| 摘要 |
A position calculation method includes: as a calculation using a current position of a mobile object, a link candidate point position, an error variance of positions of a plurality of links included in a region around the current position, and an error variance of azimuths of the plurality of links, calculating, based upon a distance between the current position and the link candidate point position and based upon an azimuthal difference between an azimuth of movement of the mobile object and a link candidate point azimuth, by adding together a plurality of data items including the distance and the azimuthal difference obtained at each of predetermined intervals up to the link candidate point position, an evaluation value that corresponds to a probability that the mobile object is traveling upon a road corresponding to each link candidate point, for each link including the each link candidate point; and calculating the current position based upon the evaluation value, by taking the mobile object as being positioned at a link candidate point, among a plurality of link candidate points, for which the probability is highest. |
