Invention Grant
- Patent Title: System for controlling a plurality of autonomous vehicles on a mine site
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Application No.: US16460693Application Date: 2019-07-02
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Publication No.: US11860643B2Publication Date: 2024-01-02
- Inventor: James Whitfield, Jr. , Bryan Harper , Jason Altice
- Applicant: LIEBHERR MINING EQUIPMENT NEWPORT NEWS CO.
- Applicant Address: US VA Newport News
- Assignee: LIEBHERR MINING EQUIPMENT NEWPORT NEWS CO.
- Current Assignee: LIEBHERR MINING EQUIPMENT NEWPORT NEWS CO.
- Current Assignee Address: US VA Newport News
- Agency: McCoy Russell LLP
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; H04W4/46

Abstract:
A system for controlling a plurality of autonomous vehicles on a mine site comprises a centralized platform configured to store an inventory list of vehicles travelling on the mine site and configured to determine and communicate missions to the vehicles of a plurality of autonomous vehicles. The autonomous vehicles may comprise an interface configured to communicate with the centralized platform for receiving a predetermined mission, a trajectory control system configured to autonomously control the autonomous vehicle according to the predetermined mission, a detection system configured to detect other vehicles by evaluating sensor information received from at least one sensor of the vehicle, a collision prediction system configured to predict collisions with the other vehicles detected by the detection system, and a V2V communication interface for directly communicating with a V2V communication interface of at least one of the other vehicles on the mine site for exchanging information between the vehicles.
Public/Granted literature
- US20210004024A1 SYSTEM FOR CONTROLLING A PLURALITY OF AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES ON A MINE SITE Public/Granted day:2021-01-07
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