THE TRAVELPILOT: A SECOND-GENERATION AUTOMOTIVE NAVIGATION SYSTEM

The Travelpilot IDS is a second-generation automotive driver-guidance system that uses dead-reckoning and map-matching for navigation. It displays road maps to guide the driver. It also can find destinations and display them to the driver. In this paper, the Travelpilot's hardware, software, and maps are discussed.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: February 1991
• Corporate Authors:

  QUALCOMM Incorporated

  5775 Morehouse Drive
  San Diego, CA  United States  92121
• Authors:
  • Buxton, James L
• Publication Date: 1991

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 41-44
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology. vol. 40 no. 1
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile navigation systems; Dead reckoning; Digital mapping
• Identifier Terms: Etak (Route guidance system); Travelpilot (Route guidance system)
• Subject Areas: Design;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00772041
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM