In the aspect to facilitate and enhance the vehicle’s features such as speed, mileage and volumetric level of fuel by providing it with the detection of level and restrict illicit activities using sensor. It is implemented using Vehicle Area Network (VAN) and embedded design. It suggests a computerized technique in heavy vehicles. Due to the high costs, theft more and more every day and the res...

This paper reports the development and at-sea deployment of a set of algorithms that have enabled our autonomous underwater vehicle, ABE, to conduct near-bottom surveys in the deep sea. Algorithms for long baseline acoustic positioning, terrain-following, and automated nested surveys are reported.

Recently new location technologies have emerged that can be employed in modern advanced navigation systems. They can be employed to augment common satellite positioning techniques (GNSS) and dead reckoning as they offer different levels of positioning accuracies and performance. An integration of other technologies is especially required in indoor and outdoor-to-indoor environments. The paper g...

Information from digital maps and measurements from a low cost digital compass and the vehicle ABS odometer can be fused with those available from an onboard GPS receiver to bridge the outages frequently experienced by GPS when navigating in urban environments. This fusion strategy can also be used to improve the positioning accuracy of GPS. The emergence of infrastructure such as dedicated sho...

Mobile laser scanning puts high requirements on the accuracy of the positioning systems and the calibration of the measurement system. We present a novel algorithmic approach for calibration with the goal of improving the measurement accuracy of mobile laser scanners. We describe a general framework for calibrating mobile sensor platforms that estimates all configuration parameters for any arra...

This paper proposes a novel method for position location by automated vehicles in AHS. The proposed positioning system meets the desired accuracy for AHS and is economically feasible because it takes advantage of the infrastructure and characteristics of the automated roads. This positioning system is very similar to GPS in the sense of using pseudo-noise codes for range measurement. The phase ...

This paper describes an agricultural vehicle modified to serve as a research platform for agricultural engineering. A tractor was equipped with a global positioning receiver, inertial/GPS system, geomagnetic direction sensor, and a monochrome camera for local and global sensing. For steering control, the tractor was equipped with an electro-hydraulic proportional steering valve, PWM coil valve ...

This paper deals with a problem of road tracking and vehicle positioning based on sequential images captured by a vehicle mounted monocular colour camera. The paper presents a new region‐based road tracking method, which is suitable for both structured and unstructured roads. The proposed method is based on our original road segmentation algorithm and estimates road model paramet...

Map-matching, which reconciles a vehicle’s location with the underlying road map, is a fundamental function of a land vehicle navigation system. This paper presents an improved Kalman filter approach whose state space model is different from the conventional ones. The main objective of the research is to develop and apply a proper Kalman filter-based model for effectively correcting the Global ...