Device including plural wire detecting coils having faulty coil sensing capabilities for the directional guidance of the trackless vehicle

US4665369A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• M.A.N. Maschinenfabrik Augsburg-Nurnberg Aktiengesellschaft · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Faller · Munich, DE
• Friedrich Landstorfer · Munich, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 21, 1984
• Grant date: May 12, 1987
• Expiry date: Sep 21, 2004

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05D1/0055
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Method and device for measuring two orthogonal electromagnetic field components using a cross coil and for evaluating the components in the distance measurement in electronically course-steered vehicles (13). For rapid and ensured detection of malfunctions of the distance measuring system, use is made of an antenna effecting concurrent positionally and timewise measurements, and with the coils each consisting of bifilar or trifilar coil wires representing a redundant measuring system. A monitoring unit is used to continuously compare the signals generated by the various wires of the antenna when scanning the magnetic field. When a malfunction occurs in one of the channels, vehicle steering control is continued by the respective other channel and the defect is indicated via the monitoring unit. As monitoring signals, use can also be made of direct currents superimposed in the coils.