公开(公告)号：US20210397196A1

公开(公告)日：2021-12-23

申请号：US17466033

申请日：2021-09-03

Applicant: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.

Inventor： Reuben F. Burch, V ,  Sherif Abelwahed ,  John E. Ball ,  Matt Doude ,  James R. Gafford ,  Tyler J. Hannis ,  Yucheng Liu ,  Michael S. Mazzola ,  Howard McKinney

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G05D1/00

Abstract: An improved retrofit assembly for ground support equipment providing autonomous operation of the logistics ground support equipment (GSE). The assembly has a refit control system attached to the GSE (with a vehicle dynamics control processor and a data preprocessing control processor), retrofitted proprioceptive sensors coupled to the vehicle dynamics control processor monitoring operating parameters and characteristics of the GSE, retrofitted exteroceptive sensors coupled to the data preprocessing control processor that monitor an exterior environment of the GSE, and refit actuators for different control elements on the GSE and to autonomously alter motion of the GSE. The refit control system programmatically receives sensor data from the proprioceptive sensors and exteroceptive sensors; optimizes a path for the GSE based upon the different sensor data; and activates at least one of the actuators according to the optimized path for the GSE.

公开(公告)号：US11157011B2

公开(公告)日：2021-10-26

申请号：US16524723

申请日：2019-07-29

Applicant: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.

Inventor： Reuben F. Burch, V ,  Sherif Abelwahed ,  John E. Ball ,  Matt Doude ,  James R. Gafford ,  Tyler J. Hannis ,  Yucheng Liu ,  Michael S. Mazzola ,  Howard McKinney

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G05D1/00

Abstract: An improved retrofit assembly for ground support equipment providing autonomous operation of the logistics ground support equipment (GSE). The assembly has a refit control system attached to the GSE (with a vehicle dynamics control processor and a data preprocessing control processor), retrofitted proprioceptive sensors coupled to the vehicle dynamics control processor monitoring operating parameters and characteristics of the GSE, retrofitted exteroceptive sensors coupled to the data preprocessing control processor that monitor an exterior environment of the GSE, and refit actuators for different control elements on the GSE and to autonomously alter motion of the GSE. The refit control system programmatically receives sensor data from the proprioceptive sensors and exteroceptive sensors; optimizes a path for the GSE based upon the different sensor data; and activates at least one of the actuators according to the optimized path for the GSE.

公开(公告)号：US11747820B2

公开(公告)日：2023-09-05

申请号：US17466033

申请日：2021-09-03

Applicant: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.

Inventor： Reuben F. Burch, V ,  Sherif Abelwahed ,  John E. Ball ,  Matt Doude ,  James R. Gafford ,  Tyler J. Hannis ,  Yucheng Liu ,  Michael S. Mazzola ,  Howard McKinney

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06V20/58

CPC classification number: G05D1/0223 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0289 ,  G06V20/58

Abstract: An improved retrofit assembly for ground support equipment providing autonomous operation of the logistics ground support equipment (GSE). The assembly has a refit control system attached to the GSE (with a vehicle dynamics control processor and a data preprocessing control processor), retrofitted proprioceptive sensors coupled to the vehicle dynamics control processor monitoring operating parameters and characteristics of the GSE, retrofitted exteroceptive sensors coupled to the data preprocessing control processor that monitor an exterior environment of the GSE, and refit actuators for different control elements on the GSE and to autonomously alter motion of the GSE. The refit control system programmatically receives sensor data from the proprioceptive sensors and exteroceptive sensors; optimizes a path for the GSE based upon the different sensor data; and activates at least one of the actuators according to the optimized path for the GSE.

公开(公告)号：US20200033872A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-30

申请号：US16524723

申请日：2019-07-29

Applicant: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.

Inventor： Reuben F. Burch, V ,  Sherif Abelwahed ,  John E. Ball ,  Matt Doude ,  James R. Gafford ,  Tyler J. Hannis ,  Yucheng Liu ,  Michael S. Mazzola ,  Howard McKinney

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G06K9/00

Abstract: An improved retrofit assembly for ground support equipment providing autonomous operation of the logistics ground support equipment (GSE). The assembly has a refit control system attached to the GSE (with a vehicle dynamics control processor and a data preprocessing control processor), retrofitted proprioceptive sensors coupled to the vehicle dynamics control processor monitoring operating parameters and characteristics of the GSE, retrofitted exteroceptive sensors coupled to the data preprocessing control processor that monitor an exterior environment of the GSE, and refit actuators for different control elements on the GSE and to autonomously alter motion of the GSE. The refit control system programmatically receives sensor data from the proprioceptive sensors and exteroceptive sensors; optimizes a path for the GSE based upon the different sensor data; and activates at least one of the actuators according to the optimized path for the GSE.