Patent ID: 9244153
Filing Date: 2016-01-26
CPC Classification: G01S,G05D,G06K

Claim Text:
1. An object configured to move, the object including a processor executing a program stored in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and having a radio frequency identification transceiver or antenna for communicating with a plurality of radio frequency identification tags, wherein the program instructs the processor to perform the following steps: (a) read first and second memory locations from a radio frequency identification tag in proximity, the first memory location storing a unique identification and the second memory location storing a position; (b) compare the unique identification stored in the first memory location and the position stored in the second memory location with a plurality of first and second data elements stored in a predetermined table in a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium of the object, each of the first and second data elements associated with a particular radio frequency identification tag; (c) determine a current position of the object from the position stored in the radio frequency identification tag upon successfully matching the unique identification stored in the first memory location with a first data element and the position stored in the second memory location with a second data element, wherein the first data element is associated with the second data element in the predetermined table, and after determining the current position, move to a next radio frequency identification tag; (d) trigger a fault upon failing to match the unique identification stored in the first memory location with a first data element or the position stored in the second memory location with a second data element; (e) predict a unique identification stored in a first memory location and a position stored in a second memory location of a next radio frequency identification tag to be read; and (f) trigger a fault if at least one of the first memory location and the second memory location read from the next radio frequency identification tag in proximity fails to match the prediction.