Guidance, navigation, and control system for a vehicle
US8090491B2 · kind B2 · utility
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| Filing date | Jul 26, 2006 |
| Grant date | Jan 3, 2012 |
| Priority date | — |
| Expiry date | Oct 24, 2028 |
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- Technology area (CPC G)Physics
- CPC primaryG05D1/027
- WIPO fieldControl
- WIPO sectorInstruments
Abstract
A guidance, navigation, and control method and system for an underground mining vehicle wherein an operator directly or indirectly guides the vehicle along a route as vehicle-mounted sensors including odometric sensors and rangefinders log motion data to a file which data is processed into a route profile including a vehicle path, a sequence of submaps along the path, and a profile of desired speed as a function of distance along the path. Thereafter the vehicle automatically repeats the route as represented by the route profile without an operator using the sensors and the maps to determine vehicle location.
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