Mobile vehicles in manufacturing

US11282013B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH · CH

Inventors

• Asif Rana · Heerbrugg, CH
• Bernd Reimann · Heerbrugg, CH
• Alexandre HEILI · Altstätten, CH
• Silvan MEILE · Sankt Gallen, CH
• Alexandar Mavrov · Piossasco, IT
• Markus Steiner · Rebstein, CH

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 7, 2019
• Grant date: Mar 22, 2022
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02P90/30
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system comprising at least one mobile vehicle configured to move autonomously. The mobile vehicle comprises a spatial localization system, an autonomous navigation and propulsion unit, a local edge computation unit for a local data analysis at the mobile vehicle by intelligent, dynamically deployable edge analytics software agents, and a communication interface providing a data link to other devices. The system utilizes an automatic deployment of a workflow comprising at least one current task. A mobile measurement vehicle with a spatial measurement sensor unit is configured to establish a temporary instance of a local spatial reference cell for a subset of multiple mobile vehicles and a work piece. The temporary instance of the spatial reference cell is established temporally and is established with an individual level of spatial accuracy and individual limited local range, which individual level is dynamically defined by an accuracy requirement of the current task.