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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 1995
Filed:
Feb. 09, 1993
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
In a steering control system for a moving body in which azimuths of reference points are detected by rotatively scanning a light beam around the moving body, a current position of the moving body is calculated based on the azimuths of reference points, and the moving body is steered so that the current position thereof follows a predetermined travelling course that is calculated in accordance with an algorithm previously stored in a memory. The system assigns each detected reference point to each reference point in said algorithm for calculating the relative traveling course, based on one of a reference point that is detected first under the condition that the azimuth exceeds a first predetermined angle, and a reference point that is detected last with the azimuth being less than a second predetermined angle when the azimuth is measured with respect to the advance direction of the moving vehicle initially placed in the traveling area before the start of a work. A traveling course is set according to said algorithm using the positional information on the assigned reference points.