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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 01, 2018
Filed:
Oct. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Crown Equipment Limited, East Tamaki, Auckland, NZ;
Inventor:
Jacob Jay Thomson, Auckland, NZ;
Assignee:
Crown Equipment Corporation, New Bremen, OH (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G05D 1/0297 (2013.01); G01C 21/206 (2013.01); G05D 1/0212 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G05D 1/0289 (2013.01); G05D 1/0291 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0216 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for coordinating path planning for one or more automated vehicles is described, including querying an online path planner for possible solutions for at least one executable task for each of the one or more automated vehicles, examining the results of the query, deciding a coordinated path plan for each vehicle, and communicating the coordinated path plan to a traffic manager, wherein the traffic manager ensures that the one or more automated vehicles perform each executable task according to the coordinated path plan.