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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 31, 2016

Filed:

Oct. 28, 2014
Applicant:

Crown Equipment Limited, East Tamaki, Auckland, NZ;

Inventors:

Jacob Jay Thomson, Auckland, NZ;

Lisa Wong, Auckland, NZ;

Timothy William Fanselow, Auckland, NZ;

Assignee:

Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/02 (2006.01); G01C 21/34 (2006.01); B66F 9/06 (2006.01); B66F 9/075 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/3407 (2013.01); B66F 9/063 (2013.01); B66F 9/0755 (2013.01); G05D 1/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0216 (2013.01);
Abstract

According to the embodiments described herein, an industrial vehicle can include an Environmental Based Localization (EBL) sensor communicatively coupled to one or more processors. The EBL sensor can detect objects within a field of view. The one or more processors execute machine readable instructions to access a feature set and an occlusion set that are associated with an industrial facility. An occlusion path that intersects a detectable occlusion of the occlusion set and the sensor origin of the EBL sensor can be determined. A feature intersection of the occlusion path can be determined. A detectable feature can be classified as an occluded detectable feature based at least in part upon location of the feature intersection. The industrial vehicle can be navigated through the industrial facility utilizing the feature set exclusive of the occluded detectable feature.


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