31 results about "Autotransporters" patented technology

Methods and systems for assisting autonomous vehicles are provided. The methods and systems can help increase safety and consumer satisfaction with autonomous vehicles and help bridge the gap towards completely autonomy. A method for assisting autonomous vehicles can include providing an autonomous vehicle having sensory inputs and providing a remote control center having two-way communication with the autonomous vehicle. The autonomous vehicle can send its sensory input information to the control center and the control center can send control information to the autonomous vehicle.

A product order fulfillment system includes multiple decks arrayed at different levels and defining multilevel decks, at least one autonomous transport vehicle on each of the decks, and configured for holding and transporting a pickface on each deck, at least one lift, traversing and connecting more than one level of the decks, and arranged for lifting and lowering the pickface from the decks, and at least one pickface transfer station on each deck interfacing between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift to effect transfer of the pickface between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift, the at least one lift defines a fulfillment stream of mixed case pickfaces outbound from the multilevel decks to a load fill, at least one stream of the fulfillment stream has an ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces wherein the ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces is based on another fulfillment stream.

The invention relates to a wheel-rail structure. The wheel-rail structure comprises a guiding rail crossing structure and a supporting wheel; wherein the guiding rail crossing structure includes a guiding rail, a connecting body and a guiding rail mounting groove arranged in an orthogonal type; the guiding rail is arranged in the guiding rail mounting groove, and the guiding rail is provided witha pressure bearing part; at least one side of the pressure bearing part is matched with the side wall of the guiding rail mounting groove to form a gap, and the guiding rail mounting groove is provided with a crossing part; and the connecting body is arranged in the crossing part; the supporting wheel comprises a concave table part and convex table parts connected with the end part of the concavetable part; and the concave table parts can be matched with the pressure bearing part in a rolling mode, and the convex table parts can be matched with the connecting body in a rolling mode. When thesupporting wheels are installed on the front, back, left and right side surfaces of an automatic transport vehicle and the rail is provided with the guiding rail crossing structure, the automatic transport vehicle can switch moving directions at the crossing part along the rail.

The invention provides an intelligent and automatic carrying distribution system and an intelligent and automatic carrying distribution method for garment factory lean production. The system comprises a cutting bed workshop scheduling module which is used for performing production scheduling on the amount of cut pieces in a cutting bed workshop and generating cut piece scheduling information; a stitching workshop scheduling module which is used for generating cut piece demand information according to the cut piece demand situation in a stitching workshop; an RFID wireless data acquisition device which is used for acquiring cutting bed site data of the cutting bed workshop and stitching site data of the stitching workshop in real time; a cut piece supermarket intelligent storage management module which is used for acquiring cut piece site data in a cut piece supermarket, calculating reserved shelf-position information in the cutting bed workshop and calculating the shelf-position location information and shortest path information of the stitching workshop; an automatic conveying module which is used for controlling an automatic conveying vehicle to convey cut pieces in the cut piece supermarket to the stitching workshop and conveying the cut pieces to the cut piece supermarket to the cutting bed workshop; and a database server which is used for receiving and storing the stitching site data, the cutting bed site data and the cut piece site data.