Turn-by-turn navigation

About: Turn-by-turn navigation is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 2243 publications have been published within this topic receiving 52838 citations.

Method, computer program and system for optimising routes provided by navigation systems

Abstract: A method of controlling a navigation system. Navigation systems which are capable of gathering historical information concerning routes taken by a number of individual vehicles are known. Such systems rely on a central database to analyse and store the historical information of all the participating vehicles. The central database can therefore suggest an improved route to a vehicle based on the analysis of the information gathered from the participating vehicles. However, as the central database analyses historical information received from a number of different types of vehicles (e.g. delivery trucks, taxis, motorbikes etc.), the routes suggested by the system are often inappropriate for a specific type of vehicle. For example, a route which is appropriate for a motorbike is often not appropriate for a truck, and vice versa. A method of controlling a navigation system is provided which builds up historical information of routes taken by a vehicle and uses this information to provide an appropriate route for the vehicle based upon deviations from suggested routes stored upon a mobile computer unit of the navigation system of the vehicle.

Learning driving patterns to support navigation decision making: preliminary results

Abstract: Navigation is a science and technology of finding the position, course, and distance traveled by a ship, plane or other types of vehicles. The navigation task is a decision-making procedure, where at least one of the input or output parameters has spatial properties, and is related to current or future vehicle position or attitude. In recent years research in car navigation systems and driver support systems achieved exciting results but there are still some outstanding problems. This paper presents a novel approach to providing driver support for guidance navigation tasks. Although driving is a very complex process, there are a number of regularities, and signals from navigation sensors contain a large number of patterns that could be better exploited to support navigation guidance tasks. A system based on artificial intelligence techniques could learn common sequences of driving events (driving patterns) by comparing previous experience (pattern history) and current events (context). The system could predict future events and detect differences between predicted and actual signals. A detected difference could serve as the basis for providing support for guidance navigation tasks. This paper presents preliminary research results. (a) For the covering entry of this conference, please see IRRD abstract no. E200232.

Providing navigation instructions

Abstract: A method in a device for providing navigation instructions in a three-dimensional map environment comprises receiving a start and end positions, determining a route, determining graphical two-dimensional map data, generating navigation instructions comprising setting a transparency level and transmitting the navigation instructions to a display. Corresponding device and computer program product are also provided.

Computerized navigation assistance for drivers

Abstract: Computer-assisted navigation systems provide navigation information to automobile drivers and are now available. They are capable of storing, processing and displaying information about street networks. The display typically mimics a printed street map. The underlying capabilities of these systems present unique opportunities for geographers to study spatial cognition, wayfinding, spatial search, the impact of spatial information on trip behavior, and market responses to potentially different travel patterns. Such systems are reviewed and key areas for future research are identified.

EyeSound: single-modal mobile navigation using directionally annotated music

Abstract: In this paper, we propose a mobile navigation system that uses only auditory information, i.e., music, to guide the user. The sophistication of mobile devices has introduced the use of contextual information in mobile navigation, such as the location and the direction of motion of a pedestrian. Typically in such systems, a map on the screen of the mobile device is required to show the current position and the destination. However, this restricts the movements of the pedestrian, because users must hold the device to observe the screen. We have, therefore, implemented a mobile navigation system that guides the pedestrian in a non-restricting manner by adding direction information to music. By measuring the resolution of the direction that the user can perceive, the phase of the musical sound is changed to guide the pedestrian. Using this system, we have verified the effectiveness of the proposed mobile navigation system.