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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 13, 2008
Filed:
Apr. 08, 2005
Dan T. Horak, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Dan T. Horak, Ellicott City, MD (US);
Honeywell International, Inc., Morristown, NJ (US);
Abstract
System and method for determining a location of a first target. The sensor network comprises a first sensor cluster comprising a first plurality of bearing measuring sensors. A first gateway is operatively coupled to the first plurality of bearing measuring sensors. A second sensor cluster comprises a second plurality of bearing measuring sensors. A second gateway is operatively coupled to the second plurality of bearing measuring sensors. A central command node is operatively coupled to the first and the second gateways. A first limited set of pre-computed numbers representative of information for generating a global target location estimation is transmitted from the first gateway to the central command node. A second limited set of pre-computed numbers representative of information for generating the global target location estimation is transmitted from the second gateway to the central command node. A global target location estimate of the first target is computed by the central command node based on the first and second limited set of pre-computed numbers.