Patents by Inventor Houcine Chafouk

Houcine Chafouk has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8942923
    Abstract: Method of determining navigation parameters for a carrier by a hybridization device comprising a Kalman filter (3) formulating a hybrid navigation solution on the basis of inertial measurements calculated by a virtual platform (2) and of raw measurements of signals emitted by a constellation of satellites delivered by a satellite positioning system (GNSS), characterized in that it comprises, the steps of: —determination, for each satellite, of at least one likelihood ratio (Ir, Ir?) between a hypothesis regarding a fault of a given nature of the satellite and a hypothesis regarding an absence of fault of the satellite, —declaration, of a fault of a given nature on a satellite as a function of the likelihood ratio (Ir, Ir?) associated with this fault and of a threshold value, —estimation of the impact of the declared fault on the hybrid navigation solution, and ?correction of the hybrid navigation solution as a function of the estimation of the impact of the declared fault.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignee: Sagem Defense Securite
    Inventors: Didier Riedinger, Houcine Chafouk
  • Publication number: 20120123679
    Abstract: Method of determining navigation parameters for a carrier by a hybridization device comprising a Kalman filter (3) formulating a hybrid navigation solution on the basis of inertial measurements calculated by a virtual platform (2) and of raw measurements of signals emitted by a constellation of satellites delivered by a satellite positioning system (GNSS), characterized in that it comprises, the steps of:—determination, for each satellite, of at least one likelihood ratio (Ir, Ir?) between a hypothesis regarding a fault of a given nature of the satellite and a hypothesis regarding an absence of fault of the satellite,—declaration, of a fault of a given nature on a satellite as a function of the likelihood ratio (Ir, Ir?) associated with this fault and of a threshold value,—estimation of the impact of the declared fault on the hybrid navigation solution, and ?correction of the hybrid navigation solution as a function of the estimation of the impact of the declared fault.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2010
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Inventors: Didier Riedinger, Houcine Chafouk