Station control system for a driverless vehicle
First Claim
1. A station control system comprising:
- a vehicle travel path;
a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the travel path, each of said tags being pre-programmed with a unique tag identifier having arbitrarily assigned information for identifying said tag; and
a vehicle movable along said travel path, said vehicle having a tag reader and a controller communicating with said reader, said tag reader configured to read tag identifiers from said tags, said controller configured to receive said tag identifiers from said tag reader and access a correlation table having a function command for performing a task, said function command being associated with said tag idendifier and independent from other function commands associated with each of said other tag identifiers.
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Abstract
A station control system for and method of controlling the operation of a driverless vehicle. The system includes a vehicle travel path, a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the travel path, and a vehicle movable along the travel path. Each of the tags are pre-programmed with a unique and arbitrary tag identifier. The vehicle has a tag reader and a controller communicating with the reader with the tag reader is configured to read tag identifiers from the tags. The controller is configured to receive the tag identifiers from the tag reader and access a correlation table having a function command associated with the tag idendifier. The method includes the steps of reading the tag identifier associated with one of the plurality of tags, accessing the correlation table to identify a command in the function field associated with the tag identifier, and executing any identified command.
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20 Claims
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1. A station control system comprising:
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a vehicle travel path; a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the travel path, each of said tags being pre-programmed with a unique tag identifier having arbitrarily assigned information for identifying said tag; and a vehicle movable along said travel path, said vehicle having a tag reader and a controller communicating with said reader, said tag reader configured to read tag identifiers from said tags, said controller configured to receive said tag identifiers from said tag reader and access a correlation table having a function command for performing a task, said function command being associated with said tag idendifier and independent from other function commands associated with each of said other tag identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7)
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8. A driverless vehicle for use in a station control system with a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to a vehicle travel path, each of the station tags being preprogrammed with a unique and arbitrary tag identifier, said vehicle comprising:
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a tag reader configured to read tag identifiers from said tags; and a controller communicating with said tag reader, said controller configured to receive the tag identifiers from said tag reader and, in response to the tag identifiers, access a correlation table having function commands associated with tag identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A method of controlling the operation of a driverless vehicle using a plurality of station tags and a correlation table, each of the plurality of station tags having a pre-programmed arbitrary and unique tag identifier, the correlation table having a tag identifier field and a function field associated with each tag identifier field, said method comprising:
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reading the tag identifier associated with one of the plurality of tags; accessing the correlation table to identify a command in the function field associated with the tag identifier; and executing any identified command. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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