GPS/dead-reckoning combination system and operating method thereof

• US 7,286,933 B2
• Filed: 08/23/2004
• Issued: 10/23/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 08/25/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Original Assignee: LG Electronics, Inc. (LG Corporation)
• Inventors: Cho, Il Soo
• Primary Examiner(s): Chin; Gary
• Application Number:
  US10/924,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20050049787A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,156 Days
• Field of Search: 701/213, 701/214, 701/216, 701/217, 701/220, 701/221, 342/357.06, 342/357.08, 342/358
• US Class Current: 701/216
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/165 combined with non-inertial navigation instruments
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 19/49 whereby the further system is an inertial position system, e.g. loosely-coupled

Abstract

The present invention relates to a GPS/dead-reckoning combination system and an operation method of the same. The GPS/dead-reckoning combination system includes a GPS receiver that receives an absolute position data of a moving unit from a GPS; an inertia sensor that measures a displacement of the moving unit based on a dead-reckoning method; a forward and backward movement judging unit that judges a state data concerning a forward or backward movement of the moving unit; a dead-reckoning processor that measures a running distance and a position of the moving unit based on a dead-reckoning method in reference with the data provided from the inertia sensor and the forward and backward movement judging unit; and a computation unit that estimates the current position of the moving unit in reference with the data from the GPS receiver and the dead-reckoning processor.

Claims

1. A GPS (Global Positioning System) /dead-reckoning combination system, comprising:

a GPS receiver that receives an absolute position data of a moving unit from a GPS;

an inertia sensor that measures a displacement of the moving unit based on a dead-reckoning method;

a forward and backward movement judging unit that judges a state data concerning a forward or backward movement of the moving unit;

a dead-reckoning processor that measures a running distance and a position of the moving unit based on a dead-reckoning method in reference with the data provided from the inertia sensor and the forward and backward movement judging unit; and

a computation unit that estimates the current position of the moving unit in reference with the data from the GPS receiver and the dead-reckoning processor.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein said moving unit is a vehicle.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein said forward and backward movement judging unit judges the vehicle as it is in a backward movement state when a backward movement gear signal is inputted in the vehicle.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein said computation unit includes a Kalman filter.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein when estimating the current position of the moving unit, said computation unit is directed to estimating the current position of the moving unit by adapting a position estimation algorithm based on a dead-reckoning method using the position data of the moving unit from the GPS and the backward movement state data of the moving unit in the case that the moving unit is in the backward movement, and the moving unit is in a region in which the moving unit can receive a GPS data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein when estimating the current position of the moving unit, said computation unit is directed to estimating the current position of the moving unit by adapting a position estimation algorithm based on a dead-reckoning method that obtains a position data of the moving unit by the dead-reckoning method and uses the backward movement state data in the case that the moving unit is in the backward movement, and the moving unit is in a region in which the moving unit can'"'"'t receive a GPS data.

7. An operation method of a GPS (Global Positioning System)/dead-reckoning combination system, comprising:

judging whether a moving unit is in a backward movement state;

judging whether the moving unit is in a region in which a GPS data can be received, when the moving unit is in the backward movement state;

extracting only a position data of the moving unit based on the GPS without considering an angle data of the moving unit based on the GPS, when the moving unit is in a region in which the moving unit can receive a GPS data;

estimating the current position of the moving unit by adapting an estimation algorithm based on a dead-reckoning method that uses a position data of the moving unit based on the GPS and a backward movement state data.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein said moving unit is a vehicle.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein when judging whether the vehicle is in a backward movement state, it is judged that the vehicle is in the backward movement state when a backward movement gear signal is inputted in the vehicle.

10. The method of claim 7, further comprising a step in which when the moving unit is not in a region in which the GPS data can be received, the current position of the vehicle is estimated by adapting a position estimation algorithm based on a dead-reckoning method that obtains a position data of the moving unit and uses the backward movement state data.