Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Systems and methods for end of aisle protection and vehicle position calibration using rack leg identification
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Application No.: US16781515Application Date: 2020-02-04
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Publication No.: US11640175B2Publication Date: 2023-05-02
- Inventor: Justin Forbes Thode , Grace Da-In Lee
- Applicant: Crown Equipment Corporation
- Applicant Address: US OH New Bremen
- Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
- Current Assignee: Crown Equipment Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US OH New Bremen
- Agency: Dinsmore & Shohl LLP
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; G06T7/70 ; B60R11/04 ; B66F9/07 ; B65G1/04 ; B66F9/06 ; B66F9/20 ; B66F9/075 ; G06V20/56

Abstract:
A materials handling vehicle includes a camera, odometry module, processor, and drive mechanism. The camera captures images of an identifier for a racking system aisle and a rack leg portion in the aisle. The processor uses the identifier to generate information indicative of an initial rack leg position and rack leg spacing in the aisle, generate an initial vehicle position using the initial rack leg position, generate a vehicle odometry-based position using odometry data and the initial vehicle position, detect a subsequent rack leg using a captured image, correlate the detected subsequent rack leg with an expected vehicle position using rack leg spacing, generate an odometry error signal based on a difference between the positions, and update the vehicle odometry-based position using the odometry error signal and/or generated mast sway compensation to use for end of aisle protection and/or in/out of aisle localization.
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