Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous travel cart
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Application No.: US16559969Application Date: 2019-09-04
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Publication No.: US11237568B2Publication Date: 2022-02-01
- Inventor: Takashi Nakashima , Taro Kassai
- Applicant: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
- Applicant Address: JP Aichi
- Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
- Current Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOYOTA JIDOSHOKKI
- Current Assignee Address: JP Aichi
- Agency: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C.
- Priority: JPJP2018-168024 20180907
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; G05D1/00 ; B60W30/09 ; B60W30/095

Abstract:
An autonomous travel cart includes a control device controlling the autonomous travel cart to travel autonomously based on detection information from an obstacle detection device. The control device includes a wall length detection unit that detects wall lengths of wall portions from the autonomous travel cart to an exit end of the narrow path, a wall length determination unit that determines whether or not the wall lengths are greater than a predetermined wall length threshold, and a narrow path travel control unit that controls the autonomous travel cart to travel at a normal speed when the wall lengths are greater than the predetermined wall length threshold, and to decelerate and travel at a predetermined reduced speed when at least one of the wall lengths detected by the wall length detection unit is equal to or less than the predetermined wall length threshold.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200081437A1 AUTONOMOUS TRAVEL CART Public/Granted day:2020-03-12
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