Jungheinrich Aktiengesellschaft

Dennis Flottran

Hinrich Meyer

Carsten Schmidt

Wolfgang Wiethaler

Anna-Katharina Pflüger

Alexander Fürstenberg

A method for controlling at least one industrial truck comprising determining a driving job using a superordinate control unit and sending the driving job from the superordinate control unit to a transceiver of the at least one industrial truck. The driving job is transmitted from the transceiver to a vehicle controller. A position of the at least one industrial truck within a previously known route to be driven is determined via the superordinate control unit. An upcoming driving situation is identified using the superordinate control unit and is based on the position of the at least one industrial truck and the driving job. A protective field is generated with a collision protection apparatus, wherein the protective field is monitored by the at least one industrial truck based on the upcoming driving situation even before the at least one industrial truck reaches the driving situation.

Method for controlling an industrial truck as well as a system comprising a superordinate control unit and an industrial truck

An industrial truck () and a method for operating the same. The industrial truck includes a load fork (), a fork back () and a plurality of fork arms (), each of which include an arm tip at a free end and an arm root arranged on the fork back. The industrial truck includes a load carrier detection system for a load carrier () to be transported, which includes at least one spacing distance measurement sensor () provided on the load fork that is configured to detect a spacing distance between the load carrier and the fork back, and one or more monitoring sensors () provided on the load fork configured to monitor a predetermined measurement region on the load fork. A processing unit for the sensors is configured to determine a reception of the load carrier picked up by the load fork.

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Dennis Flottran