A SIGN POST AIDED DEAD RECKONING SYSTEM FOR AUTOMATIC VEHICLE MONITORING ( AVM)

A technique is described for locating vehicles in an automatic vehicle monitoring (AVM) system by means of sign post aided dead reckoning. The system exploits low power active sign posts to automatically initialize the dead reckoning location processor and correct for errors that accumulate as a function of distance traveled. The paper presents a description of the system approach, vehicle instrumentation, error analysis, and results of limited testing under various environmental conditions.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Publication Date: 1974 Published By: College of Engineering, University of Kentucky Lexington
• Corporate Authors:

  Information Identification, Inc.

  ,    

  Hoffman Electronics Corporation

  ,    

  Novatek, Inc.

  ,    

  Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne

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  Melbourne, FL  United States  32901-6988

  Jet Propulsion Laboratory

  California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive
  Pasadena, CA  United States  91103

  National Science Foundation

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• Authors:
  • Stobart, C R
• Publication Date: 1974

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: p. 192-201
• Serial:
  • Carnahan and International Crime Countermeasures Conference (1974 : University of Kentucky). Proceedings
  • Publisher: Information Identification, Inc.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automatic vehicle location; Automatic vehicle monitoring; Commercial vehicle operations; Dead reckoning
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00772976
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Files: PATH
• Created Date: Nov 17 1999 12:00AM