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System and method for model-free position estimation and tracking

US8089407B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

Alcatel Lucent · FR

Inventors

Aiyou Chen · New Providence, US
Cristina Laura Harko · Northampton, US
Diane Lambert · Berkeley Heights, US
Philip Alfred Whiting · New Providence, US

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 16, 2005
Grant date	Jan 3, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 20, 2028

Classification

Technology area (CPC G)Physics
CPC primaryG01S5/02528
WIPO fieldMeasurement
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A system for, and method of, position estimation of, or tracking, an object. In one embodiment, the system includes: (1) a map generator configured to create, without requiring a propagation model, a mean map for the region and (2) a measurement matching engine associated with the map generator and configured to match received measurements regarding the object to a number of nearest neighboring grid points in the mean map.

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