Satellite positioning system

• US 20040044474A1
• Filed: 02/06/2003
• Published: 03/04/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon, Mitsui & Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Topcon, Mitsui & Company Limited
• Inventors: Kobayashi, Yuji, Mori, Masakazu, Miyasaka, Koji, Takasu, Kenichi, Sakaki, Kazuyuki
• Application Number:
  US10/343,914
• Publication Number:
  US 20040044474A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/213
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/04 providing carrier phase data
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/44 Carrier phase ambiguity resolution; Floating ambiguity; LAMBDA [Least-squares AMBiguity Decorrelation Adjustment] method

Abstract

A GPS positioning system has: at least one mobile station to measure a positional coordinate by receiving radio wave from a satellite; a plurality of fixed stations that have predetermined positional coordinates and receive radio wave from the satellite; and arithmetic processing means, which is connected with at least one mobile station and a plurality of the fixed stations by communication, that selects an appropriate fixed station based on positioning data transmitted from at least one mobile station, and transmits reference positioning data of the fixed station selected to the mobile station.

A data server for GPS positioning has: a first communication interface, whose positional coordinate is fixed at a known point, that receives positioning data from a plurality of fixed stations that receive radio wave from a satellite; a second communication interface that receives positioning data from a mobile station whose positional coordinate is measurable by receiving radio wave from the satellite; and arithmetic processing means that selects an appropriate fixed station out of a plurality of the fixed stations based on the positioning data received via the second communication interface.

Claims

1. A GPS positioning system, comprising:

at least one mobile station to measure a positional coordinate by receiving radio wave from a satellite;

a plurality of fixed stations that have predetermined positional coordinates and receive radio wave from the satellite; and

arithmetic processing means, which is connected with at least one mobile station and a plurality of the fixed stations by communication, that selects an appropriate fixed station based on positioning data transmitted from at least one mobile station, and transmits reference positioning data of the fixed station selected to the mobile station.

2. The GPS positioning system according to claim 1, wherein each positional coordinate of a plurality of the fixed stations is fixed at a known point, and a constitution is formed that the appropriate fixed station is selected based on positioning data transmitted from the mobile station to the arithmetic processing means.

3. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claim 1 and 2, wherein the system has a constitution that the arithmetic processing means selects the appropriate fixed station out of a plurality of the fixed stations.

4. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein reference positioning data transmitted from the arithmetic processing means to the mobile station is receive data from the satellite in fixed reference positioning means.

5. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the positioning data transmitted from the mobile station to the arithmetic processing means is the receive data received from the satellite.

6. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the positioning data transmitted from the mobile station to the arithmetic processing means is positional coordinate data obtained by single positioning of the mobile station.

7. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 6, wherein when the fixed station selected by the arithmetic processing means is changed, signal that informs of the change of the fixed station is transmitted from the arithmetic processing means to the mobile station.

8. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the mobile station is provided with display means that displays data received.

9. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 8, wherein in the case of a plurality of the mobile stations, the system has a constitution that the arithmetic processing means selects an appropriate reference fixed positioning means for each mobile station.

10. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein in the case of a plurality of the mobile stations, the system has a constitution that the arithmetic processing means transmits reference positioning data from an appropriate fixed station to each mobile station.

11. The GPS positioning system according to any one of claims 1 to 10, wherein the mobile station is a mobile station for kinematic positioning, whose antenna and receiver are movable.

12. A data server for GPS positioning, comprising:

a first communication interface, whose positional coordinate is fixed at a known point, that receives positioning data from a plurality of fixed stations that receive radio wave from a satellite;

a second communication interface that receives positioning data from a mobile station whose positional coordinate is measurable by receiving radio wave from the satellite; and

arithmetic processing means that selects an appropriate fixed station out of a plurality of the fixed stations based on the positioning data received via the second communication interface.

13. The data server for GPS positioning according to claim 12, wherein the arithmetic processing means transmits reference positioning data sent from the fixed station selected by the arithmetic processing means to the mobile station via the second communication interface.

14. The data server for GPS positioning according to any one of claim 12 and 13, wherein the second communication interface is radio communication means capable of two-way communication.

15. The data server for GPS positioning according to any one of claims 12 to 14, wherein the mobile station is a mobile station for kinematic positioning, whose antenna and receiver are movable.