Other

Denning Mobile Robotics, Inc.

Denning Mobil Robotics, Inc.

Faycal E Benayad-Cherif

Robert W George, Ii

James F Maddox

Mark B Kadonoff

Alan D Berger

Amy L Taivalkoski

A beacon navigation system for a vehicle including a plurality of navigation beacons distributed about a premises through which the vehicle is to navigate, and a detector assembly for sensing a beacon and for resolving the azimuthal angle between the beacon and the vehicle. The system further includes an element for defining an optimum azimuthal angle between that beacon and the vehicle, and a device for determining the difference between the resolved angle and the optimum angle to represent the deviation of the vehicle from a designated path. A method of establishing navigational paths among navigation nodes proximate beacons is also disclosed.

Beacon navigation system and method for guiding a vehicle

A position locating system for a vehicle such as a mobile robot which includes a multisector sensor for sensing the coded signal emitted by a beacon. There are means responsive to the sensor for generating a code data signal representative of the coded signal and means responsive to the sensor sectors for generating an angle data signal representative of the angle from sensor to the beacon and at least one of the azimuthal and altitude dimensions.

Position locating system for a vehicle

A proximity detection system for determining the distance between a vehicle and a navigation beacon by resolving the altitude angle between the beacon and the vehicle and determining the distance between them. The system then defines an optimum distance between the beacon and the vehicle and compares the determined distance and the optimum distance to establish any difference between them.

Beacon proximity detection system for a vehicle

Growing community of inventors

Somerville, MA, United States of America

Faycal E Benayad-Cherif