ARM9 Based Navigation System for Vehicles

Vehicle Navigation System is one of the most challenging works today. If any accidents happen then if we know nearest hospital, route to reach hospital then we can have more chance to rescue people. Our project is an attempt to develop Vehicle Navigation System using ARM9 Processor, GPS and Electronic Compass. Usage of our project can be to guide the sailor in ocean, guide tourists and guide taxi drivers in major and metropolitan cities. Here using the ARM processor and the embedded operating system WindowsCE as a development platform for designing navigation systems. The system uses GPS systems to obtain the latitude and longitude of the vehicles, by conversion and map-matching to get the actual location on the map, and then the user enter the destination, calculated the shortest path by A* shortest path algorithm and showed on the ARM processor. At the same time, direct of vehicle is extracted from electronic compass providing the direction of vehicle and displayed on the screen.