Automatic following travel system
US6301530A · kind A · utility
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Key dates
| Filing date | Jun 22, 2000 |
| Grant date | Oct 9, 2001 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Jun 22, 2020 |
Classification
- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/0278
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
The automatic following travel system of the present invention allows processional travel with a leading vehicle and a plurality of succeeding vehicles automatically following the leading vehicle, wherein Each of the vehicles comprises: a vehicle-to-vehicle communicator for communicating with the other vehicles; and a self position detector for detecting the position of the vehicle in which it is mounted, in the self coordinate system which is stored in the vehicle. Each of the succeeding vehicles comprises: a preceding vehicle position detector for detecting the position of a preceding vehicle in front of the succeeding vehicle in the procession in the succeeding vehicle coordinate system; a succeeding vehicle position transformer for transforming the succeeding vehicle position information from the succeeding vehicle coordinate system to the leading vehicle coordinate system, based on preceding vehicle position information in the succeeding vehicle coordinate system detected by the preceding vehicle position detector, on the succeeding vehicle position information in the succeeding vehicle coordinate system detected by the self position detector, and on information representing t…
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