Fraunhofer-gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v.

Alexander Bruckmann

Christopher Mutschler

Stephan Otto

Tobias Feigl

Marc Faßbinder

Christian Daxer

Christoffer Loeffler

A method () to determine a present position () of an object (). The method () comprises using () an optical positioning system () to determine a first preliminary position () and using () a radio-based positioning system () to determine a second preliminary position (), determining () a supposed position () on the basis of one of the preliminary positions () and combining () the supposed position () with a previous position () of the object to determine the present position () of the object, if the supposed position () is based on a different positioning system () than a previous supposed position ('). A positioning system () with combined optical and a radio-based determination of a position of a tracker () and a tracker () with an active light source ().

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Alexander Bruckmann