Positioning and tracking construction vehicles in highly dense urban areas and building construction sites

Automation in Construction

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 647-656

  Lu, Ming ^a   Chen, Wu ^a   Shen, Xuesong ^a,b   Lam, Hoi Ching ^a   Liu, Jianye ^b  

^a HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

^b NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

Author keywords

Automated data collection; Building; Dead reckoning; GPS; Radio frequency; Ready mixed concrete; Vehicle tracking

Indexed keywords

BLUETOOTH; CALIBRATION; CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATED DATA COLLECTION; CONSTRUCTION VEHICLES; CONTROL POINTS; DEAD RECKONING; RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID); READY MIXED CONCRETE;

TRACKING (POSITION);

EID: 34147106608     PISSN: 09265805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.autcon.2006.11.001     Document Type: Article

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