Abstract: A traffic violation processing method is disclosed, which includes the steps of monitoring a vehicle; determining whether the vehicle is in violation of a traffic violation and recording the image of the vehicle on a camera when the vehicle is determined to have violated a traffic violation; providing a digital image of the vehicle; recording and storing deployment data corresponding to the violation, wherein the deployment data includes an identifier associated with the traffic violation; assigning the identifier to the digital traffic image; storing the digital image of the vehicle, together with the identifier, on a storage medium; matching the deployment data with the stored digital image by correlating or matching the identifier associated with the deployment data with the identifier associated with the stored digital image; and generating a traffic document that includes the stored digital image and the deployment data.

Abstract: The invention is a system and method for managing a resource having a stop point. Each of at least one mobile machine includes a queue manager adapted to generate a queue position request as the mobile machine approaches the resource. A resource manager is adapted to establish a queue to control access to the resource. After receiving the queue position request from the approaching mobile machine, the resource manager generates a queue position and sends it to the mobile machine. The resource manager then determines the next stop point to be accessed. When the resource is available to receive another mobile machine, the resource manger directs the first mobile machine in the selected queue to proceed to access the stop point.

Abstract: A system and method for managing access of at least one mobile machine to a load resource having a loading machine including a queue manager adapted to deliver a queue position request signal, a resource manager adapted to control access to the load resource, and a load manager adapted to determine a load point for a mobile machine.

Abstract: A system and method for managing access to a resource by at least one mobile machine including a queue manager adapted to generate a queue position request signal as a mobile machine approaches the resource and determine if access to the resource is unsuccessful. The queue manager also generates a access status signal after access the resource. The system and method also includes a resource manager adapted to control access to the resource by the mobile machine.

Abstract: A system located in a region to determine information about an unknown car relative to a moving train includes first and second satellite navigation receivers, first and second transceivers and first and second controllers. The moving train includes a first car, and the region includes the moving train and the unknown car. The region is defined by points at which radio communication with the first car is possible. The first satellite navigation receiver, located in the first car, provides first location data, and the second satellite navigation receiver, located in the unknown car, provides second location data. The first transceiver is located in the first car, and the second transceiver is located in the unknown car. The first controller, located in the first car, reads the first location data from the first satellite receiver at a first time and sends via the first transceiver a first request to the second transceiver at the first time.

Abstract: When the vehicle is running in a low speed condition, a vehicle-mounted running control device performs vehicle control of a normal mode without performing of traffic jam control of the vehicle, if it is discriminated that the vehicle will change a running course thereof on the basis of road information of a scheduled vehicle running course obtained from a navigation system, and performs the traffic jam control with the vehicle being discriminated as in the traffic jam condition, if it is discriminated that the vehicle will not change the running course thereof.

Abstract: A method of controlling a controllable clutch in the drive train between a front axle and a rear axle of a motor vehicle having four-wheel drive including determining the rotational speed of each of the wheels with a wheel-speed sensor, supplying output signals from the sensor to an evaluation unit having a data memory, determining, from the wheel radii stored in the evaluation unit and from the difference between the averaged rotational speeds of the wheels of the front axle and the averaged rotational speeds of the wheels of the rear axle, a theoretical rotational-speed difference for cornering without wheel slip in the clutch, and generating a control signal for operation of the clutch in such a way that a constant basic transmitted torque is set in the clutch.

Abstract: A vehicle mounted, navigation device is disclosed. This invention combines a global position system (GPS) with an image capturing system into a portable device that can be optimally mounted within a vehicle. The image capturing system detects and interprets visual information in the vicinity of the vehicle to provide the vehicle operator with appropriate navigational guidance assistance and to compensate for the positioning errors embedded in commercial GPS signals. Additionally, the device has the capability to store consecutive frames of detected, visual information so as to enable the device to be used for accident aftermath analysis and the documentation of an event or scene that occurs within the vicinty of the vehicle. The device includes a mounting assembly which enables the device to be used in most automotive vehicles, with the device usually being mounted behind the vehicle's rearview mirror such that a set of directional turning indicators naturally fall within the vehicle operator's field of view.

Abstract: Method and apparatus for providing GPS pseudorange correction information over a selected geographic region S with a diameter of up to 300 km with an associated inaccuracy no greater than 5 cm. N spaced apart GPS reference stations (N>4), whose location coordinates (u.sub.n,v.sub.n,w.sub.n) are fixed and are known with high accuracy, are provided within or adjacent to the region R. Each reference station n(n=1, 2, . . . , N) receives GPS signals from at least four common-view GPS satellites, numbered m=1, 2, . . . , M (M.gtoreq.4), computes its own GPS-determined location coordinates, compares these coordinates with its known location coordinates, determines the pseudorange corrections PRC(t;t0;m;n) for its GPS-determined location, and transmits these correction signals to a central station located within or adjacent to the region S. The central station retransmits the pseudorange correction signals throughout the region S.

Abstract: A device for estimating slip angle of vehicle body of a vehicle, having: means for calculating yaw rate based upon such parameters as detected steering angle, vehicle speed, lateral acceleration and braking forces as variable parameters, the slip angle of the vehicle body estimated by the vehicle body slip angle estimation device, a first feedback factor multiplied to difference between the detected yaw rate and the yaw rate calculated by the yaw rate calculation means, and fixed parameters particular to the vehicle, such that the calculated yaw rate converges to the detected yaw rate; means for calculating slip angle of the vehicle body based upon such parameters as detected steering angle, vehicle speed, lateral acceleration, braking forces and yaw rate, the yaw rate calculated by the yaw rate calculation means, a second feedback factor multiplied to the difference between the detected yaw rate and the yaw rate calculated by the yaw rate calculation means, and fixed parameters particular to the vehicle, suc

Abstract: The invention is a system and method for managing a resource having multiple entry points. Each mobile machine includes a queue manager for generating a queue position request upon approach to the resource. A resource manager establishes queues, one for each entry point to the resource, to control access to the resource. Upon receiving a queue position request from an approaching mobile machine, the resource manager determines which queue to place the mobile machine, and then generates a queue position and sends a queue position signal to the approaching mobile machine.

Abstract: A half-dead reckoning satellite navigation receiver comprises a receiver for tracking and acquisition of two, three, four or more satellites and for computing navigation solutions from the available satellites. A navigation computer is included that provides for navigation when only three satellites are visible by constraining the altitude. The navigation computer further provides for a half-dead-reckoning mode of operation when only two satellites are visible and the altitude is constrained by providing a one dimensional satellite navigation solution. The receiver position is projected by dead reckoning with the projection corrected in one axis only that is perpendicular to the available horizontal line of position.

Abstract: A distributed control system for a heavy construction machine, comprising a plurality of modules into which components in the heavy construction machine are classified according to functions and positions. The modules are individually controlled and each of them exchanges information with a different one of the modules through a single line. According to the present invention, the number of wires is significantly reduced, thereby making the wiring in assembling and repairing very easy. Also, when the heavy construction machine fails, the corresponding portion can readily be grasped and repaired. Further, the model and function of the heavy construction machine can readily be modified.