Hitachi, Ltd.

Yoshikazu Hirayama

Makoto Kato

Takanori Shibata

Michitaka Kosaka

Fuminobu Komura

Koichi Homma

Akira Kagami

Yoji Matsuoka

In a navigation system which has sensors for detecting a running distance, an azimuth, etc. of a vehicle, and a memory for storing map data; a probability density of a position of the vehicle is calculated on the basis of the sensor outputs and the map data for each of quantization units with which a probability computation determined by detection accuracies of the sensors and quantization of the map data can be executed. In addition, a final stage calculation of DP matching between trajectory data obtained from the on-board sensor data from a start point of the vehicle until a current time and a candidate route estimated from the road map data is iteratively executed, whereby a plurality of estimative vehicular positions and uncertainties (costs) corresponding to the respective estimative positions are iteratively evaluated, and a correct vehicular position is estimated by selecting at least one estimative vehicular position of low uncertainty (cost).

Navigation system and method using map data

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Katsuta, Japan

Yoshikazu Hirayama