Patent ID: 11914395
Assignee: CYBERNET SYSTEMS CORPORATION
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. An autonomous transport vehicle, comprising:
a frame, platform or chassis with a powertrain driving a set of wheels, and further including steering and braking systems;
a memory on the vehicle storing road maps including roads and intersections; wherein the stored road maps further define a plurality of different zones, each zone respectively governed by a different set of driving rules;
wherein the zones include material loading and unloading zones;
a computer on the vehicle operative to implement a localization process to determine the location of the vehicle on the road maps, and an obstacle detection process to avoid structures external to the vehicle;
wherein the computer is further operative to execute driving missions using the road maps, and wherein the missions include travel on the roads to pick up and drop off loads in the loading and unloading zones; and
wherein one set of driving and obstacle detection rules are used during travel on the roads, and a different set of driving and obstacle detection rules are used within the loading and unloading zones.