PATENT - Infrared Guidance System for Automatic Guided Carts

Help System Infrared for Automatic Guided Carts (Patent N. 1386595 - Livery Navigator)


The system is based on a system able to drive any vehicle within an environment, that both industrial, commercial or civil is obviously indifferent, provided that it has the minimum requirements of suitability.
The patent relates navigation system whose intelligence can reside entirely on the vehicle and communicate via Wi-Fi with a system of external control that directs each time destinations. The system has a mapping environment and the pathways and related tasks. Automatic navigation is accomplished using inertial system, or through a tracing of the route that the vehicle follows. In this as well known it is perhaps the vehicle can accumulate an error, for various reasons, the type of surface, of different diameters of the wheels, by weight inhomogeneous that produces a difference in attitude of the vehicle and yet other cases. This error is corrected dynamically by the system in an intelligent manner without the need to stop as is the case for traditional systems AVG.
The system is equipped with two cameras that acquire a stereoscopic mink, along the route, such cameras are for another usable for other tasks, centering with respect to objects whose allocation is not assured or that may have moved, perceive obstacles along the way, and more yet always about the utilization within the intelligent vision. These cameras are equipped with a system called illuminator who works in the infrared region, the field is not visible to the human eye. The illuminator has the simple task of activating dormant here devices that are on the way, placed in the most suitable.
These latter include at simple-emitting LED of infrared (point source) which emits a pulse sequence in which the coding sequence is identified by the vision system which derives the position. These systems do not require power but if in a location minimally illuminated by a small photovoltaic cell obtained that energy to ensure their functioning, otherwise they can simply be fed.
By subtraction image the system relocalizes and can dynamically adjust its position, it ensures the consistency along the way.
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