracy, and the requirements of the intelligent vehicle for collision avoidance, autonomous driving and other application are met.

A data packet greedy-algorithm forwarding method for vehicle-mounted Ad hoc network fitting urban environment comprises following steps: (1) modeling urban road environment as undirected graph possessing weight, (2) dynamically selecting and updating fork in data packet forwarding path, (3) each node maintains a neighbor list and predicating and maintaining neighbor list, (4) updating position information of target node,(5) forwarding data packet based on greedy-algorithm forwarding policy. The inventive method fully utilizes characteristic of vehicle-mounted Ad Hoc network node, excels present algorithm in data packet delivery rate, time delay, average hop number and total data quantity of physical layer; the operation step is simple and easy, computation is not complex, demand for real time transmission is satisfied.

The invention relates to a sand table, in particular to an electronic sand table and method. An electronic sand table system is strong in stereoscopic impression, visual in image, capable of simulating various landforms and urban environments vividly. The electronic sand table system comprises a scene establishment module (1), a calculation module (2), a control module (3) and a demonstration module (4). The demonstration module (4) comprises a display matrix (401) composed of a plurality of columnar display units (4011). The top plane and each side face of each columnar display unit (4011) are display screens. Through ascending and descending of the columnar display units, simulation of the landforms and simulation the shapes of ground objects are achieved. Through the display screens of the columnar display units (4011), colors and textures of the landforms and the ground objects are simulated. The electronic sand table system is realistic in effect, strong in stereoscopic impression, capable of simultaneously describing the shape and the texture of each three-dimension scene in detail, flexible in operation, capable of enabling a sand table design scheme to be adjusted dynamically and achieving real-time and synchronous display, convenient to update, and good in expandability.

The invention relates to a process for producing organic fertilizers, in particular to a process for producing composts by employing the method of compost fermentation, wherein the process comprises: selecting filthy mud as main fermenting raw materials, adding a conditioner in the filthy mud to adjust the carbon nitrogen ratio between 15 and 30, then adding catalytic bacteria, finally performing compost fermentation, wherein the conditioner is capable of employing castoffs as animal wastes, sawdust, wooden meals, traditional Chinese medicine dregs, straws, leave and the like and the castoffs have rich organic contents. The nutrition composition of organic base material which are fermented is more reasonable via controlling carbon nitrogen ratio in the invention, and the invention uses filthy mud which urgently needs to be handled to replace the conventional night soils and straws to be main raw materials of the composts, changes waste into valuable, and has certain effect for improving urban environment.

The invention relates to the technical field of synthetic aperture radar interferometry, and specifically relates to a PSInSAR estimation method applicable to complex urban area infrastructure in windy and rainy conditions. The method includes following steps: performing data preprocessing on InSAR data; establishing a Delaunay triangulation network and an adaptive encryption network; estimating an arc segment relative parameter through a robust estimator; performing Tikhonov regularization adjustment operation; establishing a local star network; recognizing single PS points and layover PS points; calculating the single PS points in remaining pixels through the robust estimator, and detecting the layover PS points through a compressed sensing algorithm; and outputting heights and deformation results of the single PS points and the layover PS points. According to the method, combined calculation of the single PS points and the layover PS points is realized through mixed network establishment without removing the atmosphere in a global manner, a temperature non-linear deformation model is introduced, the fitting degree of the time sequence phase is improved, accurate estimation of the PS points is realized by employing the robust estimator, and the layover PS points of the complex urban environment are extracted by employing super-resolution MD-TomoSAR imaging.

The invention discloses an integrated dispatch stowage system system, which manages and dispatches freight vehicles by utilizing storage stations built on a highway and a computer network information platform and distributes goods at the storage station on the highway directly. The system comprises vehicle-mounted terminals arranged on the freight vehicles, a plurality of goods storage stations built on the highway and an information management device, wherein computer terminals of the freight storage stations send information of the goods needing to be carried to the information management device; and the information management device carries out wireless communication with the vehicle-mounted terminals to know whether the freight vehicles are in no load, carries out matching with the information of the carried goods, and then sends the distribution loading information to the vehicle-mounted terminals so as to carry out dispatch of the freight vehicles. The system not only realizes fast distribution and transportation, effectively reduces empty-loaded rate of transport vehicles and reduces the cost, but also avoids large transport vehicles from entering urban distribution, and reduces the pollution of urban traffic pressure and automobile exhaust on the urban environment.

The invention provides a pipe-jacking construction method for small-diameter pipes. The pipe-jacking construction method includes the steps of surveying and paying off, working well and receiving well manufacturing, pipe-jacking device mounting, pilot drilling, reaming, pipe pulling, other pipe construction in sequence, pipe-jacking device dismounting, pipe head handling and inspection well and cable channel construction. By the pipe-jacking construction method, excavation volume is low, slurry discharging is less, roads are not destroyed, and comprehensive cost is low; construction can be performed all through the year, construction speed is high, project circle is short, construction of an overall design project can be quickened, and working efficiency can be improved; traffic interference is minimized, and normal conditions of traffic in a construction site are guaranteed; environmental pollution like noises and dust cannot be generated, urban environment protection and stability, optimal design of the total planning and engineering construction of the urban construction can be benefited, and urban modern planning programming and construction level can be beneficially improved.

The invention discloses an automated queue assistance system for a low-speed operating-and-stopping condition of an automobile in an urban environment and a control method thereof. A control system comprises a sensor, a controller and an actuator. The sensor comprises a millimeter-wave radar and an on-vehicle DSRC wireless communication receiving module. The actuator comprises the components of an engine power control unit, an ESC active brake unit, an electronic parking braking unit, an automatic transmission and an engine idle stop-start unit; wherein the engine power control unit, the ESC active brake unit, the electronic parking braking unit, the automatic transmission and the engine idle stop-start unit are based on on-vehice CAN bus communication. According to the control method, by means of automobile-automobile communication, automobile-road communication and collaborative control of the actuators, automatic automobile following is realized in a parking condition, a starting condition and a braking condition, thereby replacing throttle operation and braking operation of a driver. The automated queue assistance system has advantages of realizing automatic automobile following of a driver in the low-speed operating-and-stopping condition of the city, reducing driving fatigue, combining Internet-of-vehicles technology and collaborative control of a plurality of executing mechanisms, and effectively improving safety, fuel economy and sitting comfort in the automobile following process.