Electricity: motive power systems – Positional servo systems – Vehicular guidance systems with single axis control
Patent
1988-07-01
1990-02-20
Ro, Bentsu
Electricity: motive power systems
Positional servo systems
Vehicular guidance systems with single axis control
318587, G05D 103
Patent
active
049029487
ABSTRACT:
A guidance system for guiding a plurality of unmanned vehicles along guide wires. A plurality of data communication circuits are provided which form an extensive network. A traffic control computer composes a coded vehicle instruction for assigning tasks and allocates resources to said unmanned vehicles. The traffic control computer polls the status of each vehicle at varying time intervals and receives a response from said vehicle.
The network connecting the computer and the communication circuits prevents reception of data transmissions from more than one vehicle at a time. Other messages are temporarily stored.
Data transmitters generate low frequency, low power signals which have a high data transmission rate.
Digital data is converted at the transmitters into cosine waveforms of selected frequencies. The cosine waveforms are transposed into sine waveforms at receivers. Low impedance or high impedance characteristics are imposed upon the guide wires.
A low frequency, high gain transmit antenna for each vehicle is prorated.
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Dicks Richard M.
Madsen David C.
Sherman Leigh E.
Whatcott Gary L.
Eaton-Kenway Inc.
Foster Lynn G.
Ro Bentsu
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