Systems and methods are provided for constructing, using, and updating the sparse map for autonomous vehicle navigation. A system may comprise a processor and a memory. The memory may include instructions, which when executed on the processor, cause the processor to maintain a map; determine, based on analysis of image data, an existence of a non-transient condition that is inconsistent with the map, the image data from a camera integrated with the autonomous vehicle; and update the map.

An apparatus for determining a position of a user device, UE, in a wireless communication system, the wireless communication system comprising one or more of moving transmission reception points, TRPs, wherein the apparatus is configured to: initiate one or more procedures to perform one or more measurements between the UE and the moving TRP, and to obtain one or more measurement results; and receive at least one message from the moving TRP comprising a position information of the moving TRP; wherein the apparatus is capable to estimate the position of the UE using the measurement result and the position of the moving TRP.

A method of determining a vehicle position and a vehicle velocity, including receiving a camera image sequence based on a camera borne by a vehicle and determining a camera pose based on the camera image sequence. The method includes determining a global position system location based on a global position system receiver borne by the vehicle, determining an inertial movement signal based on an inertial movement unit borne by the vehicle and receiving a wheel encoder signal from a wheel of the vehicle. The method additionally includes determining at least one of the vehicle positions and the vehicle velocity based on at least two of the camera pose, the global position system location, the inertial movement signal and the wheel encoder signal in temporal synchronization.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a first wireless device receives a reference signal for distance measurement in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a second wireless device, a first reference signal including a first sinusoidal signal having a first angular frequency and a second sinusoidal signal having a second angular frequency; performing fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the first reference signal; acquiring a phase difference between the first sinusoidal signal and the second sinusoidal signal on the basis of the FFT result; and transmitting, to the second wireless device, a second reference signal for the distance measurement and a third reference signal indicating information on the phase difference. The first wireless device is capable of communicating with at least one of another wireless device, a wireless device related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.

According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method by which a first wireless device receives a reference signal for distance measurement in a wireless communication system can comprise the steps of: receiving, from a second wireless device, a first reference signal including a first sinusoidal signal having a first angular frequency and a second sinusoidal signal having a second angular frequency; performing fast Fourier transform (FFT) on the first reference signal; acquiring a phase difference between the first sinusoidal signal and the second sinusoidal signal on the basis of the FFT result; and transmitting, to the second wireless device, a second reference signal for the distance measurement and a third reference signal indicating information on the phase difference. The first wireless device is capable of communicating with at least one of another wireless device, a wireless device related to an autonomous driving vehicle, a base station or a network.

The present disclosure discloses a Beidou signal tracking system with a nonlinear phase-locked loop. A nonlinear element and a low-pass filter are added behind a loop filter to adapt to an output from control of the loop filter, and then to control a phase of an output signal. An in-phase branch pre-filtering link is added before the loop filter to smoothly processing an input signal, and a loop filter of a third-order phase-locked loop assisted by a second-order frequency-locked loop is selected to ensure basic performance index of an algorithm. The in-phase branch pre-filtering link controls signal change of an in-phase branch signal within a reasonable range. The nonlinear element and the low-pass filter behind the loop filter, after proper selection of parameters, can make the phase-locked loop quickly lock within the range where the phase-locked loop could not be locked originally.

A method and apparatus for handling ephemeris information for a NTN cell in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device may receive, from a network, an ephemeris information related to a Non-Terrestrial Networks (NTN) cell. The wireless device may determine whether the ephemeris information is valid or not, based on whether the measurement on the NTN cell is able to be performed during the service time of the NTN cell. Based on determining that the ephemeris information is not valid, the wireless device may transmit, to the network, (1) information informing that the ephemeris information is not valid and (2) information on time at which the measurement on the NTN cell is able to be performed.

Locating a vehicle to be located (V.sub.P), which has at least a GNSS receiver, via a location system including at least a computer by: receiving a message that includes at least a GNSS signal and that is transmitted by the vehicle to be located (V.sub.P), receiving a message that is transmitted by at least one located vehicle (V.sub.L), which has a GNSS receiver, the message including a location of the vehicle, the location being associated with a high confidence level, and a GNSS signal generated by the GNSS receiver of the vehicle, determining a location of the vehicle to be located, on the basis of the location of at least one located vehicle (V.sub.L), the GNSS signal from the located vehicle, and the GNSS signal from the vehicle to be located, and transmitting the determined location to the vehicle to be located (V.sub.P).

The invention provides a method and an architecture for deploying non-terrestrial cellular network base stations, so as to enable cellular network coverage in remote areas, where no fixed infrastructure is available. The proposed methods allow for efficient power management at the terminal devices that need to synchronize to the airborne or spaceborne cellular base stations. This is particularly important for IoT devices, which have inherently limited power are computing resources.

Techniques are disclosed for systems and methods to provide relatively accurate position data from a plurality of separate position sensors. A system includes a logic device configured to communicate with a position sensor coupled to a mobile structure. The logic device is configured to receive positions of the position sensor and/or velocities corresponding to motion of the position sensor from the position sensor and determine an estimated relative position of the mobile structure based, at least in part, on the received Doppler-derived velocity and a prior estimated relative position of the mobile structure.