Multi-purpose autonomous vehicle with path plotting
August 7, 2011. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent ReferencesDriverless vehicle and guidance system Automated operatorless vehicles Guidance system Control system for driving and steering driverless transport devices Controlled direction non-contact detection system for automatic guided vehicles Vehicle for delivering large cylindrical shaped loads and the like Automated guided vehicle System for navigating a free ranging vehicle Method for providing a collision free path in a three-dimensional space Collision predicting and avoidance device for moving vehicles Inventors
AssigneeApplicationNo. 744634 filed on 08/07/1991US Classes:701/26, Modification or correction of route information318/587, Land vehicles701/301Collision avoidanceExaminersPrimary: Lall, Parshotam S.Assistant: Zanelli, Michael J. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassG06F 015/50AbstractAn autonomous vehicle for operating in a predetermined work area while avoiding both fixed and moving obstacles. A plurality of laser, sonic and optical sensors detect targets and obstacles in the work area and provide coded signals to processors and controllers which direct the vehicle over a most expedient route to a target while avoiding any obstacles. The vehicle is especially useful in moving around the deck of an aircraft carrier to deliver ammunition to aircraft from an ammunition magazine.Field of SearchLand vehiclesWITH MEANS FOR CONTROLLING OPERATION RESPONSIVE TO ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION, MAGNETIC FORCE, OR SOUND WAVES RECEIVED FROM SOURCE, OR REFLECTED FROM OBJECT OR SURFACE, LOCATED APART FROM VEHICLE Having controlling means adapted to interact with stationary means which describes course of vehicle's travel Radiation, force, or waves reflected from external object or surface | |
