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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 22, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2019
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Michael A. Aucoin, North Andover, MA (US);
Juha-Pekka J. Laine, Boston, MA (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
A navigation system for determining quality and integrity of source information includes one or more data sources that provide the source information, a situation module that provides situation data, an information module that determines an estimate of the quality and an estimate of the integrity of the source information based on the source information and the situation data, an integrity monitor module that determines the integrity and the quality of the source information based on the estimate of the quality and the estimate of the integrity of the source information from the information module, and that validates the source information based on the integrity of the source information and/or the quality of the source information, and a navigation state estimator that determines the navigation information of the one or more objects based on the validated source information and corresponding quality of the source information received from the integrity monitor module.