Institute for Information Industry

National Science Council

Fan-Ren Chang

Hung-Wei Chen

Shu-Min Chuang

Ping-Feng Wang

He-Sheng Wang

Chih-Min Hsu

Chih-Horng Li

Shan-Yuan Yang

Kun-Yuan Tu

Yen-Weay Shei

Chi-Hsuan Tu

Li-Sheng Wang

Ching-Di Chang

A positioning device and a positioning method thereof are provided. The positioning device can cooperate with a first satellite group and a second satellite group, and it comprises a storage, a receiver and a processor. The receiver is configured to receive a first satellite group signal from the first satellite group and a second satellite group signal from the second satellite group. The processor is electrically connected to the storage and the receiver, and configured to calculate a positioning offset value according to one of the first satellite group signal and the second satellite group signal. In addition, the processor is configured to calculate a positioning result according to the second satellite group signal and the positioning offset, and store the positioning result in the storage.

Positioning device and positioning method thereof

The global positioning system (GPS) compass is consisted of three main units. These units are the pointer, the sensor, and the controller. The pointer unit is comprised of an iron frame, an aluminum bar, and two aluminum plates. The sensor unit is comprised of global positioning system (GPS) receivers and global positioning system (GPS) antennas. The controller unit includes a personal computer, a stepping motor, several data interface circuit boards, and some motor control circuit boards. The baseline of the pointer is an aluminum bar of about one meter long. The sensor unit can measure the baseline's azimuth angle relative to the local coordinate. When command is received, the controller unit is capable of turning the aluminum bar to the desired direction by the aid of the stepping motor. There are two modes for operation available. One is the initial mode, the other is the normal mode. It takes about one or two minutes to complete the initial mode operation. In this mode, adjustment values needed in the algorithm for normal mode can be obtained upon rotating the aluminum bar at the baseline. The purpose of the initial mode is similar to an instrument calibration. In the normal mode, the global positioning system (GPS) compass can point itself to the desired direction in real time operation. In this invention, the combined use of attitude determination algorithm and stepping motor controlling technique, results in pointing deviation from accuracy to be less than 1 degree.

Global positioning system (GPS) Compass

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Taipei, Taiwan

Fan-Ren Chang