GPS World - January 2008 - (Page 4)

Survey & Construction Military & Government Avionics & Transportation LBS Mass Market OEM Utilities & Communications System Design & Test News on Your Target Excerpt from the System Design & Test Discussion Forum Training with GPS: It’s Good Horse Sense The equestrian sport is a worldwide In 2005, a team of undergraduate multi-million dollar industry. Tremenstudents at Miami University began the dous amounts of time, effort, and design and implementation of a realfinancial resources are devoted to the time tracking and monitoring device catraining of horses and riders. pable of measuring a horse’s position, A real-time tracking and monitoring velocity, and heart rate. device that provides critical information The students presented their results about the horse and the rider can be an at the 2007 ION GNSS conference. effective and efficient way to help the Their system consists of a mobile unit, training process. This information may a base station, and a wireless radio include the position, velocity, posture, modem. The core of the mobile unit and physiological states of the horse is a microprocessor which interfaces and rider. Current available systems with a GPS receiver module, an IMU, are limited to provide only GPS position and a modified horse heart-rate sensor. and velocity with low update rate (1Hz) A 4-state Kalman filter is implemented and horse heart-rate monitoring. Furto loosely couple the GPS and IMU thermore, the existing system data are measurements to capture the horse’s post-processed for analysis. position and motion dynamics. Read the full thread at http://forums.gpsworld.com/showthread.php?t=72 Up percent! Traffic Report: 81,828 November 20 – December 20, 2007 23 unique visitors last month 126,461 e-newsletter subscribers Hottest Pages @ GPSWorld.com LBS Editor Called Up Contributing editor Kevin Dennehy, who writes our twice-monthly LBS Insider e-mail newsletter, was called up for active duty and sent to Germany in December, for six months. We only learned in October that he is a lieutenant colonel in the National Guard! He plans to continue writing his column, with former editor Mike Sheldrick stepping up to fill in the gaps. Kevin plans to make it back briefly to San Francisco in March for the GPS-Wireless conference that he organizes every year. Kevin served a tour in Afghanistan in 2003, as shown in this photo in Bamian, where the Taliban blew up the Buddhas from the fifth century. He recalls, “Always used my Garmin Etrex Summit to map minefields, routes, helicopter landing zones, and so on.” 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 4 Google Includes Location Finder in Mobile Google Maps Recently Launched GLONASS Satellites Deemed Healthy Continuous Navigation: Combining GPS with Sensor-Based Dead Reckoning Lets Go Downtown, Lets Go Indoors: Pedestrian Navigation in Obstructed Environments Navigating These Mean Streets: Real-time Mapping in Autonomous Vehicles Cobra Calls it Quits on MassMarket Sat Nav Raytheon, Northrop Grumman Score GPS Control Contract PND Owners Happy Despite Problematic Devices Satisfaction Not Guaranteed (Military & Government newsletter editorial) Consumer GPS Helps Put the Black in Friday GPS World | January 2008 www.gpsworld.com http://forums.gpsworld.com/showthread.php?t=72 http://www.gpsworld.com http://www.gpsworld.com

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GPS - January 2008 Contents Out in Front Expert Advice The Money-Go-Round u-Nav Latest Acquisition Apples to Apples Global SBAS 2008 GPS Receiver Survey Advertisers Index & Company Directory The Manufacturer's Road Year of the Who Working Indoor Up and Down Good, Better, Best Marketplace Classifieds Seen + Heard

GPS World - January 2008

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