Positioning System and Method Thereof

• US 20100265130A1
• Filed: 06/30/2010
• Published: 10/21/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 09/04/2007
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.
• Original Assignee: MediaTek, Inc.
• Inventors: Mao, Jen-Hao
• Granted Patent: US 8,009,087 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 342/357.280
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/47 the supplementary measurement being an inertial measurement, e.g. tightly coupled inertial

Abstract

The invention provides a positioning system. In one embodiment, the positioning system comprises a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) module, a dead reckoning module, a Geographic Information System (GIS) module, and an calculating module. The GNSS module generates a first positioning data according to satellite communication. The dead reckoning module estimates a second positioning data according to a sensor'"'"'s measurement data, the first positioning data, and a feedback positioning data of a previous epoch. The GIS module fits the first positioning data to a map to generate a third positioning data taken as a final output of the positioning system. The calculating module integrates the third positioning data and the second positioning data according to predetermined weights to obtain the feedback positioning data of a current epoch, which is recursively fed back to the dead reckoning module for a next estimation.

Claims

1. A positioning system, comprising:

a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) module, generating a first positioning data according to satellite communication;

a dead reckoning module, estimating a second positioning data according to a measurement data, the first positioning data, and a feedback positioning data of a previous epoch;

a Geographic Information System (GIS) module, fitting the first positioning data to a map to generate a third positioning data taken as a final output of the positioning system; and

a calculating module, deriving the feedback positioning data of a current epoch from the third positioning data and the second positioning data according to predetermined weights, wherein the feedback positioning data is recursively fed back to the dead reckoning module for a next estimation.

2. The positioning system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the GNSS module further comprises:

a GNSS baseband processor, generating a GNSS measurement data according to satellite communication; and

a first Kalman filter, coupled to the GNSS baseband processor, generating the first positioning data according to the GNSS measurement data.

3. The positioning system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the dead reckoning module further comprises:

a dead reckoning sensor, generating the measurement data of the current epoch; and

a second Kalman filter, coupled to the dead reckoning sensor, comprising;

a time propagation module, estimating a fourth positioning data of the current epoch according to the feedback positioning data of the previous epoch and the measurement data of the current epoch; and

a measurement update module, estimating the second positioning data of the current epoch according to the fourth positioning data of the current epoch and the first positioning data of the current epoch.

4. The positioning system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the GIS module generates the third positioning data according to the fourth positioning data and the calculating module directly outputs the third positioning data as the feedback positioning data when the first positioning data is unavailable.

5. The positioning system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the GNSS module comprises a first Kalman filter generating the first positioning data according to the fourth positioning data and a GNSS measurement data generated by a GNSS baseband processor.

6. The positioning system as claimed in claim 5, wherein the first Kalman filter generates the first positioning data according to only the fourth positioning data and the calculating module directly outputs the third positioning data as the feedback positioning data when the GNSS measurement data is unavailable.

7. The positioning system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the first positioning data comprises a position data, a velocity data, and a time data.

8. The positioning system as claimed in claim 3, wherein the dead reckoning sensor is the integration of at least a linear movement sensor measuring a linear movement to generate the measurement data and an angular movement sensor measuring an angular movement to generate the measurement data.