A controller, first automated guided vehicle, second automated guided vehicle and methods of guiding a platoon of automated guided vehicles. The method includes providing by the controller a first target position and a first target orientation to the first automated guided vehicle having sensors used for person safety and navigation that is configurable or configured to lead a platoon of automated guided vehicles, and sending by the controller to the second automated guided vehicle not having sensors used for person safety and navigation a command to join the platoon of automated guided vehicles and/or to follow the first automated guided vehicle in the platoon of automated vehicles.
CONTROLLER, AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES AND METHOD OF GUIDING A PLATOON OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES
2022-12-01
Patent
Electronic Resource
English
IPC: | G05D SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES , Systeme zum Steuern oder Regeln nichtelektrischer veränderlicher Größen / B60W CONJOINT CONTROL OF VEHICLE SUB-UNITS OF DIFFERENT TYPE OR DIFFERENT FUNCTION , Gemeinsame Steuerung oder Regelung von Fahrzeug-Unteraggregaten verschiedenen Typs oder verschiedener Funktion |
CONTROLLER, AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES AND METHOD OF GUIDING A PLATOON OF AUTOMATED GUIDED VEHICLES
European Patent Office | 2022
|Wiley | 1985
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