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Date of Patent:
Mar. 08, 2022

Filed:

Apr. 25, 2018
Applicant:

Konecranes Global Corporation, Hyvinkää, FI;

Inventors:

Armin Wieschemann, Oberhausen, DE;

Stefan Aldejohann, Langenfeld, DE;

Heiko Schulz, Leverkusen, DE;

Jan Philipp Schmidt-Ewig, Essen, DE;

Heinz-Christoph Eichner, Ratingen, DE;

Mohammad Ahmadian, Neuss, DE;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0291 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01);
Abstract

A method and system are provided for operating an automatically guided container transport vehicle that can be automatically guided during forward driving and during rearward driving. The transport vehicle includes a towing vehicle and a trailer with a loading surface for at least one container. The transport vehicle has a vehicle control system for controlling a steering system and a travel drive of the transport vehicle in such a way that the transport vehicle follows a nominal route. The nominal route is automatically pre-defined taking into account a trajectory of the transport vehicle.


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