| Patent Number: | 7,079,943 |
| Title: | Point-to-point Path Planning |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,079,943 |
| Inventor(s): | Flann, Nicholas Simon (Smithfield, UT), Hansen, Shane Lynn (Smithfield, UT), Gray, Sarah Ann (Providence, UT) |
| Assignee: | Deere & Company |
| Application Number: | 11/042,636 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,076,346 |
| Title: | Automated Continuous Haulage System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,076,346 |
| Inventor(s): | Sturges, Robert H. (Blacksburg, VA), Twigger, Michael (Blacksburg, VA), Kanarat, Amnart (Blacksburg, VA) |
| Assignee: | Dbt America Inc. Virginia Tech Intellectual Properties, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/399,067 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,071,970 |
| Title: | Video Augmented Orientation Sensor |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,071,970 |
| Inventor(s): | Benton, Charles (Edgecomb, ME) |
| Application Number: | 10/385,119 |
| Abstract: | An orientation sensor utilizing an inexpensive but relatively slow base orientation sensor, augmented by capture of a video images, identifying reference objects or regions therein, and calculating displacement of those objects to derive supplementary orientation information. Recurrent base orientation sensor results are used to correct drift of the video based technique. Augmenting the slow but accurate base orientation sensor with the consecutive images derived orientation data, provides a fast and inexpensive orientation sensor. |
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| Patent Number: | 7,069,124 |
| Title: | Robotic Modeling Of Voids |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,069,124 |
| Inventor(s): | Whittaker, William Lawrence (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, Warren Charles (Pittsburgh, PA), Thayer, Scott Mason (Pittsburgh, PA), Omohundro, Zachary Meyer (Pittsburgh, PA), Reverte, Carlos Felipe (Pittsburgh, PA), Ferguson, David Ian (Pittsburgh, PA), Morris, Aaron Christopher (Pittsburgh, PA), Baker, Christopher (Crafton, PA) |
| Assignee: | Workhorse Technologies, Llc |
| Application Number: | 10/696,669 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,069,111 |
| Title: | Method And System For Controlling A Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,069,111 |
| Inventor(s): | Glenn, Susan J. (Huntsville, AL), Shreve, Gregory A. (Huntsville, AL) |
| Assignee: | Time Domain Corporation |
| Application Number: | 11/097,838 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,044,247 |
| Title: | Device At Ro-ro Vessel |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,044,247 |
| Inventor(s): | Johansson, Go (Goteborg, SE), Ramne, Bengt (Vastra Frolunda, SE) |
| Assignee: | Tts Ships Equipment Ab |
| Application Number: | 10/297,417 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,039,506 |
| Title: | Light System For Defining Line Of Approach |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,039,506 |
| Inventor(s): | Richburg, Chris (Panama City, FL), Hobden, Donald D. (Lynn Haven, FL) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy, The |
| Application Number: | 10/608,118 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,013,201 |
| Title: | Legged Mobile Robot And Method Of Controlling Operation Of The Same |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,013,201 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Yuichi (Chiba, JP), Ishida, Tatsuzo (Tokyo, JP), Yamaguchi, Jinichi (Hino-Shi, Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation , Yamaguchi Jinichi |
| Application Number: | 10/775,845 |
| Abstract: | A legged mobile robot possesses degrees of freedom which are provided at roll, pitch, and yaw axes at a trunk. By using these degrees of freedom which are provided at the trunk, the robot can smoothly get up from any fallen-down posture. In addition, by reducing the required torque and load on movable portions other than the trunk, and by spreading/averaging out the load between each of the movable portions, concentration of a load on a particular member is prevented from occurring. As a result, the robot is operated more reliably, and energy is used with greater efficiency during a getting-up operation. The invention makes it possible for the robot to independently, reliably, and smoothly get up from various fallen-down postures such as a lying-on-the-face posture, a lying-on-the-back posture, and a lying sideways posture. |
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| Patent Number: | 7,010,425 |
| Title: | Path Planner And A Method For Planning A Path Of A Work Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,010,425 |
| Inventor(s): | Gray, Sarah Ann (Providence, UT), Hansen, Shane Lynn (Smithfield, UT), Flann, Nicholas Simon (Smithfield, UT) |
| Assignee: | Deere & Company |
| Application Number: | 10/403,681 |
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| Patent Number: | 7,010,401 |
| Title: | System For Guiding A Vehicle To A Position |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 7,010,401 |
| Inventor(s): | Richburg, Chris (Panama City, FL), Hobden, Donald D. (Lynn Haven, FL) |
| Assignee: | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 10/609,902 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,996,462 |
| Title: | Method Of Controlling At Least One Autonomously Driving Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,996,462 |
| Inventor(s): | Heilmann, Harro (Ostfildern, DE), Konzmann, Rainer (Ammerbuch, DE), Schwarzhaupt, Andreas (Oberrot, DE), Spiegelberg, Gernot (Heimsheim, DE), Sulzmann, Armin (Oftersheim, DE), Weber, Christof M. (Gechingen, DE) |
| Assignee: | Daimlerchrysler Ag |
| Application Number: | 10/738,133 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,988,591 |
| Title: | Mine Transportation Management System And Method Using Separate Ore Vessels And Transport Vehicles Managed Via Communication Signals |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,988,591 |
| Inventor(s): | Uranaka, Kyouji (Yokohama, JP), Ogawa, Satoshi (Oyama, JP), Okamoto, Koichi (Yokohama, JP), Nagai, Takao (Yokohama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 10/635,743 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,971,070 |
| Title: | Technique For Automatic Parking Of A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,971,070 |
| Inventor(s): | Obradovich, Michael L. (San Clemente, CA) |
| Assignee: | American Calcar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/900,391 |
| Abstract: | In a control and management system for automobiles, a central processor in the system connects traditionally unrelated vehicle subsystems together to realize synergistic functions such as smart driving, automatic parking, etc. A master interface having a display is employed in the system to help a user control and manage the vehicle functions. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,957,132 |
| Title: | Method Of Guiding A Vehicle To A Position |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,957,132 |
| Inventor(s): | Richburg, Chris (Panama City, FL), Hobden, Donald D. (Lynn Haven, FL) |
| Assignee: | Navy, The United States Of Americas As Represented By The Secretary Of The |
| Application Number: | 10/609,901 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,950,722 |
| Title: | Material Handling System And Method Using Mobile Autonomous Inventory Trays And Peer-to-peer Communications |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,950,722 |
| Inventor(s): | Mountz, Michael C. (Palo Alto, CA) |
| Assignee: | Kiva Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/196,772 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,934,628 |
| Title: | Navigation Apparatus, Navigation Method And Navigation Software |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,934,628 |
| Inventor(s): | Harada, Tomohiro (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Clarion Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 10/140,298 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,934,603 |
| Title: | Multiblock Robot System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,934,603 |
| Inventor(s): | Kochanneck, Uwe (D-59174 Kamen, DE) |
| Application Number: | 09/298,204 |
| Abstract: | The advantage of flexible multi-axis robot systems and robot cell-unit systems being further extended by providing electric and electronic E-POOL networks, consisting of multiblock individual computer units, central computers, board computers, satellite units, antenna units, open and contact protected under floor and upper floor current and communication supply lines. The electric and electronic E-POOL networks being far-reaching energy independent and having continuous data exchange to all E-POOL network members, composing a self operating E-POOL compound E-POOL users, equipped with E-POOL computer units and to these compatible E-POOL order software, are transmitting orders and instructions to the E-POOL central computers for deliveries and services, which are immediately, self operating produced from the E-POOL compound, composed, distributed and transported to the aimed destination and the precise position of a company ground, an institutional building, a house floor, to a private apartment, and to any other predetermined destination. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,922,610 |
| Title: | Robot Having Offset Rotary Joints |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,922,610 |
| Inventor(s): | Okamoto, Osamu (Tokyo, JP), Nakaya, Teruomi (Tokyo, JP), Suzuki, Seizo (Tokyo, JP), Yamaguchi, Isao (Saitama, JP), Kamimura, Heihachiro (Tokyo, JP), Matsumoto, Kotaro (Kanagawa, JP), Wakabayashi, Sachiko (Tokyo, JP), Sasa, Shuichi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency |
| Application Number: | 10/424,711 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,907,336 |
| Title: | Method And System For Efficiently Traversing An Area With A Work Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,907,336 |
| Inventor(s): | Gray, Sarah Ann (Providence, UT), Hansen, Shane Lynn (Smithfield, UT), Flann, Nicholas Simon (Smithfield, UT) |
| Assignee: | Deere Company |
| Application Number: | 10/445,549 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,907,326 |
| Title: | Autonomous Surf Zone Line Charge Deployment System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,907,326 |
| Inventor(s): | Kucik, Daniel P. (Lynn Haven, FL) |
| Assignee: | Navy, United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of, The |
| Application Number: | 10/156,370 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,906,623 |
| Title: | Device And Method For Detecting Driving Data Of A Motor Vehicle Comprising And Electronically Controllable Drive Train |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,906,623 |
| Inventor(s): | Bauer, Wolf-Dietrich (Leinfelden-Echterdingen, DE), Mayer, Christian (Stuttgart, DE), Schwarzhaupt, Andreas (Oberrot, DE), Spiegelberg, Gernot (Heimsheim, DE) |
| Assignee: | Daimlerchrysler Ag |
| Application Number: | 10/380,779 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,904,335 |
| Title: | System, Method And Apparatus For Organizing Groups Of Self-configurable Mobile Robotic Agents In A Multi-robotic System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,904,335 |
| Inventor(s): | Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA) |
| Assignee: | Solomon Research Llc |
| Application Number: | 10/647,034 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,901,313 |
| Title: | Legged Mobile Robot And Control Method Thereof, Leg Structure Of Legged Mobile Robot, And Mobile Leg Unit For Legged Mobile Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,901,313 |
| Inventor(s): | Mori, Naoto (Tokyo, JP), Hattori, Yuichi (Chiba, JP), Yamaguchi, Jinichi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation Yamaguchi, Jinichi |
| Application Number: | 10/181,282 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,898,484 |
| Title: | Robotic Manufacturing And Assembly With Relative Radio Positioning Using Radio Based Location Determination |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,898,484 |
| Inventor(s): | Lemelson, Jerome H. (late of Incline Village, NV), Lemelson, Dorothy (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX), Blake, Tracy D. (Scottsdale, AZ) |
| Application Number: | 10/138,064 |
| Abstract: | Global positioning system inputs are used in a manufacturing process where location of a work piece relative to a robotic manipulator is input into a control system. The manipulator is located and tracked by using "GPS" signals, as is an associated work piece. Radio signal based position indicators associated with work pieces transmit work piece location and status. In some embodiments manipulator locations are sensed by position indicators associated with manipulators and signals relating to the position of the manipulators are transmitted to the control system. The control system controls the manipulator and may also control material handling equipment for the transport of work pieces. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,895,301 |
| Title: | Material Handling System Using Autonomous Mobile Drive Units And Movable Inventory Trays |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,895,301 |
| Inventor(s): | Mountz, Michael C. (Palo Alto, CA) |
| Assignee: | Kiva Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/357,853 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,879,878 |
| Title: | Method And System For Controlling A Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,879,878 |
| Inventor(s): | Glenn, Susan J. (Huntsville, AL), Shreve, Gregory A. (Huntsville, AL) |
| Assignee: | Time Domain Corporation |
| Application Number: | 10/826,440 |
| Abstract: | A system and method are described that use impulse radio technology to enhance the capabilities of a robot. In one embodiment, a system, a robot and a method are provided that use the communication capabilities of impulse radio technology to help a control station better control the actions of the robot. In another embodiment, a system, a robot and a method are provided that use the communication, position and/or radar capabilities of impulse radio technology to help a control station better control the actions of a robot in order to, for example, monitor and control the environment within a building. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,865,455 |
| Title: | Magnetic Anomaly Guidance System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,865,455 |
| Inventor(s): | Wiegert, Roy F. (Panama City, FL) |
| Assignee: | Navy, The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The |
| Application Number: | 10/373,493 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,847,868 |
| Title: | Apparatus For Cleaning Lines On A Playing Surface And Associated Methods |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,847,868 |
| Inventor(s): | Young, David W. (Orlando, FL) |
| Application Number: | 10/226,978 |
| Abstract: | An apparatus and method for clearing a playing surface are provided. The apparatus preferably includes a chassis or frame, a sensor connected to the chassis to sense a location of a line on a playing surface that needs to be cleaned, and a drive connected to the chassis to drive the chassis in a selected direction of travel. The apparatus also preferably includes a controller connected to the chassis, in communication with the drive, and responsive to the sensor to control the drive to thereby direct the chassis to move along the line that needs to be cleaned in the selected direction of travel and a cleaning device connected to the chassis to clean the line with the chassis is being driven along the line. Associated software is provided as well. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,842,674 |
| Title: | Methods And Apparatus For Decision Making Of System Of Mobile Robotic Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,842,674 |
| Inventor(s): | Solomon, Neal (Oakland, CA) |
| Assignee: | Solomon Research Llc |
| Application Number: | 10/422,051 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,834,220 |
| Title: | Self-propelling Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,834,220 |
| Inventor(s): | Bail, Gunther (Garmisch-Partenkirchen, DE) |
| Assignee: | Bail Gmbh |
| Application Number: | 10/130,405 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,832,139 |
| Title: | Graphical System Configuration Program For Material Handling |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,832,139 |
| Inventor(s): | Johnson, James (Whitehall, MI), Koff, Garry (Grand Rapids, MI), Werner, Matt (Ada, MI) |
| Assignee: | Dematic Corp. |
| Application Number: | 10/394,546 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,813,557 |
| Title: | Method And System For Controlling A Vehicle Having Multiple Control Modes |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,813,557 |
| Inventor(s): | Schmidt, Mark Alvin (Charlotte, NC), Hunt, Kenneth E. (Oconomowoc, WI) |
| Assignee: | Deere & Company |
| Application Number: | 10/400,764 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,813,548 |
| Title: | Self-traveling Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,813,548 |
| Inventor(s): | Matsumoto, Kazuhisa (Kakogawa, JP), Yamaguchi, Setsuji (Himeji, JP), Yamaguchi, Yukifumi (Himeji, JP), Mitsueda, Hirofumi (Nishiwaki, JP), Moriyama, Kouji (Miki, JP), Matsuoka, Kazuhiro (Kasai, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sanyo Electric Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 10/370,521 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,810,817 |
| Title: | Intelligent Transport System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,810,817 |
| Inventor(s): | James, William (St. Paul, MN) |
| Application Number: | 10/081,981 |
| Abstract: | A public transportation system includes control by highly distributed communications, ultra-light transit vehicles suspended from single or dual rails and powered by electricity. The electric power supplied independently and supplemented by wind generators and solar panels. The transit vehicles, are suitable to transport from one to four persons. The system includes a plurality interconnected rails with main conduits and station conduits to provide non-stop transportation from one station to another station. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,810,305 |
| Title: | Obstruction Management System For Robots |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,810,305 |
| Inventor(s): | Kirkpatrick, Jr., James Frederick (Johnson City, TN) |
| Assignee: | Procter & Gamble Company, The |
| Application Number: | 09/785,357 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,807,287 |
| Title: | Road Profile Prediction |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,807,287 |
| Inventor(s): | Hermans, Filip Jozef Johan (Leamington Spa, GB) |
| Assignee: | Lucas Industries Limited |
| Application Number: | 09/622,984 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,804,587 |
| Title: | Adjustment Of Vehicle-implement Trajectories To Compensate For Lateral Implement Offset |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,804,587 |
| Inventor(s): | O Connor, Michael L. (Redwood City, CA), Bell, Thomas (Bernville, PA), Eglington, Michael L. (Palo Alto, CA), Leckie, Lars (Redwood City, CA), Gutt, Gregory M. (Lexington Park, MD), Zimmerman, Kurt R. (Mountain View, CA) |
| Assignee: | Novariant, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/993,323 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,799,100 |
| Title: | Permission System For Controlling Interaction Between Autonomous Vehicles In Mining Operation |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,799,100 |
| Inventor(s): | Burns, Ray L. (St. David, AZ), Parfenov, Vadim (Tucson, AZ) |
| Assignee: | Modular Mining Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/156,101 |
| Abstract: | A supervisory safety-control system is implemented by dividing a mine's territory into zones of free operation ("permission zones") wherein a vehicle is allowed to move according to predetermined permission parameters but unhindered by other system constraints. Traffic of autonomous vehicles in each permission zone is controlled by the supervisory system in conjunction with and in addition to conventional safety constraints associated with the guidance system that effects the vehicle's tracking of predetermined trajectories. Permission zones are assigned and activated using criteria that ensure the vehicle will remain entirely within active zones so long as the vehicle acts within such predetermined permission parameters. Each permission zone is also associated with a maximum velocity profile that overrides guidance-system safety controls, if necessary, and ensures stoppage of the vehicle at the end of the permission zone. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,799,099 |
| Title: | Material Handling Systems With High Frequency Radio Location Devices |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,799,099 |
| Inventor(s): | Zeitler, David W. (Caledonia, MI), Koff, Garry (Grand Rapids, MI), Werner, Matt (Ada, MI) |
| Assignee: | Dematic Corp. |
| Application Number: | 10/209,766 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,783,187 |
| Title: | Vector Neutral Truck |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,783,187 |
| Inventor(s): | Parsons, Michael S. (Sudbury, Ontario, CA) |
| Application Number: | 10/628,354 |
| Abstract: | A self-propelled vehicle includes a main frame which has a main-frame longitudinal axis. First and second powered wheel/suspension assemblies are connected to the main frame near respective first and second ends of the main frame. A steering system includes a hand-held steering controller, in an operator's cab, which turns the first and second wheel/suspension assemblies simultaneously and in opposite directions. A dump box and hydraulic dump box hoist mechanism are supported by the main frame. The operator's cab is supported along a transverse cab axis, perpendicular to the main-frame longitudinal axis, at a fixed longitudinal position along the main frame. A television-based pathway monitoring system includes a camera cluster and multiple viewing screens in the operator's cab. The multiple viewing screens are positioned in the operator's cab such that an operator need not change one's directional orientation when the vehicle moves in opposite directions. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,751,535 |
| Title: | Travel Controlling Apparatus Of Unmanned Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,751,535 |
| Inventor(s): | Mori, Masaki (Kawasaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 10/050,824 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,732,049 |
| Title: | Vehicle Navigation System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,732,049 |
| Inventor(s): | Sato, Hiroyuki (Hachioji, JP), Nakamura, Kazuo (Yokohama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Alpine Electronics, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/141,624 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,732,024 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Vehicle Control, Navigation And Positioning |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,732,024 |
| Inventor(s): | Wilhelm Rekow, Andrew Karl (Waterloo, IA), Bevly, David Mark (Robstown, TX), Parkinson, Bradford W. (Los Altos, CA) |
| Assignee: | The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University |
| Application Number: | 09/850,288 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,728,608 |
| Title: | System And Method For The Creation Of A Terrain Density Model |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,728,608 |
| Inventor(s): | Ollis, Mark (Pittsburgh, PA), Jochem, Todd (Gibsonia, PA) |
| Assignee: | Applied Perception, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/226,933 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,728,607 |
| Title: | Method And System For Determining An Energy-efficient Path Of A Machine |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,728,607 |
| Inventor(s): | Anderson, Noel Wayne (Fargo, ND) |
| Assignee: | Deere & Company |
| Application Number: | 10/264,063 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,721,638 |
| Title: | Agv Position And Heading Controller |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,721,638 |
| Inventor(s): | Zeitler, David W. (Gaines Township, MI) |
| Assignee: | Dematic Corp. |
| Application Number: | 10/140,484 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,721,453 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Processing An Image Of An Agricultural Field |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,721,453 |
| Inventor(s): | Benson, Eric R. (Urbana, IL), Zhang, Qin (Champaign, IL), Reid, John F. (Champaign, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/612,688 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,714,662 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Determining The Quality Of An Image Of An Agricultural Field Using A Plurality Of Fuzzy Logic Input Membership Functions |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,714,662 |
| Inventor(s): | Benson, Eric R. (Urbana, IL), Zhang, Qin (Champaign, IL), Reid, John F. (Champaign, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/612,851 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,704,621 |
| Title: | System And Method For Estimating Ego-motion Of A Moving Vehicle Using Successive Images Recorded Along The Vehicle's Path Of Motion |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,704,621 |
| Inventor(s): | Stein, Gideon P. (Jerusalem 96263, IL), Mano, Ofer (Modiin 71700, IL) |
| Assignee: | Mobileye Technologies Limited |
| Application Number: | 09/723,754 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,704,619 |
| Title: | Method And System For Universal Guidance And Control Of Automated Machines |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,704,619 |
| Inventor(s): | Coleman, Norm (Picatinny Arsenal, NJ), Lin, Ching-Fang (Simi Valley, CA) |
| Assignee: | American Gnc Corporation |
| Application Number: | 10/453,963 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,694,233 |
| Title: | System For Relative Vehicle Navigation |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,694,233 |
| Inventor(s): | Duff, Elliot Stanley (Queensland, AU), Roberts, Jonathan Michael (Queensland, AU), Corke, Peter Ian (Queensland, AU), Cunningham, Jock Bernard (Queensland, AU) |
| Assignee: | Commonwealth Scientific And Industrial Research Organisation |
| Application Number: | 10/031,775 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,687,571 |
| Title: | Cooperating Mobile Robots |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,687,571 |
| Inventor(s): | Byrne, Raymond H. (Albuquerque, NM), Harrington, John J. (Albuquerque, NM), Eskridge, Steven E. (Albuquerque, NM), Hurtado, John E. (College Station, TX) |
| Assignee: | Energy, U.s. Department Of |
| Application Number: | 09/841,807 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,678,590 |
| Title: | Vehicle Navigation System With Vision System Preprocessor Using Mpeg Encoder |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,678,590 |
| Inventor(s): | Burchfiel, Jerry D. (Waltham, MA) |
| Assignee: | Bbn Technologies Corp. |
| Application Number: | 09/915,261 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,671,582 |
| Title: | Flexible Agricultural Automation |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,671,582 |
| Inventor(s): | Hanley, Brian P. (Greenbrae, CA) |
| Application Number: | 10/228,248 |
| Abstract: | Agricultural operations by applying flexible manufacturing software, robotics and sensing techniques to agriculture. In manufacturing operations utilizing flexible machining and flexible assembly robots, work pieces flow through a fixed set of workstations on an assembly line. At different stations are located machine vision systems, laser based raster devices, radar, touch, photocell, and other methods of sensing; flexible robot armatures and the like are used to operate on them. This flexible agricultural automation turns that concept inside out, moving software programmable workstations through farm fields on mobile robots that can sense their environment and respond to it flexibly. The agricultural automation will make it possible for large scale farming to take up labor intensive farming practices which are currently only practical for small scale farming, improving land utilization efficiency, while lowering manpower costs dramatically. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,665,594 |
| Title: | Plug And Play Modular Mission Payloads |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,665,594 |
| Inventor(s): | Armstrong, Clay (Jasper, IN) |
| Assignee: | Navy, United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Secretary |
| Application Number: | 10/012,613 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,650,975 |
| Title: | Multifunctional Mobile Appliance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,650,975 |
| Inventor(s): | Ruffner, Bryan John (Annandale, VA) |
| Application Number: | 09/988,637 |
| Abstract: | The invention is a multifunctional, mobile appliance capable of performing a variety of tasks safely, quietly, without pollution, and out of sight of its owner. Such tasks might include lawn mowing, fertilizing, and edging, floor vacuuming, waxing, and polishing, or rug shampooing. In its preferred implementation, the mobile unit 1 would obtain precise real time and position information using the Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System. The user initially guides the appliance around the work-area perimeters. The device then uses this information to determine the full working area. Proximity detectors and impact sensors help the appliance avoid unexpected obstacles. The device is quiet enough to perform its task in the middle of the night while its owner is asleep, but can be programmed to work continuously or during any user-specified time interval. The small turning radius of the appliance allows it to follow intricate perimeters. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,640,186 |
| Title: | Method And System For Generating A List Of Maneuvers For Navigation Of A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,640,186 |
| Inventor(s): | Stefan, Jeffrey M. (Clawson, MI) |
| Assignee: | General Motors Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/835,632 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,640,164 |
| Title: | Methods And Systems For Remote Control Of Self-propelled Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,640,164 |
| Inventor(s): | Farwell, Mark L. (Colorado Springs, CO), Caldwell, Douglas E. (Colorado Springs, CO) |
| Assignee: | Itt Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/939,764 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,636,781 |
| Title: | Distributed Control And Coordination Of Autonomous Agents In A Dynamic, Reconfigurable System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,636,781 |
| Inventor(s): | Shen, Wei-Min (Rancho Palos Verdes, CA), Salemi, Behnam (Los Angeles, CA), Will, Peter (Los Altos Hills, CA) |
| Assignee: | United States Air Force |
| Application Number: | 10/155,489 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,616,244 |
| Title: | Method And Arrangement For Determining Position Of Unmanned Mining Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,616,244 |
| Inventor(s): | Hakkinen, Leo (Tampere, FI) |
| Assignee: | Sandvik Tamrock |
| Application Number: | 10/241,438 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,615,134 |
| Title: | Data Communication System And Method, And Mobile Body Apparatus |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,615,134 |
| Inventor(s): | Ando, Kazutaka (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation |
| Application Number: | 10/031,849 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,611,738 |
| Title: | Multifunctional Mobile Appliance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,611,738 |
| Inventor(s): | Ruffner, Bryan J. (Annandale, VA) |
| Application Number: | 09/988,592 |
| Abstract: | A user can place the multifunctional mobile appliance in a work area bounded by a set of impulse radio, or GPS, transceivers. The appliance independently and accurately maps the work area and proceeds to perform one or more tasks over that area, as directed by the user. These tasks include, but are not limited to, mowing, vacuuming, scrubbing, waxing, and polishing. The user may control, through the World Wide Web, what tasks are performed where and when. Both the user and the appliance can make use of services that are provided on the Internet to enhance the performance of the appliance. The appliance is safe, silent, self-sufficient, nimble, and non-polluting. It is equipped with sensors to enable it to avoid obstacles and other less than optimal operating conditions. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,600,981 |
| Title: | Multifunctional Mobile Appliance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,600,981 |
| Inventor(s): | Ruffner, Bryan John (Annandale, VA) |
| Application Number: | 09/988,642 |
| Abstract: | The invention is a multifunctional, mobile appliance capable of performing a variety of tasks safely, quietly, without pollution, and out of sight of its owner. Such tasks might include lawn mowing, fertilizing, and edging, floor vacuuming, waxing, and polishing, or rug shampooing. In its preferred implementation, the mobile unit 1 would obtain precise real time and position information using the Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System. The user initially guides the appliance around the work-area perimeters. The device then uses this information to determine the full working area. Proximity detectors and impact sensors help the appliance avoid unexpected obstacles. The device is quiet enough to perform its task in the middle of the night while its owner is asleep, but can be programmed to work continuously or during any user-specified time interval. The small turning radius of the appliance allows it to follow intricate perimeters. In the instance of a mowing application, the cutting blades are surrounded by a cage that allows grass to enter, but excludes sticks, stones, fingers or toes. The mowing blade assembly can trim over the top of yard edging. The battery-powered device can recharge itself and a wireless link enables the appliance to communicate with its user and a user support network via the World Wide Web. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,581,007 |
| Title: | System, Method, And Program For Detecting Approach To Object |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,581,007 |
| Inventor(s): | Hasegawa, Yuji (Fujimi, JP), Okuma, Jiro (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 10/140,951 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,580,978 |
| Title: | Path Following Using Bounded Beacon-aided Inertial Navigation |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,580,978 |
| Inventor(s): | McTamaney, Louis S. (Los Gatos, CA) |
| Assignee: | United Defense Lp |
| Application Number: | 10/123,762 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,577,933 |
| Title: | Electronically Tracked Road-map System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,577,933 |
| Inventor(s): | How, Hoton (Belmont, MA) |
| Application Number: | 09/849,894 |
| Abstract: | Disclosed is a method for establishing and utilizing electronic tracks on roads for ground vehicles so as to ease the driving task with added safety and efficiency. Electronic tracks define traces on roads guiding the movement of a ground vehicle in as much as the same way that railroad tracks confine the movement of a train. Speed control can be achieved by using equipments detecting the driving conditions and the road environment along with the gliding action of the ground vehicle on electronic tracks. Automation in driving is thus possible, at least partially. Electronic map can be constructed consisting of many of the electronic tracks. Based upon both the static and dynamic information on roads, an electronic map is able to configure an optimal route connecting two addresses with the shortest time in traveling. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,571,169 |
| Title: | Destination Input Method In Navigation System And Navigation System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,571,169 |
| Inventor(s): | Miyaki, Ken (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Assignee: | Alpine Electronics, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/809,803 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,560,512 |
| Title: | Relational Robotic Controller |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,560,512 |
| Inventor(s): | Rosen, David (Tarzana, CA), Rosen, Alan (Redondo Beach, CA) |
| Assignee: | Machine Consciousness, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 10/041,713 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,556,598 |
| Title: | Laser Guidance Assembly For A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,556,598 |
| Inventor(s): | Angott, Paul G. (Bloomfield Hills, MI) |
| Assignee: | Self-guided Systems, Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/621,204 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,539,294 |
| Title: | Vehicle Guidance System For Avoiding Obstacles Stored In Memory |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,539,294 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/857,409 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,532,404 |
| Title: | Mobile Robots And Their Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,532,404 |
| Inventor(s): | Colens, Andre (Rixensart B-1330, BE) |
| Application Number: | 10/085,076 |
| Abstract: | System of guidance and positioning relative to a fixed station (1) for an autonomous mobile robot (7) utilizing at least a directional infra-red beam (2') emitted by the fixed station, the mobile robot being provided with a directional system of detection (10a, 10b) of infra-red emission connected to a microcomputer incorporated in the said robot, the robot moving on a work surface in an essentially random manner, the microcomputer (44) including an algorithm able to control the return to fixed station (1) by displacement of the robot (7) towards the direction of emission of said infra-red beam (2'), characterized in that the infra-red beam (2') is a narrow directional beam and in that the system of detection (10a, 10b) is located on a frame at the center of rotation of the robot (7), oriented in the direction of movement of the robot, precise positioning in the fixed station (1) being carried out by rotation of the machine around a vertical axis according to an algorithm based on the detection of the narrow beam (2'). |
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| Patent Number: | 6,519,514 |
| Title: | Automatic Travel Control Apparatus For Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,519,514 |
| Inventor(s): | Mizutani, Mami (Hachioji, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba |
| Application Number: | 09/800,467 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,516,262 |
| Title: | Running Control Device For A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,516,262 |
| Inventor(s): | Takenaga, Hiroshi (Tokai-mura, JP), Kuragaki, Satoru (Hitachi, JP), Morizane, Hiroto (Hitachi, JP) |
| Assignee: | Hitachi, Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/790,555 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,502,017 |
| Title: | Multifunctional Mobile Appliance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,502,017 |
| Inventor(s): | Ruffner, Bryan John (Annandale, VA) |
| Application Number: | 09/988,641 |
| Abstract: | The invention is a multifunctional, mobile appliance capable of performing a variety of tasks safely, quietly, without pollution, and out of sight of its owner. Such tasks might include lawn mowing, fertilizing, and edging, floor vacuuming, waxing, and polishing, or rug shampooing. In its preferred implementation, the mobile unit 1 would obtain precise real time and position information using the Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System. The user initially guides the appliance around the work-area perimeters. The device then uses this information to determine the full working area. Proximity detectors and impact sensors help the appliance avoid unexpected obstacles. The device is quiet enough to perform its task in the middle of the night while its owner is asleep, but can be programmed to work continuously or during any user-specified time interval. The small turning radius of the appliance allows it to follow intricate perimeters. In the instance of a mowing application, the cutting blades are surrounded by a cage that allows grass to enter, but excludes sticks, stones, fingers or toes. The mowing blade assembly can trim over the top of yard edging. The battery-powered device can recharge itself and a wireless link enables the appliance to communicate with its user and a user support network via the World Wide Web. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,502,016 |
| Title: | Device For Guiding Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,502,016 |
| Inventor(s): | Ozaki, Tomonori (Hiratsuka, JP), Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/831,105 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,490,539 |
| Title: | Region Of Interest Selection For Varying Distances Between Crop Rows For A Vision Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,490,539 |
| Inventor(s): | Dickson, Monte Andre (Naperville, IL), Ni, Bingcheng (Clarendon Hills, IL), Han, Shufeng (Darien, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/514,474 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,487,500 |
| Title: | Gps Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning And Control System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,487,500 |
| Inventor(s): | Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX) |
| Application Number: | 09/923,252 |
| Abstract: | GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the one's kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others' status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,484,089 |
| Title: | Navigation System With Road Condition Sampling |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,484,089 |
| Inventor(s): | Millington, Jeffrey Alan (Rochester Hills, MI) |
| Assignee: | Magellan Dis, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/418,749 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,484,083 |
| Title: | Tandem Robot Control System And Method For Controlling Mobile Robots In Tandem |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,484,083 |
| Inventor(s): | Hayward, David R. (Albuquerque, NM), Buttz, James H. (Albuquerque, NM), Shirey, David L. (Albuquerque, NM) |
| Assignee: | Energy, U.s. Department Of |
| Application Number: | 09/746,729 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,484,078 |
| Title: | Vehicle Travel Route Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,484,078 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/694,685 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,480,769 |
| Title: | Vehicle Travel Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,480,769 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/678,842 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,480,768 |
| Title: | Control Apparatus For Autonomous Traveling Vehicle And Method Thereof |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,480,768 |
| Inventor(s): | Torii, Tsuyoshi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/349,720 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,463,384 |
| Title: | Geographic Database Including Data For Providing Instructions About Tollways |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,463,384 |
| Inventor(s): | Kaplan, Lawrence M. (Northbrook, IL), Kozak, Frank J. (Naperville, IL) |
| Assignee: | Navteq North America Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/852,900 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,463,356 |
| Title: | Legged Mobile Robot And Method Of Controlling Operation Of The Same |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,463,356 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Yuichi (Chiba, JP), Ishida, Tatsuzo (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation Yamaguchi, Jinichi |
| Application Number: | 09/718,629 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,459,965 |
| Title: | Method For Advanced Communication-based Vehicle Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,459,965 |
| Inventor(s): | Polivka, Alan L. (Palm Bay, FL), Egnot, James R. (Melbourne, FL), Heggestad, Robert E. (Odessa, MO), Baker, Jeffrey K. (Olathe, KS), Matheson, William L. (Palm Bay, FL) |
| Assignee: | Ge Transportation Systems Global Signaling, Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/681,853 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,454,036 |
| Title: | Autonomous Vehicle Navigation System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,454,036 |
| Inventor(s): | Airey, Donald Roy (Bolton, MA), Servatius, Herman (Worcester, MA) |
| Assignee: | "bots, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/571,761 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,453,235 |
| Title: | Vehicle Navigation Apparatus Providing Proper Guidance For Off-road Net Conditions |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,453,235 |
| Inventor(s): | Endo, Kouichi (Iwaki, JP), Sato, Yoshikazu (Iwaki, JP), Shishido, Kan (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Alpine Electronics Inc. , Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/350,775 |
| Abstract: | A vehicle navigation apparatus that does not output an inappropriate or irrelevant guidance picture display or spoken guidance even when the vehicle enters an area off the roads (e.g. a parking lot, campus, factory, or facility grounds, or park) stored in the apparatus' road map data base, and which provides a correct guidance picture display and a correct spoken guidance for navigation to a destination. When the apparatus detects entry of the vehicle into such an area off the roads stored in the map data base, a guidance picture is changed to a map picture, and the apparatus stops correcting the vehicle position by map matching. When the apparatus detects an exit of the vehicle from such an area, the apparatus restarts correcting the vehicle position by map matching and a map picture is changed to a guidance picture. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,453,223 |
| Title: | Infrastructure Independent Position Determining System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,453,223 |
| Inventor(s): | Kelly, Alonzo James (Pittsburgh, PA), Coulter, Robert Craig (Apollo, PA), Ollis, Mark D. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Carnegie Mellon Unversity |
| Application Number: | 09/311,683 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,445,984 |
| Title: | Steer Control System For Material Handling Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,445,984 |
| Inventor(s): | Kellogg, David L. (Greene, NY) |
| Assignee: | Raymond Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/865,222 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,445,983 |
| Title: | Sensor-fusion Navigator For Automated Guidance Of Off-road Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,445,983 |
| Inventor(s): | Dickson, Monte A. (Naperville, IL), Noguchi, Noboru (Nishi-ku, JP), Zhang, Qin (Champaign, IL), Reid, John F. (Champaign, IL), Will, Jeffrey D. (Champaign, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/611,510 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,442,456 |
| Title: | Anti-rut System For Autonomous-vehicle Guidance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,442,456 |
| Inventor(s): | Burns, Ray L. (St. David, AZ), Parfenov, Vadim (Tucson, AZ) |
| Assignee: | Modular Mining Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/776,277 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,438,472 |
| Title: | Operation Control System Capable Of Analyzing Driving Tendency And Its Constituent Apparatus |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,438,472 |
| Inventor(s): | Tano, Michiyasu (Tokyo, JP), Daimon, Toshio (Chiba, JP) |
| Assignee: | Data Tec Co., Ltd. (50%) Tokio Marine Risk Consulting Co., Ltd.,the |
| Application Number: | 09/601,562 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,438,456 |
| Title: | Portable Control Device For Networked Mobile Robots |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,438,456 |
| Inventor(s): | Feddema, John T. (Albuquerque, NM), Byrne, Raymond H. (Albuquerque, NM), Bryan, Jon R. (Edgewood, NM), Harrington, John J. (Albuquerque, NM), Gladwell, T. Scott (Albuquerque, NM) |
| Assignee: | U.s. Department Of Energy |
| Application Number: | 09/841,808 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,434,478 |
| Title: | Service-rendering System, Service-rendering Apparatus And Method, And Navigation Apparatus And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,434,478 |
| Inventor(s): | Ikeda, Kiyokazu (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/919,525 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,430,486 |
| Title: | Land Vehicle Communications System And Process For Providing Information And Coordinating Vehicle Activities |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,430,486 |
| Inventor(s): | Diaz, R. Gary (Lincolnshire, IL), Gemender, John J. (Fort Wayne, IN), Dager, Steven J. (Fort Wayne, IN), Baughman, Ronald L. (Churubusco, IN) |
| Assignee: | International Truck Intellectual Property Company, L.l.c. |
| Application Number: | 09/989,042 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,427,121 |
| Title: | Global Positioning System Tag System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,427,121 |
| Inventor(s): | Brodie, Keith J. (Irvine, CA) |
| Assignee: | Sirf Technology, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/903,934 |
| Abstract: | A communications system for determining the position and velocity of an object using a plurality of GPS signals transmitted by a plurality of GPS sources includes an interrogator remote from the object and responsive to the plurality of GPS signals. The interrogator transmits an RF signal including GPS source information and at least one of frequency information and time and code phase information of at least one of the GPS signals. The system also includes a transponder positioned on the object and responsive to the RF signal and the plurality of GPS signals. The transponder tracks one of the plurality of GPS signals in response to the GPS source information and the frequency information and time and code phase information. The transponder generates a correlation snapshot and transmits the snapshot to the interrogator. The snapshot includes a sampled coarse acquisition (C/A) code between the one of the plurality of GPS signals and a replica of the one of the plurality of GPS signals generated by the transponder at regular offsets of some fraction of a C/A code chip. The interrogator processes the correlation snapshot to determine the position and velocity of the transponder. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,427,101 |
| Title: | Land Vehicle Communications System And Process For Providing Information And Coordinating Vehicle Activities |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,427,101 |
| Inventor(s): | Diaz, R. Gary (Lincolnshire, IL), Gemender, John J. (Fort Wayne, IN), Dager, Steven J. (Fort Wayne, IN), Baughman, Ronald L. (Churubusco, IN) |
| Assignee: | International Truck Intellectual Property Company, L.l.c. |
| Application Number: | 09/989,581 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,424,888 |
| Title: | Call Response Method For Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,424,888 |
| Inventor(s): | Sone, Akira (Shizuoka-ken, JP), Sugiura, Masuo (Shizuoka-ken, JP) |
| Assignee: | Yazaki Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/481,515 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,418,374 |
| Title: | Navigation Device |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,418,374 |
| Inventor(s): | Sakamoto, Kiyomi (Ikoma, JP), Hamada, Hiroyuki (Yawata, JP), Ata, Teruaki (Osaka, JP), Yamashita, Atsushi (Osaka, JP), Ueyama, Yoshiki (Sakai, JP), Ogawa, Isao (Yokohama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/793,990 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,415,224 |
| Title: | Display Method And Apparatus For Navigation System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,415,224 |
| Inventor(s): | Wako, Hikaru (Redondo Beach, CA), Yokota, Tatsuo (Torrance, CA) |
| Assignee: | Alpine Electronics, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/777,990 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,411,871 |
| Title: | Autonomous Navigation, Guidance And Control Using Ldri |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,411,871 |
| Inventor(s): | Lin, Ching-Fang (Simi Valley, CA) |
| Assignee: | American Gnc Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/924,226 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,408,226 |
| Title: | Cooperative System And Method Using Mobile Robots For Testing A Cooperative Search Controller |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,408,226 |
| Inventor(s): | Byrne, Raymond H. (Albuquerque, NM), Harrington, John J. (Albuquerque, NM), Eskridge, Steven E. (Albuquerque, NM), Hurtado, John E. (College Station, TX) |
| Assignee: | U.s. Department Of Energy |
| Application Number: | 09/841,846 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,389,329 |
| Title: | Mobile Robots And Their Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,389,329 |
| Inventor(s): | Colens, Andre (Rixensart B-1330, BE) |
| Application Number: | 09/555,207 |
| Abstract: | System of guidance and positioning relative to a fixed station (1) for an autonomous mobile robot (7) utilizing at least a directional infra-red beam (2') emitted by the fixed station, the mobile robot being provided with a directional system of detection (10a, 10b) of infra-red emission connected to a microcomputer incorporated in the robot, the robot moving on a work surface in an essentially random manner, the microcomputer (44) including an algorithm able to control the return to fixed station (1) by displacement of the robot (7) towards the direction of emission of said infra-red beam (2'), characterized in that the infra-red beam (2') is a narrow directional beam and in that the system of detection (10a, 10b) is located on a frame at the center of rotation of the robot (7), oriented in the direction of movement of the robot, precise positioning in the fixed station (1) being carried out by rotation of the machine around a vertical axis according to an algorithm based on the detection of the narrow beam (2'). |
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| Patent Number: | 6,385,515 |
| Title: | Trajectory Path Planner For A Vision Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,385,515 |
| Inventor(s): | Dickson, Monte Andre (Naperville, IL), Ni, Bingcheng (Clarendon Hills, IL), Han, Shufeng (Darien, IL), Reid, John F. (Champaign, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/595,286 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,377,878 |
| Title: | Convergent Method Of And Apparatus For Distributed Control Of Robotic Systems Using Fuzzy Logic |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,377,878 |
| Inventor(s): | Feddema, John T. (Albuquerque, NM), Driessen, Brian J. (Albuquerque, NM), Kwok, Kwan S. (Albuquerque, NM) |
| Assignee: | Energy, U.s. Department Of |
| Application Number: | 09/603,568 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,370,452 |
| Title: | Autonomous Vehicle Transit System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,370,452 |
| Inventor(s): | Pfister, Samuel T. (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Application Number: | 09/456,812 |
| Abstract: | A transit system in an environment is provided that includes vehicles and communication nodes. The communication nodes contain information that is updated or re-written and sent to one or more vehicles. The information stored in the communication nodes provides data regarding the environment, communication node positions, vehicle communique, and vehicle control. The vehicles and the communication nodes communicate with each other. A vehicle by receiving the information from the communication nodes is able to move in the environment without complex sensors, to adapt to changes in the environment, to perform specific actions, and to communicate to other vehicles. Also, a vehicle by updating the information in the communication nodes is able to update out-dated information and to affect the actions and movements of other vehicles. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,356,822 |
| Title: | Land Vehicle Communications System And Process For Providing Information And Coordinating Vehicle Activities |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,356,822 |
| Inventor(s): | Diaz, R. Gary (Lincolnshire, IL), Gemender, John J. (Fort Wayne, IN), Dager, Steven J. (Fort Wayne, IN), Baughman, Ronald L. (Churubusco, IN) |
| Assignee: | International Truck Intellectual Property Company, L.l.c. |
| Application Number: | 09/434,671 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,356,189 |
| Title: | Lighting Control Apparatus For Automatic Following Travel System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,356,189 |
| Inventor(s): | Fujimaki, Tomo (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/545,560 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,349,249 |
| Title: | Automated Guided Apparatus Suitable For Toping Applications |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,349,249 |
| Inventor(s): | Cunningham, Peter D. (Sudbury, CA) |
| Assignee: | Inco Limited |
| Application Number: | 09/515,299 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,347,266 |
| Title: | Automatic Traveling Vehicle With Object Detector |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,347,266 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/138,478 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,345,217 |
| Title: | Automated Guided Vehicle (AGV) With Bipolar Magnet Sensing |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,345,217 |
| Inventor(s): | Zeitler, David W. (Caledonia, MI), Black, Andrew R. (Ravenna, MI), Ko, Clyde Miin-Arng (Ada, MI) |
| Assignee: | Dematic Corp. |
| Application Number: | 09/539,687 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,338,013 |
| Title: | Multifunctional Mobile Appliance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,338,013 |
| Inventor(s): | Ruffner, Bryan John (Annandale, VA) |
| Application Number: | 09/351,510 |
| Abstract: | The invention is a multifunctional, mobile appliance capable of performing a variety of tasks safely, quietly, without pollution, and out of sight of its owner. Such tasks might include lawn mowing, fertilizing, and edging, floor vacuuming, waxing, and polishing, or rug shampooing. In its preferred implementation, the mobile unit 1 would obtain precise real time and position information using the Real Time Kinematic Global Positioning System. The user initially guides the appliance around the work-area perimeters. The device then uses this information to determine the full working area. Proximity detectors and impact sensors help the appliance avoid unexpected obstacles. The device is quiet enough to perform its task in the middle of the night while its owner is asleep, but can be programmed to work continuously or during any user-specified time interval. The small turning radius of the appliance allows it to follow intricate perimeters. In the instance of a mowing application, the cutting blades are surrounded by a cage that allows grass to enter, but excludes sticks, stones, fingers or toes. The mowing blade assembly can trim over the top of yard edging. The battery-powered device can recharge itself and a wireless link enables the appliance to communicate with its user and a user support network via the World Wide Web. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,334,089 |
| Title: | Vehicle Routing And Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,334,089 |
| Inventor(s): | Hessing, Bernd (Holle, DE) |
| Assignee: | Robert Bosch Gmbh |
| Application Number: | 09/141,171 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,321,147 |
| Title: | Unmanned Vehicle Running System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,321,147 |
| Inventor(s): | Takeda, Shu (Kawasaki, JP), Tojima, Masanori (Kawasaki, JP), Takeda, Koji (Kawasaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/574,005 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,321,142 |
| Title: | System For Programming A Vehicle Control Computer With Selectable Features And/or Trim Values |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,321,142 |
| Inventor(s): | Shutty, John V. (Columbus, IN) |
| Assignee: | Cummins Engine Company, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/571,233 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,313,758 |
| Title: | Automatic Following Travel System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,313,758 |
| Inventor(s): | Kobayashi, Sachio (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/580,456 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,301,530 |
| Title: | Automatic Following Travel System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,301,530 |
| Inventor(s): | Tamura, Kazuya (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/599,449 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,292,752 |
| Title: | Device For Acquiring Lane Path Indicative Data |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,292,752 |
| Inventor(s): | Franke, Uwe (Uhingen, DE), Zomotor, Zoltan (Stuttgart, DE) |
| Assignee: | Daimlerchrysler Ag |
| Application Number: | 09/187,530 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,292,725 |
| Title: | Interference Preventing Device For Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,292,725 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP), Kaneko, Kiyoshi (Urawa, JP), Takeda, Shu (Kawasaki, JP), Tojima, Masanori (Kawasaki, JP), Takeda, Koji (Kawasaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/402,236 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,285,930 |
| Title: | Tracking Improvement For A Vision Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,285,930 |
| Inventor(s): | Dickson, Monte Andre (Naperville, IL), Ni, Bingcheng (Clarendon Hills, IL), Han, Shufeng (Darien, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/514,475 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,285,929 |
| Title: | Processional Travel Control Apparatus |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,285,929 |
| Inventor(s): | Hashimoto, Hideki (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/559,944 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,282,468 |
| Title: | Automatic Following Travel System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,282,468 |
| Inventor(s): | Tamura, Kazuya (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/539,281 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,278,918 |
| Title: | Region Of Interest Selection For A Vision Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,278,918 |
| Inventor(s): | Dickson, Monte Andre (Naperville, IL), Ni, Bingcheng (Clarendon Hills, IL), Han, Shufeng (Darien, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/514,473 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,275,773 |
| Title: | Gps Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning And Control System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,275,773 |
| Inventor(s): | Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX) |
| Application Number: | 09/436,097 |
| Abstract: | GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the one's kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others' status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,272,406 |
| Title: | Guidance System For An Automated Guided-vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,272,406 |
| Inventor(s): | Alofs, Cornell W. (Petoskey, MI), Drenth, Ronald R. (Petoskey, MI) |
| Assignee: | Jervis B. Webb Company |
| Application Number: | 09/038,693 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,272,405 |
| Title: | Apparatus And Method For Guiding Vehicle Autonomously |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,272,405 |
| Inventor(s): | Kubota, Yosuke (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/349,721 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,269,291 |
| Title: | System And Method For Controlling Of Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,269,291 |
| Inventor(s): | Segeren, Patrick Hubertus Franciscus (Rotterdam, NL) |
| Assignee: | Frog Navigation Systems B.v. |
| Application Number: | 09/485,040 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,266,142 |
| Title: | Noncontact Position And Orientation Measurement System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,266,142 |
| Inventor(s): | Junkins, John L. (College Station, TX), Hughes, Delcan (College Station, TX), Schaub, Hanspeter (Tijeras, NM) |
| Assignee: | Texas A&m University System, The |
| Application Number: | 09/399,992 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,259,980 |
| Title: | Automated Control System For Remote Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,259,980 |
| Inventor(s): | Peck, Alex N. (Commack, NY), Sullivan, Edward V. (Huntington, NY) |
| Assignee: | Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/176,031 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,253,150 |
| Title: | Mobile Navigation System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,253,150 |
| Inventor(s): | Nakamura, Kazumasa (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/356,585 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,253,128 |
| Title: | Interference Prediction Apparatus For Unmanned Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,253,128 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP), Okawa, Yukio (Yokohama, JP), Kuromoto, Kazunori (Yokohama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/253,937 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,249,724 |
| Title: | Intelligent Public Transit System Using Dual-mode Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,249,724 |
| Inventor(s): | McCrary, Homer T. (Davenport, CA) |
| Assignee: | Mccrary Personal Transport System, Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/398,908 |
| Abstract: | A unique transit system incorporates at least one internally powered, wheeled, transport vehicle having both manual controls enabling a user to drive the vehicle on a surface street and an on-board computer (OBC) system enabling software control of at least vehicle steering and velocity. A controlled roadway system having a roadway surface upon which the transport vehicle runs on its internal power on the same wheels as on surface streets is provided as well. On surface streets off the controlled roadway the manual controls are active, and on the controlled roadway the software controls are active. Manual or computer control depends on whether the vehicle is on the controlled roadway or surface streets. The OBC communicates with a Master computer for the controlled roadway, providing a range of functions. The transport vehicles operate at a fixed and constant speed on the controlled roadway system. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,246,933 |
| Title: | Traffic Accident Data Recorder And Traffic Accident Reproduction System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,246,933 |
| Inventor(s): | Bague, Adolfo Vaeza (Buenos Aires, AR) |
| Application Number: | 09/433,549 |
| Abstract: | Systems for sensing, storing and updating operation parameters, visual conditions and audible conditions for an automotive vehicle include a plurality of sensors for registering vehicular operation parameters, including at least one vehicle-mounted digital video/audio camera. A microprocessor controller responsive to the vehicle operational parameters which have been registered by the plurality of sensors and video images and audio signals from the video/audio camera is provided for processing the operational parameters and the video images and the audio signals. A rewritable non-volatile memory is provided for storing those processed operational parameters, video images and audio signals which are provided by the microprocessor controller. The microprocessor controller updates the rewritable memory as new parameters, video images and audio signals are sensed. When the data is converted to computer-readable form and is read by a computer, an accident involving the automobile may be reconstructed. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,246,932 |
| Title: | Vehicle Monitor For Controlling Movements Of A Plurality Of Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,246,932 |
| Inventor(s): | Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP), Tojima, Masanori (Kawasaki, JP), Kaneko, Kiyoshi (Urawa, JP), Kuromoto, Kazunori (Yokohama, JP), Ozaki, Tomonori (Kawasaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/367,641 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,240,364 |
| Title: | Method And Device For Providing Traffic Information |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,240,364 |
| Inventor(s): | Kerner, Boris (Stuttgart, DE), Aleksic, Mario (Trossingen, DE) |
| Assignee: | Daimlerchrysler Ag |
| Application Number: | 09/498,979 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,237,504 |
| Title: | Guideway Transit System And Automated Vehicle Used In This System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,237,504 |
| Inventor(s): | Tanahashi, Toshio (Susono, JP), Nakamura, Norihiko (Mishima, JP), Aoki, Keiji (Susono, JP), Kimpara, Hiromitsu (Susono, JP) |
| Assignee: | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/407,951 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,236,915 |
| Title: | Autonomous Traveling Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,236,915 |
| Inventor(s): | Furukawa, Yoshimi (Wako, JP), Kobayashi, Sachio (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 09/525,132 |
| Abstract: | In driving a motor vehicle in accordance with a control plan, the influence of the inclination of a road is recognized so as to realize an accurate control. The position and speed of a vehicle after a predetermined time period as estimated on the basis of the detection of magnetic nails, are estimated by a first processing portion, while the control plan of the vehicle (the correlation between the position and speed of the vehicle) is determined by a control plan processing portion on the basis of information received from a leakage coaxial cable. The deviations between the control plan and the estimated position and speed of the vehicle are calculated, and these deviations are further multiplied by gains Kx and Ku in a control plan converting portion so as to calculate a target acceleration. A throttle and a brake are controlled on the basis of the target acceleration, whereby the vehicle is driven in conformity with the controls. A correction device corrects the target acceleration in order to eliminate the influence of the inclination of a road. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,226,573 |
| Title: | Course Generator Of Moving Body |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,226,573 |
| Inventor(s): | Okawa, Yukio (Yokohama, JP), Sudo, Tsuguo (Tokyo, JP), Kaneko, Kiyoshi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd |
| Application Number: | 09/011,270 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,226,572 |
| Title: | Vehicle Monitor |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,226,572 |
| Inventor(s): | Tojima, Masanori (Kawasaki, JP), Kageyama, Masato (Oyama, JP), Kaneko, Kiyoshi (Urawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/355,746 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,212,448 |
| Title: | Rf Only Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,212,448 |
| Inventor(s): | Xydis, Thomas G. (Ann Arbor, MI) |
| Assignee: | Self-guided Systems, Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/191,770 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,212,287 |
| Title: | Method For Identifying Marking Stripes Of Road Lanes |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,212,287 |
| Inventor(s): | Olivieri, Massimiliano (Pesaro, IT), Fabbrizio, Vito (Piacenza, IT), Guerrieri, Roberto (Bologna, IT), Kramer, Alan (Berkeley, CA) |
| Assignee: | Stmicroelectronics S.r.l. |
| Application Number: | 08/951,956 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,198,994 |
| Title: | Intelligent Public Transit System Using Dual-mode Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,198,994 |
| Inventor(s): | McCrary, Homer T. (Davenport, CA) |
| Assignee: | Mccrary Personal Transport System, Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/397,290 |
| Abstract: | A unique transit system incorporates at least one internally powered, wheeled, transport vehicle having both manual controls enabling a user to drive the vehicle on a surface street and an on-board computer (OBC) system enabling software control of at least vehicle steering and velocity. A controlled roadway system having a roadway surface upon which the transport vehicle runs on its internal power on the same wheels as on surface streets is provided as well. On surface streets off the controlled roadway the manual controls are active, and on the controlled roadway the software controls are active. Manual or computer control depends on whether the vehicle is on the controlled roadway or surface streets. The OBC communicates with a Master computer for the controlled roadway, providing a range of functions. The transport vehicles operate at a fixed and constant speed on the controlled roadway system. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,173,222 |
| Title: | Steering Control System And Method For Autonomous Intelligent Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,173,222 |
| Inventor(s): | Seo, Jae-hyung (Kyungki-do, KR), Kim, Gi-seok (Kyungki-do, KR) |
| Assignee: | Hyundai Motor Company |
| Application Number: | 09/169,253 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,169,954 |
| Title: | Intelligent Public Transit System Using Dual-mode Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,169,954 |
| Inventor(s): | McCrary, Homer T. (Davenport, CA) |
| Assignee: | Mccrary Personal Transport System, Llc |
| Application Number: | 09/289,159 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,167,337 |
| Title: | Reconfigurable Control Unit For Work Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,167,337 |
| Inventor(s): | Haack, Paul W. (Crystal Lake, IL), Michl, Kurt D. (Homewood, IL) |
| Assignee: | Cnh America Llc Blue Leaf I.p., Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/165,977 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,167,332 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus Suitable For Optimizing An Operation Of A Self-guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,167,332 |
| Inventor(s): | Kurtzberg, Jerome M. (Yorktown Heights, NY), Levanoni, Menachem (Yorktown Heights, NY) |
| Assignee: | International Business Machines Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/239,349 |
| Abstract: | Method suitable for optimizing an operation of a self-guided vehicle. The method includes steps for incorporating a self-guided capability as part of the operation of the vehicle, the operation further including a mapping technique for soliciting information required for vehicle motion from a first to a second predetermined location. The method then requires dynamically assessing a global optimal path referenced to the first and second locations, and dynamically affecting vehicle motion, by actions premised upon re-evaluating the global optimal path in light of instantaneous vehicle motion, by refining the global optical path so that the vehicle can follow a localized path trajectory which optimizes the refined global path. |
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| Patent Number: | 6,163,745 |
| Title: | Guidance System For Automated Vehicles, And Guidance Strip For Use Therewith |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,163,745 |
| Inventor(s): | Purchase, F. Jack (Unionville, CA), Poole, Ross A. (Newmarket, CA) |
| Assignee: | 4013212 Canada Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/060,134 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,161,061 |
| Title: | Guidance Controller For A Minimal Discrete Command Set |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,161,061 |
| Inventor(s): | Bessacini, Anthony F. (Narragansett, RI), Pinkos, Robert F. (Saunderstown, RI) |
| Assignee: | Navy, United States Of America As Represented By The Secetary Of The |
| Application Number: | 09/113,012 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,151,539 |
| Title: | Autonomous Vehicle Arrangement And Method For Controlling An Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,151,539 |
| Inventor(s): | Bergholz, Ralf (Braunschweig, DE), Timm, Klaus (Wentorf, DE), Weisser, Hubert (Lehre, DE) |
| Assignee: | Volkswagen Ag |
| Application Number: | 09/185,291 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,134,493 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Interlocking Entrance Of Unmanned Dump Truck Into Work Area |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,134,493 |
| Inventor(s): | Kaneko, Kiyoshi (Urawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/117,307 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,134,486 |
| Title: | Robot And Method Of Control For An Autonomous Vehicle To Track A Path Consisting Of Directed Straight Lines And Circles With Positional Feedback And Continuous Curvature |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,134,486 |
| Inventor(s): | Kanayama, Yutaka John (Salinas, CA) |
| Assignee: | Navy, United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary, The |
| Application Number: | 09/071,451 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,122,572 |
| Title: | Autonomous Command And Control Unit For Mobile Platform |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,122,572 |
| Inventor(s): | Yavnai, Arie (Kiryat Bialik, IL) |
| Assignee: | Rafael Armament Development Authority Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 08/952,145 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,122,571 |
| Title: | Positive-feedback Go/no-go Communication System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,122,571 |
| Inventor(s): | Gerstner, Jody D. (Pasadena, CA), Gold, Kenneth S. (Bell Canyon, CA), Fenno, Kevin L. (Orlando, FL) |
| Assignee: | Disney Enterprises, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/456,082 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,115,667 |
| Title: | Method For Acquiring Map Information, Method Of Navigation, Method Of Providing Area Information, Navigation Apparatus, Area Information Providing Apparatus And Car |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,115,667 |
| Inventor(s): | Nakamura, Jin (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/272,351 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,112,143 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Establishing A Perimeter Defining An Area To Be Traversed By A Mobile Machine |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,112,143 |
| Inventor(s): | Allen, William E. (Peoria, IL), Sewell, John P. (Aurora, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 09/130,265 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,108,597 |
| Title: | Autonomous Mobile Robot System For Sensor-based And Map-based Navigation In Pipe Networks |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,108,597 |
| Inventor(s): | Kirchner, Frank (Bonn, DE), Hertzberg, Joachim (Bonn, DE) |
| Assignee: | Gmd-forschungszentrum Informationstechnik Gmbh |
| Application Number: | 09/077,610 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,085,131 |
| Title: | Driverless Vehicle System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,085,131 |
| Inventor(s): | Kim, Dong-Ho (Ulsan, KR) |
| Assignee: | Hyundai Motor Company, Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 08/774,033 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,078,849 |
| Title: | Vision Based Precision Docking Of Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,078,849 |
| Inventor(s): | Brady, Daniel G. (Littleton, CO), Hougen, Darrell R. (Littleton, CO), Kennedy, William A (Morrison, CO), Sobetski, Jerome F. (Littleton, CO) |
| Assignee: | Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| Application Number: | 09/209,489 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,064,926 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Determining An Alternate Path In Response To Detection Of An Obstacle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,064,926 |
| Inventor(s): | Sarangapani, Jagannathan (Peoria, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/987,007 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,061,613 |
| Title: | Base Station For Automated Durability Road (ADR) Facility |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,061,613 |
| Inventor(s): | Zyburt, Jeffrey P. (Chelsea, MI), Gu, Zhengang (Ypsilanti, MI), Robinson, David (South Lyon, MI), Zuo, Kai (Ann Arbor, MI) |
| Assignee: | Chrysler Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/707,118 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,058,339 |
| Title: | Autonomous Guided Vehicle Guidance Device |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,058,339 |
| Inventor(s): | Takiguchi, Junichi (Tokyo, JP), Sugie, Hiroshi (Tokyo, JP), Wakisaka, Tatsuya (Tokyo, JP), Yoshino, Kyoji (Yokohama, JP), Inoue, Fumihiro (Kawagoe, JP) |
| Assignee: | Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha Obayashi Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/970,609 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,049,745 |
| Title: | Navigation System For Automatic Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,049,745 |
| Inventor(s): | Douglas, Barry D. (Doylestown, PA), Bencel, Joseph A. (Quakertown, PA) |
| Assignee: | Fmc Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/795,267 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,038,502 |
| Title: | Apparatus And Method For Fleet Control When Unmanned And Manned Vehicles Travel Together |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,038,502 |
| Inventor(s): | Sudo, Tsugio (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Komatsu Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 09/125,488 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,032,097 |
| Title: | Vehicle Platoon Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,032,097 |
| Inventor(s): | Iihoshi, Akira (Wako, JP), Kobayashi, Sachio (Wako, JP), Furukawa, Yoshimi (Wako, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/978,166 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,021,371 |
| Title: | Communication And Navigation System Incorporating Position Determination |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,021,371 |
| Inventor(s): | Fultz, Robert B. (Boulder Creek, CA) |
| Assignee: | Trimble Navigation |
| Application Number: | 08/840,816 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,009,359 |
| Title: | Mobile System For Indoor 3-d Mapping And Creating Virtual Environments |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,009,359 |
| Inventor(s): | El-Hakim, Sabry F. (Ottawa, CA), Boulanger, Pierre (Aylmer, CA) |
| Assignee: | National Research Council Of Canada |
| Application Number: | 08/714,325 |
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| Patent Number: | 6,009,357 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Monitoring The Proper Operation Of A Control System For Materials Handling Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 6,009,357 |
| Inventor(s): | Wellman, Timothy A. (Coldwater, OH), Dammeyer, Ned E. (New Bremen, OH), Conley, III, Walter (St. Marys, OH) |
| Assignee: | Crown Equipment Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/236,091 |
| Abstract: | The operational fitness of a magnetic sensor for detecting buried magnets can be tested from time to time by an electromagnet installed in proximity to the sensor. The electromagnet is a small coil of wire mounted near the sensor, such as a Hall effect device, which when energized, generates a test magnetic field. The analog output of the sensor is compared with preestablished values when the electromagnet is energized to verify the proper operation of the sensor; it is also compared with preestablished values when sensing buried magnets to confirm operation of the sensor, the strength of the buried magnet, and the alignment of the sensor with respect to the magnet. A threshold detector senses the output of the sensor to indicate when a magnetic field is detected, and the peak analog output of the sensor is stored and compared to a reference after the sensor passes the magnet. The sensors are normally tested whenever the vehicle is initially powered up or after the vehicle has been stopped for a predetermined time. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,999,881 |
| Title: | Automated Path Planning |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,999,881 |
| Inventor(s): | Law, Christopher Charles (Charlton, NY), Schroeder, William John (Schenectady, NY), Chang, Hsuan (Dublin, OH) |
| Assignee: | General Electric Company |
| Application Number: | 08/851,393 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,999,866 |
| Title: | Infrastructure Independent Position Determining System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,999,866 |
| Inventor(s): | Kelly, Alonzo James (Pittsburgh, PA), Coulter, Robert Craig (Apollo, PA) |
| Assignee: | Carnegic Mellon University |
| Application Number: | 08/744,053 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,995,884 |
| Title: | Computer Peripheral Floor Cleaning System And Navigation Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,995,884 |
| Inventor(s): | Allen, Timothy P. (Los Gatos, CA), James, Pauline O. (Los Gatos, CA) |
| Application Number: | 08/813,710 |
| Abstract: | A computer peripheral system including a mobile vehicle, a two-way wireless link to a host computer and software residing on the host computer for providing control and guidance is disclosed. The system is installed on an existing host computer as an add-on peripheral device whose function is to perform some automatic task (e.g. floor cleaning) in a working environment (e.g. a home or business). The mobile vehicle is equipped with a plurality of sensors, data from which is conveyed to the host system over the wireless link. Software on the host computer communicates control and movement commands to the mobile system. A method and apparatus for sensing the position of the mobile vehicle in a working environment is also disclosed. Software installed on the host computer can use data from the sensing apparatus to automatically construct and maintain a map of the operating environment and to guide the mobile vehicle through the environment in order to carry out its task. Also disclosed are methods and apparatus for providing entertainment for onlookers as the vehicle carries out its task. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,991,671 |
| Title: | Automatic Traveling Control System For Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,991,671 |
| Inventor(s): | Nishiwaki, Takeshi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/984,506 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,987,364 |
| Title: | Control Device For Making Safe A Fast Vehicle, In Particular Guided By An Operator On Board The Vehicle Or Otherwise |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,987,364 |
| Inventor(s): | Le Gusquet, Frederic (Paris, FR), Tissedre, Marc (Paris, FR), Saglio, Christophe (Antony, FR), Salanson, Philippe (Versailles, FR) |
| Assignee: | Dassault Electronique |
| Application Number: | 08/774,092 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,983,161 |
| Title: | Gps Vehicle Collision Avoidance Warning And Control System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,983,161 |
| Inventor(s): | Lemelson, Jerome H. (Incline Village, NV), Pedersen, Robert D. (Dallas, TX) |
| Application Number: | 08/717,807 |
| Abstract: | GPS satellite (4) ranging signals (6) received (32) on comm1, and DGPS auxiliary range correction signals and pseudolite carrier phase ambiguity resolution signals (8) from a fixed known earth base station (10) received (34) on comm2, at one of a plurality of vehicles/aircraft/automobiles (2) are computer processed (36) to continuously determine the one's kinematic tracking position on a pathway (14) with centimeter accuracy. That GPS-based position is communicated with selected other status information to each other one of the plurality of vehicles (2), to the one station (10), and/or to one of a plurality of control centers (16), and the one vehicle receives therefrom each of the others' status information and kinematic tracking position. Objects (22) are detected from all directions (300) by multiple supplemental mechanisms, e.g., video (54), radar/lidar (56), laser and optical scanners. Data and information are computer processed and analyzed (50,52,200,452) in neural networks (132, FIGS. 6-8) in the one vehicle to identify, rank, and evaluate collision hazards/objects, an expert operating response to which is determined in a fuzzy logic associative memory (484) which generates control signals which actuate a plurality of control systems of the one vehicle in a coordinated manner to maneuver it laterally and longitudinally to avoid each collision hazard, or, for motor vehicles, when a collision is unavoidable, to minimize injury or damage therefrom. The operator is warned by a heads up display and other modes and may override. An automotive auto-pilot mode is provided. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,974,348 |
| Title: | System And Method For Performing Mobile Robotic Work Operations |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,974,348 |
| Inventor(s): | Rocks, James K. (Leesburg, VA) |
| Application Number: | 08/766,486 |
| Abstract: | A precise automated work system and method is provided. One or more self-navigating robots can perform automated work operations with precision given six degrees of freedom in a undulating, sloping or irregular terrain, such as, a commercial truck garden. A self-propelled robot moves through the garden and performs gardening tasks following a specified course by dead-reckoning and periodically determining its position and orientation by a navigation fix. At least seven navigation beacons are positioned around a perimeter of a garden work area. Each beacon emits electromagnetic radiation across the garden for detection by the self-propelled robot. A panoramic image collector gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation from each navigation beacon on an electronic camera to form at least seven beam spots. The relative position of the detected beam spots in the focal plane vary depending upon the six degrees of freedom for robot movement in a garden: the robot's three-dimensional position (x,y,z) and the robot's orientation (heading, pitch, and roll). A navigation module determines the position and orientation of the robot within the garden based on the output of the imaging camera. A self-propelled gardening robot performs many varied automated farming tasks from tillage, to planting, to harvesting by controlling the point of impact of a implement carried by a robot with precision, that is, to within an inch on average for any given position coordinate. Commercial feasibility of small truck gardens is improved as automation is comprehensive and accessible to the solitary farmer. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,974,347 |
| Title: | Automated Lawn Mower |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,974,347 |
| Inventor(s): | Nelson, Russell G. (Cane Hill, AR) |
| Application Number: | 08/818,304 |
| Abstract: | An improved automated, self propelled lawn mower (14) utilizing a rotating directional loop antenna (36) that determines its position within the cutting area by measuring the angle between transmitters(20A, B, & C) placed in a known configuration beyond the cutting area, and by calculating the solution of simultaneous circle equations (96 & 98) defined by that configuration. Orientation is determined by comparing present and previous positions. Stored path information is compared with the calculated position to determine steering signals which direct the mower to move directly toward the next point in the desired path. When the mower reaches that point the next coordinates are retrieved from memory and the process is repeated similarly for all successive points in the path. The simplicity of programming the path makes this automated lawn mower very versatile and flexible. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,961,560 |
| Title: | System And Method For Managing Access Of A Fleet Of Mobile Machines To A Service Resource |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,961,560 |
| Inventor(s): | Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/781,889 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,956,250 |
| Title: | Apparatus And Method For Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Using Absolute Data |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,956,250 |
| Inventor(s): | Gudat, Adam J. (Edelstein, IL), Shin, Dong Hun (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kleimenhagen, Karl W. (Peoria, IL), Clow, Richard G. (Phoenix, AZ), Singh, Sanjiv J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Christensen, Dana A. (Peoria, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Bradbury, Walter J. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Kyrtsos, Christos T. (Peoria, IL), Lay, Norman K. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (Peoria, IL), Schmidt, Larry E. (Peoria, IL), Stafford, Darrell E. (Dunlap, IL), Weinbeck, Louis J. (Peoria, IL), Devier, Lonnie J. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/431,594 |
| Abstract: | A system and method for controlling the navigation of surface based vehicle uses a route that is obtained by manually driving the vehicle over the route to collect data defining the absolute position of the vehicle at various positions along the route. The collected data is smoothed to provide a consistent route to be followed. The smoothed data is subsequently used to automatically guide the vehicle over the route. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,938,710 |
| Title: | Selectively Operable Industrial Truck |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,938,710 |
| Inventor(s): | Lanza, Fabrizio (Cernusco Sul Naviglio, IT), Livon, Guido (Latisana, IT), Masciangelo, Stefano (Genoa, IT), Ilic, Marco (Reggio Emilia, IT), Bassino, Paolo (Savona, IT), Garibotto, Giovanni (Varazze, IT) |
| Assignee: | Fiat Om Carrelli Elevatori S.p.a. Consorzio Telerobot |
| Application Number: | 08/832,212 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,938,705 |
| Title: | Vehicle Controller (VCON) For Automated Durability Road (ADR) Facility |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,938,705 |
| Inventor(s): | Zyburt, Jeffrey P. (Chelsea, MI), Muzzell, Jeffrey (Livonia, MI) |
| Assignee: | Chrysler Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/707,117 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,938,704 |
| Title: | Autonomous Running Control System For Vehicle And The Method There |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,938,704 |
| Inventor(s): | Torii, Tsuyoshi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/740,075 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,931,875 |
| Title: | System And Method For Managing A Fleet Of Mobile Machines For Dumping At A Plurality Of Dump Points |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,931,875 |
| Inventor(s): | Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Sarangapani, Jagannathan (Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/774,941 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,928,294 |
| Title: | Transport System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,928,294 |
| Inventor(s): | Zelinkovsky, Reuven (Misgav 20182, IL) |
| Application Number: | 08/682,720 |
| Abstract: | A transport system which includes a communications network and one or more vehicles each having an on-board control and data exchange unit, wherein the communications network includes a transport control unit; and a plurality of road units arranged in series along a vehicle travel route, each road unit being adapted for communication with the transport control unit so as to exchange data therewith, and being further adapted for direct communication with at least two road units positioned adjacent thereto, wherein the on-board control and data exchange unit includes transceiver apparatus for communicating with each of the plurality of road units in series while traveling therepast; data processing apparatus connected to the transceiver apparatus; and control apparatus, connected to the data processing apparatus for selectably controlling and sensing any of a predetermined plurality of vehicle operating functions in response to signals received by the transceiver apparatus from the road units. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,925,081 |
| Title: | System And Method For Managing Access To A Load Resource Having A Loading Machine |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,925,081 |
| Inventor(s): | Hawkins, Mark R. (Chillicothe, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (East Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/774,942 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,915,649 |
| Title: | Roadable Helicopter |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,915,649 |
| Inventor(s): | Head, Robert E. (Gilbert, AZ) |
| Assignee: | Mcdonnell Douglas Helicopter Company |
| Application Number: | 08/697,367 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,911,767 |
| Title: | Navigation System For An Autonomous Mobile Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,911,767 |
| Inventor(s): | Garibotto, Giovanni (Varazze (Savona), IT), Ilic, Marco (Reggio Emilia, IT), Masciangelo, Stefano (Genova, IT) |
| Application Number: | 08/537,390 |
| Abstract: | A navigation system for an autonomous mobile robot within an environment which comprises coded signs at predetermined points comprising means for storing data regarding said environment, including data regarding the positions of said coded signs relative to the environment, passive vision systems for the image acquisition and automatic recognition of said coded signs, a computer for estimating its own position and orientation relative to one of said coded signs and to the environment, means for acquiring the location of target positions, means for planning a path to be covered within said environment to reach target positions, and means for controlling the robot motion based on the stored path data. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,908,454 |
| Title: | Operator Interface For Automated Durability Road (ADR) Facility |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,908,454 |
| Inventor(s): | Zyburt, Jeffrey P. (Chelsea, MI), Robinson, David (South Lyon, MI), Zuo, Kai (Ann Arbor, MI) |
| Assignee: | Chrysler Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/708,244 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,906,647 |
| Title: | Vehicle Mounted Guidance Antenna For Automated Durability Road (ADR) Facility |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,906,647 |
| Inventor(s): | Zyburt, Jeffrey P. (Chelsea, MI), Cowan, Allan L. (Stockbridge, MI), Grimaudo, Donald W. (Riverview, MI), Shaffer, Frederick J. (Brooklyn, MI) |
| Assignee: | Chrysler Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/708,243 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,906,646 |
| Title: | System And Method For Managing Access To A Resource Shared By A Plurality Of Mobile Machines |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,906,646 |
| Inventor(s): | Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/774,943 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,897,595 |
| Title: | System And Method For Managing Access Of A Fleet Of Mobile Machines To A Resource Having Multiple Entry Points |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,897,595 |
| Inventor(s): | Hawkins, Mark R. (Chillicothe, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/770,208 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,870,303 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Controlling Maneuvers Of A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,870,303 |
| Inventor(s): | Trovato, Karen I. (Putnam Valley, NY), Dorst, Leendert (Yorktown Heights, NY) |
| Assignee: | U.s. Philips Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/323,189 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,867,089 |
| Title: | Base-to-remotely Controlled Vehicle Communications For Automated Durability Road (ADR) Facility |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,867,089 |
| Inventor(s): | Zyburt, Jeffrey P. (Chelsea, MI), Grimaudo, Donald W. (Riverview, MI), Nelson, James G. (South Lyon, MI), Gu, Zhengang (Ypsilanti, MI), Frinkle, Marv L. (Gregory, MI) |
| Assignee: | Chrysler Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/707,115 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,850,617 |
| Title: | System And Method For Route Planning Under Multiple Constraints |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,850,617 |
| Inventor(s): | Libby, Vibeke (San Mateo, CA) |
| Assignee: | Lockheed Martin Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/777,523 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,848,364 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Vehicle Navigation And Guidance Through A Traffic Circle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,848,364 |
| Inventor(s): | Ohashi, Mikio (Takanezawa-Machi, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/644,480 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,835,868 |
| Title: | Automated System For Immobilizing A Vehicle And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,835,868 |
| Inventor(s): | McElroy, Alejandro S. (Los Angeles, CA), Rauchfuss, Jason (Buena Park, CA) |
| Application Number: | 08/705,652 |
| Abstract: | An automated system for immobilizing a vehicle and method therefore typically employed in a motor vehicle for disabling the throttle and deploying the brake and clutch control systems after a theft of the vehicle has occurred is disclosed. The invention includes a plurality of devices for monitoring a plurality of parameters of the vehicle and for generating the triggering signal. A central control microprocessor is employed for receiving and analyzing the plurality of parameters and for detecting the triggering signal. A throttle adjustable range actuator module is utilized for disabling the throttle of the vehicle upon detection of the triggering signal. Finally, a brake adjustable range actuator module is included for deploying the brakes to stop the vehicle. Additionally, a clutch adjustable range actuator module is included for deploying a manual clutch, if the vehicle is fitted with one, for preventing the wheels of the vehicle from being driven. The plurality of vehicle parameters monitored include the vehicle speed, status of an audio power supply and vehicle sound system, state of external triggering devices, instructions imputed from a reset keypad, microprocessor control data received across a data link, and the state of a plurality of adjustable range actuator modules. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,815,825 |
| Title: | Vehicle Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,815,825 |
| Inventor(s): | Tachibana, Akihide (Susono, JP), Aoki, Keiji (Susono, JP) |
| Assignee: | Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/607,027 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,801,506 |
| Title: | Method And Device For Control Of Agv |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,801,506 |
| Inventor(s): | Netzler, Goran (.ANG.sa, SE) |
| Assignee: | Apogeum Ab |
| Application Number: | 08/581,538 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,790,976 |
| Title: | Route Selection Apparatus For A Motor Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,790,976 |
| Inventor(s): | Boll, Wolf (Weinstadt, DE), Buck, Michael (Winnenden, DE) |
| Assignee: | Daimlerchrysler Ag |
| Application Number: | 08/653,764 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,790,403 |
| Title: | Lane Image Processing System For Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,790,403 |
| Inventor(s): | Nakayama, Shigeto (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/501,232 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,787,382 |
| Title: | Navigation Apparatus For Displaying A Map By Limit Information |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,787,382 |
| Inventor(s): | Kurabayashi, Atsushi (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Sony Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/650,772 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,778,327 |
| Title: | Guidewire Controls For A Material Handling Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,778,327 |
| Inventor(s): | Simmons, James M. (Newark Valley, NY), Hellmann, Christopher J. (Apalachin, NY), Day, Richard M. (Binghamton, NY) |
| Assignee: | The Raymond Corporation |
| Application Number: | 08/747,244 |
| Abstract: | The present invention features a universal, manned, material handling vehicle. The material handling vehicle is capable of operating in a manned mode, a wire guidance mode, and a rail guidance mode. This manned material handling vehicle contains a steering management control system having a logic program which allows the vehicle to adapt itself to different wire control systems. That is, particular parameters, frequency and amplitude of the underlying wire guidance system can be determined. In this manner, the manned vehicle is universally adaptive to a wide variety of wire guidance systems. When in manned operation mode, should the vehicle receive a wire guidance signal, the system controller will be duly informed. When in wire guidance operation mode, should the vehicle lose or fail to receive a clear wire guidance signal appropriate to guide on, it will automatically revert to the manned operation mode. The steering management control system also monitors the weight and height of the vehicle's load. This steering management control system receives signals from the steering tiller, as well as from the guidewire embedded in the floor of the material storage facility. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,764,014 |
| Title: | Automated Guided Vehicle Having Ground Track Sensor |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,764,014 |
| Inventor(s): | Jakeway, Jerome J. (Belding, MI), Mickley, Joseph G. (Kentwood, MI), Zeitler, David W. (Byron Center, MI), Medley, James A. (Sparta, MI) |
| Assignee: | Dematic Corp. |
| Application Number: | 08/595,353 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,758,298 |
| Title: | Autonomous Navigation System For A Mobile Robot Or Manipulator |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,758,298 |
| Inventor(s): | Guldner, Jurgen (Munich, DE) |
| Assignee: | Deutsche Forschungsanstalt Fur Luft-und Raumfahrt E.v. |
| Application Number: | 08/404,552 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,757,646 |
| Title: | Centimeter Accurate Global Positioning System Receiver For On-the-fly Real-time Kinematic Measurement And Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,757,646 |
| Inventor(s): | Talbot, Nicholas Charles (Cupertino, CA), Allison, Michael Timo (Santa Clara, CA), Nichols, Mark Edward (Sunnyvale, CA) |
| Assignee: | Trimble Navigation Limited |
| Application Number: | 08/745,579 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,752,207 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Determining A Path For A Machine Between A Predetermined Route And A Final Position |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,752,207 |
| Inventor(s): | Sarangapani, Jagannathan (Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/536,761 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,719,762 |
| Title: | Method Of Controlling A Vehicle To Make A Combination Of Arbitrary Translational And Rotational Motions |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,719,762 |
| Inventor(s): | Kanayama, Yutaka John (Salinas, CA) |
| Assignee: | Navy, United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 08/553,904 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,684,697 |
| Title: | Driver Emulative Vehicle Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,684,697 |
| Inventor(s): | Mullen, Charles H. (Burlington, NC) |
| Application Number: | 08/494,972 |
| Abstract: | A driver emulative vehicle control system for use with a vehicle. The vehicle control system includes a video camera which transduces the field of view into a plurality of scan lines each comprising a plurality of pixels. A digitizer serves to digitize the frames from the video camera. A computer inputs the digitized frames and processes the same to control the steering, acceleration, deceleration, and braking of the vehicle. More particularly, the processing means includes addressing means, steering control processing means, and speed control processing means. The addressing means serves to map the digitized frames into a mapping memory which is read by the steering control processing means and the speed control processing means. With reference to a lane stripe or stripes in the field of view, the steering control processing means determines the location of the vehicle and generates a steering control signal corresponding thereto. A steering control means receives the steering control signals and controls the steering shaft of the vehicle in accordance therewith. The speed control processing means determines the presence and location of a leading vehicle in the lane and generates speed control signals corresponding thereto. A speed control means serves to receive the speed control signals and to control the throttle control and/or brake of the vehicle. Methods for automatically controlling the steering as well as the acceleration, deceleration and braking of a vehicle are also disclosed. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,684,696 |
| Title: | System And Method For Enabling An Autonomous Vehicle To Track A Desired Path |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,684,696 |
| Inventor(s): | Rao, Prithvi N. (Pittsburgh, PA), Shin, Dong Hun (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kleimenhagen, Karl W. (Peoria, IL), Singh, Sanjiv J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Bradbury, Walter J. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (Peoria, IL), Schmidt, Larry E. (Peoria, IL), Devier, Lonnie J. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/432,563 |
| Abstract: | A system and method for enabling an autonomous vehicle to track a desired path plans a continuous path to return to the desired path when the vehicle deviates from the desired path. The continuous path is determined based on the vehicle's position, the desired path, and a lookahead distance. The lookahead distance is the distance on the desired path within which the continuous path and the desired path converge. The lookahead distance may vary as a function of vehicle speed. In one embodiment of the present invention, the continuous path is determined as a quintic polynomial. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,675,489 |
| Title: | System And Method For Estimating Lateral Position |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,675,489 |
| Inventor(s): | Pomerleau, Dean A. (Wexford, PA) |
| Assignee: | Assistware Technology, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/498,593 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,671,140 |
| Title: | Fuzzy Controller For Target Intercept Guidance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,671,140 |
| Inventor(s): | Bessacini, Anthony F. (Narragansett, RI), Pinkos, Robert F. (Saunderstown, RI) |
| Assignee: | Navy, United Stated Of America, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 08/498,812 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,671,139 |
| Title: | Hierarchical Fuzzy Controller For Beam Rider Guidance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,671,139 |
| Inventor(s): | Bessacini, Anthony F. (Narragansett, RI), Pinkos, Robert F. (Saunderstown, RI) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America,the,as Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 08/498,811 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,671,138 |
| Title: | Fuzzy Controller For Acoustic Vehicle Target Intercept Guidance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,671,138 |
| Inventor(s): | Bessacini, Anthony F. (Narragansett, RI), Pinkos, Robert F. (Saunderstown, RI) |
| Assignee: | Navy, Department Of, United States Of America, The, As Represented By |
| Application Number: | 08/498,810 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,657,226 |
| Title: | System And Method For Causing An Autonomous Vehicle To Track A Path |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,657,226 |
| Inventor(s): | Shin, Dong Hun (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Singh, Sanjiv J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Devier, Lonnie J. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/431,596 |
| Abstract: | A system and method for causing an autonomous vehicle to track a desired path uses reference postures to define the desired path. Actual vehicle postures are determined using sensors aboard the autonomous vehicle. An expected vehicle posture at the end of a next time interval is determined on the actual vehicle posture. A desired vehicle posture at the end of the next time interval is determined based on the reference postures. A steering angle for the next time interval for the autonomous vehicle is determined based on the difference between the reference posture and the desired vehicle posture at the end of the next time interval. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,648,901 |
| Title: | System And Method For Generating Paths In An Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,648,901 |
| Inventor(s): | Gudat, Adam J. (Edelstein, IL), Shin, Dong Hun (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kleimenhagen, Karl W. (Peoria, IL), Singh, Sanjiv J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Christensen, Dana A. (Peoria, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Bradbury, Walter J. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Kyrtsos, Christos T. (Peoria, IL), Lay, Norman K. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (Peoria, IL), Schmidt, Larry E. (Peoria, IL), Stafford, Darrell E. (Dunlap, IL), Weinbeck, Louis J. (Peoria, IL), Devier, Lonnie J. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/432,396 |
| Abstract: | A system for generating a path allows a vehicle to traverse a predetermined route. The system stores route data for the predetermined route. The route data identifies a series of contiguous path segments that form the predetermined route. The route data also identifies a series of nodes located at the beginning and the end of the predetermined route and between adjacent path segments. Each path segment represents a series of postures along the predetermined route. Each posture identifies a position, a heading, and a curvature for the vehicle at a particular point along the predetermined route. The system stores the path segments and nodes as compressed path data. In one embodiment, the compressed path data is a function that is continuous in posture, i.e., continuous in position, heading and curvature. The system retrieves the compressed path data and generates a series of postures from the retrieved compressed path data to allow the vehicle to traverse the predetermined route. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,646,845 |
| Title: | System And Method For Controlling An Autonomously Navigated Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,646,845 |
| Inventor(s): | Gudat, Adam J. (Edelstein, IL), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kleimenhagen, Karl W. (Peoria, IL), Christensen, Dana A. (Peoria, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Bradbury, Walter J. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Kyrtsos, Christos T. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (Peoria, IL), Schmidt, Larry E. (Peoria, IL), Stafford, Darrell E. (Dunlap, IL), Weinbeck, Louis J. (Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/432,561 |
| Abstract: | A system and method for controlling an autonomously navigated vehicle uses a vehicle manager to control vehicle subsystems and to respond to commands from either a vehicle navigation system or a remote control panel. The vehicle manager controls vehicle subsystems including a speed control subsystem, a steering control subsystem, an auxiliary control subsystem, and a monitor subsystem. The speed control subsystem controls the speed of the vehicle in response to a speed command from the vehicle manager. The steering control subsystem controls the steering angle of the vehicle in response to a steering command from the vehicle manager. The auxiliary control subsystem controls auxiliary functions of the vehicle in response to an auxiliary command from the vehicle manager. The monitor subsystem monitors the status of each of the other subsystems and provides the status to the vehicle manager. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,617,320 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For An Agv Inertial Table Having An Angular Rate Sensor And A Voltage Controlled Oscillator |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,617,320 |
| Inventor(s): | Petersen, John A. M. (Centerville, UT), Whatcott, Gary L. (Salt Lake City, UT), Carter, Paul (Salt Lake City, UT) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/628,557 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,615,116 |
| Title: | Apparatus And Method For Autonomous Vehicle Navigation Using Path Data |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,615,116 |
| Inventor(s): | Gudat, Adam J. (Edelstein, IL), Rao, Prithvi N. (Pittsburgh, PA), Shaffer, Gary K. (Butler, PA), Shi, WenFan (Pittsburgh, PA), Shin, Dong H. (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kleimenhagen, Karl W. (Peoria, IL), West, Jay H. (Pittsburgh, PA), Clow, Richard G. (Phoenix, AZ), Singh, Sanjiv J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Christensen, Dana A. (Peoria, IL), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Bradbury, Walter J. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Kyrtsos, Christos T. (Peoria, IL), Lay, Norman K. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (Peoria, IL), Schmidt, Larry E. (Peoria, IL), Stafford, Darrell E. (Dunlap, IL), Weinbeck, Louis J. (Peoria, IL), Devier, Lonnie J. (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/431,815 |
| Abstract: | An apparatus and method for navigating a vehicle along a predetermined route use route data and path data to define the predetermined route. The route data represents one or more contiguous path segments between adjacent nodes along the predetermined route. The path data includes postures of the vehicle along each of the path segments. The postures define the desired position, heading, curvature and speed of vehicle at various locations along the path segments. The apparatus and method use the posture information to generate and track a path thereby allowing the vehicle to navigate along the predetermined route. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,610,815 |
| Title: | Integrated Vehicle Positioning And Navigation System, Apparatus And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,610,815 |
| Inventor(s): | Gudat, Adam J. (Edelstein, IL), Bradbury, Walter J. (Peoria, IL), Christensen, Dana A. (Peoria, IL), Clow, Richard G. (Phoenix, AZ), Devier, Lonnie J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Kleimenhagen, Karl W. (Peoria, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Kyrtsos, Christos T. (Peoria, IL), Lay, Norman K. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (Peoria, IL), Rao, Prithvi N. (Pittsburgh, PA), Schmidt, Larry E. (Peoria, IL), Sennott, James W. (Bloomington, IL), Shaffer, Gary K. (Butler, PA), Shi, Wenfan (Pittsburgh, PA), Shin, Dong H. (Pittsburgh, PA), Singh, Sanjiv J. (Pittsburgh, PA), Stafford, Darrell E. (Dunlap, IL), Weinbeck, Louis J. (Peoria, IL), West, Jay H. (Pittsburgh, PA), Whittaker, William L. (Pittsburgh, PA), Wu, Baoxin (Pittsburgh, PA) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/487,980 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,598,783 |
| Title: | Integrated Transportation System Including Transfer Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,598,783 |
| Inventor(s): | Lund, VanMetre (Northbrook, IL) |
| Assignee: | Autran Corp. |
| Application Number: | 08/475,750 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,590,604 |
| Title: | Transportation System With High Speed Vehicles And Automatic Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,590,604 |
| Inventor(s): | Lund, VanMetre (Northbrook, IL) |
| Assignee: | Autran Corp. |
| Application Number: | 08/481,771 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,590,603 |
| Title: | Transportation System Including Elevated Guideway |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,590,603 |
| Inventor(s): | Lund, VanMetre (Northbrook, IL) |
| Assignee: | Autran Corp. |
| Application Number: | 08/477,182 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,586,030 |
| Title: | System And Method For Managing Access To A Resource In An Autonomous Vehicle System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,586,030 |
| Inventor(s): | Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Koehrsen, Craig L. (Peoria, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (East Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/328,329 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,563,787 |
| Title: | Apparatus For Measuring Position Of Moving Body And Apparatus For Measuring Relative Distance |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,563,787 |
| Inventor(s): | Murayama, Osamu (Hiratsuka, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho |
| Application Number: | 08/542,412 |
| Abstract: | An apparatus for guiding the traveling of a moving body along a predetermined traveling path with a high degree of accuracy by accurately and reliably determining a corrected position and a corrected traveling direction of the moving body. A moving distance of the moving body between points of reception of light beams is obtained by a counter, and a CPU calculates a corrected position of the moving body by using an angle formed by the projecting directions of the light beams, the position of installation of a reflecting mirror, and an estimated traveling direction obtained on the basis of an output of a rate gyro. A corrected traveling direction is then calculated by using the corrected position thus calculated. The corrected position is calculated by using the traveling direction thus estimatively calculated. Since it is not necessary to directly determine the traveling direction, only two sets of devices for projecting and receiving the light beams are required, and only one device for reflecting the light is required, thereby improving the reliability of the apparatus. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,563,786 |
| Title: | Autonomous Running Control System For Vehicle And The Method Thereof |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,563,786 |
| Inventor(s): | Torii, Tsuyoshi (Tokyo, JP) |
| Assignee: | Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/383,082 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,559,696 |
| Title: | Mobile Robot Internal Position Error Correction System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,559,696 |
| Inventor(s): | Borenstein, Johann (Ann Arbor, MI) |
| Assignee: | Regents Of The University Of Michigan, The |
| Application Number: | 08/194,873 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,548,512 |
| Title: | Autonomous Navigation Apparatus With Neural Network For A Mobile Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,548,512 |
| Inventor(s): | Quraishi, Naveed (Houston, TX) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Administrator Of |
| Application Number: | 08/317,443 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,539,646 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For An Agv Inertial Table Having An Angular Rate Sensor And A Voltage Controlled Oscillator |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,539,646 |
| Inventor(s): | Petersen, John A. M. (Centerville, UT), Whatcott, Gary L. (Salt Lake City, UT), Carter, Paul (Salt Lake City, UT) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/143,334 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,525,883 |
| Title: | Mobile Robot Location Determination Employing Error-correcting Distributed Landmarks |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,525,883 |
| Inventor(s): | Avitzour, Daniel (Jerusalem, IL) |
| Assignee: | Avitzour, Sara |
| Application Number: | 08/272,338 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,490,075 |
| Title: | Global Positioning System Synchronized Active Light Autonomous Docking System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,490,075 |
| Inventor(s): | Howard, Richard T. (Huntsville, AL), Book, Michael L. (Huntsville, AL), Bryan, Thomas C. (Huntsville, AL), Bell, Joseph L. (Huntsville, AL) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The National Aeronautics And Space Administration Washington, D.c. 20546 |
| Application Number: | 08/283,728 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,485,378 |
| Title: | Device For Steering A Vehicle With Controlled Course Holding |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,485,378 |
| Inventor(s): | Franke, Uwe (Uhingen, DE), Hahn, Stefan (Denkendorf, DE), Suissa, Avshalom (Renningen, DE) |
| Assignee: | Daimler-benz Ag |
| Application Number: | 08/313,981 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,467,273 |
| Title: | Large Area Movement Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,467,273 |
| Inventor(s): | Faibish, Sorin (Haifa, IL), Yahav, Giora (Haifa, IL), Djerassi, Shlomo (Nahariya, IL) |
| Assignee: | Rafael Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 08/003,230 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,453,931 |
| Title: | Navigating Robot With Reference Line Plotter |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,453,931 |
| Inventor(s): | Watts, Jr., James R. (Woodbridge, VA) |
| Application Number: | 08/328,357 |
| Abstract: | A mobile robot for and a method of producing accurate physical lay-out and reference lines or performing work on a plane surface through cartesian coordinates or angle and distance systems is provided. The mobile robot has an on-board computer, a navigation system, and an emissions system. The robot is provided with a drive, for receipt of a floppy, or an internal drive, that can be programmed by an interested party directly or from a remote location by a plug-in. The program is loaded with locations that require treatment, work or equipment positioning. The robot locates and treats the coordinates with emission means, such as an ink jet type marking system, for workmen or for directly performing work at the coordinates. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,448,479 |
| Title: | Remote Control System And Method For An Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,448,479 |
| Inventor(s): | Kemner, Carl A. (Peoria Heights, IL), Peterson, Joel L. (East Peoria, IL) |
| Assignee: | Caterpillar Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/299,448 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,442,552 |
| Title: | Robotic Cultivator |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,442,552 |
| Inventor(s): | Slaughter, David C. (Davis, CA), Curley, Robert G. (Davis, CA), Chen, Pictiaw (El Macero, CA), Giles, Durham K. (Davis, CA) |
| Assignee: | Regents Of The University Of California, The |
| Application Number: | 08/032,075 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,436,839 |
| Title: | Navigation Module For A Semi-autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,436,839 |
| Inventor(s): | Dausch, Mark E. (Latham, NY), Carey, Bernard J. (Schenectady, NY), Bonissone, Piero P. (Schenectady, NY) |
| Assignee: | Nevada Asset Liquidators, Llc |
| Application Number: | 07/966,472 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,434,781 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Guiding A Driverless Vehicle Using A Sensor Tracking A Cable Emitting An Electromagnetic Field |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,434,781 |
| Inventor(s): | Alofs, Cornell W. (Petoskey, MI), Drenth, Ronald R. (Petoskey, MI) |
| Assignee: | Jervis B. Webb Company Jervis B. Webb International Company |
| Application Number: | 08/106,427 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,416,906 |
| Title: | Communication Method For Controlling And Monitoring Robots |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,416,906 |
| Inventor(s): | Mariani, Daniele (Sterling Heights, MI) |
| Assignee: | The United States Of America As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army |
| Application Number: | 08/215,880 |
| Abstract: | The method for routing communications is designed for a particular set of entities including robotic vehicles and a control center governing the vehicles. The method includes the construction of variable length informational transmissions whose components are arranged in a fixed order. The transmissions are modularly formatted so as to be compatible with a universal OSI-RM communication model. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,414,625 |
| Title: | System And Method For Providing Steering Control For Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,414,625 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Akira (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/862,610 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,410,481 |
| Title: | Method Of Determining The Rate Of Rotation Of Vehicles And Vehicle Arrangement For Implementing The Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,410,481 |
| Inventor(s): | Kriz, Helmut (Lachendorf, DE) |
| Assignee: | Tzn Forschungs- Und Entwicklungszentrum Unterluss Gmbh |
| Application Number: | 07/834,380 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,400,244 |
| Title: | Running Control System For Mobile Robot Provided With Multiple Sensor Information Integration System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,400,244 |
| Inventor(s): | Watanabe, Mutsumi (Kobe, JP), Onoguchi, Kazunori (Kobe, JP), Kweon, In S. (Seoul, KR) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba |
| Application Number: | 07/904,039 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,377,106 |
| Title: | Process For Navigating An Unmanned Vehicle And A Vehicle For The Same |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,377,106 |
| Inventor(s): | Drunk, Gerhard (Stuttgart, DE), Langen, Achim (Stuttgart, DE), Forster, Stefan (Stuttgart, DE), Hug, Christoph (Stuttgart, DE), Mullerschon, Joachim (Stuttgart, DE) |
| Assignee: | Fraunhofer Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Angewandten Forschung E.v. |
| Application Number: | 07/913,790 |
| Abstract: | Disclosed is a process for navigating an unmanned vehicle over a predeterable course, respectively such a vehicle. A steering and control unit determines by a first sensor at least the stretch covered and detects by at least one second sensor objects in the vicinage the position of which is stored in the steering and control unit and which serve the purpose of checking the position of the vehicle computed on the basis of the covered stretch. In accordance with the present invention the distance of the vehicle from the objects in the vicinage stored with their exact position in relation to the planned path in the steering and control unit is ascertained by the second sensor at points on the path spaced at intervals. The ascertained distance is compared with the stored distance of the planned coordinates of the point on the path from the object in vicinage. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,367,458 |
| Title: | Apparatus And Method For Identifying Scanned Reflective Anonymous Targets |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,367,458 |
| Inventor(s): | Roberts, Malcolm T. (Oadby, GB2), Miles, Russell W. (Rugby, GB2) |
| Assignee: | Fmc Technologies, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 08/104,867 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,367,457 |
| Title: | Apparatus And Method For Improving Accuracy Of An Automatic Travelling Apparatus |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,367,457 |
| Inventor(s): | Ishida, Shinnosuke (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 08/071,222 |
| Abstract: | Disclosed is an automatic travelling apparatus which is capable of taking an image of an area ahead of a vehicle by an image pick-up means attached to the vehicle; sampling and processing the image data to extract therefrom continuous line segments; determining a permissible travelling area ahead of the vehicle on the basis of the continuous line segments extracted; setting a target course in the permissible travelling area thus determined; detecting the instantaneous running condition of the vehicle; estimating, on the basis of the instantaneous running condition, a steering amount to permit the vehicle to follow the target course; and steering the vehicle with reference to the steering amount, and furthermore of renewing, on the basis of the instantaneous running condition during a period of image sampling, the preceding position of the vehicle in the permissible travelling area and reset a target course in the permissible travelling area in relation to the renewed position. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,363,305 |
| Title: | Navigation System For A Mobile Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,363,305 |
| Inventor(s): | Cox, Ingemar (Lawrenceville, NJ), Leonard, John J. (Boston, MA), Durrant-Whyte, Hugh (Oxford, GB2) |
| Assignee: | Nec Corporation |
| Application Number: | 07/843,570 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,347,456 |
| Title: | Intelligent Roadway Reference System For Vehicle Lateral Guidance And Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,347,456 |
| Inventor(s): | Zhang, Wei-bin (Richmond, CA), Parsons, Robert E. (Walnut Creek, CA) |
| Assignee: | Regents Of The University Of California, The, A Corp. Of Ca |
| Application Number: | 07/704,294 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,341,459 |
| Title: | Generalized Compliant Motion Primitive |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,341,459 |
| Inventor(s): | Backes, Paul G. (La Crescenta, CA) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Adminstrator Of The National Aeronautics And Space Administration |
| Application Number: | 07/744,118 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,341,130 |
| Title: | Downward Compatible Agv System And Methods |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,341,130 |
| Inventor(s): | Yardley, James V. (Centerville, UT), Whatcott, Gary L. (Holladay, UT), Petersen, John A. M. (Bountiful, UT), Bloomfield, Bryan A. (Bountiful, UT), Guest, Vaughn W. (Farmington, UT), Mottes, Rick S. (Roy, UT), Forman, Robert K. (Taylorsville, UT), Christensen, L. Bruce (Kaysville, UT), Zuercher, Joseph (Brookfield, WI), Schutten, Herman P. (Milwaukee, WI) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/908,691 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,339,241 |
| Title: | Method And System For Controlling A Travelling Body So As To Move Forward Along The Predetermined Route Of The Movement Of Travelling Body |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,339,241 |
| Inventor(s): | Fujimori, Isao (Higashi-murayama, JP), Matsumori, Shigeru (Tokyo, JP), Kano, Takashi (Chofu, JP), Sumi, Toshio (Kodaira, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Isekikaihatsu Koki A Corporation Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/719,941 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,321,615 |
| Title: | Zero Visibility Surface Traffic Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,321,615 |
| Inventor(s): | Frisbie, Marvin E. (Lakeside, CA), Bailey, Wilber H. (Leucadia, CA) |
| Assignee: | Frisbie, Marvin E. |
| Application Number: | 07/988,812 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,307,419 |
| Title: | Control Device Of An Autonomously Moving Body And Evaluation Method For Data Thereof |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,307,419 |
| Inventor(s): | Tsujino, Hiroshi (Iruma, JP), Hasegawa, Hiroshi (Niiza, JP), Sakagami, Yoshiaki (Kodaira, JP), Yamashita, Hirokazu (Asaka, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 07/801,708 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,307,271 |
| Title: | Reflexive Teleoperated Control System For A Remotely Controlled Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,307,271 |
| Inventor(s): | Everett, Jr., Hobart R. (San Diego, CA), Gilbreath, Gary A. (San Diego, CA) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 07/593,418 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,299,130 |
| Title: | Apparatus For Controlling Movement Of Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,299,130 |
| Inventor(s): | Ono, Toyoichi (Hiratsuka-shi, Kanagawa-ken 254, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho, A Corp. Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/623,659 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,281,901 |
| Title: | Downward Compatible Agv System And Methods |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,281,901 |
| Inventor(s): | Yardley, James V. (Centerville, UT), Whatcott, Gary L. (Holladay, UT), Petersen, John A. M. (Bountiful, UT), Bloomfield, Bryan A. (Bountiful, UT), Guest, Vaughn W. (Farmington, UT), Mottes, Rick S. (Roy, UT), Forman, Robert K. (Taylorsville, UT), Christensen, L. Bruce (Kaysville, UT), Zuercher, Joseph (Brookfield, WI), Schutten, Herman P. (Milwaukee, WI) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/621,486 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,276,618 |
| Title: | Doorway Transit Navigational Referencing System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,276,618 |
| Inventor(s): | Everett, Jr., Hobart R. (San Diego, CA) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 07/846,486 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,267,173 |
| Title: | Carriage Running Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,267,173 |
| Inventor(s): | Tanizawa, Hideichi (Moriguchi, JP), Watanabe, Yoshitaka (Takarazuka, JP), Iwama, Michio (Kobe, JP) |
| Assignee: | Daifuku Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/775,160 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,249,126 |
| Title: | System And Method For Controlling Steering Response According To Vehicle Speed Applicable To Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,249,126 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Akira (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Company, Limited, 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/587,944 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,243,524 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus For Controlling A Vehicle And Accounting For Side-slip Angle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,243,524 |
| Inventor(s): | Ishida, Shinnosuke (Saitama, JP), Takei, Akihiko (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, No. 1-1, 2-chome, Minamiaoyama, Minato-ku, Tokyo, 107, Japan A Corp Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/670,742 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,241,481 |
| Title: | Method And A Device For Laser Optical Navigation |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,241,481 |
| Inventor(s): | Olsen, Bengt O. (Hogen, SE) |
| Assignee: | Arnex Handelsbolag |
| Application Number: | 07/570,960 |
| Abstract: | A laser-optical navigation method and apparatus are provided for rotationally emitting a pulsed beam of light from a transmitter/sensor unit mounted on a vehicle. Ground mounted reflectors in the path of the emitted light reflect the light back to the transmitter/sensor unit, which converts the reflected light to electrical signals. Attitude angles and other directional and locational information are computed from these signals, which may be used to navigate the vehicle. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,233,526 |
| Title: | Process For Relocking On A Theoretical Trajectory For A Vehicle, Whilst Modifying The Curvature Of The Real Trajectory |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,233,526 |
| Inventor(s): | Detriche, Jean-Marie (Noisy le Roi, FR), Micaelli, Alain (Fontenay Aux Roses, FR) |
| Assignee: | Commissariat A L'energie Atomique, 31/33 Rue De La Federation 75015 Paris, France |
| Application Number: | 07/626,946 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,229,941 |
| Title: | Autonomous Vehicle Automatically Running On Route And Its Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,229,941 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Akira (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Company, Limited Of 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/337,707 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,220,508 |
| Title: | Position And Heading Detecting Device For Self Controlled Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,220,508 |
| Inventor(s): | Ninomiya, Yoshiki (Nagoya, JP), Yamamoto, Yuzo (Aichi, JP), Sugimoto, Gunji (Kariya, JP), Tange, Koichi (Nagoya, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho |
| Application Number: | 07/634,613 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,208,750 |
| Title: | Control System For Unmanned Automotive Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,208,750 |
| Inventor(s): | Kurami, Kunihiko (Kawasaki, JP), Kishi, Norimasa (Yokohama, JP), Noso, Kazunori (Yokohama, JP), Hattori, Akira (Yokohama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Co., Ltd., No. 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama City, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/206,667 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,204,814 |
| Title: | Autonomous Lawn Mower |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,204,814 |
| Inventor(s): | Noonan, Thomas H. (Havertown, PA), Fisher, John (Avondale, PA), Bryant, Barry (New Baltimore, MI) |
| Assignee: | Cutting Edge Robotics, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/611,679 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,202,832 |
| Title: | Material Handling Automation System Using Portable Transfer Module |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,202,832 |
| Inventor(s): | Lisy, Donald J. (Downers Grove, IL) |
| Assignee: | R.r. Donnelley & Sons Company, A Corp. Of De |
| Application Number: | 07/647,146 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,192,903 |
| Title: | Equipment For Transporting A Load |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,192,903 |
| Inventor(s): | Kita, Hiroaki (Kasugai, JP), Murata, Koichi (Kasugai, JP), Nakano, Mamoru (Komaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Daifuku Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/908,436 |
| Abstract: | A load transport equipment having self-propelled trucks travelling on a predetermined route so as to transport a load by the truck, wherein an encoder is connected to a motor and the pulse number from the encoder is counted by a counter, the counted value being optically transmitted toward another self-propelled truck following the front self-propelled truck on the predetermined route, the following self-propelled truck receiving the counted value from the front self-propelled truck to obtain a difference between the received counted value and that of the following truck, so that the travel speed of the rear self-propelled truck is controlled on the basis of the difference so that the running speed is controlled in accordance with the distance between the trucks thereby preventing a rear-end collision. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,189,612 |
| Title: | System And Method Of Navigating The Travel Of An Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,189,612 |
| Inventor(s): | Lemercier, Pierre (Saint Martin le Vinoux, FR), Trystram, Philippe (Saint Egreve, FR) |
| Assignee: | Protee Groupement D'interet Economique |
| Application Number: | 07/759,753 |
| Abstract: | A navigation system for an autonomous vehicle (1). It has a lateral row of detectors (2). The ground has discontinuous buried magnetic markers (3) setting up a localized field which in turn produces an induced current which varies in the detectors (2) in dependence on their position. The markers, formed by magnets (151-155) of selected polarity and number, form magnetic signatures which contain items of information for the vehicle. The on-board vehicle computer (1) can deduce its lateral position and the controls to be carried out to accomplish its mission. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,187,664 |
| Title: | Proportional Position-sensing System For An Automatic Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,187,664 |
| Inventor(s): | Yardley, James V. (Centerville, UT), Whatcott, Gary L. (Holladay, UT), Petersen, John A. M. (Bountiful, UT), Schutten, Herman P. (Milwaukee, WI) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/618,793 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,175,480 |
| Title: | Vehicle Guidance And Control Systems And Methods For Controllably Guiding A Vehicle Along A Predetermined Pathway |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,175,480 |
| Inventor(s): | McKeefery, James (Milpitas, CA), Sachs, James (Menlo Park, CA), Wotiz, Richard (Cupertino, CA) |
| Assignee: | Mckeefery, James Sachs, James Wotiz, Richard |
| Application Number: | 07/467,254 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,172,317 |
| Title: | Automatic Travelling Apparatus |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,172,317 |
| Inventor(s): | Asanuma, Nobuyoshi (Saitama, JP), Ishida, Shinnosuke (Saitama, JP), Hasegawa, Hiroshi (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 07/873,638 |
| Abstract: | An automatic travelling apparatus which permits: determination of a permissible travelling area on the basis of images taken by an image pickup device or video camera, showing the sight of the area appearing ahead of the vehicle; steering control of the vehicle to go into a target course in the permissible travelling area; and selection of a predetermined way of a selected crossing or branch in the target course. For the image pickup device or video camera taking images of the area extending ahead of the vehicle for determining a permissible travelling area, a wide-angle camera, a telescopic range camera and an ordinary camera are selectively used to meet particular situations for example, taking pictures of a crossing, zigzag way or straight long way. This selective use of cameras of different characteristics permits correct identification of particular roads with those stored in the map storage. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,172,315 |
| Title: | Automatic Travelling Apparatus And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,172,315 |
| Inventor(s): | Asanuma, Nobuyoshi (Saitama, JP), Ishida, Shinnosuke (Saitama, JP), Hasegawa, Hiroshi (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha |
| Application Number: | 07/873,648 |
| Abstract: | An automatic travelling apparatus which is capable of finding out a permissible travelling area from images taken by an image pick-up device to set a target course in the permissible travelling area; determining a steering amount appropriate for the purpose of permitting the vehicle to put itself on the target course, in consideration of the instantaneous travelling condition of the vehicle; and performing the exact steering control in terms of the steering amount. The exact travelling attained by the automatic travelling apparatus according to the present invention is attributable to a two-step determination in which first, a target course is set in a permissible area, and a tentative course is set appropriate for the purpose of permitting the vehicle to put itself on the target course. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,164,648 |
| Title: | Equipment For Transporting A Load |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,164,648 |
| Inventor(s): | Kita, Hiroaki (Kasugai, JP), Murata, Koichi (Kasugai, JP), Nakano, Mamoru (Komaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Daifuku Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/775,511 |
| Abstract: | A load transport equipment having self-propelled trucks travelling on a predetermined route so as to transport a load by the truck, wherein an encoder is connected to a motor and the pulse number from the encoder is counted by a counter, the counted value being optically transmitted toward another self-propelled truck following the front self-propelled truck on the predetermined route, the following self-propelled truck receiving the counted value from the front self-propelled truck to obtain a difference between the received counted value and that of the following truck, so that the travel speed of the rear self-propelled truck is controlled on the basis of the difference so that the running speed is controlled in accordance with the distance between the trucks thereby preventing a rear-end collision. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,163,001 |
| Title: | Interactive Display For Use On An Automatic Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,163,001 |
| Inventor(s): | Luke, Jr., Walter (Binghamton, NY) |
| Application Number: | 07/618,020 |
| Abstract: | An AGV for transporting material between at least two pickup and delivery stands. The AGV has a chassis for carrying objects. A computer processor is supported by the chassis for controlling and monitoring AGV operation. An interactive display is connected to the computer processor and mounted on the chassis for displaying status, current assignment and diagnostic information relating to AGV operation. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,155,775 |
| Title: | Structured Illumination Autonomous Machine Vision System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,155,775 |
| Inventor(s): | Brown, C. David (Haure de Grace, MD) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Army |
| Application Number: | 07/260,423 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,155,684 |
| Title: | Guiding An Unmanned Vehicle By Reference To Overhead Features |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,155,684 |
| Inventor(s): | Burke, Steven A. (Champlin, MN), Liang, Cao Z. (Tianjin, CN), Hall, Ernest L. (Cincinnati, OH) |
| Assignee: | Tennant Company |
| Application Number: | 07/732,340 |
| Abstract: | A vehicle primarily for unmanned operation is equipped with a video camera pointed up, and progressively records in an on-board computer memory the observed locations of points derived from overhead features such as pre-existing overhead lights in a building during a manually driven teaching mode trip along a desired course. On subsequent unmanned trips, the vehicle directs itself along the chosen course by again observing the overhead features, deriving points from them and comparing the locations of those points to the locations of the points that were recorded during the teaching mode trip. It then corrects its steering to bring the errors between the observed locations and the recorded locations to zero, thereby directing the vehicle to automatically follow the course that was followed during the teaching mode trip. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,155,683 |
| Title: | Vehicle Remote Guidance With Path Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,155,683 |
| Inventor(s): | Rahim, Wadiatur (Severna Park, MD) |
| Application Number: | 07/683,706 |
| Abstract: | In a remotely piloted surface vehicle a television camera is used to send images to a screen on the operator's station. A computer displays the vehicle's intended path on the screen. The path appears as a computer-generated line superimposed on the image of the vehicle's environment, like a stripe painted on the ground. The operator can change or advance the path on the screen with a cursor control. A computer picks certain discrete screen points along the line and maps those screen positions onto ground positions called "waypoints". These are sent to the vehicle's guidance system to direct the vehicle along a path through the waypoints. The transform which maps the screen path onto the ground path depends on the camera orientation and lens. The transform parameters can be adjusted as the camera zooms, pans and tilts. Each time the screen is refreshed, the path line for that screen is calculated by the computer from the ground path, to present the ground path correctly in the new screen. The operator can extend or modify the path at will. The system is especially adapted to use in cases where a narrow bandwidth of the radio link between the camera and the station limits the screen refresh rate. The system maximizes the possible speed of the vehicle by presenting the path information in a format quickly grasped by the operator. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,134,353 |
| Title: | Equipment For Transporting A Load |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,134,353 |
| Inventor(s): | Kita, Hiroaki (Kasugai, JP), Murata, Koichi (Kasugai, JP), Nakano, Mamoru (Komaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Daifuku Co., Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/720,637 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,127,486 |
| Title: | System For Sensing Arrival Of An Automatic Guided Vehicle At A Wire |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,127,486 |
| Inventor(s): | Yardley, James V. (Centerville, UT), Whatcott, Gary L. (Holladay, UT), Petersen, John A. M. (Bountiful, UT) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/617,315 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,124,918 |
| Title: | Neural-based Autonomous Robotic System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,124,918 |
| Inventor(s): | Beer, Randall D. (South Euclid, OH), Chiel, Hillel J. (University Heights, OH), Sterling, Leon S. (South Euclid, OH) |
| Assignee: | Case Western Reserve University, 2040 Adelbert Road, Cleveland, Oh. 44106, A Non-profit Organization |
| Application Number: | 07/467,002 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,122,957 |
| Title: | Autonomous Vehicle For Automatically/autonomously Running On Route Of Travel And Its Method Using Fuzzy Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,122,957 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Akira (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Company, Limited, 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/485,910 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,111,401 |
| Title: | Navigational Control System For An Autonomous Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,111,401 |
| Inventor(s): | Everett, Jr., Hobart R. (San Diego, CA), Gilbreath, Gary A. (San Diego, CA), Laird, Robin T. (San Diego, CA) |
| Assignee: | United States Of America, The, As Represented By The Secretary Of The Navy |
| Application Number: | 07/531,483 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,107,946 |
| Title: | Steering Control System For Moving Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,107,946 |
| Inventor(s): | Kamimura, Kenji (Saitama, JP), Tsuzuki, Sadachika (Saitama, JP), Noda, Kazunori (Saitama, JP), Fujimoto, Shuzo (Saitama, JP), Takeda, Toru (Saitama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, 1-1, Minami Aoyama 2-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo, A Corp Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/553,625 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,101,351 |
| Title: | Autonomous Vehicle Using Fuzzy Control |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,101,351 |
| Inventor(s): | Hattori, Akira (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Company, Limited Of 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/507,572 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,087,969 |
| Title: | Unmanned Vehicle Control System With Guide Line Detection |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,087,969 |
| Inventor(s): | Kamada, Hiroshi (Kawasaki, JP), Ozaki, Tohru (Kawasaki, JP) |
| Assignee: | Fujitsu Limited, 1015, Kamikodanaka, Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki-shi, Kanagawa 211, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/554,365 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,081,585 |
| Title: | Control System For Autonomous Automotive Vehicle Or The Like |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,081,585 |
| Inventor(s): | Kurami, Kunihiko (Kawasaki, JP), Kishi, Norimasa (Yokohama, JP), Noso, Kazunori (Yokohama, JP), Hattori, Akira (Yokohama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Company, Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/208,313 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,079,706 |
| Title: | Control System For Self-propelled Working Vehicle Including Vehicle Course Correction Means |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,079,706 |
| Inventor(s): | Yamaguchi, Tetsuo (Sakai, JP), Ito, Katsumi (Osaka, JP), Tanaka, Shigeru (Osaka, JP), Takahara, Kazuhiro (Osaka, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kubota Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 07/479,189 |
| Abstract: | A steering control system for a self-propelled working vehicle having steerable front and rear wheels. The control system comprises sensors for detecting a directional or orientation error and a sideways error of the vehicle relative to a reference line or lines extending in a vehicle running direction, and a control unit for steering the vehicle in response to signals received from the sensors. The control unit is capable of steering the vehicle in a turn steering mode for turning the front and rear wheels to the same steering angle in opposite directions and a parallel steering mode for turning the front and rear wheels to the same steering angle in the same direction. When the directional error and the sideways error take place simultaneously, the control unit determines directions and angles for turning the front and rear wheels to correct the two errors simultaneously. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,075,853 |
| Title: | Replaceable Vehicle Control Prom |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,075,853 |
| Inventor(s): | Luke, Jr., Walter (Binghamton, NY) |
| Assignee: | Whs Robotics, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/627,563 |
| Abstract: | In accordance with the present invention, there is provided an automatic guided vehicle (AGV) with a movable chassis and information processor mounted on the chassis for controlling AGV operation. A data storage mechanism in the form of a replaceable PROM is connected to the information processor for storing data representative of AGV operating instructions, such as safety procedure instructions, a facilities map, traffic control instructions, load handling instructions, diagnostic procedure instructions, speed control instructions and the like. |
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| Patent Number: | 5,051,906 |
| Title: | Mobile Robot Navigation Employing Retroreflective Ceiling Features |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,051,906 |
| Inventor(s): | Evans, Jr., John M. (Brookfield, CT), King, Steven J. (Woodbury, CT), Weiman, Carl F. R. (Westport, CT) |
| Assignee: | Pyxis Corporation |
| Application Number: | 07/363,601 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,036,474 |
| Title: | Motion Detection And Tracking From A Mobile Platform |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,036,474 |
| Inventor(s): | Bhanu, Bir (New Brighton, MN), Burger, Wilhelm (Linz, AT) |
| Assignee: | Honeywell Inc., Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, Mn 55408, A Corp. Of De. |
| Application Number: | 07/331,706 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,023,790 |
| Title: | Automatic Guided Vehicle System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,023,790 |
| Inventor(s): | Luke, Jr., Walter (Binghamton, NY) |
| Assignee: | Whs Robotics, Inc., 2 Grosset Dr., Kirkwood, Ny 13795 |
| Application Number: | 07/313,654 |
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| Patent Number: | 5,020,620 |
| Title: | Offsetting The Course Of A Laser Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 5,020,620 |
| Inventor(s): | Field, Bruce F. (Golden Valley, MN) |
| Assignee: | Tennant Company, 701 North Lilac Drive, Minneapolis, Mn 55422 A Corp. Of Mn |
| Application Number: | 07/413,631 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,987,540 |
| Title: | Automatic Guided Vehicle System Having Communication And Traffic Controller With Unguided Paths |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,987,540 |
| Inventor(s): | Luke, Jr., Walter (Binghamton, NY) |
| Assignee: | Whs Robotics, Inc., 2 Grosset Drive, Bing, A Corp. Of Ny |
| Application Number: | 07/358,234 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,986,384 |
| Title: | Remote Control System Of Mobile Objects |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,986,384 |
| Inventor(s): | Okamoto, Hironobu (Ichikawa, JP), Izumi, Tetsujirou (Ichikawa, JP), Kishi, Hiroo (Ichikawa, JP), Okamoto, Naoki (Ichikawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Robotech Laboratory Co., Ltd., 10-9, Nihonbashi Kobuna-cho, Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/420,267 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,982,329 |
| Title: | Self-contained Unmanned Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,982,329 |
| Inventor(s): | Tabata, Hidemitsu (Ise, JP), Yamashita, Teppei (Ise, JP), Onishi, Masanori (Ise, JP), Nishikawa, Yuji (Ise, JP) |
| Assignee: | Shinko Electric Co., Ltd., 12-2, 3-chome, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103 Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/210,845 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,975,685 |
| Title: | Guide Path Short Detector |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,975,685 |
| Inventor(s): | Rahhal, Rodger G. (Canton, MI) |
| Assignee: | General Motors Corporation, Detroit, Mi A Corp. Of De |
| Application Number: | 07/348,750 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,970,653 |
| Title: | Vision Method Of Detecting Lane Boundaries And Obstacles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,970,653 |
| Inventor(s): | Kenue, Surender K. (Southfield, MI) |
| Assignee: | Delphi Technologies, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/334,033 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,956,777 |
| Title: | Automatic Vehicle Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,956,777 |
| Inventor(s): | Cearley, Thomas W. (Clemmons, NC), Donovan, Michael F. (Advance, NC), Gardea, II, Raymond A. (Winston-Salem, NC), Hughes, Kolleen C. (King, NC), Hunt, III, William R. (Mt. Airy, NC), Jarvis, William R. (Winston-Salem, NC), Martin, Marvin R. (Winston-Salem, NC), Shamb, Aftab (Clay, NY), Shepard, Michael D. (Winston-Salem, NC), Summers, William F. (Mocksville, NC), Twine, David C. (Winston-Salem, NC), Utt, Jr., Lonnie M. (Mt. Airy, NC) |
| Assignee: | R.j. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Winston-salem, Nc, A Corp. Nj |
| Application Number: | 07/204,336 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,942,531 |
| Title: | Self-adapting Signal Detector With Digital Outputs |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,942,531 |
| Inventor(s): | Hainsworth, Thomas E. (Holland, MI), Spanhak, F. Nicholaas (Jennison, MI), Paske, Jr., Richard R. (Holland, MI) |
| Assignee: | Bbh, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/194,337 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,939,651 |
| Title: | Control Method For An Unmanned Vehicle (robot Car) |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,939,651 |
| Inventor(s): | Onishi, Masanori (Ise, JP) |
| Assignee: | Shinko Electric Co., Ltd., 12-2, 3-chome, Nihonbashi, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 103, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/206,369 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,935,871 |
| Title: | Electronic Road System Generation Method For An Automatic Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,935,871 |
| Inventor(s): | Grohsmeyer, Paul D. (Dunlap, IL) |
| Assignee: | Fmc Technologies, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 07/314,511 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,919,224 |
| Title: | Automatic Working Vehicular System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,919,224 |
| Inventor(s): | Shyu, Jia-Ming (Hsin Chu Hsien, TW), Chang, Chih-Li (Hsin Chu Hsien, TW) |
| Assignee: | Industrial Technology Research Institute, 195, Chung Hsing Rd., Sec. 4, Chu Tung, Hsin Chu Hsien, Taiwan, R.o.c. |
| Application Number: | 07/191,974 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,918,607 |
| Title: | Vehicle Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,918,607 |
| Inventor(s): | Wible, John E. (Plainesville, OH) |
| Assignee: | Fmc Corporation |
| Application Number: | 07/242,241 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,918,362 |
| Title: | Method Of Guiding Industrial Trucks Having At Least One Steerable Wheel And System For Carrying Out The Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,918,362 |
| Inventor(s): | Christensen, Sven (Hamburg, DE), Haelbich, Rolf (Halstenbek, DE), Hanel, Jurgen (Hasloh, DE), Hoener, Siegfried (Hamburg, DE), Pridat, Volker (Hamburg, DE) |
| Assignee: | Jungheinrich Unternehmensverwaltung Gmbh |
| Application Number: | 07/285,096 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,884,202 |
| Title: | Programmable Driverless Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,884,202 |
| Inventor(s): | Ogawa, Hiroshi (Aichi, JP), Yoshida, Susumu (Kagamihara, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Meidensha, 1-17, Ohsaki 2-chome, Shinagawa-ku, Tokyo, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/009,958 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,862,047 |
| Title: | Apparatus For Guiding Movement Of An Unmanned Moving Body |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,862,047 |
| Inventor(s): | Suzuki, Toru (Hiratsuka, JP), Kato, Atsuhiko (Isehara, JP), Hosoi, Mitsuo (Hiratsuka, JP), Nakano, Ichiro (Hiratsuka, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Komatsu Seisakusho, A Corp. Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/157,510 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,860,209 |
| Title: | Running Command System For Unmanned Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,860,209 |
| Inventor(s): | Sugimoto, Gunji (Aichi, JP), Hongo, Takero (Aichi, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Kenkyusho |
| Application Number: | 07/170,313 |
| Abstract: | In a running command system for an unmanned vehicle, path information is stored, a current running state is compared with running command instruction data, an end of an operation corresponding to the running command instruction data is detected, and new running command instruction data corresponding to the next operation is generated upon detection of the end of the operation. The optimal running command instruction data can be set to cause the unmanned vehicle to travel along a running path whose information is stored in a running course memory, thereby accurately guiding the unmanned vehicle to a destination. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,855,915 |
| Title: | Autoguided Vehicle Using Reflective Materials |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,855,915 |
| Inventor(s): | Dallaire, Rodney J. (Livonia, MI) |
| Application Number: | 07/025,722 |
| Abstract: | An automatic guiding system for an unmanned goods transportation vehicle is provided by a one dimensional optical detector responsive to specialized targets mounted along a side of the vehicle's path of motion. The specialized targets consist of combinations of retro-reflective and mirror-like devices in patterns allowing the vehicle to determine both the relative position and heading angle in a single set of measurements. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,855,822 |
| Title: | Human Engineered Remote Driving System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,855,822 |
| Inventor(s): | Narendra, Patrenahalli M. (Edina, MN), Fant, Karl M. (Minneapolis, MN), Graf, Carl P. (Forest Lake, MN) |
| Assignee: | Honeywell, Inc., Honeywell Plaza, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55408 A Corp. Of De |
| Application Number: | 07/148,531 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,847,773 |
| Title: | System For Navigating A Free Ranging Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,847,773 |
| Inventor(s): | van Helsdingen, Carel C. (Naarden, NL), Ten Cate, Jan O. (Drogteropslagen, NL), Peteri, Paul H. F. (Rotterdam, NL), van der Heyden, Frank (Rotterdam, NL) |
| Assignee: | Frog Navigation Systems B.v. |
| Application Number: | 06/831,510 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,846,297 |
| Title: | Automated Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,846,297 |
| Inventor(s): | Field, Bruce F. (Minneapolis, MN), Kasper, Joseph G. (Golden Valley, MN) |
| Assignee: | Tennant Company |
| Application Number: | 07/222,894 |
| Abstract: | An unmanned, self-propelled vehicle in the nature of a mobile robot has an on-board computer that stores path and machine function instructions and activates the drive and steering systems so as to cause the machine to follow a desired path. A plurality of retroreflective targets are mounted along the desired path. They do not have to be mounted at a specific height or distance apart, nor need they be square to the path. An improved guidance system for keeping the vehicle on the prescribed path includes a laterally scanning laser transmitter-receiver mounted on the vehicle. An electromechanical tracking device controls the angle of elevation of the laser beam so as to keep it aimed at each target successively as the vehicle moves. The laser produces signals which steer the vehicle such that the laser transmitter and targets are kept aligned in a vertical plane. A positioning device can move the laser transmitter transversely on the vehicle so that the vehicle centerline may travel in the vertical plane of the laser or may travel in an offset line parallel to the vertical laser plane. Certain ones of the targets are bar coded and a target counter senses and counts them as the machine moves past them to keep track of where the vehicle is located along its desired path. A motion sensing system using reflective microwave sensors provides speed and distance information. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,829,442 |
| Title: | Beacon Navigation System And Method For Guiding A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,829,442 |
| Inventor(s): | Kadonoff, Mark B. (Somerville, MA), Maddox, James F. (Arlington, MA), George, II, Robert W. (Windham, NH), Benayad-Cherif, Faycal E. (Somerville, MA) |
| Assignee: | E.t.m. Realty Trust |
| Application Number: | 06/864,442 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,821,192 |
| Title: | Node Map System And Method For Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,821,192 |
| Inventor(s): | Taivalkoski, Amy L. (Salem, NH), Kadonoff, Mark B. (Cambridge, MA) |
| Assignee: | E.t.m. Realty Trust |
| Application Number: | 06/936,092 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,819,169 |
| Title: | System And Method For Calculating Movement Direction And Position Of An Unmanned Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,819,169 |
| Inventor(s): | Saitoh, Hiroshi (Kanagawa, JP), Noso, Kazunori (Kanagawa, JP), Kurami, Kunihiko (Kanagawa, JP), Kishi, Norimasa (Kanagawa, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nissan Motor Company, Limited, 2, Takara-cho, Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama-shi, Kanagawa-ken, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/100,581 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,817,750 |
| Title: | Running Control System For Conveyor Cart |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,817,750 |
| Inventor(s): | Ishida, Hideo (Kasugai, JP), Moriya, Susumu (Kasugai, JP), Taya, Takuo (Komaki, JP), Shimokata, Hiroshi (Inuyama, JP) |
| Assignee: | Daifuku Co., Ltd., 11-go, 2-ban, 3-chome, Mitejima, Nishi Yodogawa-ku, Osaka, Japan |
| Application Number: | 07/046,871 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,817,000 |
| Title: | Automatic Guided Vehicle System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,817,000 |
| Inventor(s): | Eberhardt, Nikolai (Bethlehem, PA) |
| Assignee: | Si Handling Systems, Inc. Kesslerville Road, Easton, Pennsylvania A Corp. Of Pa. |
| Application Number: | 06/838,088 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,815,008 |
| Title: | Orientation Adjustment System And Robot Using Same |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,815,008 |
| Inventor(s): | Kadonoff, Mark B. (Somerville, MA), Maddox, James F. (Arlington, MA), George, II, Robert W. (Windham, NH), Benayad-Cheriif, Faycal E. (Somerville, MA) |
| Assignee: | E.t.m. Realty Trust |
| Application Number: | 06/864,450 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,811,229 |
| Title: | Control System For Automatic Guided Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,811,229 |
| Inventor(s): | Wilson, Richard A. (Everett, WA) |
| Assignee: | Hewlett-packard Company, Palo Alto, Ca., A Corp Of Ca. |
| Application Number: | 07/000,500 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,791,570 |
| Title: | Guide Wire Communication System And Method |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,791,570 |
| Inventor(s): | Sherman, Leigh E. (North Wales, PA), Whatcott, Gary L. (Holladay, UT), Dicks, Richard M. (Salt Lake City, UT), Madsen, David C. (Sandy, UT) |
| Assignee: | Hk Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 06/873,032 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,790,402 |
| Title: | Automated Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,790,402 |
| Inventor(s): | Field, Bruce F. (Minneapolis, MN), Kasper, Joseph G. (Golden Valley, MN) |
| Assignee: | Tennant Company, 701 N. Lilac Drive, Minneapolis, Mn 55440, A Corp. Of Mn |
| Application Number: | 07/101,508 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,777,416 |
| Title: | Recharge Docking System For Mobile Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,777,416 |
| Inventor(s): | George, II, Robert W. (Windham, NH), DiPietro, Michael C. (Tewksbury, MA), Kadonoff, Mark B. (Somerville, MA), Maddox, James F. (Arlington, MA) |
| Assignee: | E.t.m. Realty Trust |
| Application Number: | 06/864,028 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,729,660 |
| Title: | Position Measuring Apparatus Of Moving Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,729,660 |
| Inventor(s): | Tsumura, Toshihiro (Sumiyoshi-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, JP), Tsumura, Takeshi (Tokushima-shi, Tokushima-ken, JP) |
| Application Number: | 06/841,896 |
| Abstract: | Light reflecting means 2R and 2L provided on both sides of a road 1 each reflect an incident light at the same angle as the angle of incidence with respect to the plane of incidence. Lights 8R and 8L emitted from a moving vehicle 3 are reflected from the light reflecting means 2R and 2L and returned again to the light emitting source and accordingly they are detected by light receivers 75R and 75L. The position of the moving vehicle 3 is calculated geometrically based on the moving distance of the moving vehicle 3 in a period obtained from the difference between the light receiving time of the light receiver 75R and that of the light receiver 75L or the light receiving angle as well as the moving direction of the moving vehicle 3 and the positions where the light reflecting means 2R and 2L are installed. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,727,492 |
| Title: | Vehicle Control And Guidance System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,727,492 |
| Inventor(s): | Reeve, Peter J. (Warwickshire, GB2), Robins, Michael P. (Warwickshire, GB2), Roberts, Malcolm T. (West Midlands, GB2) |
| Assignee: | Cegelec Controls Ltd. |
| Application Number: | 06/584,598 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,716,530 |
| Title: | System For Automatically Controlling Movement Of Unmanned Vehicle And Method Therefor |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,716,530 |
| Inventor(s): | Ogawa, Hiroshi (Aichi, JP), Miyazaki, Yasuyuki (Aichi, JP), Yoshida, Susumu (Kakamigahara, JP), Sasaki, Shinichi (Nagoya, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Meidensha 1-17 Ohaski 2-chome Shinagawa-ku Tokyo Japan |
| Application Number: | 06/704,522 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,700,302 |
| Title: | Automatic Guidance System For An Unmanned Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,700,302 |
| Inventor(s): | Arakawa, Hideo (Aichi, JP), Sugiyama, Gunji (Aichi, JP), Tange, Koichi (Aichi, JP), Hongo, Takero (Aichi, JP), Yamamoto, Yuzo (Aichi, JP), Ohba, Hiroyuki (Aichi, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Toyota Chuo Knkyusho, Aichi-ken, Japan, A Corp. Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 06/673,574 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,700,301 |
| Title: | Method Of Automatically Steering Agricultural Type Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,700,301 |
| Inventor(s): | Dyke, Howard L. (Walters, OK) |
| Application Number: | 06/837,511 |
| Abstract: | A method of automatically steering a motor vehicle on a preprogrammed course by continuously measuring angles between reference points and using a microprocessor to calculate vehicle position and direction of motion. Points along a prescribed course are sequentially retrieved from a memory and the direction to these points are calculated and compared to the present direction of travel. Steering angle is then set to guide the vehicle toward these points. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,653,002 |
| Title: | Navigation System For Unmanned Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,653,002 |
| Inventor(s): | Barry, Robert F. (Monroeville Boro, PA) |
| Assignee: | Northrop Grumman Corporation |
| Application Number: | 06/654,691 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,630,109 |
| Title: | Vehicle Tracking System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,630,109 |
| Inventor(s): | Barton, Russell R. (Hamilton Township, Mercer County, NJ) |
| Assignee: | Rca Corporation, A Corp. Of De. |
| Application Number: | 06/706,952 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,628,454 |
| Title: | Automatic Running Work Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,628,454 |
| Inventor(s): | Ito, Katsumi (Osaka, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kubota, Ltd., 47-go, 2-ban, 1-chome, Shikitsuhigashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan A Corp. Of Japan |
| Application Number: | 06/496,566 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,626,993 |
| Title: | Teaching-playback Type Automatically Running Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,626,993 |
| Inventor(s): | Okuyama, Shigeaki (Kawachinagano, JP), Fuziwara, Osami (Kishiwada, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kubota, Ltd., 47-go, 2-ban, 1-chome, Shikitsuhigashi, Naniwa-ku, Osaka-shi, Osaka-fu, Japan, |
| Application Number: | 06/445,755 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,620,285 |
| Title: | Sonar Ranging/light Detection System For Use In A Robot |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,620,285 |
| Inventor(s): | Perdue, Terry A. (St. Joseph, MI) |
| Assignee: | Nec Corporation |
| Application Number: | 06/603,471 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,613,803 |
| Title: | Industrial Robot And A Method For Positioning Same |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,613,803 |
| Inventor(s): | Hasegawa, Kiyoshi (Kobe, JP), Matsuo, Hisashi (Kobe, JP), Hashimoto, Hideki (Kobe, JP) |
| Assignee: | Kabushiki Kaisha Kobe Seiko Sho, 3-18, Wakinohama-cho, 1-chome, Chuo-ku, Kobe 651, Japan |
| Application Number: | 06/701,621 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,566,032 |
| Title: | Visually Guided Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,566,032 |
| Inventor(s): | Hirooka, Shigeru (Kyoto, JP), Maeda, Shuichi (Kyoto, JP), Yamamoto, Shigehiro (Kyoto, JP), Yamaguchi, Toshihiko (Kyoto, JP) |
| Assignee: | Nippon Yusoki Co., Ltd., 1-1, Higasi Kotari, 2-chome, Nagaokakyo-shi, Kyoto, Japan Dac Engineering Co., Ltd., 25-2, Nishi Kawabecho, Higashi, Kujyo, Minami-ku, Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, Japan |
| Application Number: | 06/550,690 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,500,970 |
| Title: | Robot Vehicle Guidance System Including Checkpoint Realignment System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,500,970 |
| Inventor(s): | Daemmer, Johnathan E. (Glendale, AZ) |
| Assignee: | Daemmer, Johnathan E., Boulais, Richard A. |
| Application Number: | 06/339,426 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,403,291 |
| Title: | Self-sufficient Navigation Device For Street Vehicles |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,403,291 |
| Inventor(s): | Von Tomkewitsch, Romuald (Ebenhausen, DE) |
| Assignee: | Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin And Munich, A German Corp. |
| Application Number: | 06/194,913 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,361,202 |
| Title: | Automated Road Transportation System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,361,202 |
| Inventor(s): | Minovitch, Michael (Los Angeles, CA) |
| Application Number: | 06/048,715 |
| Abstract: | An automated transportation system for vehicular travel along a roadway is presented. The roadway can be any hard surface that contains an embedded metallic guiderail along its center. A proximity transducer (metal detector) installed under the vehicle, senses the metallic guiderail and sends steering commands to the vehicle's steering actuators to keep the vehicle moving in the center of the roadway directly over the guiderail. Transponders are embedded along the guiderail at selected points for automatic roadway identification, position determination and automatic speed, headway and route selection and automatic traffic control. The system also provides automatic branching and lane changing. The vehicle's control system includes sensors, signal processors, a microprocessor and various power actuators that are connected to the vehicle's steering, braking and accelerator systems. An on-board collision avoidance system using sonic or radar detection means is also provided. The vehicle can be programmed to automatically follow a pre-selected route by inserting route instructions into the microprocessor's memory where it can be retrieved and used any number of times. Magnetometer sensors are also embedded along the roadway to detect the presence and speed of all vehicles, thereby allowing ordinary, manually-controlled vehicles to use the same roadways as the automatically controlled vehicles for a mixed traffic flow. The guiderails and transponders can be embedded in essentially all existing streets and highways to provide an economical comprehensive fully automated road transportation system for private and commercial vehicles. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,309,758 |
| Title: | Driverless Vehicle Autoguided By Light Signals And Three Non-directional Detectors |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,309,758 |
| Inventor(s): | Halsall, James R. (Runcorn, GB2), Larcombe, Michael H. (Coventry, GB2), Robertson, James R. (Northwich, GB2), Rogers, Mark A. (Chester, GB2) |
| Assignee: | Imperial Chemical Industries Limited |
| Application Number: | 06/062,698 |
| Abstract: | An unmanned vehicle capable of being automatically guided towards a predetermined destination by the geometrical computation of light signals received by at least three omnidirectional detectors on-board the vehicle. Useful in restricted areas such as automatic warehouses and loading bays. |
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| Patent Number: | 4,307,791 |
| Title: | Line Follower Vehicle With Scanning Head |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,307,791 |
| Inventor(s): | De Bruine, Carl (Grand Rapids, MI) |
| Assignee: | Saurer Automation Systems, Inc. |
| Application Number: | 05/966,885 |
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| Patent Number: | 4,066,877 |
| Title: | Procedure And System For Driving A Vehicle |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 4,066,877 |
| Inventor(s): | Virnot, Alain D. (Paris, FR), Cynober, Simon A. (Paris, FR) |
| Assignee: | Jeumont-schneider |
| Application Number: | 05/678,649 |
| Abstract: | Procedure and system for driving a vehicle required to travel repeatedly over the same path, in which procedure at least some elements of the vehicle are operated in accordance with prerecorded information. According to the invention, the information relates to the operations to be performed on or by such elements in relation to the position of the vehicle on its path; and the elements are operated on the basis of such information in the light of the vehicle's instantaneous position with a correction for instantaneous vehicle speed and the response time of the elements. |
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| Patent Number: | 3,845,289 |
| Title: | Method And Apparatus Employing Automatic Route Control System |
| Family: | Patent family and legal status for 3,845,289 |
| Inventor(s): | French, Robert L. (Fort Worth, TX) |
| Assignee: | French Robert L. |
| Application Number: | 05/272,734 |
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