Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Automatic route guidance vehicle
Patent
1998-05-14
2000-09-05
Nguyen, Tan
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Automatic route guidance vehicle
701117, 701 23, G06F16500
Patent
active
061156523
ABSTRACT:
A road system for an automatically traveling vehicle is provided, wherein the merging or diverging of the automatically traveling vehicle at a connection point of a road can be smoothly performed. An indicating means comprising a bar code is provided on each of a main lane and a branch lane at a location short of a merging point of a road by a predetermined distance (e.g., 500 m). Information relating to the distance from one vehicle to the merging point and information relating to the shape of the merging point are provided by viewing the indicating means with a CCD camera. The indicating means can be provided at a location short of a diverging point of the road, at the merging point of the road or at the diverging point of the road. The type of the indicating means is not limited to the bar code, and the indicating means may be a signpost, a line, magnetic nails or the like.
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Jitsukata Eishi
Kobayashi Sachio
Sato Masashi
Tamura Kazuya
Gibson Eric M
Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki
Nguyen Tan
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