Driverless vehicle autoguide by light signals and two directional detectors
US4328545A · kind A · utility
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| Filing date | Aug 1, 1979 |
| Grant date | May 4, 1982 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Aug 1, 1999 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/0274
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
An unmanned vehicle capable of being automatously guided towards a predetermined destination by the geometrical computation of light signals received by at least two on-board detectors which relate the direction of each signal received to the axis of the vehicle. Useful in restricted areas such as automatic warehouses and loading bays.
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