EP4367476A1 - Dispositif et procédé d'estimation de la localisation d'un véhicule guidé le long d'un guide curviligne - Google Patents
Dispositif et procédé d'estimation de la localisation d'un véhicule guidé le long d'un guide curviligneInfo
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- TITLE DEVICE AND METHOD FOR ESTIMATING THE LOCATION OF A GUIDED VEHICLE ALONG A CURVILINEAL GUIDE
- the present invention generally relates to the field of navigation systems, in particular dead reckoning, in which location readjustments are implemented. It relates more particularly to a device and a method for estimating the location of a vehicle guided along a curvilinear guide.
- the invention allows the location of a navigating or circulating mobile (these terms being equivalent in the context of the invention) along a curvilinear guide.
- Curvilinear guides include railway network tracks, electromagnetic guides such as for farming robots or autonomous vehicles, or even optronic systems for following curves such as the white lines of a highway.
- the location of a mobile along a curvilinear guide is generally defined by a curvilinear abscissa from a reference point rather than by a geographical position.
- these reference points can for example be transponders, generically called material beacons, positioned along the railway tracks or switches and crossings.
- a hardware beacon reader on board railway vehicles makes it possible to read these transponders as they pass.
- rail vehicles are equipped with various devices contributing to a dead reckoning navigation system. These may include, in particular, wheel angular position sensors, sometimes called “phonic wheel”, radars, inertial sensors/inertial unit or even satellite positioning systems.
- dead reckoning navigation systems require regular readjustments by passing over new transponders (next transponders) encountered along the route of the tracks, involving an installation and above all maintenance cost. important. They themselves require very frequent periodic maintenance and result in low availability of railway equipment. In addition to this, their performance remains limiting in relation to the needs of certain rail operators, for example in dense traffic areas.
- the invention relates particularly to mobiles whose location determination uses dead reckoning navigation systems.
- This dead reckoning requires an initial location as well as regular relocations, or readjustments, to limit the errors and uncertainties that would otherwise accumulate during dead reckoning.
- Dead reckoning localization of guided vehicles from the coupling between measurement values by sensors on board the vehicle and a database maps has already been the subject of several publications.
- This coupling can be done either continuously or periodically, whether spatially or temporally. This coupling makes it possible to improve the accuracy of the dead reckoning navigation system and/or to identify the part of the guide on which the vehicle is located and thus replaces certain functions of the transponders.
- the system proposed by document EP 1 211 152 B1 requires measurements of speed and of an inertial quantity depending on a geometric characteristic specific to the track at different instants preceding the current instant.
- the measurement values are coupled to a database made up of said specific geometric characteristic of the track and its spatial derivative for different curvilinear abscissas in order to improve the calculation of the current curvilinear abscissa from the previous curvilinear abscissa.
- the gyrometer can either measure the yaw rate and be associated with the curvature of the track, or measure the roll rate and be associated with variations in track cant.
- the document US 8989985 B2 presents a device and the corresponding method making it possible to determine the current position of a vehicle by measuring the variations in attitude from a reference point for which the position of the vehicle is known and by comparing them with a base of cartographic data containing in particular the attitude of the guide.
- This device and this method do not in any way make it possible to determine the position of the vehicle along the guide without prior position information, external to the system.
- This device and this method exploiting a cartographic database specific to the guide and not taking into account the deterministic error of attitude generated by the guidance of the vehicle, may not present the performance necessary for the resetting of a navigation system. in performance esteem.
- the two previous documents use a map database to improve the accuracy of the dead reckoning system, but not to directly determine the position of the vehicle along the guide.
- the first profile comes from a cartographic database and the second from the fusion between a yaw gyrometer and a speed sensor.
- the document US 2009/0187294 A1 presents a device and the corresponding method making it possible to identify a confidence interval of the position of a vehicle when it starts using on-board position and attitude sensors, for example based on satellite positioning. This position is then compared with a cartographic database containing in particular the position of the guide in order to identify the lane of the guide on which the vehicle is located. When several lanes are identified, a profile of the evolution of the heading or the curvature as a function of the distance traveled is estimated using on-board sensors during the movements of the vehicle until obtaining a signature making it possible to discriminate the route by comparison with the cartographic database also containing the attitude of the guide.
- Document WO 89/12234 A1 proposes a method based on the estimation, from inertial sensors, of a variation in heading, as a function of the distance traveled in order to measure a profile of the route. This measured profile is then compared with profiles of variation in heading as a function of the distance traveled contained in a database.
- the document US 9616905 B2 concentrates in particular on the determination of the path taken when passing a switch by seeking the best correspondence between the measurement value of the variation in heading as a function of the distance traveled and the various possible signatures associated to the branches of the bifurcation.
- the four previous documents use a signature detection of the variation of at least one of the three attitude components as a function of the distance traveled, requiring a measurement of relative displacement.
- a signature detection of the variation of at least one of the three attitude components is observable during variations in the curvature of the track.
- These variations require the passage of a switch or a cubic connection between two curves. This does not make it possible to take advantage of course changes in the middle of a curve, the most common situation, to readjust the navigation system by dead reckoning.
- Document EP 3722 182 A1 discloses a correlation method carried out between inertial measurements and a database of railway tracks based on heading and heading variation. The purpose of this method is to determine the track taken by the train in the event that several railway tracks are in its vicinity.
- the document WO 98/37432 A1 presents a method of correlation between inertial measurements and a heading-based railway database.
- a Kalman filter associated with the track is used to estimate the residuals of the differences between the measured heading and that of the track.
- a channel is eliminated when the residual estimated in the associated Kalman filter exceeds a threshold.
- the track taken by the train is identified when there is only one possible track left.
- the three attitude components are geographic heading, pitch and roll. It will be seen that depending on the applications, only one of the components can advantageously be used for the search for the crossing. This specific search differs from a signature or correlation analysis with a geometric shape stored in a memory. It will also be seen that even if all the components are not used for the search for the crossing, the unused components can advantageously be used to refine the results by eliminating the detected crossings which should not have been detected.
- beacon and “virtual attitude beacon” will be used to designate the same virtual element and the term “hardware beacon” will be used to designate a physical beacon and therefore other than a virtual beacon of 'attitude.
- a hardware tag is typically a transponder that can be read by a hardware tag reader onboard a vehicle.
- a hardware beacon also called a transponder
- a device for estimating the location of a vehicle guided along a guide comprising:
- attitude sensor of the guided vehicle the attitude sensor supplying during the movement of the vehicle measurement values, in a local geographical reference, of one or more attitude components of the guided vehicle, the attitude components comprising geographical heading, roll and pitch and defining the orientation of a reference fixed to the vehicle with respect to the local geographical reference,
- the virtual attitude beacons being located along the guide and oriented along the guide, the virtual attitude beacon data of a given beacon comprising information at least orientation and location of said beacon, said information being one or values of one or more of the attitude components of said beacon and at least one beacon attribute value including at least one position attribute value of said beacon, the attitude components being a maximum of three including a geographical heading, the value or values of position attributes making it possible to locate the beacon,
- a processor configured to perform an attitude virtual beacon reader activity, the attitude virtual beacon reader comparing the stored attitude virtual beacon data and the vehicle attitude measurement values to detect a crossing of a virtual attitude beacon, the location of the guided vehicle being provided by the position attribute value(s) of the beacon detected in the virtual attitude beacon reader.
- cap and “geographic cap” are used interchangeably to name a geographic cap.
- each virtual attitude beacon is described, for each virtual attitude beacon, as being, on the one hand, one or values of one or more attitude components of said beacon and, on the other hand, at least one beacon attribute value including at least one position attribute value of said beacon.
- This artificial separation for descriptive purposes is related to the fact that the attitude components are used rather for some of the operations within the device and the other data rather for other operations within the device. It is however understood that it would be equivalent to consider that these attitude virtual beacon data comprise only beacon attribute values comprising at less attributes which are one or values of one or more of the attitude components of said beacon and a position attribute value of said beacon.
- the guide is a curvilinear guide
- the local geographical reference is defined as being the reference point of origin at the current position of the dead reckoning system and whose axes are oriented according to the directions North, West, Up, or, then, North, East , Low,
- the guide is material and is in particular a railway track or an electromagnetic guide or a marking to be followed,
- attitude virtual beacon reader activity is carried out in a processor attitude virtual beacon reader
- the processor is configured to detect crossed attitude virtual beacons
- the processor is also configured to eliminate crossed attitude virtual beacons wrongly detected
- the processor is configured to detect virtual attitude beacons in the virtual attitude beacon reader by comparing the three attitude components of the stored virtual attitude beacon data and vehicle attitude measurement values,
- the processor is configured to detect attitude virtual beacons in the attitude virtual beacon reader by comparing two of the three attitude components of the stored attitude virtual beacon data and vehicle attitude measurement values ,
- the processor is configured to detect attitude virtual beacons in the attitude virtual beacon reader by comparing only one of the three attitude components of the stored attitude virtual beacon data and attitude measurement values of vehicle,
- the processor is configured to detect attitude virtual beacons in the attitude virtual beacon reader by comparing only one of the three attitude components which is the geographical heading of the stored attitude virtual beacon data and the values of vehicle attitude measurements,
- the processor is configured so that the virtual attitude beacon reader compares stored virtual attitude beacon data and values of vehicle attitude measurements to detect a crossing of a value of an attitude component attitude virtual beacon data by a measurement value of a corresponding attitude component, an attitude virtual beacon for which crossing has been detected having its attitude component value of its virtual beacon data d attitude between two values of two successive measurements of the corresponding attitude component,
- the processor is configured to detect virtual attitude beacons in the virtual attitude beacon reader by comparing stored virtual attitude beacon data and values of vehicle attitude measurements in order to detect a crossing of a value of an attitude component of the attitude virtual beacon data by a measurement value of a corresponding attitude component, an attitude virtual beacon for which a crossing has been detected having its attitude component value of its attitude virtual beacon data between two values of two successive measurements of the corresponding attitude component,
- the processor is configured to detect virtual attitude beacons in a virtual attitude beacon detector of the virtual attitude beacon reader
- the processor is configured so that the virtual attitude beacon reader compares only one of the three attitude components which is the geographical heading
- the processor is configured to detect attitude virtual beacons in the attitude virtual beacon reader by comparing only one of the three attitude components which is geographical heading,
- the processor is advantageously configured to detect virtual attitude beacons in the virtual attitude beacon reader by comparing only one of the three attitude components which is the geographical heading,
- the virtual attitude beacon location attribute is a geodetic position that can be expressed by its geographical coordinates of latitude, longitude and altitude,
- attitude virtual beacon location attribute is a curvilinear distance from a reference point
- the virtual attitude beacon location attribute is advantageously a geodesic position to allow the system to be recalibrated
- the attitude virtual beacon location attribute is advantageously a curvilinear distance with respect to a reference point to allow the resetting of the system ,
- the virtual attitude beacon data storage memory is external to the vehicle and the device has access to said virtual attitude beacon data storage memory
- the processor consists of several units, at least one of the units being arranged in the vehicle and at least one of the other units being external to the vehicle and associated with the memory for storing virtual attitude beacon data which is external to the vehicle ,
- the processor is further configured to calculate an uncertainty value and/or a protection level associated with the location of the guided vehicle provided by the position attribute value(s) of the beacon detected,
- the level of protection corresponds to a multiple of the uncertainty
- the processor is further configured to select, based on prior information, a subset of the stored attitude virtual beacon data and for the attitude virtual beacon reader to use only the subset of the beacon data virtual stored attitude, - an attitude virtual beacon selector of the processor makes it possible to select, according to prior information, a subset of the stored attitude virtual beacon data,
- the processor is further configured to select, based on prior information, a subset of the stored attitude virtual beacon data and for the attitude virtual beacon reader to compare the subset of the virtual beacon data stored attitude values and vehicle attitude measurement values,
- the processor is further configured to select the subset of the stored attitude virtual beacon data based on at least one attitude virtual beacon attribute value of the attitude virtual beacon data,
- the attitude virtual beacon data also includes an attitude virtual beacon attribute value which is an attitude virtual beacon identifier
- the virtual attitude beacon data also includes a guide attribute value which is a guide identifier on which the virtual attitude beacon is positioned,
- the attitude virtual beacon data also includes at least one attitude virtual beacon attribute value which is a list of identifiers of adjacent attitude virtual beacons,
- the beacon data of a given attitude virtual beacon further comprises a beacon attribute value which is the curvature of the guide at the position of said attitude virtual beacon
- the beacon data of a beacon given attitude virtual beacon further include beacon attribute values which are the curvilinear distances from said attitude virtual beacon to adjacent attitude virtual beacons as measured by following the guides
- the beacon data of a given attitude virtual beacon also includes beacon attribute values which are the vectors linking the geodesic position of said attitude virtual beacon to the geodesic positions of the adjacent attitude virtual beacons,
- the beacon data further comprises values of beacon attributes which are the uncertainties linked to the values of the beacon data
- the virtual attitude beacon reader is further configured to eliminate virtual attitude beacons detected at incorrectly by comparing one or more values of one or more of the attitude components of the detected beacons and the values of vehicle attitude measurements
- the processor is configured to eliminate attitude virtual beacons wrongly detected in a wrongly detected attitude virtual beacon eliminator of the attitude virtual beacon reader,
- the virtual attitude beacon reader is further configured to eliminate virtual attitude beacons wrongly detected by comparing the data of the detected beacons and prior information coming from a communication interface
- the attitude virtual beacon reader is further configured to eliminate erroneously detected attitude virtual beacons by comparing the attitude component(s) of the attitude virtual beacon that were not used to detect virtual attitude beacons, - in the case where the geographical heading is used to detect virtual attitude beacons, then the virtual attitude beacon reader is further configured to eliminate virtual attitude beacons wrongly detected by comparison between the pitch and/or or the roll of the detected attitude virtual beacon with the corresponding pitch and/or roll measured by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle,
- the attitude virtual beacon reader is further configured to eliminate attitude virtual beacons wrongly detected by comparison between at least one beacon attribute value of the detected beacon and a rejection criterion
- the rejection criterion is a distance greater than a threshold between the position of the detected beacon and the estimated position of the vehicle
- the stored attitude virtual beacon data comprises values of one or more of the beacon attitude components and values of beacon attributes, said values of one or more of the beacon attitude components and the beacon attribute values being values common (or intrinsic, these terms being considered equivalent in this context) to a determined family of vehicles, the vehicles of a family having identical structural characteristics,
- the stored attitude virtual beacon data comprises values of one or more of the beacon attitude components and values of beacon attributes, said values of one or more of the beacon attitude components and the tag attribute values being guide-specific values,
- the processor configured to execute the reader activity of virtual attitude beacon compares values of heading corrected measurements with the heading values of the virtual attitude beacon data, the corrected heading measurement values being values of heading measurements produced by the attitude sensor of the vehicle guided and corrected for the speed of the vehicle, the difference between the distance between centers of the vehicles of the family and the distance between centers of the guided vehicle and temporal variations of a rotation vector, the components of said rotation vector being the time derivative of roll, pitch and heading measured by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle,
- the processor configured to execute the attitude virtual beacon reader activity compares values of heading-corrected measurements with the values of heading of the attitude virtual beacon data, the heading corrected measurement values being heading measurement values produced by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle and corrected for the speed of the vehicle, the center distance of the guided vehicle and temporal variations of a rotation vector, the components of said rotation vector being the time derivative of the roll, the pitch and the heading measured by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle,
- the processor configured to execute the virtual beacon reader activity d the attitude compares heading measurement values with the heading values of the attitude virtual beacon data without having to correct the heading measurement values
- the identical structural characteristics of the vehicles are at least the same inter-bogie distance or center distance of the guided vehicle
- the stored attitude virtual beacon data comprising values of one or more of the beacon attitude components and values of beacon attributes which are common to a determined family of vehicles have been obtained/collected by at least a vehicle of the said family
- the attribute values which are common (or intrinsic) to a given family of vehicles are one or more values of the position of the beacon, value of the curvature of the guide at the position of the beacon, value of the curvilinear distance to the adjacent attitude virtual beacons,
- beacon attribute values are specific (or intrinsic, these terms being considered equivalent) to the curvilinear guide on which the virtual attitude beacons are placed,
- the values of one or more beacon attitude components are specific (or intrinsic) to the curvilinear guide on which the virtual attitude beacons are placed,
- the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle is placed in or on the vehicle, without positioning or orientation constraints,
- the dead reckoning navigation system of the guided vehicle is placed in or on the vehicle, without positioning or orientation constraints,
- the orientation of the attitude sensor is corrected by misalignment angles in order to bring it back to the orientation of a reference fixed to the vehicle
- the values of the beacon attitude component(s) which are specific to the curvilinear guide on which the virtual attitude beacons are placed can be corrected or, conversely and preferably, the measurement values of the attitude component(s) of the vehicle guided can be corrected, to take into account the structural characteristics of the guided vehicle,
- the value of the center distance of the guided vehicle is a configuration element of the processor, in particular a configuration parameter of a program executed by the processor,
- the value of the center distance of the vehicle family used to obtain/collect beacon data is a configuration element of the processor
- the value of the center distance of the vehicle family used to obtain/collect beacon data is estimated by the dead reckoning navigation system
- the rotation vector includes components which are the time derivative of the roll, pitch and heading measured by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle,
- the guided vehicle includes a dead reckoning means
- the dead reckoning means is external to the device
- the dead reckoning means implements an inertial unit
- the dead reckoning means implements a displacement sensor
- the device further comprises a communication interface
- the device is connected to a communication interface external to the device
- the communication interface is connected to a dead reckoning navigation means of the guided vehicle
- the guided vehicle comprises control-command electronics external to the device
- the communication interface and the device are configured to supply the control-command electronics of the guided vehicle with data in a format identical to the data format of a hardware beacon reader,
- the invention also relates to a navigation system for a vehicle guided along a guide, the system comprising dead reckoning navigation means and the estimation device of the invention.
- the invention finally relates to a method for estimating the location of a vehicle guided along a guide which implements the described means of the invention.
- attitude sensor of the guided vehicle the attitude sensor supplying during the movement of the vehicle measurement values, in a local geographical reference, of one or more attitude components of the guided vehicle, the attitude components comprising geographical heading, roll and pitch and defining the orientation of a reference fixed to the vehicle with respect to the local geographical reference,
- the virtual attitude beacons being located along the guide and oriented along the guide, the virtual attitude beacon data of a given beacon comprising information at least d orientation and location of said beacon, said information being one or values of one or more of the attitude components of said beacon and at least one beacon attribute value including at least one position attribute value of said beacon, the attitude components being a maximum of three including a geographical heading, the value or values of position attributes making it possible to locate the beacon,
- the attitude virtual beacon data of a given beacon is stored in the memory for storing attitude virtual beacon data comprising at least orientation and location information for said beacon, said information being one or values of one or more of the attitude components of said beacon and at least one beacon attribute value including at least one value position attribute of said beacon, the attitude components being a maximum of three including a geographical heading and in which, the attitude sensor provides measurement values during the movement of the vehicle, in a local geographical reference, one or more attitude components of the guided vehicle, and wherein, the processor configured to perform an attitude virtual beacon reader activity compares the beacon data vi stored attitude values and the vehicle attitude measurement values in order to detect a crossing of a virtual attitude beacon, and wherein, the location of the guided vehicle is provided by the position attribute value(s) of the beacon detected in the attitude virtual beacon reader
- a first operation is implemented in the virtual attitude beacon reader to detect virtual attitude beacons and a second operation to eliminate virtual attitude beacons wrongly detected.
- FIG. 1 represents the two-dimensional projection of a part of a curvilinear guide comprising three curved sections (101, 102, 103) of guide having different curvatures,
- FIG. 2 represents, on the one hand, the heading (solid line 201) in radians (rad) of the curvilinear guide sections of FIG. 1 as a function of the curvilinear abscissa along these guide sections and, on the other hand , the heading (dashes 202) of an example of a vehicle when the latter travels through the curvilinear guide sections, virtual attitude beacons (large dots, globally referenced 203) belonging to these curvilinear guide sections also being represented,
- FIG. 3 represents the two-dimensional projection of a complex curvilinear guide including in particular the curvilinear guide sections of figure 1
- FIG. 4 shows the heading (402) of an exemplary vehicle as it travels through the curvilinear guide sections (101), (102), (103), (301) and (302) as well as the heading (403) of this same vehicle when the latter travels through the curvilinear guide sections (101) and (304), virtual attitude beacons (large dots, globally referenced 404) belonging to these curvilinear guide sections also being represented,
- FIG. 5 represents a state-of-the-art location system for a guided vehicle and which uses a hardware beacon reader
- FIG. 6 represents an embodiment of the guided vehicle location system according to the invention
- FIG. 7 represents a functional and structural diagram of an embodiment of the invention implementing a processor.
- Virtual attitude beacons are implemented which are located along a guide traversed by a vehicle and oriented following the guide directly or indirectly.
- the orientation can be for example that, local , of one of the two rails (tangent to the rail) or the orientation of the track in the middle of the track (tangent to the track, in its middle).
- the beacons are for example located at the center of the distance between the vehicles of the family and oriented according to these vehicles, this for a determined position of the vehicle on the track.
- each virtual attitude beacon are defined by one or values of one or more attitude components of said beacon and by at least one beacon attribute value which is a position attribute value of said beacon.
- Tag attribute values may include other information such as tag ID, adjacent tags, etc.
- the geographic heading is the angle between a reference axis of the beacon and the direction of the north, the reference axis corresponding to the tangent to the guide at the position of the beacon.
- the pitch corresponds to the slope of the guide and the roll to the cant of the guide, in the case of a railway track the outer rail being raised relative to the inner rail in a curve.
- a virtual attitude beacon For a virtual attitude beacon whose data is common to a determined family of vehicles, its geographical heading, roll and pitch angles are those of a vehicle of the family when, for example, the center of its spacing coincides with the beacon position.
- its true heading angle is the angle between the front centerline of the vehicle and the direction of True North.
- the front axis corresponds to an axis longitudinal to the body passing through the pivots of the two bogies.
- the left axis corresponds to the intersection of the plane defined by the floor of the body with a plane perpendicular to the front axis.
- Roll is the angle between the left axis and the horizontal plane.
- Pitch is the angle between the front axis and the horizontal plane.
- the course of a vehicle is equal to that of the track by placing itself at the point given by the orthogonal projection of the center of the center distance of the vehicle on the track.
- the roll and the pitch of the vehicle are equal to those of the guide by placing itself at the point given by the orthogonal projection of the center of the center distance of the vehicle on the guide.
- the link between the geographic heading, roll and pitch angles of the vehicle and those of a virtual attitude beacon is direct and it is possible to directly compare the geographic heading, the roll or the pitch of the railway where is the virtual beacon of attitude to the geographical heading, roll or pitch measured of a vehicle circulating on the railway.
- the stored attitude virtual beacon data are values common to a determined family of vehicles and that the guided vehicle belongs to said determined family, then it is possible to directly compare the geographical heading, the roll or the pitch from the beacon to the geographic heading, roll or pitch measured by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle, whatever the route of the guide.
- the beacon heading, roll or pitch data are not directly comparable to the measured data, except for the specific layout of the guide.
- correction calculations of the attitude component(s) are implemented between the measurement values and those of the virtual attitude beacons to take into account in particular the effect(s) of the suspension and/or or the joint effects of the layout of the guide (i.e. of the track in a railway context) and the inter-bogie distance of the vehicle.
- attitude components of attitude virtual beacon specific to the curvilinear guide the heading being the angle between the tangent to the guide in the horizontal plane and the direction of north and the heading measured in the vehicle being the angle between the center distance and the direction of north, then these angles are not equal, but it is possible to correct this difference due to the variation of the curvature of the guide.
- the processor 602 is further configured to correct the measurement values of the heading of the vehicle produced by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle 603 by taking into account the center distance of the guided vehicle, the speed of the vehicle and the variations of a rotation vector, the components of said rotation vector being the time derivative of the roll, the pitch and the heading measured by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle 603.
- the processor 602 executes an activity to detect virtual beacons attitude 711 in the virtual attitude beacon reader 710 by comparing the values of the corrected heading measurements with the heading values of the virtual attitude beacon data.
- one solution consists in using a transfer function between the heading of the vehicle and the heading of the guide depending on the speed of the vehicle, the center distance of the vehicle and the temporal variations of a rotation vector, in order to to model and correct part of the error due to such effects.
- the transfer function uses the center distances of the two families of vehicle.
- the processor 602 compares the stored virtual attitude beacon data and the vehicle attitude measurement values for detecting crossing of one of the attitude components of one or more virtual attitude beacons by the measurement values of said at least one same attitude component, which corresponds in in other words that a virtual attitude beacon for which crossing is detected has its value of said attitude component comprised between two values of two successive measurements of the same attitude component of the guided vehicle.
- this virtual attitude beacon detection appears to produce a result in the same way as for a material beacon, a virtual attitude beacon being crossed when the guided vehicle, moving along the guide, overtakes the position of the virtual beacon defined by its position attribute value(s),
- the material and functional means implemented for the detection of virtual beacons in the invention on the one hand, and for the detection of material beacons on the other hand, are different.
- the invention applies to guided vehicles 500 moving along guides, in particular curvilinear, of all kinds.
- the guidance of the vehicles can be passive, for example guidance by rails, or active, for example wire-guided or with tracking of visual cues, the vehicle having to orient its rolling means on a track.
- Figure 1 shows an example of a relatively simple guide (rails) in that it contains only sections of zero 103 or non-zero and constant 101, 102 curvature in the horizontal plane and in that the course of the guide is a monotonic function of its curvilinear abscissa.
- Section 101 extends from location 110 to location 111.
- Section 103 extends from location 112 to location 113.
- Section 102 connects the two previous sections 101 and 103.
- the vehicle comprises an attitude sensor 603 of the guided vehicle which is placed in or on the vehicle and which makes it possible to carry out measurements of the attitude of the vehicle. There are no positioning or orientation constraints of the attitude sensor 603 in or on the vehicle.
- the orientation of the attitude sensor 603 can be corrected by misalignment angles with respect to a conventional orientation in order to provide the heading, roll and pitch angles of the vehicle according to the chosen convention.
- corrections are possible on the measurement values and/or the stored attitude virtual beacon data, in this case of the attitude component(s) values of the attitude virtual beacons, in order to improve the comparison between the attitude components of the vehicle and those of the virtual attitude beacons, this depending on whether the stored virtual attitude beacon data belong to a determined family of vehicles or are specific to the guide and depending on whether or not the guided vehicle belongs to said family.
- Figure 2 compares, according to the curvilinear abscissa, the heading of the guide in the middle of the vehicle and the heading of the vehicle. These two headings being monotonic functions of the curvilinear abscissa of the guide, the heading measurement uncertainty translates directly into a measurement uncertainty of the curvilinear abscissa.
- a vehicle was considered passively guided (by bogies for example) along the guide at two points 20 m apart.
- vehicles with different guides can move on the same guide. This is the case, for example, of railway applications for which the center distance between pivots of the bogies of guided vehicles can vary from simple to triple.
- the observed curvilinear abscissa error sometimes exceeds 5 m if the curvilinear abscissa is used where the track heading is equal to the measured heading to position the vehicle.
- the vehicle heading measurement values produced by the attitude sensor of the guided vehicle 603 can be corrected as indicated above.
- FIG. 2 presents elements allowing resetting, called virtual attitude beacons, specific to the type of guided vehicle and to the guide concerned 100.
- the assembly 211, 212, 213, 214, 215 and 216 ( globally referenced 203) of these elements is stored in a memory 604 of the invention and used to estimate the location of the vehicle.
- the beacons are virtual beacons and they correspond in practice to information or data advantageously stored in a memory 604 of the guided vehicle.
- attitude virtual beacon attitude component(s) values and/or attitude virtual beacon attribute values are said to be "intrinsic” because they can be used by a family of vehicles having characteristics, in particular structural, that are identical (e.g. the same spacing between bogies) because this information is obtained from the passage on the guide a vehicle belonging to this same family to obtain/collect the attitude virtual beacon data which will be used in the system of the invention.
- the vehicle includes a dead reckoning navigation system 501 which is placed in or on the vehicle and which makes it possible to estimate the position of the vehicle. There's no positioning or orientation constraints of the dead reckoning navigation system 501 in or on the vehicle.
- the resetting of the dead reckoning navigation system 501 consists in comparing its position with the location information of the beacon detected. If the location is geodetic, this comparison uses the following corrections:
- the virtual attitude beacons are points along the guides whose position has been chosen on sections where, preferably, at least one of the three attitude components of the guide/railway varies. In the case of a vehicle moving on the ground, it is the geographical heading which presents the most significant variations and which is used in the comparisons for crossing detection.
- the device of the invention is in a way a hardware beacon reader simulator which implements virtual attitude beacons and determines which one it crosses during the course of the guide from measurement values of the components of attitude of the guided vehicle.
- the implementation of the invention does not require reading a hardware beacon but is based on comparisons between a stored attitude component value of virtual attitude beacon and a measurement value of a component d vehicle attitude measured by a vehicle attitude sensor 603. More precisely, during these comparisons, searches/detections of crossings of the value of an attitude component of an attitude virtual beacon by the vehicle attitude measurement values to determine which is or are the virtual attitude beacon(s) passed by the moving vehicle.
- detection must be understood in the sense of search and the result of the detection can be positive (a virtual attitude beacon has been crossed according to the criteria of the invention) or negative (the virtual attitude beacon has not not been crossed according to the criteria of the invention).
- the data of a virtual attitude beacon is a group of data stored in a memory 604 which can be on board the vehicle or accessible by the vehicle, these data being one or more values of attitude components and related attributes with the virtual attitude beacon.
- the attitude virtual beacon data of a beacon comprises at least one attitude component of the attitude, heading and/or pitch and/or roll virtual beacon, and one or more attribute values of which at least one position attribute value of the attitude virtual beacon.
- the attribute values of the attitude virtual beacon data of a virtual attitude beacon may further comprise a guide section (or guide) identifier corresponding to the guide section (or guide) in which the virtual attitude beacon is positioned.
- the attitude virtual beacon data of a virtual attitude beacon may further include another virtual attitude beacon attribute such as for example a virtual attitude beacon identifier.
- a position attribute value of the virtual attitude beacon is the value of the guide distance separating the virtual attitude beacon from a reference point, then this value makes it possible to readjust the location of the vehicle along the guide.
- the vehicles can therefore access these virtual attitude beacon data or even, preferably, include these virtual attitude beacon data in a memory 604 specific to the vehicle.
- the set of virtual attitude beacon data from the set of virtual attitude beacons 203 is stored in a memory of the vehicle and is used to estimate the location of the vehicle along the guide. : the virtual attitude beacon detected giving, by its virtual attitude beacon data, the value or values of position attributes in this case, the location of the vehicle.
- all of the virtual attitude beacon data of the virtual attitude beacons 203 is stored in a memory external to the vehicle, for example a remote server, and which the vehicle can access by a radio link by real time during the movement and/or in batches or in full prior to the movement of the vehicle (e.g. during the preliminary programming of the vehicle route - train sheet - in the vehicle computer).
- a significant advantage of the invention is the fact that it can use numerous attitude virtual beacons making it possible to obtain frequent readjustments for almost zero cost because there is no need to place material beacons along of the guide for this, it is only necessary to know one or more values of one or more attitude components of the guide for virtual attitude beacons, at least the position attribute values of the virtual attitude beacons and vehicle attitude measurement values produced by an attitude sensor 603.
- the invention also applies in the case of parts of more complex guides than those presented hitherto and such as, for example, comprising inclined sections or sections with variable curvature.
- the invention also applies to guides including portions of guides in deflection such as represented in FIG. the East towards the guide 102 or, alternatively, towards the guide 304.
- equipment switch in a railway context placed at the location 311 makes it possible to deflect the vehicle traversing the guide 302 by direction of the West towards the guide 301 or, alternatively, towards the guide 303.
- FIG. 4 presents resetting elements which are again virtual attitude beacons and which are specific to the type of guided vehicle and to the guide concerned.
- the virtual attitude beacons 211, 212, 213, 214, 215 and 216 correspond to the route by the vehicle of the sections 101, 102 and 103 of the guides, as shown in FIG. 3.
- the virtual attitude beacon 415 corresponds to the route by the vehicle in section 304 of the guide.
- the virtual attitude beacons 411, 412, 413 and 414 correspond to the route by the vehicle of the sections 103, 301 and 302.
- they when they are placed sparingly and judiciously, they allow relevant cartographic resetting of a dead reckoning navigation system 501 .
- the conventional/known location system of FIG. 5 comprising a guidance system 550 along a curvilinear guide 551 and using a dead reckoning navigation system 501, and which gives inaccurate information on the location of the guided vehicle 500
- the guidance system 550 corresponds for example to bogies and the curvilinear guide 551 to railway track rails.
- This location system of FIG. 5 of the state of the art which implements control-command electronics 502 within the vehicle, can obtain the location information by using a hardware beacon reader 510 allowing to read hardware beacons 520,, 520,+i (transponders).
- the hardware beacon reader 510 provides location information supplied to it by the hardware beacon for the resetting of the dead reckoning navigation system 501. Note that in FIG. 5, two hardware beacons 520, and 520i+ are shown schematically. i in relation to the hardware tag reader 510 simply to symbolize that the hardware tag reader 510 was able to read these two hardware tags during the movement of the vehicle, but it is not a simultaneous reading of the two hardware tags.
- the guided vehicle 500 comprises a device 600 which provides location information for the resetting of the dead reckoning navigation system 501.
- this information is not obtained by a hardware beacon reader but by comparisons in a processor 602 between virtual attitude beacon data stored in a memory 604 and vehicle attitude measurement values produced by a sensor attitude 603 to search for/detect a crossing of a value of an attitude component of the attitude virtual beacon data by a measurement value of a corresponding attitude component.
- the processor 602 is linked to the control-command electronics 502 via a communication interface 601 of the device 600.
- the validity time of the location readjustment is determined as the estimated crossing time.
- the latter can be calculated from the two values of two successive attitude measurements, denoted respectively y r and ip c , making it possible to detect the crossing and from the value of the attitude component of the data of the virtual attitude beacon crossed, denoted ip b , for example assuming a linear variation over time of the value of the attitude component measured between the 2 measurement times, denoted t p and t c respectively.
- the crossing detection is based on a single attitude component, the heading for a vehicle remaining on the ground and the other two attitude components can be used to eliminate a virtual attitude beacon detected at wrong. This reduces the risk of false positives.
- the comparisons can also be made on a subset of the virtual attitude beacon data stored as mentioned below.
- the processor 602 is configured for the virtual attitude beacon reader 710 to compare the values of the attitude components of a stored virtual attitude beacon and the values of vehicle attitude measurements to detect a crossing by comparing one, two or three of the three attitude components in the means for detecting virtual attitude beacons 711 of the virtual attitude beacon reader 710.
- the crossing can be detected when a depending on these values, such that the Euclidean distance between a vector of attitude values of the beacon and a vector of measured values, reaches a minimum or becomes less than a predetermined threshold.
- Crossing detection by obtaining a minimum requires at least three successive attitude measurements, whereas a single attitude measurement is sufficient in the case of comparison with a threshold.
- the function can also be given by the maximum of the absolute values of the components of a vector obtained by the difference between the vector of attitude values of the beacon and a vector of measured attitude values. These absolute values can optionally be weighted before calculating the maximum.
- the crossing search/detection comparisons resulting from a new attitude measurement value may result in the detection of the crossing of more than one crossed attitude virtual beacon.
- the processor 602 sends to the communication interface 601 of the data associated with all the virtual attitude beacons detected or the data calculated from a fusion of the virtual attitude beacons detected.
- attitude virtual beacon data In order to be able to position as many virtual attitude beacons as possible and to best avoid the device of the invention producing several virtual attitude beacons crossed for the same vehicle attitude measurement value, it is preferable to choose, in the attitude virtual beacon data, among the possible attitude virtual beacon attitude components, the one for which the ratio between the range of possible values and the uncertainty between the measurement values and the values of the attitude component of the associated attitude virtual beacons is maximum.
- the processor 602 We will preferably memorize or use this component if the memory 604 and/or the computing capacities of the processor 602 are constrained.
- the heading uncertainty can result in a location uncertainty in the horizontal plane because of the curvature.
- This heading uncertainty comes from the measurement errors of the attitude sensor 603, from a heading error of the data of the virtual attitude beacon, from the repeatability of heading of the vehicle guided in part of the guide and from any corrections of heading if the heading of the stored virtual beacon data has not been determined by a vehicle having the same structural characteristics as the guided vehicle.
- the location uncertainty that can be exploited for the resetting of the dead reckoning navigation system 501 also includes the location uncertainty of the virtual attitude beacon.
- the processor 602 can also be configured to calculate the level of protection associated with the estimation of the location of the vehicle obtained, this level of protection can for example be calculated from the uncertainty.
- the frequency of reception of attitude measurement values by the attitude virtual beacon reader 710 is lower than the measurement frequency of the attitude sensor 603, the frequency of comparisons and search for crossing corresponding to the reception frequency: at each new vehicle attitude measurement value received, the crossing comparisons and searches are carried out on the attitude virtual beacon data.
- the attitude sensor 603 provides a measurement value of at least one attitude component of the vehicle, in a local geographical reference.
- This local geographical reference is defined as being the reference point of origin at the current position of the dead reckoning navigation system 501 and whose axes are oriented according to the directions North, West, Up, or, according to another convention, North, East, Down.
- This sensor can be, for example, an inertial navigation unit or an AHRS (“Attitude and Heading Reference System”).
- AHRS titude and Heading Reference System
- the device 600 of the invention therefore comprises a processor 602.
- the processor 602 is functionally linked to the memory 604 and to the attitude sensor 603 making it possible to measure the attitude of the vehicle.
- the processor 602 is therefore configured/programmed to periodically obtain, from the attitude sensor 603, a measurement value of at least one attitude component of the vehicle and then to compare it with the attitude virtual beacon data of the memory 604 looking for an attitude virtual beacon datum value crossing by the attitude measurement values.
- the device 600 comprises a communication interface 601, an attitude sensor 603 and a memory 604 which are in communication with the processor 602.
- the device 600 and the hardware tag reader 510 provide the same type of registration information and therefore that it is also possible to implement the two in parallel.
- This may relate, for hardware tags, to those that can be read and provided directly (pre-programmed hardware tag transmitting its information to the vehicle's hardware tag reader) or indirectly (through stored hardware tag data, following pairing between the material beacon and the corresponding material beacon data) registration information, in practice directly or indirectly providing one or more position attribute values, in particular the guide distance value separating the material beacon from a reference point.
- the component of the attitude measurement value and that of the attitude virtual beacon datum be of the same type, for example the heading or the pitch or the roll for the attitude virtual beacon data and the measurement values, the heading of the attitude virtual beacon data being compared with the headings of the values of two following/successive measurements, etc.
- the device or method of the invention can restrict the attitude virtual beacon data that must be implemented among the set of attitude virtual beacon data, thanks to the use of the guided vehicle movement authorization information.
- the device or method of the invention can restrict the attitude virtual beacon data that must be implemented among the set of attitude virtual beacon data, thanks to the use of the guided vehicle movement authorization information.
- the establishment of the subset of virtual attitude beacon data can be done prior to the movement of the vehicle (for example during the preliminary programming of the route of the vehicle - train sheet in a railway context - in the vehicle's computer), or periodically or batch (when entering a new route) or in real time as the vehicle moves.
- attitude virtual beacon data not only limited to the guide sections of the authorization of movement but to others which correspond to virtual beacons of attitude which could be encountered in the event that the vehicle should be diverted or parked (for example temporary parking or diverted in the opposite direction -IPCS- to let another vehicle).
- prior information 701 makes it possible to perform an a priori selection 700 among the virtual attitude beacons accessible or in memory in order to reduce the number of virtual attitude beacon data to be compared. to the vehicle attitude measurement values in the attitude virtual beacon reader 710.
- the attitude virtual beacons/attitude virtual beacon data thus selected are stored within a beacon data subset virtual attitude beacon which is used by the virtual attitude beacon reader 710, in particular to detect virtual attitude beacons 711.
- This selection can be made according to the methods described previously and for example according to the planned route of the vehicle - train file - to define a subset of the virtual attitude beacon data corresponding to virtual attitude beacons that can meet the vehicle.
- the prior information 701 the selected attitude virtual beacons 702 which are a subset of the virtual attitude beacons (a subset of the virtual beacon data of attitude in practice) and the virtual attitude beacons detected 703 to symbolize results of operations and/or tests which are carried out within the processor 602.
- the processor 602 is a programmable computer equipment and which is programmed to execute the invention. These elements 701, 702 and 703 can be transient information within the processor 602 or be stored in a specific memory 604.
- the operations and/or tests are symbolized by the functions “select virtual attitude beacons” 700, “ detect virtual attitude beacons” 711 and “eliminate virtual attitude beacons” 712 wrongly detected (elimination of false positives), the latter two being a “virtual attitude beacon reader” 710.
- the virtual attitude beacon reader 710 can comprise only the function “detect virtual attitude beacons” 711 or, then, the combination of the two functions “detect virtual attitude beacons" 711 and “remove beacons virtual attitude beacons” 712.
- the "detect virtual attitude beacons" function 711 does not produce false positives (detection of crossing of a virtual attitude beacon which is not s relevant)
- the virtual attitude beacons detected 703 can be obtained directly by the function 711. This can in particular be obtained by an efficient “select virtual attitude beacons” function 700 .
- the “eliminate virtual attitude beacons” function 712 is then useful for eliminating crossing detections which concern irrelevant virtual attitude beacons.
- the term “virtual attitude beacons” has been used instead of “virtual attitude beacon data” to simplify the figure but the operations carried out (in particular the selections and the comparisons for search/detection of crossing) ultimately apply to the attitude virtual beacon data. It is possible, in the case where the attitude virtual beacon data includes an attribute of identifiers of adjacent attitude virtual beacons, that the latter be used for the selection of the virtual attitude beacons in the "select virtual attitude beacons" blocks 700. More generally, the prior information can be received by the interface 601 and/or deduced from the previous virtual attitude beacons detected 703. The prior information may comprise only identifiers of virtual attitude beacons adjacent to the previous virtual attitude beacons detected 703.
- the operating frequency of the step making it possible to select virtual attitude beacons 700 is generally lower than that of the virtual attitude beacon reader 710.
- the virtual attitude beacon reader 710 comprises means for detecting virtual attitude beacons 711 and to eliminate virtual attitude beacons 712 wrongly detected by comparison between measurement values of attitude sensor 603 and virtual attitude beacon data.
- the means for eliminating attitude virtual beacons 712 uses some of the measured attitude components to eliminate wrongly detected attitude virtual beacons and thus refine the information sent back to the communication interface 601. It should be noted that this means for eliminating virtual attitude beacons 712 is optional in the virtual attitude beacon reader 710.
- the processor 602 When and only when the means for detecting virtual attitude beacons 711 of the processor 602 detects that the measurement values of the component of attitude cross the value of the same attitude component of one or more virtual attitude beacons 702 previously selected from among the virtual attitude beacons which are in the memory 604, the processor 602 returns to the communication interface 601, if the means for eliminating erroneously detected attitude virtual beacons 712 accepts it, information concerning, depending on the case, the virtual beacon the detected attitude or all of the virtual attitude beacons detected 703 or, in certain embodiments, information calculated from a fusion of the information concerning the set of virtual attitude beacons detected 703.
- detected attitude virtual beacon is therefore an attitude virtual beacon beacon or data for which a crossing has been detected during the comparison between the attitude virtual beacon data and the values of vehicle attitude measurements in the attitude virtual beacon reader 710 implemented in processor 602.
- the prior information it is possible to complete the prior information with a list of virtual attitude beacons adjacent to that of the newly detected virtual attitude beacon, these adjacent virtual attitude beacons being virtual beacons of attitude that it is possible to reach by the guide followed by the vehicle following passage over this newly detected virtual attitude beacon, without encountering others.
- the virtual attitude beacons 211, 213 and 415 are adjacent to the virtual attitude beacon 212.
- the beacon 212 is itself part of its list of adjacent beacons in order to manage the situation where the vehicle reverses.
- prior information is the part of the guide traveled by the guided vehicle. In operational safety applications, for example, it would be the part of the guide corresponding to the authorization for movement of the vehicle.
- prior information is an approximate geographical location of the vehicle.
- the states of the guide equipment (switch, turntable, ferry cart, etc.) allowing a change of route are not not necessarily known beforehand and it is therefore necessary for the preliminary information to include the virtual attitude beacons that can be encountered on the various possible routes.
- FIG. 3 in the case of a guided vehicle moving on the section 101 towards the East, the state of the guide equipment 111 being unknown, the dead reckoning navigation system 501 does not know s it will evolve towards the guide 102 or towards the guide 304 and therefore the prior information will include at least a certain number of the first virtual attitude beacons of the two possible routes.
- the attitude virtual beacon data preferably contains the values of the attributes necessary to use the prior information and possibly the other attitude component(s) than that used in the comparisons for the crossing search.
- the geographical heading is used, among the beacon data.
- the other two attitude components, pitch, roll, attitude virtual beacon data can be used in the means to eliminate erroneously detected virtual attitude beacons 712 .
- the means for eliminating erroneously detected attitude virtual beacons 712 can also use other beacon attribute values. For example, using the position attribute value(s) of said beacon to eliminate from detected beacons those whose position is too far from the estimated position of the vehicle. For example, use the channel identifier attribute value to eliminate from the detected beacons those whose channel identifier does not correspond to the channel travelled.
- the means of the invention also communicate to the control-command electronics 502 information concerning the guide section traversed. In a railway application, this is a track identifier.
- This channel identifier can, depending on the case, be obtained from the detected attitude virtual beacon data 703 supplied by the attitude virtual beacon reader 710 of the processor 602 (in the event of presence in the stored attitude virtual beacon of a channel identifier attribute).
- the vehicle may optionally include a hardware beacon reader making it possible to read information contained in hardware beacons and this reader is adapted to the types of hardware beacons encountered during movement of the vehicle.
- the physical reading of a hardware beacon can be advantageously used in addition to the means of the invention, for example for security checks by redundancy or to add hardware beacons for guide sections where none of the three attitude components varied.
- the hardware tag data is directly provided by the hardware tags by transmission to the vehicle when read by a hardware tag reader of the vehicle, each hardware tag having been programmed with information which is at least the distance value guide separating the material beacon from a reference point and, possibly, the material beacon identifier and/or the guide section identifier of the guide where it is placed.
- the invention can thus advantageously be implemented in a dead reckoning navigation system 501 and allow its resetting in an effective manner.
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