Sentence examples for reckoning system from inspiring English sources

In a report in early February, Day & Zimmerman International, an engineering consulting firm that monitors work by New York City Transit's contractors, said the dead reckoning system has been able to locate an off-route bus to within a city block in road tests, but still not to within 120 feet, as the contract requires.

Other features include "802.11 and Bluetooth/Zigbee interfaces, a GPS receiver, electronic compass, biometric fingerprint sensor, and a tilt and dead reckoning system that detects the position of the user's arm and sets the system to standby mode when the arm is hanging down beside the body".

The vehicles use a dead reckoning system developed by Frog AGV to navigate their way through the environment, allowing a vehicle to cross another's path.

When forced to fly in a non-beeline, i.e. around large obstacles like mountains, honeybees employ a dead reckoning system which constantly updates the distance and direction to the hive.

The proposed dynamic modeling process has been tested in a real indoor environment using an experimental wheelchair equipped with ultrasonic sensors and a dead-reckoning system.

Their errors, like those of any other dead-reckoning system, are cumulative with time, but nuclear-powered submarines have traveled under the north polar ice cap, guided solely by inertial systems, with errors of less than a mile per week.

When the view-based piloting system recognizes a home base, visual place information recalibrates the dead-reckoning system, inverting the hierarchical ordering of the two dynamic levels by time scale inversion.

The authors implemented this research by using the Personal Dead Reckoning positioning system to serve as the inertial navigation based positioning system.

At the first level, the Integrated Tracking System (ITS) was developed by integrating Global Positioning System (GPS) and Personal Dead Reckoning (PDR) system to ubiquitously track a mobile user, in dynamic environments where GPS coverage may be uncertain.

Oxfam reckons the system has produced an additional £2.8m a year of revenue.

They will compromise on personal privacy because they reckon the system will deliver on these things.