Patent ID: 7406379

Claim:
An apparatus, comprising: a master navigation component that establishes a first coordinate system for a vehicle in motion; and one or more slave navigation components of the vehicle that determine navigation measurement data of the one or more slave navigation components in one or more second coordinate systems; wherein the one or more slave navigation components provide the navigation measurement data of the one or more slave components in the one or more second coordinate systems to the master navigation component; wherein the master navigation component compares the navigation measurement data of the one or more slave components in the one or more second coordinate systems to navigation measurement data for the master navigation component in the first coordinate system; wherein the master navigation component translates the navigation measurement data of the one or more slave navigation components in the one or more second coordinate systems into navigation measurement data of the one or more slave navigation components in the first coordinate system; wherein the master navigation component employs the navigation measurement data of the one or more slave navigation components in the first coordinate system to determine one or more navigation parameters in the first coordinate system for one or more sensors of the vehicle at one or more locations; wherein the master navigation component receives data from the one or more sensors of the vehicle at the one or more locations of the one or more slave navigation components.