[OSM-talk] Vehicle Tracking Systems
Robert (Jamie) Munro
rjmunro at arjam.net
Mon Apr 2 19:02:12 BST 2007
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Robert Scott wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 12:34, Phil Winstanley wrote:
>> Just curious, anyone out there working on vehicle tracking systems?
>
> Depends what you mean by vehicle tracking systems.
>
> Coincidentally enough, just this minute I've been walking around, scratching
> my head and considering what would be involved in building a generic position
> deduction framework which could accept input from any source of
> positioning 'hints', take into account any sources of error and give the best
> possible guess it can on your position.
>
> Such hint sources might include GPS, car odometer hookup, accelerometers,
> gyroscopes, cameras with image recognition algorithms...
>
> The obvious first step would be attaching an error value to every single
> number in the simulation and calculating those in parallel to the positioning
> calculations. But then you'd possibly need quite complex heuristics for what
> to do when several of your sources disagree to a degree greater than the
> error margin.
>
> I imagine papers have been written on this subject, but I have yet to find
> them. Any input on this ugly brain-dump of mine would be welcome.
Take a look at interval arithmetic.
http://research.sun.com/minds/2004-0527/
http://research.sun.com/projects/dashboard.php?id=164
There's some really good ideas there.
Robert (Jamie) Munro
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