Guidance system for manually guided vehicles
First Claim
1. A guidance system for manually guided vehicles such as reach stackers or straddle carriers, characterized in that the position of the vehicles is permanently automatically detected and supplied to a guiding system for evaluation;
- starting from transport job lists made available externally, an optimized travel job assignment to the individual vehicles takes place;
suitable travel routes are determined for the travel jobs; and
the travel jobs, including the travel routes, are automatically transferred to the vehicle operator and their carrying out is monitored.
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Abstract
A guidance system for manually guided vehicles such as reach stackers or straddle carriers is disclosed. In accordance with the disclosure, the position of the vehicles is permanently automatically detected and supplied to a guiding system for carrying out. Starting from transport job lists made available externally, the travel jobs are assigned to the individual vehicles in an optimized form. Suitable travel routes for the travel jobs are determined and the travel jobs, including the travel routes, are automatically transferred to the vehicle operators. Their carrying out is monitored.
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1. A guidance system for manually guided vehicles such as reach stackers or straddle carriers,
characterized in that the position of the vehicles is permanently automatically detected and supplied to a guiding system for evaluation; -
starting from transport job lists made available externally, an optimized travel job assignment to the individual vehicles takes place;
suitable travel routes are determined for the travel jobs; and
the travel jobs, including the travel routes, are automatically transferred to the vehicle operator and their carrying out is monitored. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A guidance system for deploying a plurality of manually guided vehicles, comprising:
a control and information system, a central planning and routing system, and a device for precise position detection associated with each vehicle, wherein the control and information system and the central planning and routing system are configured to permanently automatically detect the position of each vehicle via the device for precise position detection, to determine an optimized travel job assignment for each vehicle starting from transport job lists;
to determine suitable travel routes for the travel jobs, and to automatically transfer the travel jobs, including the travel routes, to vehicle operators.- View Dependent Claims (8, 9)
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10. A method for deploying a plurality of manually guided vehicles, comprising:
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permanently automatically detecting the position of the vehicles supplying the position of the vehicles to a guiding system for evaluation;
determining an optimized travel job assignment for the individual vehicles starting from transport job lists made available externally;
determining suitable travel routes for the travel jobs; and
automatically transferring the travel jobs, including the travel routes, to the vehicle operator. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12)
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