ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR CORRECTING APPARATUS FOR DERIVING VALUE FOR CORRECTING OUTPUT SIGNAL FROM ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR, ANGULAR VELOCITY CALCULATING APPARATUS, ANGULAR VELOCITY SENSOR CORRECTING METHOD, AND ANGULAR VELOCITY CALCULATING METHOD

• US 20100106445A1
• Filed: 10/26/2009
• Published: 04/29/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/24/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Original Assignee: JVC Kenwood Corporation
• Inventors: Kondoh, Takahiro
• Granted Patent: US 8,234,091 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/96
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/28 with correlation of data from several navigational instruments

Abstract

A measuring unit obtains measurement data of an object measured on the basis of a signal from a GPS satellite and angular velocity of an object output from an angular velocity sensor. An offset value computing unit estimates a running condition of the object on the basis of the measurement data and the angular velocity. The offset value computing unit sequentially derives temporary offset values while changing combination of the measurement data and the angular velocity in accordance with the estimated running condition of the object and, after that, executes statistical process on the temporary offset values, thereby deriving an offset value. An angular velocity conversion coefficient computing unit sequentially derives temporary angular velocity conversion coefficients on the basis of the measurement data and the angular velocity and, after that, executes statistical process on the temporary angular velocity conversion coefficients, thereby deriving an angular velocity conversion coefficient. An angular velocity converting unit derives final angular velocity on the basis of the angular velocity conversion coefficient, the offset value, and the angular velocity.

Claims

1. An angular velocity sensor correcting apparatus comprising:

an obtaining unit for obtaining measurement data of an object measured on the basis of a signal from a GPS satellite and angular velocity of the object output from an angular velocity sensor;

an angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit for sequentially deriving a temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor on the basis of the measurement data and the angular velocity obtained by the obtaining unit; and

an angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit for deriving an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor by executing statistical process on the temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit, wherein the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit changes a forgetting factor in the statistical process in accordance with a difference between an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived in the past in the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit and an average value of temporary sensitive coefficients of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit.

2. The angular velocity sensor correcting apparatus of claim 1, wherein the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit comprises:

a reliability deriving unit for specifying a higher reliability step by step from reliabilities specified in a plurality of steps as the difference between the angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived in the past in the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit and an average value of temporary angular velocity conversion coefficients of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit decreases; and

a forgetting factor setting unit for using a forgetting factor at the time of the statistical process by which the influence of a temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient obtained in the past in derivation of the angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor decreases as the specified reliability increases.

3. The angular velocity sensor correcting apparatus of claim 2, wherein the reliability deriving unit in the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit specifies a higher reliability step by step as a distributed value of a temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit becomes smaller even when the difference between the angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived in the past in the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit and the average value of the temporary angular velocity conversion coefficients of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit are the same.

4. An angular velocity calculating apparatus comprising:

an obtaining unit for obtaining measurement data of an object measured on the basis of a signal from a GPS satellite and angular velocity of the object output from an angular velocity sensor;

an estimating unit for estimating a running condition of the object on the basis of the measurement data and the angular velocity obtained in the obtaining unit;

an offset value deriving unit for sequentially deriving a temporary offset value of the angular velocity sensor while changing combination of the measurement data and the angular velocity obtained by the obtaining unit in accordance with the running condition of the object estimated by the estimating unit;

an offset value filter process unit for deriving an offset value of the angular velocity sensor for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor by executing statistical process on the temporary offset value of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the offset value deriving unit;

an angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit for sequentially deriving a temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor on the basis of the measurement data and the angular velocity obtained by the obtaining unit;

an angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit for deriving an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor by executing statistical process on the temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit; and

an angular velocity converting unit for correcting the angular velocity of the object obtained by the obtaining unit using the angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit and the offset value of the angular velocity sensor derived by the offset value filter process unit, wherein the offset value filter process unit changes a forgetting factor in the statistical process in accordance with the running condition of the object estimated by the estimating unit, and the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit changes a forgetting factor in the statistical process in accordance with a difference between an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived in the past in the angular velocity conversion coefficient filter process unit and an average value of temporary sensitive coefficients of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived by the angular velocity conversion coefficient deriving unit.

5. An angular velocity sensor correcting method, the method comprising:

obtaining measurement data of an object measured on the basis of a signal from a GPS satellite and angular velocity of the object output from an angular velocity sensor;

sequentially deriving temporary angular velocity conversion coefficients of the angular velocity sensor on the basis of the measurement data and the obtained angular velocity; and

deriving an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor by executing statistical process on the temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor sequentially derived, wherein a forgetting factor in the statistical process is changed in accordance with a difference between an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived in the past and a sequentially derived average value of temporary sensitive coefficients of the angular velocity sensor.

6. An angular velocity calculating method, the method comprising:

obtaining measurement data of an object measured on the basis of a signal from a GPS satellite and angular velocity of the object output from an angular velocity sensor;

estimating a running condition of the object on the basis of the measurement data and the obtained angular velocity;

sequentially deriving a temporary offset value of the angular velocity sensor while changing combination of the measurement data and the angular velocity obtained in accordance with the running condition of the object estimated;

deriving an offset value of the angular velocity sensor for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor by executing statistical process on the sequentially derived temporary offset value of the angular velocity sensor;

sequentially deriving a temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor on the basis of the measurement data and the obtained angular velocity;

deriving an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor for correcting the angular velocity output from the angular velocity sensor by executing statistical process on the sequentially derived temporary angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor; and

correcting the angular velocity of the obtained object using the angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived and the derived offset value of the angular velocity sensor, wherein a forgetting factor in the statistical process is changed in accordance with the running condition of the object estimated when deriving the offset value of the angular velocity sensor, and a forgetting factor in the statistical process is changed in accordance with a difference between an angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor derived in the past and an average value of sequentially derived temporary sensitive coefficients of the angular velocity sensor when deriving the angular velocity conversion coefficient of the angular velocity sensor.