公开(公告)号：US20200057452A1

公开(公告)日：2020-02-20

申请号：US16598350

申请日：2019-10-10

Applicant: Cybernet Systems Corp.

Inventor： Glenn Beach ,  Douglas Haanpaa ,  Charles J. Jacobus ,  Steven Rowe

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B66F9/06 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60W30/00 ,  G01C21/34

Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are capable of executing missions that abide by on-street rules or regulations, while also being able to seamlessly transition to and from “zones,” including off-street zones, with their our set(s) of rules or regulations. An on-board memory stores roadgraph information. An on-board computer is operative to execute commanded driving missions using the roadgraph information, including missions with one or more zones, each zone being defined by a sub-roadgraph with its own set of zone-specific driving rules and parameters. A mission may be coordinated with one or more payload operations, including zone with “free drive paths” as in a warehouse facility with loading and unloading zones to pick up payloads and place them down, or zone staging or entry points to one or more points of payload acquisition or placement. The vehicle may be a warehousing vehicle such as a forklift.

公开(公告)号：USRE47108E1

公开(公告)日：2018-10-30

申请号：US15439301

申请日：2017-02-22

Applicant: Cybernet Systems Corp.

Inventor： Charles J. Jacobus ,  Glenn J. Beach ,  Steve Rowe

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  B66F9/06 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B66F9/24 ,  B66F9/075

Abstract: A system for automated inventory management and material handling removes the requirement to operate fully automatically or all-manual using conventional vertical storage and retrieval (S&R) machines. Inventory requests to place palletized material into storage at a specified lot location or retrieve palletized material from a specified lot are resolved into missions for autonomous fork trucks, equivalent mobile platforms, or manual fork truck drivers (and their equipment) that are autonomously or manually executed to effect the request. Automated trucks plan their own movements to execute the mission over the warehouse aisles or roadways sharing this space with manually driven trucks. Automated units drive to planned speed limits, manage their loads (stability control), stop, go, and merge at intersections according human driving rules, use on-board sensors to identify static and dynamic obstacles, and human traffic, and either avoid them or stop until potential collision risk is removed.

公开(公告)号：US20180129220A1

公开(公告)日：2018-05-10

申请号：US15806844

申请日：2017-11-08

Applicant: Cybernet Systems Corp.

Inventor： Glenn Beach ,  Douglas Haanpaa ,  Charles J. Jacobus ,  Steven Rowe

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B66F9/06

CPC classification number: G05D1/0274 ,  B60W30/00 ,  B66F9/063 ,  G01C21/3407 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0225 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/0276 ,  G05D1/0278 ,  G08G1/09626 ,  G08G1/16

Abstract: Autonomous vehicles are capable of executing missions that abide by on-street rules or regulations, while also being able to seamlessly transition to and from “zones,” including off-street zones, with their our set(s) of rules or regulations. An on-board memory stores roadgraph information. An on-board computer is operative to execute commanded driving missions using the roadgraph information, including missions with one or more zones, each zone being defined by a sub-roadgraph with its own set of zone-specific driving rules and parameters. A mission may be coordinated with one or more payload operations, including zone with “free drive paths” as in a warehouse facility with loading and unloading zones to pick up payloads and place them down, or zone staging or entry points to one or more points of payload acquisition or placement. The vehicle may be a warehousing vehicle such as a forklift.