Method And An Arrangement For Estimating The Position Of A Mobile Terminal With A Prediction Method, And A Mobile Terminal

• US 20080036658A1
• Filed: 06/10/2004
• Published: 02/14/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/12/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Indagon Oy
• Original Assignee: Indagon Oy
• Inventors: Sarkka, Simo, Mikkolainen, Markus
• Application Number:
  US10/560,277
• Publication Number:
  US 20080036658A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/451
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 2205/002 for traffic control, mobile tracking, guidance, surveillance or anti-collision
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0027 of actual mobile position, i.e. position determined on mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 5/0294 Trajectory determination or predictive filtering, e.g. target tracking or Kalman filtering
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 64/00 Locating users or terminals or network equipment for network management purposes, e.g. mobility management

Abstract

A method an arrangement to reduce amount data to be sent in a tracking system of a mobile station (MTT) having a positioning device to obtain positioning data, and the mobile station (MTT) and the server (S) perform the following steps: the mobile station (MTT) sends its dynamic state parameters including at least the position and velocity, which are derived from the positioning measurements, to server (S), the mobile station (MTT) computes an error criterion based on said sent dynamic state and current dynamic state, which is derived from new positioning measurements, such that the error criterion is calculated based on at least sent and current velocities, the mobile station (MTT) sends a set of new dynamic state parameters, when the said error criterion is over a predefined limit.

Claims

1. A method to reduce amount data to be sent in a tracking system of a mobile station (MTT) having a positioning device to obtain positioning data, and the mobile station (MTT) and the server (S) perform the following steps:

the mobile station (MTT) sends its dynamic state parameters including at least the position and velocity, which are derived from the positioning measurements, to server (S), characterized in that

the mobile station (MTT) computes an error criterion based on said sent dynamic state and current dynamic state, which is derived from new positioning measurements, such that the error criterion is calculated based on at least sent and current velocities,

the mobile station (MTT) sends a set of new dynamic state parameters, when the said error criterion is over a predefined limit.

2. The method according to the claim 1, characterized in that the server (S) calculates predicted dynamic state, using the dynamic state parameters sent by (MTT) when the position information is needed.

3. The method according to the claim 1, characterized in that the mobile station (MTT) calculates predicted dynamic state from the said sent dynamic state parameters and uses this predicted dynamic state in the error criterion.

4. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the mobile station (MTT) sends at least one position measurement, velocity and at least second order derivatives of the position.

5. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the mobile station (MTT) is including with the dynamic state parameters information about proactive incidents, for example turning signal, or brake light.

6. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the calculation of the error criterion takes into account the difference between the sent or predicted and current velocities.

7. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the calculation of the error criterion takes into account angle between the sent or predicted and current velocities.

8. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the calculation of the error criterion takes into account the at least second order time derivatives of position history.

9. The method according to claim 5, characterized in that the calculation of the error criterion takes into account the difference between predicted and current positions.

10. The method according to claim 1, characterized in that the message sent by the mobile station (MTT) includes the necessary information needed to recover the same data in the mobile station (MTT) and in the receiving server (S) after one or more messages being missing, and the recovery needs one or more, but limited amount of messages.

11. A mobile device (MTT) for use in a tracking system, comprising a positioning device to obtain positioning data and,

means to send data to a server (S), characterized in that the device (MTT) comprises

means to send its dynamic state parameters including at least the position and velocity, which are derived from the positioning measurements, to server (S),

means to compute an error criterion based on said sent dynamic state and current dynamic state, which is derived from new positioning measurements, such that the error criterion is calculated based on at least sent and current velocities, and

means to send a set of new dynamic state parameters, when the said error criterion is over a predefined limit.

12. A arrangement to reduce amount data to be sent in a tracking system of a mobile station (MTT) having a positioning device to obtain positioning data, and the mobile station (MTT) and the server (S) adapted to perform the following steps:

the mobile station (MTT) sends its dynamic state parameters including at least the position and velocity, which are derived from the positioning measurements, to server (S), characterized in that

the mobile station (MTT) computes an error criterion based on said sent dynamic state and current dynamic state, which is derived from new positioning measurements, such that the error criterion is calculated based on at least sent and current velocities,

the mobile station (MTT) sends a set of new dynamic state parameters, when the said error criterion is over a predefined limit.