POSITION DETERMINATION OF MOBILE OBJECTS

    公开(公告)号:US20210001981A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-01-07

    申请号:US16905649

    申请日:2020-06-18

    Abstract: An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising: determining that a first mobile object requires positioning assistance based on one or more predetermined criteria, wherein the predetermined criteria includes whether one or more properties of a planned or predicted future position of the first mobile object have been identified as insufficient, or are predicted as being insufficient, for determining the position of the first mobile object with a required level of accuracy; and responsive to said determination, causing deployment of one or more movable devices (e.g. UAVs) to a target position for providing the required positioning assistance to said first mobile object.

    Position Likelihood Based Beamformer Optimization

    公开(公告)号:US20210399777A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US17284652

    申请日:2018-10-17

    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a beamforming processing apparatus for a radio transmitter or receiver including an antenna array. The beamforming processing apparatus includes circuitry configured for maintaining, in a database, information on radiation properties of the antenna array and probability density functions for target device positions. The radiation properties of the antenna array include beam parameters and a beam parameter dependent beam gain function. The beamforming processing apparatus includes circuitry configured for calculating cumulative distribution functions of beam gain based on the probability density functions and the beam gain function and based thereon one or more optimal values of beam parameters defining an optimal beam by maximizing a first optimization parameter defined based on the one or more cumulative distribution functions subject to a minimum value of a second optimization parameter.

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