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Cork, a 26-year communications and IT solutions veteran in civilian and defense agencies, will provide significant insight to the board as it guides the trade association's technology advocacy on important issues to the federal and state contracting communities.
She currently oversees business development and sales activities for defense and national security accounts for Verizon.
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Having been to this museum numerous times, I can shed some light on this. While technically, it is the air and space museum, it's actually the
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
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Also, there is no desert outside that end door. There is no aircraft graveyard out there also. There's actually probably not enough room to put one there, the museum is located between the flight path of the two runways. It's been since the late 80's since I've been to Davis-Monthan AFB, but it appears the graveyard shots are from there. I noticed the C-130 in the background had Pope AFB markings, that's only relevant to me as Pope was located in Fayetteville, N.C. where I'm from and was closed just a few years ago.
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I wondered about this one too when I first saw the movie. However, after seeing it again last night, I realized that the area in the back of the hangar wasn't just sand. It was actually a huge area covered in grass, even the area Sam cuts the symbols into. The way it's described in the article, you'd think they stepped into the Sahara. I just assumed for the sake of sanity that the way the museum is in this "movie universe", it has a big open area of grass outside with old planes parked there.
IIRC, however, the exterior they show of the museum they go to is of the A&SM in "downtown" DC.
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More widely read in Mexico than any other form of cheap print, comics provide a window into the archetypes, stories, and cultural scripts that influenced generations of readers, rich and poor. A new exhibit, ¡Viva México! A Comic Book History of Mexico opening March 16 in Special Collections, explores the spectacular rise of comic books in twentieth-century Mexico and how the government and commercial publishers have used comics to promote nationalism.
The Golden Age of the Mexican comic book, known in Spanish as historietas, began in the 1930s with the publication of comic book digests that serialized U.S. strips like Superman, Dick Tracy, and Betty Boop, combining them with strips by Mexican creators. This exhibit celebrates the artistry, invention and diversity of the Golden Age of Mexican comic books. Here, through these humble comics, are the heroes and villains, the triumphs and the tragedies, and the cultural icons that have defined modern Mexico.
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This exhibit, co-sponsored by the UT Arlington Libraries, UT Arlington History Department, and Center for Greater Southwestern Studies, will feature over 60 photographs from across the state. The exhibit explores issues that deal with African-American—Texas African-Americans in particular—from Emancipation to the Civil Rights era.
Coinciding with this exhibit, Saturday, March 28, the UT Arlington History Department and Center for Greater Southwestern Studies hosted a half-day workshop for the general public and secondary school teachers designed to explore the origins and impact of the Juneteenth celebrations. It featured two speakers, Shennette Garrett-Scott, University of Mississippi, and Elizabeth Hays-Turner, University of North Texas, both of whom are authorities on the African-American experience. The presentations was followed by a teachers' workshop led by Robert Edison, of the Barack Obama Leadership Academy, Dallas Independent School District.
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In April 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt traveled to Fort Worth by special train amid great excitement and anticipation. People thronged his public events, which included a parade, speech, and tree planting ceremony at the Carnegie Library. Fort Worth photographer C.L. Swartz captured the day's celebrations and cheering crowds on film. Now, 110 years later, we can see what he saw.
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Question: Discuss the main forces causing globalization to increase and explain the challenges/ opportunities that globalization presents to multinational businesses. Solution: Globalization may be defined as the free flow of goods, services, and knowledge and technology knowhow across geographies. There is a lot of debate going about the effects of globalization; If it is positive or negative? According to the World Bank Globalization is a strong tool for promoting economic growth and thereby helping reduce poverty. It has also been suggested that Globalization is the means of reducing the distortions in the growth rates among the emerging economies and the developing countries which in turn would lead to a comparable per capita incomes between the underdeveloped and the developed economies. (David Greenaway, 2008) this would lead to a beta convergence. For example countries like China and India have shown rapid growth and poverty reduction as a result of the linearization policies adopted by them post 1990s. This openness of the economies has also led to the increasing interdependence among the economies for various events. The major impact has been seen among the Multinational Companies as to how they go about sharing their technological knowhow and innovations to achieve competitive advantage. This in turn has led to greater cross border collaboration. Role of Multinational companies in Globalization Large MNCs have increasingly adopted an internationally integrated approach to their technological development, reorganizing a more refined international (within the EU) division of labor within industries as well as between them. In the recent international business literature, the growing role of the reorganization of technological activity of MNCs as a source of competitive success has become recognized to have an important impact on the shape and character of national innovation systems and local growth prospects. Policy-makers consequently should directly address the issue on the role of MNCs on the way technological activity is owned, organized and located. The global nature of technological competition should be reflected in both private corporate and public policy strategies. It has sometimes been argued that the importance of the internationalization of research has been exaggerated, since the actual amount of technological activity that is carried out by firms outside their home base has remained on average relatively small. Yet there is an increasing international integration of affiliates the growth in the importance of technological globalization strategies in large multinational firms. Furthermore, large multinational firms largely dominate a majority of world technological innovations. The role of MNCs in shifting the geographical dispersion of the creation of new technology across affiliates is affecting the technological capabilities of particular home and host countries in Europe. The globalization phenomenon may not only strengthen knowledge and linkages between countries, but also increase national differentiation and technological specialization. The impact of MNCs will vary between industries and, for a given industry; the impact depends upon the MNC's degree of technological strength. On the one hand, the extent to which technological activity becomes geographically diversified depends on the particular industry structure and its technological characteristics .On the other hand, technologically strong firms emanating from the most important locations in any industry are more likely to be able to adopt strategies of related technological diversification abroad to obtain access to locally based technological expertise. They would there by promote a more complex network of intra-firm cross country specialization in innovative activity than would firms originating from weaker centers in the same industry. The two phenomena of globalization and the relevance of the National System of Innovation may be seen as two complementary processes reinforcing one another in their development. Countries have tended to narrow their technological specialization and become more focused on areas of historical competitive advantage. Simultaneously, the major firms, as a result of a shift towards 'global' strategies, have tended to geographically disperse research facilities to gain access to complementary paths of technological development. In this sense, globalization tends to increase national differentiation and technological specialization. Foreign Market entry strategies The major two methods of market entry strategies for the Multinational companies are as follows: a. Vertical Linkages MNC that collaborate with local distributors and suppliers does not only lead to a positive effect on the business in the short run but also helps for achieving further collaboration by means of horizontal spillovers in the long run. One more effect of such collaboration is the MNC flushing out the local suppliers and the distributors out of the business by using their money power. This happens as a result of the larger pockets that the MNC have as compared to the local enterprise. Thus the concerned government of that particular economy should make sure that such effect of the MNC is limited in the short run and instead should make sure that the MNC work properly towards the growth and the enhancement of that particular economy. The investments by these MNC might fill up the gaps in the country's infrastructure besides improving the competition among the local suppliers and distributors who would go in for the improvement on their part too. This might lead to an increased demand as well as the technological knowhow shared by the MNC with the local suppliers will help in improving the overall economic condition of the particular country. b. Horizontal Linkages It is a type of a long term strategic alliance which provides an opportunity for the local firms to increase their technological knowhow and knowledge base by interaction with the MNC. As a matter of fact it can often be seen that the MNC might try to protect its most advanced technological knowhow and knowledge from its partners across borders (Mansfield & Romero, 1980), but it cannot in reality escape from sharing with its alliance partners the many aspects of its strategies, organizational practices and the knowledge base. Thus as and when the partnership flourishes the local firm may try moving up the value chain and change its own structure and activities by replicating the strategies followed by their foreign partners. These structural adjustments not only increase the degree of interaction between the two parties but also lead to the local firm to achieve a international level of competency. (iimcal, 2009) Forces causing Globalization For any multinational company foreign investment is very important and forms a key part of the strategy of these companies. Foreign investment allows companies to Takes care of the pressure from the foreign government for having a local production. Manages any kind of trade barrier that might prevent them from operating in a particular country. Expand to global markets across the world and transforming from a national company to a global company. Develops the capabilities to expand the capacity. Cash on the Opportunities that existing for co-production, having joint ventures with local partners, going for joint marketing arrangements, licensing, etc (oup, 2009) Challenges faced due to Globalization The major challenges faced by the MNC at the backdrop of globalization are as follows: Policies- Trade and investment flows into a country have been over centauries being affected by the poor macroeconomic policies that are being followed by the various governments. This has even led to large fiscal deficit and instability in the economies. Attracting the investors and the exporters in such scenario becomes as a key challenge. The policies followed are inconsistent and evokes a feeling of uncertainty and unpredictability which again leads the foreign investors and local traders to adopt a wait and watch policy instead of investing. Thus the challenges for the government are to follow a transparent and flexible policy. Investment in the Human Capital-Another challenge that globalization faces is the low priority which is given to the healthcare and the education sector in various nations (low human expenditure ratio) in the government budgets. These have long term negative implications such as the dearth of highly skilled workers. Infrastructure-Again one of the problems that the economies face is the low investment in infrastructure related sector. Lack of farm to market roads constrains exports; lack of communication facilities isolates a country and its people from the benefits of the revolution in information and communication technology. There are also instances that some policies are being followed which are in favor of the developed nations as compared to that for an emerging economy. For example the tariff reduction for the good from the industrial nations were double than those coming for the developing countries. This tariff escalation has discouraged the developing countries from adding value to their exports, is still very much in practice Again the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) have increased the cost of technology transfers to developing countries, which, in an increasingly knowledge- intensive global economy, reduces their ability to take advantage of opportunities that globalization offers. Opportunities and Types of financing methods for the operations of the a MNC Some of the financing methods adopted by the MNC for their operations in a foreign country are as follows: Trade credit is the process of providing good and services by a firm to its customers by means of an agreement for the due to be settled at a later date (payment to be made later) or receive the goods or services from a supplier and to pay them later. This strategy adopted by the firm can also be viewed as an element of capitalization in an operating business wherein if properly managed the firm can reduce the overall capital required by it to fund the operations of its business. Trade credit is the largest source of capital for the business to business type of enterprise. For the companies in the developing economies the trade credit serves as an alternative source of loans for the small and personal business loans. These types of source of funds have been used by the MNC to achieve collaboration in their business thereby allowing them to achieve their business objectives by making efficient use of these capitals. Transfer Pricing Another method of financing the operations for an MNC is by the use of the transfer pricing mechanism. In an MNC the means of transaction is mainly governed by either the hierarchy or by the means of the type of governance that exists. It may be a form of hybrid governance such as the networks, franchise operations, joint ventures or related party business that an MNC might adopt in order to achieve proper control. In case of a transfer pricing if the good are transferred from the manufacturing department to the assembly department the decision of allocating the cost to the respective department becomes important (weather the manufacturing or the assembly department) It is usually found that about two thirds of the managers term the market pricing to be non market based. Again there can be internal reasons for transfer pricing (motivating managers and monitoring of performance) or external reasons which may be in the form of the existing tax regime or tariffs A third type of the financing options that the MNC have is by the means of Royalties payment. It may also be called as the running royalties or the private sector taxes. It may be defined as the usage based payments made by the licensee to the licensor (one party to another) for the use of an asset which may be also in the form of an intellectual property (IP). It is usually a percentage of the net sales (or gross) of the assets or the price of an item sold. Besides this there also exists other means of payment of royalties. For example the royalty interest which is found in the oil or music industry is the right to collect future royalty payments. It gives an account of the percentage of the future payments from the total revenue. Again a license agreement defines the terms under which the property or the resource like the patents, copyrights or trademarks are licensed by one party to the another without any objections or limitations in the terms of the business or geographic territory or type of product. (wisegeek, 2009) The Foreign Direct Investment can be classified as follows 1. By Direction a. Inward This happens when the Foreign Direct Investment from the multinational companies is done and the same is directed towards local developments. b. Outward Also known as Direct Investment Abroad, Outward Foreign Direct investment happens when the capital from the local region is invested in the resources abroad or in foreign countries. 2. By Target a. Greenfield investment Many times multinational companies invest in new projects. They invest money to expand the existing facilities or they try to create new facilities. Such kind of Foreign Direct investments are called Greenfield investments. Most of the governments are very positive and keen on Greenfield investments. As per the Organization for international Investments there are numerous advantages of Greenfield investments. Again it is often been said that the benefits from these Greenfield projects are not passed to the economies of the host countries and instead are completely directed to the home countries of the multinational companies. b. Mergers and Acquisitions In this case there is a transfer of current assets from the local companies to the multinational companies. This is also a type of Foreign Direct Investment. Mergers happen when the assets of the multinational companies combine with the assets of the local companies to create a new legal entity in the host country. Similarly acquisition occurs when the assets of the local companies are passed on to the multinational companies on a foreign country and there is a formation of an affiliate company representing the foreign company in the host country. Consequently in acquisitions there is no benefit to the local companies and the host countries. But still mergers and acquisitions form a major portion of the Foreign Direct Investment. c. Horizontal FDI In this type of foreign direct investment, multinational companies make investments in the same industry in the foreign countries as the industry they operate in their home country. d. Vertical FDI a. Backward Vertical FDI This type of Foreign Direct Investment happens when the countries abroad provide the companies with the input factors of the production and resources for sustaining the domestic operations. b. Forward Vertical FDI This happens when output of the firm's domestic production is sold by the multinational companies in the industry abroad. e. Strategic-Asset-Seeking This kind of foreign direct investment is very often followed by the oil producing companies. The aim of this strategy is to prevent the competitors from acquiring or getting hold of the key assets that is needed for the sustainability of the companies in the current competitive markets. Oil producing companies constantly explore oil field in foreign countries and stake their claim ion the same when they discover oil and gas fields.
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Greetings Puffle fans!
It's an exciting day... The Puffle Party is here! Today is also a historic day, as it's the grand opening of the Puffle Hotel and the Rainbow Puffle is finally here for members to adopt!
Here's a video about the big event from our friends at Disney Channel. Check it out:
What's your favorite part of the big Puffle Party extravaganza so far? As always, we'd love to hear what you think of everything.
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With the Puffle Party coming up in just 2 days, we're hearing from a whole bunch of puffle fans who want the low-down on the party (and what'll stay behind).
Well... you've got puffle questions? I've got puffle answers!
Will the Puffle Hotel be permanent? Yes. The Puffle Hotel is here to stay - you'll be able to swing by the rooftop with your puffle for a snack and a swim whenever you want!
Can we adopt rainbow puffles after the Puffle Party? Absolutely. These majestic, magical new puffles will still be available for adoption after the party goes down.
Is the rainbow puffle member-only? You got it. When members complete a Puffle Care Quest, they'll get to blast off in the cannon to adopt a rainbow puffle. Free players can pamper their red and blue puffles at the Puffle Hotel, and work in the Puffle Hotel to earn coins too!
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Daniel Larrechea proved a more-than-able deputy for the injured Charlie Hodgson as he inspired Sale Sharks to a 17-12 victory against Harlequins.
The French fly-half scored 12 points in all, with the home side racing into a 14-3 lead at the break.
Harlequins struck back in the second half, however, with the boot of Adrian Jarvis bringing the London side two within two points of parity.
But opposite number Larrechea struck the telling blow, his third penalty of the match sealing victory for the reigning champions and bringing a positive end to a miserable few days.
Sale lost successive Guinness Premiership matches against Bristol and Newcastle - the latter defeat at home prompting an apology from director of rugby Phillipe Saint-Andre.
Then England number 10 Hodgson and prop Andrew Sheridan were ruled out for the rest of the season after suffering injuries during last Saturday's Test win against South Africa.
And to make matters worse, Scotland captain Jason White followed his club team mates into a lengthy rehabilitation.
Indeed, Sale's start to the match indicated more of the same for the Edgeley Park faithful, with an early Larrachea penalty miss followed by a successful kick from Jarvis.
But Larrachea gradually began to exert his influence on proceedings, some deft handling of the ball being backed up with a drop goal from the 'Quins 22 after 15 minutes that levelled the match.
A successful penalty then saw Larrachea edge Sale ahead, with the hosts scoring their first try in four matches after 22 minutes.
Poor handling in midfield was exploited by flanker Magnus Lund, the sometime England international combining well with centre Lee Thomas to exploit a gap in the Harlequins defence.
Although Larrachea failed to convert, another successful penalty conversion contributed to Sale's comfortable half-time lead.
Looking for their fourth win in a row, Harlequins mounted an impressive second half response, with Jarvis's first penalty pulling Harlequins back to within five points after 55 minutes.
And local hearts were certainly in mouths when a 45-metre Jarvis effort found its target with nine minutes remaining to secure the bonus point.
But it was left to Larrachea to ease the fears of Sharks fans, his fourth goal of the evening settling matters in favour of the home side and getting their title defence back on track.


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A navigation-satellite receiver network comprises a server connected to the Internet to provide real-time correction information to clients. The server includes a GPS receiver that provides for tracking of a constellation of navigation satellites. When a client is online, it can receive satellite position and velocity information in the form of a polynomial and coefficients. Clock, ionosphere, troposphere, and other corrections are all bundled into one polynomial. The client therefore never computes or uses almanac or ephemeris.
1. A network-assisted navigation satellite receiver system, comprising:
a network server with a first navigation satellite receiver for computing accurate time, and satellites' positions and velocities from ephemeris and almanac data;
a polynomial constructed to encode satellite position and velocity (SPV);
a second polynomial to encode the satellite corrections;
a network client with a second navigation satellite receiver that does not compute satellites' positions and velocities from ephemeris and almanac data, and that requests and uses the polynomial; and
an interconnecting network for communicating information dependent on the polynomial;
wherein, a user position and velocity solution at the network client is limited to fixed-integer, fixed LSB value arithmetic calculations.
2. The system of
3. The system of
4. The system of
wherein, for each SV model, a correction polynomial is constructed with its reference time synchronized to such model.
5. A method for supplying and using real-time corrections for GPS receivers on the Internet, the method comprising the steps of:
acquiring and tracking a first satellite constellation with a first navigation satellite receiver using ephemeris and almanac calculations, and obtaining clock, atmospheric, and other real-time correction information for a local area;
encoding said clock, atmospheric, and other real-time correction information for a local area into a single polynomial;
acquiring and tracking a second satellite constellation with a second navigation satellite receiver that does not use ephemeris and almanac calculations, wherein said first and second navigation satellite receivers are collocated within said local area;
transmitting said polynomial from a network server connected to the first navigation satellite receiver to a network client connected to the second navigation satellite receiver; and
computing position and velocity of said second navigation satellite receiver with information encoded in said polynomial.
6. The method of
The present invention relates to navigation satellite receivers, and more particularly to methods and systems for remotely aiding the operation of navigation satellite receivers by supplying ionosphere, troposphere, relativistic effects and the satellite vehicle's bias and drift (dtsv), earth rotation, and other correction information.
Global positioning system (GPS) receivers measure signals received from several earth-orbiting satellites to determine user position and velocity, and other navigational data. Because the receiver and satellite clocks are not perfectly synchronized, such clock offset acts as an error on the distance to the satellite. The apparent distance is called the "pseudorange" (PR). The clock error can be computed by assuming all the pseudoranges to the different satellites will have the same clock offset in one measurement epoch. So four satellites are needed for a position fix, three for latitude, longitude and height or (X, Y and Z), and one for the clock offset.
Other errors on the distances to the satellites are caused by variations in the radiowave propagation speed and earth rotation. The propagation changes are caused by ionospheric and tropospheric phenomenon.
The two basic types of GPS positioning systems are real-time navigation and high-precision carrier phase positioning. Real-time navigation systems collect a minimum of four pseudorange (PR) measurements to four satellites. The PR measurements are used to solve for the three-dimensional coordinates of the receiver and the clock offset between the receiver oscillator and GPS system time. Differential GPS (DGPS) also collects the pseudorange observables, and further obtains real-time corrections for the errors inherent in the measurements.
Beacon stations have been erected to broadcast discrete real-time corrections over other radio channels and networks. Such corrections are usually specific to the local geographic area. A DGPS receiver in the local area can provide far better accuracies when its navigation solutions have benefited from such corrective information. But, each correction has conventionally required a discrete calculation. And each such calculation adds to the CPU overhead, which-costs processing time and hardware expense.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide a method and system for providing and using real-time corrections for the errors inherent in GPS pseudorange measurements.
It is another object of the present invention to provide a method and system for improving the accuracy of navigation devices.
It is a further object of the present invention to provide a satellite-navigation system that is inexpensive.
Briefly, a navigation-satellite receiver network embodiment of the present invention comprises a server connected to the Internet to provide real-time correction information to clients. The server includes a GPS receiver that provides for tracking of a constellation of navigation satellites. When a client is online, it can receive satellite position and velocity information in the form of a polynomial coefficients. Clock, ionosphere, troposphere, and other corrections are all bundled into a second polynomial. The client therefore never computes or uses almanac or ephemeris.
Another advantage of the present invention is that a system and method are provided that lead to reduced equipment and usage costs.
These and other objects and advantages of the present invention will no doubt become obvious to those of ordinary skill in the art after having read the following detailed description of the preferred embodiments which are illustrated in the various drawing figures.
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram of a network system embodiment of the present invention wherein a server is assisting a client with real-time correction information communicated over the Internet; and
FIG. 2 is a flowchart diagram of a method embodiment of the present invention that provides and uses real-time correction information encoded as polynomials and supplied on demand over the Internet as in the network system in FIG. 1.
It is very expensive, on a number of scores, for a navigation receiver to work with the full ephemeris or full almanac to compute the satellite position and velocity. A large number of complex, non-arithmetic calculations need. to be processed, e.g., trigonometric and calculus computations. A satellite position and velocity model (SPV) polynomial is used in all embodiments of the present invention to approximate satellite position and velocity. A polynomial fit is made for a couple of positions and velocities, then this polynomial can be used to approximate satellite position and velocity at any time in a small interval. It is important in evaluating various SPV's to consider speed, storage, and accuracy for both position and velocity. The inherent quantization error can also be corrected for with help from the server. In general it is necessary to obtain position errors of about one meter, velocity errors better than 0.01 m/s, time errors of less than 10−6 seconds, and to minimize storage and calculation times.
FIG. 1 illustrates a network system 100, in an embodiment of the present invention, that includes a GPS reference station and network server system 102, a GPS user and network client system 104, and an intervening computer network 106 such as the Internet. The GPS reference station and network server system 102 critically provides error models and corrective information over the network 106 to help the GPS user and network client system 104 provide better and more rapid position solutions.
The server system 102 includes a navigation satellite receiver that has locked onto and is tracking a constellation of navigation satellites 108, 110, and 112. Some of these may also be visible to the client system 104. So the GPS reference station and network server system 102 knows time, and knows its fixed position and how the GPS solutions it computes differ from its surveyed position. The GPS reference station and network server system 102 is therefore able to generate simplified, polynomial error models and information from this data. The GPS reference station and network server system 102 is in a position to measure local ionospheric and tropospheric effects that will exist in the local geographic area. So if the GPS user and network client system 104 are in that local area, differential corrections can be employed to good effect.
The server system 102 is intended to be always on and tracking its constellation of navigation satellites 108, 110, and 112. It is then able to discern accurate, absolute system time and may also provide current ephemeris, troposphere, ionosphere, and other information to other navigation satellite receivers on the network. Such information can be provided as a service, on a per-use charge or as a subscription.
GPS pseudo range corrections traditionally include ionosphere, troposphere, relativistic effects and the satellite vehicle's bias and drift (dtsv), and earth rotation corrections. The satellites themselves fly a complex path that is represented by a satellite position and velocity model (SPV).
Another constellation of navigation satellites, including 114 and 116 is visible to client system 104. The client system 104 includes its own navigation satellite receiver, but such may not have yet locked onto and be tracking its constellation of navigation satellites 112, 114, and 116.
Embodiments of the present invention can be divided into three levels of correction assistance to the user 104. These correspond to three different network client types, autonomous, demi-autonomous using ASPV's, and demi-autonomous using SPV's.
In general, method embodiments of the present invention calculate a "corrTotal" variable, which is the sum of all the corrections for a particular time and user position. The first and second derivatives are used with respect to the time of correction, to calculate an approximate correction for a user that has not changed position. A position-movement threshold is preferably included such that if the user position has changed too much, all the correction terms will automatically be recalculated for the new location. For example,
An autonomous client 104 uses ephemeris information to create satellite position and velocity models (SPV's) every thirty-two seconds. The sum of the correction terms is calculated, e.g., corrTotal. An approximation is calculated to the first derivative of correction, with respect to time, using the so-called "a1" term of dtsv, with satellite velocities in place of satellite positions for earth rotation. These are then summed into the corrRamp variable. A second derivative, corr2nd, includes only the so-called "a2" term of dtsv. These two terms are then used to calculate a total correction for a particular position fix.
A demi-autonomous client 104 using ASPV's relies on corrections that are sent from the server 102. The server will solve the corrections in double at the start of the ASPV, tref, then using the correction values at t1=tref+Δt, and t2=tref+2Δt to create a polynomial in time for the correction. The coefficients of such polynomial are calculated using,
which solves to give,
These coefficients are used by the client 104 to calculate the correction value at the time of position fix. If the user position moves too far, the network client 104 must ask the server 102 for new correction terms for the new user position. ASPV's use Δt=400, because it maintains a relatively small error over the whole 900 second window of the ASPV. For the demi-autonomous client using SPV's, the same coefficients are used with Δt=16.
Table I summarizes the results that were obtained in one series of tests of various prototype SPV model implementations, A-F, of the present invention. Under the SPV "Model" column, the "p" is the number of positions and "v" is the number of velocities used to calculate the coefficients. An "O2" means a second order polynomial, "O3" is a third order, etc. The "delt" is a time test. Under the "#Eph" column, the number of ephemeris or other full position and velocity routines that are needed to calculate the coefficients. The "#Calcs Coef" is a rough approximation for the number and type of calculations required for both coefficients and position and velocity. The "#Calcs SPV" lists the number of multiplies and adds. The "#Coef" column lists the number of polynomial coefficients used. The resultant errors obtained with the various models are listed in the maximum position error "Max Pos Err" and maximum velocity error "Max Vel Err" columns.
Model-E and model-F were studied in greater detail. Model-E consisted of 2p's 2v's O2 delta t=32 seconds, and Model-F used independent O2 Pos polynomials and O2 Vel polynomials for each. For both models, time relative to the start of the interval is used. For Model-E, a second position and velocity is taken at t0+Δt where Δt=32 seconds. In matrix form, the equations for the calculations of the coefficients were,
The velocity model is similar, the p's are replaced with v's, and corresponding set of coefficients are used. The position and velocity models are describable as,
and is used when −Δt<t<Δt, where Δt=32 seconds . Another velocity polynomial was required to improve the velocity accuracy to better than 0.01 m/s. Model-E is more costly in its calculation of the coefficients for both position and velocity. However, compared to Model-F, it maintains better position and much better velocities.
While working with these SPV's, other cost saving measures were found, e.g., the modeling of position, velocity and time as 32-bit integers with fixed least significant bit (LSB) values. A good LSB to use for position was LSB=2−6 meters, and the LSB for velocity was LSB=2−12 meters/second.
The 32-bit words with fixed LSB values allows integer math to be used in some calculations, and thereby reduces the storage costs for each variable. Delta time is fixed, Δt=32 seconds, and the coefficients are written as 32-bit integers with differently fixed LSB's. For time, Δt is less than �64 seconds, allowing extra time for calculation overlap. The integer part of Δt can be stored in 7-bits including sign, so 25-bit are available for the decimal representation. The Δt could be stored in a 16-bit signed integer. But that would only leave 9-bits to represent the decimal portion. Such would provide an accuracy of about 0.002, and is not accurate enough for a good position fix. For Model-E, an unsigned 16-bit number with 5-bits could be used for the integer. And 11-bits used for the decimal. This provides an accuracy of about 0.0005, and is satisfactory for a good position fix. However if Δt>32-seconds, the representations would overrun the bits available.
A lean client is one with models for satellite position and velocity that are easy-to-compute. Such models need only be valid for short time spans, rather than the full ephemeredes which are valid for much longer periods. The easy-to-compute models are accentuated with correction polynomials C(t). Each such polynomial is constructed from three reference points. For example, if C(ti)j is the correction for the jth SV at time ti, and position x, then,
C(t i)j=−dtsv(t i)j+eRot(t i , x)j+Iono(t i , x)j+Tropo(t i , x)j
The "dtsv" term corrects for relativistic effects and the SV's bias and drift. The "eRot" term corrects for earth rotation. The ionospheric and tropospheric terms correct for propagation delays.
There are three types of ionospheric and tropospheric corrections: measured, measured-adjusted, and computed. When a client makes a request from the server, the best estimate of the user position is given to a pre-position engine, and the SV's to be searched are determined. This initial position may be far off from the true user position, and may require another handshake with the server for a better eRot term. For each SV model, a correction polynomial is constructed. Its reference time must be synchronized to the model.
For efficiency, the reference time tref of an SPV model is strobed to the middle of its validity window. The reference time of the correction tcorr is strobed to the beginning of the SPV's validity so that tcorr=tref−16. Thus, demi-SPV clients will also have a validity window of 32 seconds and therefore have the above dtsv, eRot, and atmospheric components computed at tcorr, tcorr+16, and tcorr+32 seconds.
Demi-ASPV clients have a validity window of 900 seconds, and therefore have the dtsv, eRot and atmospheric components computed at tc+const, tc+400+const, tc+800+const seconds. In the ASPV model, tref is strobed to the beginning of the validity window. The value of "const" is determined after the LSB of the velocity term in ASPV's is set.
The auto-serve, server-assisted autonomous clients are demi-SPV clients seeded with ephemeris for later use.
There are three basic types of corrections, type-I, type-II, and type-III.
A type-I correction incorporates measured corrections into the client corrections, e.g., the line-of-sight ionospheric, tropospheric and other SV clock or ephemeris errors. The type-I correction therefore needs to be the most accurate of the three types.
In a type-II correction, the routine assumption that the line-of-sight from an SV to a reference station is the same as for a nearby user cannot be used. So a type-II correction further incorporates ionospheric and tropospheric correction constituents into a correction model.
A type-III correction supplies the ionospheric and tropospheric models themselves when no measured data is available for an SV.
The observables sent from the reference station 102 include the pseudo range correction (PRC), computed, e.g., PRC=dy−b, where dy=measured PR−|Xsv−Xrefsta|+eRot−dtsv). There are no ionospheric and tropospheric correction constituents in this model. Also b=⅓Σ3 smallestpairs|dy*i−dy*k|, where dy*j=dyj−(I+T)model.
For pseudo range rate correction (PRRC), given the reference station has zero velocity, PRRC==ddy−d, where ddysv=measuredRangeRate−(U*Vsv+correctionsDot) . There are no ionospheric and tropospheric derivatives in this model. Also, U=XSV−Xu/|XSV−Xu|, and d=⅓Σ3 pairs|ddyi−ddyk |, where the pairs are the same as those used for b provided that ddy is less than two-milliseconds.
The PRRC's used on the server are low-pass filtered such that any definite bias is propagated. If they are mostly noise, the PRRC's are set to zero.
There is a common mode bias in the reference stations' PRC's that must be tolerated. Each SV has its own unknown ionospheric and tropospheric line-of-sight errors, and the reference-station itself has a clock bias that affects all the SV's. Thus for any set of "n" SV's being tracked by a reference station, there will be n+1 unknowns. The reference station clock error cannot be completely extracted from the ionospheric and tropospheric line-of-sight errors. However, any residual common-mode reference-station clock bias can be passed onto the user clock bias.
A method embodiment of the present invention can be implemented, as follows:
The auto-serve client is preferably treated as a demi-SPV at initialization.
The filtering is preferably done at high level in the software, e.g., on in "C" source code and Java applets.
On the C side, the filter in continuous mode is such that
where the steady state value of α=1/k, for some integer k=kmax.
For the initialization, PRRC0 f=0, and the value of α=1/1,1/2,1/3 . . . , 1/kmax for the first kmax data points. Nominally kmax=6.
On the Java side, For the SPV demi, PRRCf is used. For the ASPV demi, the following pseudo code is used,
FIG. 2 illustrates a method embodiment of the present invention for supplying and using real-time corrections for GPS receivers on the Internet, and is referred to herein by the general reference numeral 200. The method 200 begins with a step 202 in which the server 102 (FIG. 1) acquires and tracks satellite constellation 108, 110, 112, etc. In a step 204 it has the information necessary to compute and does calculate real-time corrections. It further converts ephemeris and almanac information into a valid-for-a-short-period polynomial. Such polynomial includes satellite position and velocity (SPV). It further can include clock, earth rotation, and atmospheric effects for a local area. A step 206 converts the information in one bundle into polynomial coefficients that are fixed-integer and fixed LSB valued. A step 208 transmits the data on demand from a webserver on the Internet to browsers or other http-clients. For example, such information could be provided for a fee and as a subscription. A step 210 represents a client 104 requesting such transmitted information. A step 212 computes and corrects a user position and velocity. A step 214 outputs the corrected results to a user.
Although the present invention has been described in terms of the presently preferred embodiments, it is to be understood that the disclosure is not to be interpreted as limiting. Various alterations and modifications will no doubt become apparent to those skilled in the art after having read the above disclosure. Accordingly, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as covering all alterations and modifications as fall within the "true" spirit and scope of the invention.
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