RADIO-ENABLED COLLISION AVOIDANCE SYSTEM

• US 20140005874A1
• Filed: 07/01/2013
• Published: 01/02/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Original Assignee: BAE Systems Information and Electronic Systems Integration Incorporated (BAE Systems Plc)
• Inventors: Brommer, Karl D., Anderson, Sterling J., Iagnemma, Karl D., Brommer, Dieter B.
• Granted Patent: US 9,342,989 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 701/23
• CPC Class Codes: B60W 30/095 Predicting travel path or likelihood of collision
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/75 using transponders powered from received waves, e.g. using passive transponders , or using passive reflectors
• CPC Class Codes: G01S 13/931 of land vehicles
• CPC Class Codes: G08G 9/02 Anti-collision systems

Abstract

In the method of reducing the likelihood of collisions, the improvement comprising the step of embedding passive radio transponders in a tape, grease, or other materials; applying said passive radio transponders to an object of which collisions must be avoided, and mounting an active interrogating transponder on a moving machinery, which uses the information provided by the radio transponders to semi-autonomously avoid collisions.

Claims

1. In the method of reducing the likelihood of collisions, the improvement comprising the step of embedding passive radio transponders in a tape, grease, or other materials;

applying said passive radio transponders to an object of which collisions must be avoided, and mounting an active interrogating transponder on moving machinery.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising a shared control algorithm that uses information provided by said passive radio transponders and allows for human control to intervene where necessary to avoid collisions.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the shared control algorithm is semi-autonomous.