This invention provides a ground-speed measuring apparatus for a vehicle
that can detect a velocity along the movement of the vehicle (in the fore
direction), a velocity across the movement of the vehicle (in the
athwartships direction), a side-skid angle of the vehicle, and an angular
velocity of the vehicle.A ground-speed measuring apparatus comprising
three or more transceivers each of which contains a transmitter for
transmitting a wave and a receiver for receiving a reflection of the wave
transmitted from the transmitter, wherein at least three of said
transceivers are placed outside a cylindrical area whose axis of symmetry
passes through a point on the floor of the vehicle, three straight lines
which respectively pass through said transceivers perpendicularly thereto
intersect with each other or skewed in said cylindrical area, and the
transmitter of each transceiver is at a preset angle with the floor of
the vehicle.