序号 | 专利名 | 申请号 | 申请日 | 公开(公告)号 | 公开(公告)日 | 发明人 |
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41 | Method for tracking and tracing goods | EP99202906.6 | 1999-09-06 | EP0984418A3 | 2001-10-24 | Hogen Esch, Johannes Harm Lukas |
A method for tracking and tracing goods having a communication set (Boxy) packed along with them, which communication set is capable of determining, on the basis of information obtained from public communication networks and information on the planned transportation route, whether a predetermined deviation from the planning is exceeded. An observed exceeding event is reported via the communication network to the central planning computer, which optionally sends back an alternative planning. The actual position of the goods is determined on the basis of transmitter identification codes of the communication network. The Boxies can communicate via a local communication channel to exchange data and to determine which Boxy is located in the most favorable position to take onto itself the reporting to the central planning computer. |
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42 | Method for tracking and tracing goods | EP99202906.6 | 1999-09-06 | EP0984418A2 | 2000-03-08 | Hogen Esch, Johannes Harm Lukas |
A method for tracking and tracing goods having a communication set (Boxy) packed along with them, which communication set is capable of determining, on the basis of information obtained from public communication networks and information on the planned transportation route, whether a predetermined deviation from the planning is exceeded. An observed exceeding event is reported via the communication network to the central planning computer, which optionally sends back an alternative planning. The actual position of the goods is determined on the basis of transmitter identification codes of the communication network. The Boxies can communicate via a local communication channel to exchange data and to determine which Boxy is located in the most favorable position to take onto itself the reporting to the central planning computer. |
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43 | SATELLITE BASED AIRCRAFT TRAFFIC CONTROL SYSTEM | EP95930091 | 1995-07-14 | EP0774148A4 | 1999-10-06 | FARMAKIS TOM S; ROUTSONG RUSSELL D |
A satellite based air traffic control (ATC) system includes an aircraft unit (18) on an aircraft and an ATC facility (48). The aircraft unit (18) includes an AARTS processor (28), GPS receivers (20, 22), a comparator (24) for comparing the GPS data, a two-way radio (44) and a transmitter (32) and receiver (33) for communicating information over a data link with the ATC facility (48). The ATC facility (18) includes an ATC computer (66), a two-way radio (52), a display (70) for displaying aircraft and a transmitter (61) and receiver (60) for communicating information and data over the data link. The aircraft transmits aircraft identification information, GPS data, aircraft status information and a transmit detect code to the ATC facility (48) to allow the ATC to track the aircraft and identify the aircraft communicating on two-way radio (52). The traffic control system and a flight control system utilizing GPS may be used for aircraft in the air and on ground and may be used for ships, boats, automobiles, trains or railroads. | ||||||
44 | ADVANCE NOTIFICATION SYSTEM FOR USE WITH VEHICULAR TRANSPORTATION | EP96936212.0 | 1996-10-04 | EP0929885A1 | 1999-07-21 | JONES, Martin, Kelly |
An advance notification system (10) and method notifies system users of the impending arrival of a transportation vehicle (19), for example, a school bus, at a particular vehicle stop. The system (10) generally includes an on-board vehicle control unit (VCU) (12) for each vehicle (19) and a base station control unit (BSCU) (14) for making telephone calls to users in order to inform the users when the vehicle (19) is a certain predefined time period and/or distance away from the vehicle stop. The VCU (12) compares elapsed time and/or travelled distance to the programmed scheduled time and/or travelled distance to determine if the vehicle (19) is on schedule. If the vehicle (19) is behind or ahead of schedule, the VCU (12) calls the BSCU (14), which then adjusts its calling schedule accordingly. Significantly, a calling report generator (11) in the BSCU (14) allows a system user to solicit a calling report from the BSCU (14) that indicates the time(s) and outcome(s) of any previous notification attempt(s) by the BSCU (14) to the user telephone (29). | ||||||
45 | Method and apparatus for controlling high speed vehicles | EP91202720.8 | 1991-10-21 | EP0483905B1 | 1997-03-05 | Trovato, Karen Irene; Mehta, Sandeep |
46 | Method and apparatus for controlling high speed vehicles | EP91202720.8 | 1991-10-21 | EP0483905A2 | 1992-05-06 | Trovato, Karen Irene; Mehta, Sandeep |
Maneuvers of a controlled vehicle, such as a car, travelling at moderate to high speeds are planned by propagating cost waves in a configuration space using two search strategies referred to as budding and differential budding. Control is achieved by monitoring properties of the controlled vehicle and adjusting control parameters to achieve motion relative to a frame of reference. The frame of reference may change before the transformation to configuration space occurs. The method transforms goals, obstacles, and the position of the controlled vehicle in task space to a configuration space based on the position of these objects relative to a moving frame of reference. The method also determines a local neighbourhood of possible motions based on the control capabilities of the vehicle. In one embodiment, the controlled parameters are time derivatives of the monitored properties. A variation of the method provides for the parallel computation of the configuration space. In one embodiment of the parallel computation, the case where two processes are used, a first process and configuration space would be used to plan. A second process and configuration space would be used to read the setpoints which are sent as control directives to the vehicle. |
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47 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DYNAMIC FLEET MANAGEMENT | US15987301 | 2018-05-23 | US20180341918A1 | 2018-11-29 | Sumit RAUT; Mohit PANDEY; Pushpkumar JAIN; Devang PATEL; Ankur CHAKRABORTY; Prosenjit MONDAL; Abhishek RAJPOOT |
This disclosure relates generally to doorstep delivery of services and products, and more particularly to a system and a method for dynamic fleet management for order delivery are provided. Initially, a primary route is assigned to a vehicle from a fleet of vehicles, based on at least one of a known order and a forecasted order. Further, when the vehicle is in transit along the primary route, in response to an input with respect to at least one of a route alteration parameter, one of an alternate route or a corrective action, is determined, and one or more corresponding actions are triggered, which helps with the order delivery. | ||||||
48 | Drone coordination | US15080731 | 2016-03-25 | US10043398B2 | 2018-08-07 | Ben Z. Akselrod; Anthony Di Loreto; Steve McDuff; Kyle D. Robeson |
A system for drone coordination includes logic to detect an adverse weather condition and detect a plurality of drones operating in a region to be affected by the adverse weather condition. The logic can also transmit a request to the plurality of drones, wherein the request indicates that each of the plurality of drones is to return to an emergency landing site to be selected from a set of predetermined emergency landing sites. The emergency landing site for each drone can be based in part on the location of the drone at the time of transmittal of the request. | ||||||
49 | Moving device detection | US15035417 | 2015-06-01 | US09852638B2 | 2017-12-26 | Branko Djordjevic; Tim Lauterbach; Frank Sell |
A device moving in a space determines one or more zones around it, wherein the one or more zones are linked to the device and move together with the device through the space. The device detects if a border of a first of the one or more zones starts to intersect or stops to intersect with a border of an area inside the space. If the detecting is affirmative, the device transmits information related to the intersection. An apparatus receives this information from the device and adapts a status value of the area in dependence of the received information. | ||||||
50 | Sequenced guiding systems for vehicles and pedestrians | US15177192 | 2016-06-08 | US09847037B2 | 2017-12-19 | James R. Selevan |
Devices, systems and methods wherein sequential signals are emitted from a plurality of signaling modules positioned in an array which demarcates a route or boundaries to be followed by a pedestrian or vehicle. | ||||||
51 | Low-power wireless vehicle locating unit | US14801148 | 2015-07-16 | US09661456B2 | 2017-05-23 | Jesse L. Rhodes; Steven A. Zelubowski, Sr. |
Methods of, systems for, and articles of manufacture for wireless communication between a vehicle locating unit and peripheral devices that are disposed on or in the same object, the method including the steps of adapting the peripheral devices to generate transmission signals to be received by the vehicle locating unit; generating transmission signals by at least one of the peripheral devices; adapting the vehicle locating unit to listen for the transmission signals for a first period of time during a second period of time that is longer than the first period of time; acknowledging detected transmission signals from any of the peripheral devices; upon acknowledgement, establishing a communication link between the vehicle locating unit and a corresponding source of the detected transmission signals; and communicating data between the vehicle locating unit and the corresponding source of the detected transmission signals in accordance with discrete timing information. | ||||||
52 | MOVING DEVICE DETECTION | US15035417 | 2015-06-01 | US20170103658A1 | 2017-04-13 | Branko DJORDJEVIC; Tim LAUTERBACH; Frank SELL |
A device moving in a space determines one or more zones around it, wherein the one or more zones are linked to the device and move together with the device through the space. The device detects if a border of a first of the one or more zones starts to intersect or stops to intersect with a border of an area inside the space. If the detecting is affirmative, the device transmits information related to the intersection. An apparatus receives this information from the device and adapts a status value of the area in dependence of the received information. | ||||||
53 | MASS TRANSIT SAFETY NOTIFICATION SYSTEM AND DEVICE | US15370655 | 2016-12-06 | US20170080961A1 | 2017-03-23 | Brad Cross; Destry Diefenbach; Yogesh Barve; Pete Ksycki; Scott Kolts; Steve McDonald |
A system and device that will notify roadway maintenance workers of an approaching mass transit vehicle and, conversely, will notify the operators and administrators of mass transit vehicles of roadway maintenance workers within the vicinity of an approaching section of track. | ||||||
54 | Techniques for reporting on or tracking ground vehicles | US14132714 | 2013-12-18 | US09311821B2 | 2016-04-12 | Michael Steven Melum; Robert C. Nelson |
Ground vehicle reporting and tracking techniques are provided to track vehicles associated with a particular area (e.g., an airport, a military base, etc.). Ground vehicles may regularly report information about the vehicle to one or more control stations via corresponding communication links. The communication links may include, for example, an Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) link and a non-ADS-B link. | ||||||
55 | Transportation network scheduling system and method | US14158024 | 2014-01-17 | US09235991B2 | 2016-01-12 | Jared Klineman Cooper; Joseph Forrest Noffsinger; Ajith Kuttannair Kumar; Mason Samuels; Paul Houpt; Joel Kickbusch; Mahir Telatar; David Eldredge; Mitchell Scott Wills; Ramu Chandra |
A method includes forming a first schedule for a first vehicle to travel in a transportation network. The first schedule includes a first arrival time of the first vehicle at a scheduled location. The method also includes receiving a first trip plan for the first vehicle from an energy management system. The first trip plan is based on the first schedule and designates at least one of tractive efforts or braking efforts to be provided by the first vehicle to reduce at least one of an amount of energy consumed by the first vehicle or an amount of emissions generated by the first vehicle when the first vehicle travels through the transportation network to the scheduled location. The method further includes determining whether to modify the first schedule to avoid interfering with movement of one or more other vehicles by examining the trip plan for the first vehicle. | ||||||
56 | System and Method for Surface Vehicle Trajectory Description | US14661420 | 2015-03-18 | US20150294564A1 | 2015-10-15 | Victor Perez VILLAR; Grzegorz M. KAWIECKI; Lars FUCKE |
System and method including a plurality of surface vehicles and a plurality of events to be performed by each of the surface vehicles. Each of the vehicles is equipped with an electronic control unit including a receiver and a decoder for the instructions received from a vehicle movement optimizer. The plurality of events include instructions of movements from an origin to a destination, and actions for each of the surface vehicles. The decoder decodes instructions received from the surface vehicle movement optimizer. The optimizer configures an optimized schedule of the preliminary plan by modifying the events based on either the vehicle attributes or updates submitted by the electronic control unit from the vehicle to the optimizer. | ||||||
57 | METHOD, SYSTEM AND VEHICLE FOR CONDUCTING GROUP TRAVEL | US14394377 | 2012-10-19 | US20150120181A1 | 2015-04-30 | Maximilian Pühler; Hubert Fischer; Michael Schermann; Tobias Schlachtbauer; Sergej Truschin; Thomas Wolf; Helmut Krcmar |
A method for conducting group travel, wherein a subsequent group travel participant follows a group travel participant travelling ahead or the subsequent group travel participant drives to a current destination of group travel participant travelling ahead, includes the steps of: assigning a group travel identifier for a journey of the group travel participant travelling ahead; passing on the group travel identifier from the group travel participant travelling ahead to the subsequent group travel participant; transmitting navigation information of the group travel participant travelling ahead to a distribution unit in a context with the group travel identifier; transmitting the navigation information from the distribution unit to the subsequent group travel participant; and using the navigation information transmitted from the distribution unit by the subsequent group travel participant. | ||||||
58 | Detecting location, timetable and travel time estimations for barrier crossing in a digital map | US13704253 | 2010-06-15 | US08977480B2 | 2015-03-10 | Tim Bekaert |
A method for determining barrier crossing information for convoyed objects (22) using historic trajectory data (28). Trajectories (28) having similar geographical and directional properties are bundled so that trajectory density can be measured as a function of position and time (s, t). Visual presentation of the trajectory information can be used to determine certain types of barrier crossing information useful in a digital map. Frequency analysis on a number of trajectory density time series may be performed to determine specific barrier crossing locations (26) through the detection of vehicle bursts. Such frequency analysis may also indicate barrier crossing times and schedules in the case of crossing patterns. | ||||||
59 | MACHINE SYSTEM HAVING OVERTAKING FUNCTIONALITY | US13852762 | 2013-03-28 | US20140297103A1 | 2014-10-02 | Brad Kenneth BORLAND; Mathew CHACKO |
An overtaking control system is disclosed for use with a plurality of machines operating at a common worksite. The overtaking control system may have an input device that is configured to receive an input from an operator of the first machine of the plurality of machines indicative of a desire to overtake a second machine of the plurality of machines. The overtaking control system may also have a location device configured to generate a location signal indicative of a location of the first machine at the common worksite. The overtaking control system may further have at least one controller configured to make a comparison of a projected path of the first machine with a map of the common worksite based on the location signal, and selectively activate the input device only when the comparison indicates that the projected path of the first machine does not overlap with a no-overtaking zone at the common worksite. | ||||||
60 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR TIMETABLE OPTIMIZATION UTILIZING ENERGY CONSUMPTION FACTORS | US14168645 | 2014-01-30 | US20140180510A1 | 2014-06-26 | David FOURNIER; Denis MULARD |
Systems and methods for synchronizing two or more vehicles operating on an electric transportation line to optimize energy consumption. A controller is provided having a computer memory component storing a set of computer-executable instructions, a list of braking intervals, and a list of acceleration intervals for the vehicles. The controller also has a processing component configured to execute the set of computer-executable instructions to operate on the list of braking intervals and the list of acceleration intervals to minimize an energy consumption of the electric transportation line over a determined period of time by shifting acceleration intervals to synchronize with braking intervals. A dedicated heuristic greedy algorithm and an energy model are implemented in the controller as part of the computer-executable instructions to achieve the improved energy consumption. |