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Date of Patent:
Sep. 02, 2014

Filed:

Nov. 05, 2012
Applicant:

Texas Instruments Incorporated, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Sandeep Kasargod, Bangalore, IN;

Sandeep Rao, Bangalore, IN;

Karthik Ramasubramanian, Bangalore, IN;

Tarkesh Pande, Dallas, TX (US);

Sriram Murali, Bangalore, IN;

Assignee:
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/12 (2006.01); G01C 21/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/12 (2013.01); G01C 21/165 (2013.01);
Abstract

A vehicle navigation system includes a GNSS position engine (GPE) that uses GNSS satellite measurements to compute a first position and velocity of a vehicle and a first quality metric associated with the position and velocity. The system also includes a dead reckoning engine (DRE) that operates parallel with the GPE that computes a second position and velocity and a second quality metric associated with the dead reckoning. The GPE is configured to use the second position and velocity to detect a set of outliers in an incoming GNSS measurement; use the second position and velocity as an initial estimate of its position and velocity for a particular time instant, which is then refined by GNSS measurements received at that particular time instant; and to replace the first position and velocity with the second position and velocity.


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