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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 29, 2015
Filed:
Feb. 05, 2010
Daniel Kotzor, Seefeld, DE;
Wolfgang Utschick, Ingolstadt, DE;
Daniel Kotzor, Seefeld, DE;
Wolfgang Utschick, Ingolstadt, DE;
EADS DEUTSCHLAND GmbH, Ottobrunn, DE;
Abstract
A method for localizing an object moving in an unknown environment. The method includes providing k position marks at undetermined positions p, p, . . . , pthat are spaced apart from one another, where {p, . . . , p}ε, where k is a natural number greater than or equal to 3, and repeatedly measuring the distances between the object and each of the position marks independently of one another at uncontrolled instants, such that distance values {r, . . . , r}εare present at instants {t, . . . , t}ε. The method further includes determining a motion curve x(t)εaccording to where n represents a number of distance measurements used and each function k(t, t) is a positively defined kernel function, and where {α, . . . , α}εare coefficient vectors that are estimated using smoothness conditions based on a regularization term formed with the kernel functions.