Patent ID: 9541648
Date: 2017-01-10
CPC Classifications: G01C,G01S

Claim:
1. A system, comprising: a base station comprising a global navigation satellite systems (GNSS) receiver and transmitter circuitry, the transmitter circuitry configured to wirelessly transmit first GNSS information; a first vehicle comprising a GNSS receiver, and receiver circuitry and transmitter circuitry configured to receive and wirelessly transmit, respectively, the first GNSS information, and further configured to transmit an indicator of reliability including a number of times the first GNSS information has been repeated; and a second vehicle comprising a GNSS receiver, and receiver circuitry configured to receive the first GNSS information and the indicator of reliability from the first vehicle, the receiver circuitry configured to select the first GNSS information only if the number of times the first GNSS information has been repeated is below a predetermined threshold, wherein the GNSS receivers of the base station, the first vehicle, and the second vehicle are each configured to receive second GNSS information from a satellite network, wherein the first vehicle and the second vehicle each comprises a respective processor configured to process the second GNSS information based on the first GNSS information and use the processed second GNSS information to determine a respective position of the first and second vehicle, wherein the first vehicle and the second vehicle each comprises an auto steering mechanism that operates according to the processed second GNSS information.