Patent ID: 11960300
Assignee: CLEARPATH ROBOTICS INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G  Y | IPC B  G

Claim 10:
11. A system for using a human-operated material-transport vehicle with a fleet-management system, the system comprising:
the fleet-management system; and
a driver-support system comprising:
at least one sensor;
a human-vehicle interface;
a transceiver for communicating with a fleet-management system; and
a processor operable to communicate with the at least one sensor, the human-vehicle interface and the transceiver, the processor being operable to:
receive a mission definition from the fleet-management system, wherein the mission definition comprises one or more tasks to be conducted by the human-operated material-transport vehicle;
plan a path based on the mission definition;
display the path via the human-vehicle interface to assist the operator of the human-operated material-transport vehicle to conduct the one or more tasks;
monitor and collect, using at least one of the human-vehicle interface or the at least one sensor, a vehicle-mission information associated with an operation of the human-operated material-transport vehicle by the operator within an industrial facility associated with the fleet-management system; and
transmit the vehicle-mission information to the fleet-management system during operation by the operator of the human-operated material-transport vehicle; and

during the operation by the operator of the human-operated material-transport vehicle for completing the one or more tasks,
the fleet-management system being operable to:
monitor, based on the received vehicle-mission information, a task status of each task of the one or more tasks being conducted by the human-operated material-transport vehicle; and

in response to detecting a change in a task status of at least one task, generate and transmit an updated mission definition to the human-operated material-transport vehicle based on the change in the task status; and
the processor of the driver-support system being further operable to:
in response to receiving the updated mission definition, update the path based on the updated mission definition; and
display the updated path via the human-vehicle interface.