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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 22, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2022
Autostore Technology As, Nedre Vats, NO;
Bjørnar Berge Lie, Avaldsnes, NO;
Jonas Lægreid Haldorsen, Rubbestadneset, NO;
AutoStore Technology AS, Nedre Vats, NO;
Abstract
A system tracks the position of a container handling vehicle on a grid, following a route relative to rails on a frame structure forming a storage grid. The vehicle has first and second sets of wheels connected to drives for moving the vehicle in corresponding x- and y-directions on the grid. The vehicle receives information of number of rails to pass between start and stop positions in x- and y-directions according to the route from a central computer system. The container handling vehicle has at least one camera mounted underneath to film downwards while the container handling vehicle is in motion, a computer system with an image processing algorithm to process the transferred images and detect the rails in the images, and the camera is positioned so as to be able to capture at least one rail in the x-direction and one rail in the y-direction while the container handling vehicle is positioned over a column.