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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 06, 2009
Filed:
May. 24, 2006
Jon N. Leonard, Tucson, AZ (US);
Howard E. Neely, Iii, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Ronald T. Azuma, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Michael J. Daily, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Jon N. Leonard, Tucson, AZ (US);
Howard E. Neely, III, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Ronald T. Azuma, Santa Monica, CA (US);
Michael J. Daily, Thousand Oaks, CA (US);
Raytheon Company, Waltham, MA (US);
Abstract
A beacon-augmented pose estimation system includes positionable beacons that can determine their own 3-D geospatial coordinates and transmit those coordinates back to the pose object. An imaging sensor images the field-of-view of the pose object to provide 2-D image coordinates for any of the beacons in the FOV. A pose object controller processes the sets of 3-D geospatial coordinates and 2-D image coordinates to refine a pose estimate of the pose object. The positionable beacons may include both static beacons that are pre-positioned and mobile beacons that are command-guided to position themselves in the pose object's likely or actual FOV.