Patent ID: 8744664
Filing Date: 2014-06-03
Classification: G01C,G05D

Abstract:
1. A system for controlling a vehicle to follow at least one person, the system including: a detection device for detecting a location of the at least one person; a storage device for recording locations of the at least one person at a plurality of points in time; a path determination device for determining a driveable path for the vehicle based on the recorded locations; and a control device for operating said vehicle to follow location movements of said at least one person over the driveable path, wherein the detection device and the storage device are provided for detecting and storing location data for a plurality of persons and are configured to follow location movements of one person selected from amongst the plurality of persons, wherein the system is configured to select said one person to follow the location movements of based on a plurality of system operating modes, and wherein one of the plurality of system operating modes includes following a computed centroid of the plurality of persons, wherein the computed centroid is a point whose coordinates are mean values of the coordinates of all the plurality of persons.