Cybernet Systems Corporation

Johns Hopkins University

Steven Rowe

Charles J Jacobus

Martin Gilbert Pomper

Glenn J Beach

Ronnie Charles Mease

Douglas Haanpaa

Sangeeta Ray

Xing Yang

Il Minn

Mohamad Allaf

Michael Gorin

Autonomous vehicles are capable of executing missions that abide by on-street rules or regulations, while also being able to seamlessly transition to and from 'zones,' including off-street zones, with their our set(s) of rules or regulations. An on-board memory stores roadgraph information. An on-board computer is operative to execute commanded driving missions using the roadgraph information, including missions with one or more zones, each zone being defined by a sub-roadgraph with its own set of zone-specific driving rules and parameters. A mission may be coordinated with one or more payload operations, including zone with “free drive paths” as in a warehouse facility with loading and unloading zones to pick up payloads and place them down, or zone staging or entry points to one or more points of payload acquisition or placement. The vehicle may be a warehousing vehicle such as a forklift.

Autonomous vehicles and methods of zone driving

Growing community of inventors

Grass Lake, MI, United States of America

Steven Rowe