Patents Assigned to Swift Navigation, Inc.
  • Publication number: 20240094415
    Abstract: An system and/or method for detecting outliers in satellite observations can include: receiving satellite observations associated with one or more satellite constellations; receiving sensor data; determining a GNSS positioning solution using a filter to process the satellite observations; determining a fused positioning solution; detecting whether outliers are present in the satellite observations; and when outliers are detected, updating the GNSS positioning solution and/or the fused positioning solution using a set of outlier mitigated satellite observations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Angelo, Christian Reimer, Sébastien Carcanague
  • Patent number: 11906640
    Abstract: A method can include receiving a set of satellite signals, refining the set of satellite signals to generate a refined set of satellite signals, determining a satellite solution for each satellite associated with a satellite signal in the refined set of satellite signals, applying an a-priori correction to the satellite signals, determining a set of time differenced satellite signals between the satellite signals from a current epoch and a previous epoch; and determining the positioning solution of the rover using a fusion engine that processes the differenced satellite signals and inertial measurement unit (IMU) data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Reimer, Joseph Angelo, Sebastien Carcanague
  • Patent number: 11867823
    Abstract: A system or method for generating GNSS corrections can include receiving satellite observations associated with a set of satellites at a reference station, determining atmospheric corrections valid within a geographical area; wherein geographical areas associated with different atmospheric corrections can be overlapping, and wherein the atmospheric corrections can be provided to a GNSS receiver when the locality of the GNSS receiver is within a transmission region of the geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Lipeles Segal, Mark Fine, Joseph Angelo, Leith Bade, Fergus MacPherson Noble
  • Patent number: 11860260
    Abstract: A system for estimating a receiver position with high integrity can include a reference station observation monitor configured to: receive a set of reference station observations associated with a set of reference stations, detect a predetermined event, and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a modeling engine configured to generate corrections; a reliability engine configured to validate the corrections; an observation monitor configured to: receive a set of satellite observations from a set of global navigation satellites corresponding to at least one satellite constellation; detect a predetermined event; and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a carrier phase determination module configured to determine a carrier phase ambiguity of the set of satellite observations; and a position filter configured to estimate a position of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastien Carcanague, Fergus MacPherson Noble
  • Patent number: 11860287
    Abstract: An system and/or method for detecting outliers in satellite observations can include: receiving satellite observations associated with one or more satellite constellations; receiving sensor data; determining a GNSS positioning solution using a filter to process the satellite observations; determining a fused positioning solution; detecting whether outliers are present in the satellite observations; and when outliers are detected, updating the GNSS positioning solution and/or the fused positioning solution using a set of outlier mitigated satellite observations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Angelo, Christian Reimer, Sébastien Carcanague
  • Patent number: 11733397
    Abstract: A method or system can include or be configured to receive a set of satellite observations, receiving sensor data, determining a position estimate and associated positioning error for a rover based on the set of satellite observations and the sensor data, determine a protection level associated with the position estimate based on a set of potential faults, and optionally provide an alert when the positioning error exceeds the protection level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Reimer, Philippe Brocard
  • Patent number: 11714196
    Abstract: A system for generating satellite positioning corrections includes a global correction module that generates a set of global pre-corrections based on modeling of global positioning error, a set of local correction modules that, for each local correction module of the set, takes input from a unique reference source and generates a set of local pre-corrections based on modeling of local positioning error; and a correction generator that generates a positioning correction from the set of global pre-corrections and the sets of local pre-corrections to correct a position of the mobile receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Fergus Noble, Anthony Cole
  • Patent number: 11693120
    Abstract: A method for disseminating corrections can include receiving a set of satellite observations at a GNSS receiver; transmitting the corrections to the GNSS receiver, wherein the corrections; and determining a position of the GNSS receiver, wherein the set of satellite observations are corrected using the corrections. A system for disseminating corrections can include a positioning engine operating on a computing system collocated with a GNSS antenna; and a corrections generator operating on a computing system remote from the GNSS antenna, wherein the corrections generator is configured to transmit corrections to the positioning engine, wherein the positioning engine is configured to determine a high accuracy position of the GNSS antenna using the corrections, wherein the corrections are rebroadcast to the positioning engine with a time period less than an update time period for changing the corrections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Joseph Angelo, Leith Bade, Sébastien Carcanague
  • Patent number: 11681050
    Abstract: A system and method for determining a GNSS receiver position includes receiving a first and a second set of satellite observations; determining a first and second ambiguity set associated with a first and second transformation respectively; determining cross-validated ambiguities between the first and second ambiguity sets; and determining the GNSS receiver position based on at least one of the first or second ambiguity sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Grgich, Anthony Mark Cole, Sébastien Carcanague
  • Patent number: 11662478
    Abstract: A method can include receiving sensor data, receiving satellite observations, determining a positioning solution (e.g., PVT solution, PVA solution, kinematic parameters, etc.) based on the sensor data and the satellite observations. A system can include a sensor, a GNSS receiver, and a processor configured to determine a positioning solution based on readings from the sensor and the GNSS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Reimer, Guillaume Decerprit, Richard Deurloo, Sebastien Carcanague, Joseph Angelo
  • Patent number: 11624838
    Abstract: A system or method for generating or distributing GNSS corrections can include or operate to: generate a set of corrections based on satellite observations, wherein each correction of the set of corrections comprises an area associated with the correction, a tag, and correction data; update a set of stored corrections with the set of received corrections based on a tag associated with each correction of the set of stored corrections and the tag associated with each correction of the set of received corrections; and transmit stored corrections of the set of stored corrections to the GNSS receiver when the area associated with the stored corrections matches the locality of the GNSS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Mark Fine, Benjamin Lipeles Segal, Fergus MacPherson Noble
  • Patent number: 11624843
    Abstract: A method for reduced-outlier satellite positioning includes receiving a set of satellite positioning observations at a receiver; generating a first receiver position estimate; generating a set of posterior observation residual values from the set of satellite positioning observations and the first receiver position estimate; based on the set of posterior observation residual values, identifying a subset of the satellite positioning observations as statistical outliers; and after mitigating an effect of the statistical outliers, generating a second receiver position estimate having higher accuracy than the first receiver position estimate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Grgich, Matt Peddie
  • Patent number: 11550067
    Abstract: A method can include receiving sensor data, receiving satellite observations, determining a positioning solution (e.g., PVT solution, PVA solution, kinematic parameters, etc.) based on the sensor data and the satellite observations. A system can include a sensor, a GNSS receiver, and a processor configured to determine a positioning solution based on readings from the sensor and the GNSS receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Reimer, Guillaume Decerprit, Richard Deurloo, Sébastien Carcanague, Joseph Angelo
  • Patent number: 11543541
    Abstract: A system for estimating a receiver position with high integrity can include a reference station observation monitor configured to: receive a set of reference station observations associated with a set of reference stations, detect a predetermined event, and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a modeling engine configured to generate corrections; a reliability engine configured to validate the corrections; an observation monitor configured to: receive a set of satellite observations from a set of global navigation satellites corresponding to at least one satellite constellation; detect a predetermined event; and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a carrier phase determination module configured to determine a carrier phase ambiguity of the set of satellite observations; and a position filter configured to estimate a position of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastien Carcanague, Fergus MacPherson Noble
  • Patent number: 11480690
    Abstract: A method and system for determining a receiver position comprising receiving satellite observations from a set of satellites, determining differenced observations based on the satellite observations, determining an all-in-view position of the receiver based on the differenced observations, determining a set of fault modes each associated with a subset of the differenced observations, for a fault mode of the set of fault modes, determining a fault-tolerant position of the receiver using the subset of differenced observations associated with the fault mode, when the all-in-view position and the fault tolerant position of the receiver for each fault mode are within a solution separation threshold, calculating a protection level associated with the all-in-view position of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2022
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Paul Grgich, Lloyd Maza, Philippe Brocard
  • Patent number: 11378699
    Abstract: A system or method for generating GNSS corrections can include receiving satellite observations associated with a set of satellites at a reference station, determining atmospheric corrections valid within a geographical area; wherein geographical areas associated with different atmospheric corrections can be overlapping, and wherein the atmospheric corrections can be provided to a GNSS receiver when the locality of the GNSS receiver is within a transmission region of the geographical area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Lipeles Segal, Mark Fine, Joseph Angelo, Leith Bade, Fergus MacPherson Noble
  • Patent number: 11372114
    Abstract: A system for estimating a receiver position with high integrity can include a remote server comprising: a reference station observation monitor configured to: receive a set of reference station observations associated with a set of reference stations, detect a predetermined event, and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a modeling engine configured to generate corrections; a reliability engine configured to validate the corrections; and a positioning engine comprising: an observation monitor configured to: receive a set of satellite observations from a set of global navigation satellites corresponding to at least one satellite constellation; detect a predetermined event; and mitigate an effect of the predetermined event; a carrier phase determination module configured to determine a carrier phase ambiguity of the set of satellite observations; and a position filter configured to estimate a position of the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2022
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Sebastien Carcanague, Fergus Macpherson Noble
  • Patent number: 11300689
    Abstract: A system and method for determining a receiver position can include determining a receiver position based on a set of satellite observations, determining the receiver position based on sensor measurements, determining a satellite observation discontinuity; based on the satellite observation discontinuity, determining a second receiver position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Fergus MacPherson Noble, Sébastien Carcanague, Paul Grgich
  • Patent number: 11237276
    Abstract: A system and method for generating a set of GNSS corrections using a GNSS corrections model comprising a Gaussian process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventor: Alexander Kleeman
  • Patent number: 11061141
    Abstract: A system for generating satellite positioning corrections includes a global correction module that generates a set of global pre-corrections based on modeling of global positioning error, a set of local correction modules that, for each local correction module of the set, takes input from a unique reference source and generates a set of local pre-corrections based on modeling of local positioning error; and a correction generator that generates a positioning correction from the set of global pre-corrections and the sets of local pre-corrections to correct a position of the mobile receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: Swift Navigation, Inc.
    Inventors: Fergus Noble, Anthony Cole