Vehicle Location And Navigation Systems / Edition 1

by Yilin Zhao

Overview

This is the first book to provide, in a single source, the detailed interdisciplinary information needed to understand, design and implement advanced Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS, formerly IVHS). It presents state-of-the-art principles and practices that you can apply to a wide range of vehicle location and navigation systems — placing special emphasis on the vehicle side of the system — and synthesizes information scattered among many different engineering fields.

Based on several years of hands-on research, the book is divided into two parts: Basic Modules, or building blocks, and Systems, or integrated modules. Fundamental principles as well as newly developed technologies, along with many problem-solving examples, help you save time and improve performance.

Turn to this well-organized, practical book for answers to such real-life questions as:

• Why doesn't the output of your GPS receiver match your digital map?
• When shouldn't your vehicle be redirected to a less congested road?
• Why doesn't your navigation system work as expected after going through the automatic car wash?

The newly developed technologies you find here include a fuzzy-logic-based algorithm, the field-emitter display (FED), a recently invented software technology for 3-D map display, and a seldom discussed integrated Dispatch Enhanced Network (iDEN).

Accessible even to non-engineering specialists, this informative book contains useful summary tables and current references, including Internet WWW addresses for ITS-related pages.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780890068618
Publisher:	Artech House, Incorporated
Publication date:	03/31/1997
Series:	Artech House Its Series
Pages:	368
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

Yilin Zhao is a senior research and development engineer at the IVHS division of Motorola, Inc. A graduate of the Dalian University of Technology in China, he earned his Ph.D. in electrical engineering and computer science at the University of Michigan. Dr. Zhao is a member of the IEEE TAB Intelligent Transportation Systems Committee.

Table of Contents

Contents:
Introduction: Brief History. Modern Vehicle Location and Navigation References

Digital Map Database Module: Introduction. Basic Representations. Reference Coordinate Systems. Standards. Proprietary Digital Map Databases. Digital Map Compilation.

Positioning Module: Dead Reckoning. Relative Sensors. Absolute Sensors. Sensor Fusion.

Map-Matching Module: Conventional Map-Matching. Fuzzy-Logic-Based Map-Matching. Other Map-Matching Algorithms. Map-Aided Sensor Calibration.

Route-Planning Module: Shortest Path. Heuristic Search. Bi-Directional Search. Hierarchical Search. Other Algorithms.

Route Guidance Module: Guidance While En-Route. Guidance While Off-Route. Guidance With Dynamic Information.

Human-Machine Interface Module: Visual-Display-Based Interfaces. Voice-Based Interfaces.

Wireless Communications Module: Communication Subsystem Attributes. Existing Communications Technologies. Communications Subsystem Integration.

Autonomous Location and Navigation: Vehicle Location. Vehicle Navigation.

Centralized Location and Navigation: Automatic Vehicle Location. Dynamic Navigation. Applications — Mayday.

A Case Study — ADVANCE: Traffic Information Center. Mobile Navigation Assistant. Communications Network. Initial Evaluation Results.

Conclusions: Past Lessons. Future Directions.

Appendices.

Editorial Reviews

Provides a detailed description of principles and practices of modern vehicle location and navigation systems for professionals and students from different backgrounds, using a limited amount of mathematics. Part I contains chapters on basic modules such as the positioning and the route-planning modules, and Part II covers systems. Includes chapter questions, examples, summary tables, and background appendices. Can be used as a reference for engineers, managers, and other professionals, and as a text for undergraduates and beginning graduate students in intelligent transportation systems and related disciplines. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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