Distributed Celling-Mounted Smart Cameras for Multi-Unmanned Gound Vehicle Routing and Coordination
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1. An autonomous guided vehicle system that provides decentralized coordination and real-time environmental changes in a workspace comprising:
- a plurality of distributed cameras positioned in predetermined locations, each of said cameras having a field-of-view that covers a predetermined zone of the workspace and said cameras arranged to create overlapping fields-of-view of the workspace;
a plurality of guided vehicles, said vehicles in communication with said distributed cameras;
said distributed cameras adapted to collaboratively build and maintain a navigation map of the workspace; and
said cameras adapted to communicate with other cameras to coordinate the movement of said vehicles from a source to a destination.
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Abstract
An autonomous guided vehicle system that provides decentralized coordination and real-time environmental changes in a workspace to a vehicle. The system includes distributed cameras positioned in predetermined locations. The cameras are adapted to communicate with other cameras to coordinate the movement of the vehicles from a source to a destination.
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1. An autonomous guided vehicle system that provides decentralized coordination and real-time environmental changes in a workspace comprising:
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a plurality of distributed cameras positioned in predetermined locations, each of said cameras having a field-of-view that covers a predetermined zone of the workspace and said cameras arranged to create overlapping fields-of-view of the workspace; a plurality of guided vehicles, said vehicles in communication with said distributed cameras; said distributed cameras adapted to collaboratively build and maintain a navigation map of the workspace; and said cameras adapted to communicate with other cameras to coordinate the movement of said vehicles from a source to a destination. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for autonomously guiding a plurality of vehicles from a source to a destination along a path in a workspace comprising the steps of:
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providing a plurality of distributed cameras positioned in predetermined locations, each of said cameras having a field-of-view that covers a predetermined zone of the workspace and said cameras arranged to create overlapping fields-of-view of the workspace; providing a plurality of guided vehicles, said vehicles in communication with said distributed cameras; said distributed cameras adapted to collaboratively build and maintain at least one navigation map of the workspace, said at least one navigation map is already calculated when a vehicle enters the field-of-view of a camera and upon entering the field-of-view of a camera, the camera transmits a navigation map to said vehicle; and said transmitting camera computes the necessary steps in a navigation map to send the vehicle to the next camera or destination. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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