Abstract: Liquid gauging system for liquid in a container includes a plurality of sensors; each of the sensors measuring a respective parameter of the liquid in the container and producing a sensor output related to its measured parameter; there being at least two sensors that measure different parameters of the liquid; and a processor that receives the sensor outputs and determines, based on the sensor outputs, a quantity of the liquid in the container; the processor determining the quantity by executing at least one sensor fusion algorithm that is based on a set of relationships between the measured parameters and the quantity. The gauging system can also include a data fusion process for determining quantity based on a plurality of quantity measurements.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
December 23, 1997
Date of Patent:
December 5, 2000
Assignee:
Simmonds Precision Products, Inc.
Inventors:
Robert Alan Hess, Mark George Walker, Radoslaw Romuald Zakrzewski, Luis Carlos Rabelo, Robert Curtis North, Scott Robert Durkee