Navstar GPS – Charting Aspects

1992 ◽  
Vol 45 (3) ◽  
pp. 344-351
Author(s):  
Nigel R. L. Gooding

The historical development of positioning in relation to the nautical chart is very briefly described. Present nautical charts are largely based on geodetic surveys which date from the 19th and early 20th century. This gave rise to the use of many local datums and there has been a need to provide the mariner with information to enable him to transfer his position from one chart to an adjacent one on a different datum. The sizes of discrepancies in position between various datums are given. The availability of the Global Positioning System (GPS) and the World Geodetic System 1984 (WGS 84) datum enables positioning on a single worldwide datum to become a reality. The important factors affecting the adoption of WGS 84 as the datum for nautical charts, namely data availability and the practical and political considerations, are discussed. The importance of the proper consideration of datum in relation to new developments in the use of nautical charts is also mentioned.

2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dejun Guo ◽  
Hesheng Wang ◽  
Kam K. Leang

This paper presents a nonlinear vision-based observer to estimate 3D translational position and velocity of a quadrotor aerial robot for closed-loop, position-based, visual-servo control in global positioning system (GPS)-denied environments. The method allows for motion control in areas where GPS signals are weak or absent, for example, inside of a building. Herein, the robot uses a low-cost on-board camera to observe at least two feature points fixed in the world frame to self-localize for feedback control, without constraints on the altitude of the robot. The nonlinear observer described takes advantage of the geometry of the perspective projection and is designed to update the translational position and velocity in real-time by exploiting visual information and information from an inertial measurement unit. One key advantage of the algorithm is it does not require constraints or assumptions on the altitude and initial estimation errors. Two new controllers based on the backstepping technique that take advantage of the estimator's output are described and implemented for trajectory tracking. The Lyapunov method is used to show asymptotic stability of the closed-loop system. Simulation and experimental results from an indoor environment where GPS localization is not available are presented to demonstrate feasibility and validate the performance of the observer and control system for hovering and tracking a circular trajectory defined in the world frame.


2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3.1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
A Kavitha ◽  
N Ashok Kumar ◽  
M Revathy

Global Positioning System (GPS) is being used more and more for a wide range of applications. This is a reliable position, navigation for end-users of anywhere in the world or around the globe, on any weather, day or night. The synchronization benefit gives that the GPS has three segments: space, control and client GPS has turned into a broadly utilized route apparatus over the world and turn into a helpful instrument for mapping, overviews, business, logical utilizations, checking and diversion has gone. As in any of the current GPS systems of geographic and entertainment, the security requirements of civilian navigation in the sea are met because the sea border of a country cannot be marked. This work concentrates on the flexibility and utility of a GPS in the ocean. The principle motivation behind the work is to help anglers explore past the limits of different nations. In the event that an angler goes past the limits of the nation, at that point a notice emerges, showing that the anglers have crossed the outskirt. Furthermore, a GSM transmitter interface will make an impression on construct station situated with respect to the shore showing that a vessel has crossed the fringe. Hence protects in the shore can help and give extra help to those anglers if necessary. Remembering about existences of Indian anglers, this gadget has been made to help them not to move past Indian. Overall, it is an endeavor to fabricate an appropriate gadget for the anglers at a sensibly ease.  


2020 ◽  
Vol 53 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 1070-1077
Author(s):  
Li Wang ◽  
Ali Akbar Siddique

Providing security to the citizens is one of the most important and complex task for the governments around the world which they have to deal with. Street crimes and theft are the biggest threats for the citizens and their belonging. In order to provide security, there is an urgent need of a system that is capable of identifying the criminal in the crowded area. This paper proposes a facial recognition system using Local Binary Patterns Histogram Face recognizer mounted on drone technology. The facial recognition capability is a key feature for a drone to have in order to find or identify the person within the crowd. With the inception of drone technology in the proposed system, we can use it as a surveillance drone as well through which it can cover more area as compared to the stationary system. As soon as the system identifies the desired person, it tags him and transmits the image along with the co-ordinates of the location to the concerned authorities using mounted global positioning system. Proposed system is capable of identifying the person with the accuracy of approximately 89.1%.


Author(s):  
Benoit Leclerc ◽  
Martin Trépanier ◽  
Catherine Morency

As carsharing becomes increasingly popular throughout the world, it would be of interest to understand better the underlying characteristics of the trips made by members when they use the cars. To date, few studies have reported carsharing trip details. This paper presents a methodology to analyze three components of a station-based carsharing member's journey: the locations of the stops, the attributes of the trips, and the characteristics of the trip chains. The method is based on the processing of Global Positioning System traces collected onboard car-sharing vehicles; a 5-min stop criterion is used to divide the trip chains into separate trips. The case study involves the Communauto system in the Greater Montreal area, Quebec, Canada. The study shows that carsharing members make more trips within their trip chains than typical car owners do. However, those trips are shorter and are often made for purposes other than work (shopping or visiting, for example). Members tend to maximize the use of the cars during the rental period (the members are on the move up to 50% of the time for short trip chains and 30% of the time for longer trips).


2012 ◽  
Vol 518-523 ◽  
pp. 4670-4674
Author(s):  
Jun Xian Shi ◽  
Zeng Fang Huang

The baseline values of Copper (Cu) and Lead(Pb) in four subtypes of soil in Hohhot, Inner Mongolia in China were proposed by testing the Cu and Pb contents in surface soils over an area of 4713km2.The soil subtypes were distinguished by GIS (Geographic Information System) and the 928 sample locations were roughly uniformly distributed using portable GPS (Global Positioning System).The proposed baseline values of Cu and Pb were derived from the experimental results of ICP-MS analyses and then were calculated by probability density function. The results illustrate that the baseline value of Cu in the Fluvo—aquic Soil was the highest(18.83 mg kg-1 ),and that Pb in Diluvial Alluvial Topsoil was the highest (17.50 mg kg-1),which are far lower than the corresponding Class One thresholds in Environmental Quality Standard for Soils in China (GB15618-1995) (EQSSC).This experience gained in this work further suggests that baseline values should be proposed in other areas in the world.


2016 ◽  
Vol 835 ◽  
pp. 781-787
Author(s):  
Russel Dela Torre ◽  
Wenald Lopez

Private and public transportations are use as common mobility of people, making it important to know where traffic congestions, car accidents and other related vehicular activities that may ruin your way to office works or to your destinations be avoided. Philippines is known to be one of the most traffic congested in the world due to uncontrollable volumes of cars running in major streets every day. In this paper, a proposed wireless device that can be attached to a vehicle was developed to track the route using global positioning system, perform geo fencing and perform controlling mechanism to help the driver locates a shortest path, avoid traffic jams, and do messaging and traffic advisories based on contacts and information stored in the software utilities. Based on initial testing, the software is capable of recording and reading vehicle logs, activating GPS route, reading accelerometer log, and reading compass log as bases of controlling mechanism while the device is activated, WiDrive. Result shows that WiDrive is reliable as it successfully mapped to the GPS, and passed the crash accelerometer test at different distance. If given a chance to improve and implement in a wide scale testing, an exponential benefits can be achieved.


Children tracking system based on android terminals is proposed. Recently, all over the world crime against the children in the age of 14 to 17 years is more popular. Parent’s always worry about their children whenever they are outside from the home. In this paper, the proposed system consists of two sides out of them one is parent module and another is the child module. The child module consists of ARM7 Microcontroller (LPC 2148), GPS (Global Positioning System), GSM (Global System for Mobile Communication) and voice chip where the parent module consists of android mobile phone. This paper gives the information about missing child from school campus. There are two android mobile phones for the safety of the both modules. The system tracking the child from source to destination i.e. from home to school or anywhere.


Author(s):  
Yajuan Deng ◽  
Sanghuiyu Yan ◽  
Xianbiao Hu ◽  
Peng Zhang

Traditional route generation algorithms may result in many routes that few drivers choose in reality, whereas other route generation algorithms need to determine thresholds for route set generation but lack data support. To avoid invalid route generation, reduce computation time, and provide a scientific basis for the generation of navigation routes and traffic assignment, this paper confines the route set size by mining the spatial distribution range of route sets and the threshold of factors affecting route set generation. Global positioning system data are used to determine hotspots based on a hotspot origin–destination identification method. The route set spatial distribution range is mined by the standard deviational ellipse. Finally, the factors affecting the generation of route sets are selected, and the classification and regression trees algorithm is used to mine their thresholds. The results show that the spatial distribution range of route sets is elliptical, and the threshold values of the number of turns per kilometer for medium and long travel distances are 1.794 and 2.508, respectively. The maximum travel time per kilometer for long travel distance is 4.773 min. The maximum numbers of road intersections for short, medium, and long travel distance per kilometer are 1.648, 0.984, and 0.592, respectively. The implications of results on reducing the search range and time of the route set and their applications to traffic network design and route navigation are also discussed.


2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 425-442 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Petru ◽  
Vladislav Krivda

Engineering and the industry very often produce above-standard products concerning their dimensions and weights. There is often a problem with the transport of these products both within Europe and in subsequent transport all around the world. Because of these reasons, several projects to remedy the situation were implemented in the Czech Republic. The article describes the results of many years of research, which observed ensuring the passage of oversized cargos on roads. Further, the measurements, which were carried out, are presented in this paper − the measurement of an oversized vehicle using Global Positioning System devices, creation and modelling of missing cars in programs to verify the swept path, comparison of created models with the measurement using Global Positioning System devices.  Then the results of the implemented researches, the suggested parameters, and modelled cars are used for the suggestion of technical parameters of backbone network of roads. On these roads, the loads are transported. The results are also used for verification of critical points of the route, e.g. problematic places and intersections.


INTI TALAFA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yaman Khaeruzzaman

Seiring dengan pesatnya kemajuan teknologi saat ini, kebutuhan manusia menjadi lebih beragam, termasuk kebutuhan akan informasi. Tidak hanya media informasinya yang semakin beragam, jenis informasi yang dibutuhkan juga semakin beragam, salah satunya adalah kebutuhan informasi akan posisi kita terhadap lingkungan sekitar. Untuk memenuhi kebutuhan itu sebuah sistem pemosisi diciptakan. Sistem pemosisi yang banyak digunakan saat ini cenderung berfokus pada lingkup ruang yang besar (global) padahal, dalam lingkup ruang yang lebih kecil (lokal) sebuah sistem pemosisi juga diperlukan, seperti di ruang-ruang terbuka umum (taman atau kebun), ataupun dalam sebuah bangunan. Sistem pemosisi lokal yang ada saat ini sering kali membutuhkan infrastruktur yang mahal dalam pembangunannya. Aplikasi Pemosisi Lokal Berbasis Android dengan Menggunakan GPS ini adalah sebuah aplikasi yang dibangun untuk memenuhi kebutuhan pengguna akan informasi lokasi dan posisi mereka terhadap lingkungan di sekitarnya dalam lingkup ruang yang lebih kecil (lokal) dengan memanfaatkan perangkat GPS (Global Positioning System) yang telah tertanam dalam perangkat smartphone Android agar infrastruktur yang dibutuhkan lebih efisien. Dalam implementasinya, Aplikasi Pemosisi Lokal ini bertindak sebagai klien dengan dukungan sebuah Database Server yang berfungsi sebagai media penyimpanan data serta sumber referensi informasi yang dapat diakses melalui jaringan internet sehingga tercipta sebuah sistem yang terintegrasi secara global. Kata kunci: aplikasi, informasi, pemosisi, GPS.


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