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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 19, 2022
Filed:
Jul. 31, 2019
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Kashyap Chandrasekar, Auckland, NZ;
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods for a materials handling vehicle configured to navigate along a warehouse environment inventory transit surface, the vehicle including control architecture in communication with a drive mechanism, a materials handling mechanism, a speed zone sensing subsystem configured to provide an indication of whether the vehicle is in a speed zone, and a speed control processor configured to prompt the operator to reduce a vehicle speed of the vehicle to under a speed zone limit when the vehicle speed is approaching or in the speed zone, determine whether the vehicle speed is under the speed zone limit in the speed zone, and apply a speed cap to limit a maximum vehicle speed of the vehicle to a magnitude that is at or below the speed zone limit when the speed control processor has determined that the vehicle speed is under the speed zone limit in the speed zone.