It goes without saying that mere dead reckoning, entirely unchecked by astronomical observations, would be insufficient for scientific purposes.
The distance which we traveled day by day was at first determined by dead reckoning, to be verified later by observations for latitude.
The position of the ship was found, and marked on the chart, and the "dead reckoning" compared with the result obtained by calculation.
The sketch was made solely by dead reckoning.
We had been six days out without an observation, and our dead reckoning naturally was uncertain.
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The main advantages ofdeadreckoninglocation are its low cost and its easy implementation and exploitation.
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Deadreckoningis usually performed by odometry, which involves the integration of wheel rotation increments over time to estimate the position of a vehicle.
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This experiment is an illustration of the drawback ofdeadreckoning.
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Due to our localization scheme that completely relies on thedeadreckoning, the final position of the robot was deviated from the actual target position.
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In this system, calleddeadreckoningor inertial navigation, movement is automatically used to update location information.
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This greatly reduced the odometry error in comparison with puredeadreckoning.
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Positions and heading angle fromdeadreckoningare redrawn on computer screen overlapped with a hand measured map.
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They are effectivelydeadreckoningall the time.
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The evidence adduced includes observations of usage (including gestures), experimental tasks in spatial memory,deadreckoning, statistical analysis of aggregate results, and a good dose of linguistic analysis.
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Two different types of locations are possible:deadreckoninglocation or absolute location.
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In addition, radar, satellite, the global positioning system and visual fixes,deadreckoningand electronic route following can be used.
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They have to rely ondeadreckoningto do that.
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The airships relied largely ondeadreckoning, supplemented by a radio direction-finding system of limited accuracy.
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The case is often referred to as an instance of the extreme uncertainty of the determination of longitude bydeadreckoningonly.
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Longitude was predicted bydeadreckoning, an impossible task given the storm conditions, strong currents and length of time involved.
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