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词汇 dead-reckoning
释义 dead reckoning
noun[ U ]
uk /ˌded ˈrek.ən.ɪŋ/ us /ˌded ˈrek.ən.ɪŋ/
a way of calculating the position of a ship or aircraft using only information about the direction and distance it has travelled from a known point航位推算
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Examples from literature

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. 

Examples of dead reckoning


dead reckoning
The main advantages of deadreckoning location are its low cost and its easy implementation and exploitation.
Deadreckoning is usually performed by odometry, which involves the integration of wheel rotation increments over time to estimate the position of a vehicle.
This experiment is an illustration of the drawback of deadreckoning.
Due to our localization scheme that completely relies on the deadreckoning, the final position of the robot was deviated from the actual target position.
In this system, called deadreckoning or inertial navigation, movement is automatically used to update location information.
This greatly reduced the odometry error in comparison with pure deadreckoning.
Positions and heading angle from deadreckoning are redrawn on computer screen overlapped with a hand measured map.
They are effectively deadreckoning all the time.
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.
Two different types of locations are possible: deadreckoning location or absolute location.
In addition, radar, satellite, the global positioning system and visual fixes, deadreckoning and electronic route following can be used.
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They have to rely on deadreckoning to do that.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
The airships relied largely on deadreckoning, supplemented by a radio direction-finding system of limited accuracy.
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Wikipedia

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The case is often referred to as an instance of the extreme uncertainty of the determination of longitude by deadreckoning only.
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Wikipedia

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Longitude was predicted by deadreckoning, an impossible task given the storm conditions, strong currents and length of time involved.
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Wikipedia

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