Method for instructing target position for mobile body, method for controlling transfer thereof, and method as well as system of optical guidance therefor
First Claim
1. A method for instructing target positions of at least one or more of mobile bodies contained movably in a predetermined environment, comprising:
- light beacons being produced by a light beam projecting device in a surface on which the mobile bodies are to be transferred, whereby target positions towards which the mobile bodies are to be transferred being instructed.
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Abstract
In order to set target positions in the case where mobile bodies such as mobile robots transfer in accordance with a manner different from that of the prior art, a method for instructing such target positions of at least one or more of the mobile bodies contained movably in a predetermined environment comprises light beacons being produced by a light beam projecting device in a surface on which the mobile bodies are to be transferred, whereby the target positions towards which the mobile bodies are to be transferred being instructed.
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34 Claims
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1. A method for instructing target positions of at least one or more of mobile bodies contained movably in a predetermined environment, comprising:
light beacons being produced by a light beam projecting device in a surface on which the mobile bodies are to be transferred, whereby target positions towards which the mobile bodies are to be transferred being instructed. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. An optical guidance system for at least one or more of mobile bodies contained movably in a predetermined environment comprising:
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a target position optically instructing means composed of;
a light beam projecting means for projecting a light beam having a predetermined color or other features in a desired region on a predetermined surface on which the mobile bodies are to be transferred to produce the predetermined light beacons in the desired region on said predetermined surface, whereby the target positions towards which the mobile bodies are to be transferred are indicated, and a light beam projection control means for controlling operations of lighting up/lighting out in said light beam projecting means, whereby starting/stopping projection of light beam on said predetermined surface is controlled, besides an optical axis of the light beam projected from said light beam projecting means is directed to a desired position on said predetermined surface;
a detection specifying means composed of;
a detection means for detecting the predetermined colored light beacons produced on said predetermined surface by means of a visual device, and a relative position specifying means for producing relative positional information, which indicates a relative position by specifying the relative position in question defined between the predetermined light beacons that is an object to be detected by said detection means and each of the mobile bodies in accordance with the results detected by said detection means, and transfer control means for controlling the mobile body, target positions of which have been indicated by means of the light beacons derived from said target position instructing means, so as to transfer towards the target positions on the basis of the relative positional information produced by said relative position specifying means. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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34. An optical guidance system for at least one or more of mobile bodies contained movably in a predetermined environment comprising:
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light beam projecting means for projecting a light beam having a predetermined color or other features in a desired region on a predetermined surface on which the mobile bodies are to be transferred to produce the predetermined light beacons in the desired region on said predetermined surface, whereby the target positions towards which the mobile bodies are to be transferred are indicated, said light beam projecting means being held by a human being and an optical axis of the light beam being directed to a desired position in said predetermined surface by means of operations of the human being;
communication means for communicating with a mobile body which is to be instructed the target positions towards which the mobile body is to be transferred on a predetermined surface;
detection specifying means composed of;
detection means for detecting the predetermined light beacons produced on said predetermined surface by means of a visual device, and relative position specifying means for producing relative positional information, which indicates a relative position by specifying the relative position in question defined between the predetermined light beacons that is an object to be detected by said detection means and each of the mobile bodies in accordance with the results detected by said detection means, and transfer control means for controlling the mobile body, target positions of which have been indicated by means of the light beacons derived from a target position instructing means, so as to transfer towards the target positions on the basis of the relative positional information produced by said relative position specifying means.
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Specification