Patent ID: 8018324

Claim:
A control system for controlling operation of a movable system, the control system comprising: a wireless communications component associated with a stationary system; a non-contacting signaling component associated with the stationary system and operative to transmit or receive a signal in a signal path proximate the stationary system; a control system component associated with the stationary system and operatively coupled with the non-contacting signaling component and with the wireless communications component, the control system component using the non-contacting signaling system to verify whether a movable system is proximate the stationary system and using the wireless communications component to provide control information to a second control system component associated with a particular movable system to control at least one positioning actuator of the particular movable system to control a position of a workpiece transported by the particular movable system while the particular movable system is proximate the stationary system; and wherein the moveable system is a robotic moving platform.