Information processing device and positioning device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10598792-B2
Application number	US-201515527224-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 26, 2015
Priority date	Dec 2, 2014
Publication date	Mar 24, 2020
Grant date	Mar 24, 2020

Abstract

An augmentation information adjustment unit (102) reduces an amount of information in augmentation information by combining: update cycle adjustment processing (1021) to set an update cycle of the augmentation information to be an integer multiple of a predetermined update cycle; geographic interval error value adjustment processing (1022) to reduce the number of geographic interval error values by selecting from among a plurality of the geographic interval error values each of which is an error at every predetermined geographic interval out of a plurality of error values, a geographic interval error value at every geographic interval that is an integer multiple of the predetermined geographic interval; and bit count adjustment processing (1023) to reduce a bit count of the error value for each error value. An augmentation information output unit (103) outputs, to an output destination, augmentation information after being reduced in the amount of information by the augmentation information adjustment unit (102).

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. An information processing device comprising:
processing circuitry configured to:
degrade, according to a communication channel, augmentation information with which a positioning error on an order of centimeters is realized and which is updated in a predetermined update cycle, includes a plurality of error values, and is used to correct a satellite positioning error into augmentation information with which a positioning error on an order of decimeters is realized; and
output the augmentation information after being degraded to the communication channel to a positioning device.

2. The information processing device according to claim 1 , wherein the processing circuitry outputs additional information used in satellite positioning in addition to the augmentation information.

3. The information processing device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the additional information includes one or more pieces of information of ephemeris information, availability, integrity, and continuity.

4. The information processing device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the additional information includes information used for one or more of authentication, privacy protection, and user management.

5. The information processing device according to claim 2 ,
wherein the processing circuitry further outputs miscellaneous information concerning a user application in a positioning device.

6. The information processing device according to claim 5 ,
wherein the miscellaneous information includes one or more pieces of information of point cloud data, three-dimensional high-accuracy position information including feature data, information concerning a public institution, an application used in the positioning device, and information related to positioning accuracy status at a predetermined position.

7. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry degrades the augmentation information with which the position error on the order of centimeters is realized into the augmentation information with which the positioning error on the order of decimeters is realized by combining:
update cycle adjustment processing to set an update cycle of the augmentation information with which the positioning error on the order of centimeters is realized to be an integer multiple of the predetermined update cycle;
geographic interval error value adjustment processing to select, from among a plurality of geographic interval error values each of which is an error at every predetermined geographic interval out of the plurality of error values, a geographic interval error value for each geographic interval being an integer multiple of the predetermined geographic interval, so as to reduce the number of the geographic interval error values; and
bit count adjustment processing to reduce a bit count of the error value for each error.

8. The information processing device according to claim 1 ,
wherein the processing circuitry degrades the augmentation information with which the positioning error on the order of centimeters is realized into the augmentation information with which the positioning error on the order of decimeters is realized by combining:
update cycle adjustment processing to set an update cycle of the augmentation information with which the positioning error on the order of centimeters is realized to be an integer multiple of the predetermined update cycle;
geographic interval error value adjustment processing to analyze a plurality of geographic interval error values each of which is an error at every predetermined geographic interval out of the plurality of error values, calculate, for each geographic interval, a coefficient value of a coefficient included in an approximate expression used to calculate an approximate value of each geographic interval error value, and include the coefficient value for each geographic interval in the augmentation information in place of the plurality of the geographic interval error values; and
bit count adjustment processing to reduce a bit count of the error value for each error.

9. A positioning device to receive a plurality of pieces of observed data that are transmitted from a plurality of positioning satellites, the positioning device comprising:
processing circuitry to:
receive augmentation information which is used to correct a satellite positioning error and with which a positioning error on an order of centimeters degraded to augmentation information used to correct a positioning error on an order of decimeters is realized and additional information, in addition to the augmentation information, which is used, together with the augmentation information, in satellite positioning; and
perform positioning calculation using the observed data, the augmentation information, and the additional information that have been received.

10. The positioning device according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry selects observed data used in the positioning calculation from among the plurality of pieces of observed data, on a basis of an angle of elevation of each positioning satellite that has transmitted each of the plurality of pieces of observed data as well as a received signal strength of each of the plurality of pieces of observed data, and
performs the positioning calculation using the observed data selected.

11. The positioning device according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry calculates observation noise used in the positioning calculation by using integrity information included in the augmentation information for correcting the satellite positioning error; and
performs the positioning calculation by using the observation noise calculated.

12. The positioning device according to claim 9 , wherein the processing circuitry repeats an operation of selecting m (m≥4 and m<n) pieces of observed data from among n (n≥5) pieces of observed data transmitted from the positioning satellites, and generate k (k≥4 and k≤n) data sets each of which is formed of the m pieces of observed data and has a different combination of the m pieces of observed data; and
performs, for each data set, observation update calculation on the m pieces of observed data making up the data set as a part of the positioning calculation, and select a data set from among the k data sets on a basis of a variance of a residual before the observation update calculation of each data set and a variance of a residual after the observation update calculation of each data set.

Assignees

• Mitsubishi Electric Corp

Inventors

• Miya Masakazu
• Fujita Seigo
• Shima Yoshihiro
• Sone Hisao
• Yasumitsu Ryoichiro
• Kondo Natsuki
• Nakajima Tsutomu
• Terao Kazuhiro
• Saito Masayuki

Classifications

• G01S19/074 Primary

  providing integrity data, e.g. WAAS · CPC title

• G01S19/072

  Ionosphere corrections · CPC title

• G01S19/28

  Satellite selection · CPC title

• G01S19/20

  Integrity monitoring, fault detection or fault isolation of space segment · CPC title

• H03M7/30

  Compression (speech analysis-synthesis for redundancy reduction G10L19/00; for image communication H04N); Expansion; Suppression of unnecessary data, e.g. redundancy reduction · CPC title