公开(公告)号：WO2021247642A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-09

申请号：PCT/US2021/035353

申请日：2021-06-02

Applicant: OCEANEERING INTERNATIONAL, INC.

Inventor： HUNTER, Alexander ,  BROOKS, Marc ,  PIETROCOLA, David ,  SRIVASTA, Siddarth

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  B60L53/36 ,  B66F9/063 ,  G01S1/72 ,  G01W1/02 ,  G01W2203/00 ,  G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0225 ,  G05D1/024 ,  G05D1/0278 ,  G05D1/0282 ,  G05D2201/0201 ,  G05D2201/0202 ,  G05D2201/0205 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: A flexible material handling system for can handle varied loads and placements including operation in varying weather conditions, and integrates safety systems to tolerate pedestrians and manual vehicles in an operating environment. An autonomous vehicle (10) is operable along a vehicle traversal path (20) within a predetermined set of environmental conditions. A GPS base station (30) is operatively in communication with the autonomous vehicle (10). A supervisor/orchestrator (40) is operatively in communication with the autonomous vehicle (10) and the GPS base station (30) and is operative to coordinate movement of the autonomous vehicle along the vehicle traversal path and assign one or more tasks for the autonomous vehicle to accomplish.