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| 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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| 101 | Method and apparatus for controlling high speed vehicles | EP91202720.8 | 1991-10-21 | EP0483905A3 | 1992-07-08 | 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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| 102 | REMOTE VEHICLE OPERATOR ASSIGNMENT SYSTEM | US16046493 | 2018-07-26 | US20180356814A1 | 2018-12-13 | James D. Brooks |
| An assignment system and method determine time-variable risk profiles for separate vehicle systems that are remotely controlled by operators located off-board the vehicle systems. The time-variable risk profiles represent risks to travel of the vehicle systems that change with respect to time. An operator staffing demand for the vehicle systems may be determined based on the time-variable risk profiles. The staffing demand represents how many operators are needed for remotely controlling the vehicle systems at different times and a required qualification of one or more operators. The system and method also assign operators to remotely monitor and/or control the vehicle systems based on the risk profiles and, optionally, the staffing demand. The operator assigned to one or more vehicle systems changes with respect to time while the vehicle systems are moving along routes. | ||||||
| 103 | SEQUENCED GUIDING SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS | US15847235 | 2017-12-19 | US20180225980A1 | 2018-08-09 | 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. | ||||||
| 104 | Method, system and vehicle for conducting group travel | US14394377 | 2012-10-19 | US09829326B2 | 2017-11-28 | 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. | ||||||
| 105 | System and method for surface vehicle trajectory description | US14661420 | 2015-03-18 | US09773415B2 | 2017-09-26 | 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. | ||||||
| 106 | VEHICLE DEFINED SOURCE TRANSMITTER | US15008207 | 2016-01-27 | US20170214743A1 | 2017-07-27 | David B. Goldstein |
| Systems and methods of crowd sourcing data are provided. In one embodiment, a method of crowd sourcing data comprises: receiving data region boundary information from an aggregation system, the data region boundary information defines boundaries of data regions; determining membership in a data group for a vehicle based on position of the vehicle within a region; determining whether another member of the data group has been selected as data source; determining whether the vehicle can provide information to the data aggregation system; broadcasting a self-nomination message for the information to members of the data group, wherein the self-nomination message self-selects the vehicle as data source for the information; wherein the self-nomination message identifies the type of information; and transmitting the information from the data source to the data aggregation system via a communication link, wherein only the data source transmits the information to the data aggregation system for the data group. | ||||||
| 107 | BARRIER SYSTEMS WITH PROGRAMMABLE LIGHT ASSEMBLY | US15246327 | 2016-08-24 | US20170058470A1 | 2017-03-02 | Eric M. Stevens; Leo F. Stanko; Ross D. Mann |
| A method for using barrier systems includes positioning a plurality of barrier systems at a location, each barrier system having: a barrier having an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface, the interior surface bounding a chamber that is adapted to receive a ballast; and a light assembly secured to the barrier, the light assembly comprising a housing having a lens that at least partially bounds a compartment, a light source at least partially disposed within the compartment, and programmable circuity in electrical communication with the light emitting device. A control device is used to communicate wirelessly with programmable circuity of each barrier system after the barrier systems are positioned at the location so that data is transferred between the control device and the programmable circuity of each barrier system. | ||||||
| 108 | SEQUENCED GUIDING SYSTEMS FOR VEHICLES AND PEDESTRIANS | US15177192 | 2016-06-08 | US20170039864A1 | 2017-02-09 | 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. | ||||||
| 109 | Data communication system and method for communicating data in a vehicle | US14612593 | 2015-02-03 | US09440666B2 | 2016-09-13 | David Joseph DeSanzo; David Schroeck; Todd Goodermuth; Veni Mudiam; Matthew Joseph; Sethu Madhavan; Enrique David Torres; Patricia Lacy; Jason Dean; Darren Gladney |
| A system includes an energy management system configured to be communicatively coupled with a communication system of a vehicle that travels on a trip along a route. The energy management system is configured to be removably coupled with the communication system such that the energy management system is mechanically disengageable from the communication system. The energy management system is further configured to receive data parameters from the communication system and to generate at least one of a trip plan or a control message for the vehicle based on the data parameters. The trip plan and/or the control message dictates tractive and braking efforts of the vehicle during the trip. The energy management system is configured to communicate the trip plan and/or the control message to the communication system for the communication system to implement for controlling movement of the vehicle during the trip. | ||||||
| 110 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA IN A VEHICLE | US15155932 | 2016-05-16 | US20160257326A1 | 2016-09-08 | David Joseph DeSanzo; David Schroeck; Todd Goodermuth; Veni Mudiam; Matthew Joseph; Sethu Madhavan; Enrique David Torres; Patricia Lacy; Jason Dean; Darren Gladney |
| A system includes an energy management system configured to be communicatively coupled with a communication system of a vehicle that travels on a trip along a route. The energy management system is configured to be removably coupled with the communication system such that the energy management system is mechanically disengageable from the communication system. The energy management system is further configured to receive data parameters from the communication system and to generate at least one of a trip plan or a control message for the vehicle based on the data parameters. The trip plan and/or the control message dictates tractive and braking efforts of the vehicle during the trip. The energy management system is configured to communicate the trip plan and/or the control message to the communication system for the communication system to implement for controlling movement of the vehicle during the trip. | ||||||
| 111 | Transportation vehicle system and charging method for the transportation vehicle system | US14101069 | 2013-12-09 | US09430950B2 | 2016-08-30 | Takao Hayashi |
| A plurality of transportation vehicles travel with power from an energy storage member along a predetermined travel route under control of a ground controller. A charging area having charging equipment for charging the energy storage member of the transportation vehicle is provided in the travel route, and the transportation vehicles report a position and remaining capacity of the energy storage member to the ground controller. The ground controller controls a transportation vehicle having remaining capacity of a threshold value or less to travel to the charging area for charging the energy storage member, and controls transportation vehicles in the charging area to travel to positions outside the charging area in accordance with transportation requests. | ||||||
| 112 | Signal light apparatus | US14838435 | 2015-08-28 | US09322537B1 | 2016-04-26 | Paul Keck; Nicholas Kent Bang |
| Signal light apparatus includes a tiltable structure including a mast, a counter-weight and a signal light which is rotatably mounted on a base member. A tilt control assembly including adjustable shoes frictionally engaging a rotor on the mast releasably maintains the tiltable structure at alternative tilt orientations though frictional engagement between structural components of the tilt control assembly. | ||||||
| 113 | LOW-POWER WIRELESS VEHICLE LOCATING UNIT | US14801148 | 2015-07-16 | US20160073226A1 | 2016-03-10 | 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. | ||||||
| 114 | Machine system having overtaking functionality | US13852762 | 2013-03-28 | US09208691B2 | 2015-12-08 | 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. | ||||||
| 115 | PERSONAL ITEMS NETWORK, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | US14736218 | 2015-06-10 | US20150306505A1 | 2015-10-29 | Curtis A. Vock; Burl W. Amsbury; Paul Jonjak; Adrian F. Larkin; Perry Youngs |
| A personal items network, comprising a plurality of items, each item having a wireless communications port for coupling in network with every other item, each item having a processor for determining if any other item in the network is no longer linked to the item, each item having an indicator for informing a user that an item has left the network, wherein a user may locate lost items. A method for locating lost personal items, comprising: linking at least two personal items together on a network; and depositing one or both of time and location information in an unlost item when one of the items is lost out of network. | ||||||
| 116 | PERSONAL ITEMS NETWORK, AND ASSOCIATED METHODS | US14736195 | 2015-06-10 | US20150281424A1 | 2015-10-01 | Curtis A. Vock; Burl W. Amsbury; Paul Jonjak; Adrian F. Larkin; Perry Youngs |
| A personal items network, comprising a plurality of items, each item having a wireless communications port for coupling in network with every other item, each item having a processor for determining if any other item in the network is no longer linked to the item, each item having an indicator for informing a user that an item has left the network, wherein a user may locate lost items. A method for locating lost personal items, comprising: linking at least two personal items together on a network; and depositing one or both of time and location information in an unlost item when one of the items is lost out of network. | ||||||
| 117 | Method and system for timetable optimization utilizing energy consumption factors | US14168645 | 2014-01-30 | US09108652B2 | 2015-08-18 | 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. | ||||||
| 118 | Determining real-time delay of transport | US13722441 | 2012-12-20 | US09098995B2 | 2015-08-04 | Vincenzo Marafioti; Joel Cordesses; Richard Savornin |
| A delay of a scheduled transport which runs along a route according to a timetable is determined The route comprises at least one leg. Determining the delay is based on a detailed reference schedule indicating arbitrary time-stamped reference positions of a transport that is on time. A request is received for the transport's delay by a user device located on the transport. The request indicates at least the current position of the transport. The transport's delay is calculated on the basis of the current position indicated in the request, a time-stamp and the corresponding time-stamped reference position of the detailed reference schedule. The calculated delay is returned to the user device. The calculated delay is stored into a logbook. In response to a request not indicating the current position of the transport, the delay is returned on the basis of the logbook. | ||||||
| 119 | DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR COMMUNICATING DATA IN A VEHICLE | US14612593 | 2015-02-03 | US20150151769A1 | 2015-06-04 | David Joseph DeSanzo; David Schroeck; Todd Goodermuth; Veni Mudiam; Matthew Joseph; Sethu Madhavan; Enrique David Torres; Patricia Lacy; Jason Dean; Darren Gladney |
| A system includes an energy management system configured to be communicatively coupled with a communication system of a vehicle that travels on a trip along a route. The energy management system is configured to be removably coupled with the communication system such that the energy management system is mechanically disengageable from the communication system. The energy management system is further configured to receive data parameters from the communication system and to generate at least one of a trip plan or a control message for the vehicle based on the data parameters. The trip plan and/or the control message dictates tractive and braking efforts of the vehicle during the trip. The energy management system is configured to communicate the trip plan and/or the control message to the communication system for the communication system to implement for controlling movement of the vehicle during the trip. | ||||||
| 120 | Transit Station Event Countdown Indicator | US14072086 | 2013-11-05 | US20150123823A1 | 2015-05-07 | Craig R. Barnes |
| A method comprising determining a first transit station event countdown time associated with a first transit station event, generating a first transit station event countdown indicator that is a linear shape configured to, at least partially, surround a center point such that the first transit station event countdown time is represented by a first angle from the center point, and causing display of the first transit station event countdown indicator is disclosed. | ||||||
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