Station control system for a driverless vehicle

Details Station control system for a driverless vehicle Station control system for a driverless vehicle

2007-02-13

2007-02-13

McCarry, Jr., Robert J. (Department: 3617)

Railways

Selective delivery

Electrical control

C180S167000

Reexamination Certificate

active

10407002

ABSTRACT:
A station control system for and method of controlling the operation of a driverless vehicle. The system includes a vehicle travel path, a plurality of station tags in readable proximity to the travel path, and a vehicle movable along the travel path. Each of the tags are pre-programmed with a unique and arbitrary tag identifier. The vehicle has a tag reader and a controller communicating with the reader with the tag reader is configured to read tag identifiers from the tags. The controller is configured to receive the tag identifiers from the tag reader and access a correlation table having a function command associated with the tag idendifier. The method includes the steps of reading the tag identifier associated with one of the plurality of tags, accessing the correlation table to identify a command in the function field associated with the tag identifier, and executing any identified command.

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