System and method of automated parking system for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeUnitronics Automated Solutions Ltd
InventorHaim Shani
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Abstract
An automated parking system has a parking entrance unit, a vehicle transport shuttle, shuttle trail means, plurality of parking locations and a controller. The controller is adapted to establish communication with an autonomous vehicle (AV) to be parked in the parking system, to receive signal from the AV indicating that the AV is ready to be controlled by the controller, to receive signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the AV, to control the movement of the AV toward the vehicle transport shuttle, to control the movement of the vehicle transport shuttle toward a designated parking location and to control the movement of the AV toward the designated parking location.
Claims9
An automated parking system comprising:
- a parking entrance point;
- a vehicle transport shuttle;
- plurality of parking locations;
- and
- a controller, adapted to:
- establish communication with an autonomous vehicle to be parked in the parking system after a driver of the autonomous vehicle shuts off an engine of the autonomous vehicle and leaves the autonomous vehicle at the parking entrance point;
- receive a signal from the autonomous vehicle indicating that the autonomous vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receive a signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the autonomous vehicle;
- power up the autonomous vehicle;
- control the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the parking entrance point toward loading on the vehicle transport shuttle;
- control the movement of the vehicle transport shuttle toward a designated parking location;
- and
- control the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the vehicle transport shuttle toward the designated parking location.
A method for automatically parking an autonomous vehicle in a parking system comprising a parking entrance point, a vehicle transport shuttle, plurality of parking locations and a controller, the method comprising:
- establishing communication with the autonomous vehicle to be parked in the parking system after a driver of the autonomous vehicle shuts off an engine of the autonomous vehicle and leaves the autonomous vehicle at the parking entrance point;
- receiving a signal from the autonomous vehicle indicating that the autonomous vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receiving a signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the autonomous vehicle;
- powering up the autonomous vehicle;
- controlling the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the parking entrance point toward loading on the vehicle transport shuttle;
- controlling the movement of the vehicle transport shuttle toward a designated parking location;
- and
- controlling the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the vehicle transport shuttle toward the designated parking location.
A non-transitory storage medium having stored thereon software code that when it is executed causes a controller in a parking system comprising also a parking entrance point, a vehicle transport shuttle, and plurality of parking locations, to:
- establish communication with an autonomous vehicle to be parked in the parking system after a driver of the autonomous vehicle shuts off an engine of the autonomous vehicle and leaves the autonomous vehicle at the parking entrance point;
- receive a signal from the autonomous vehicle indicating that the autonomous vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receive a signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the autonomous vehicle;
- power up the autonomous vehicle;
- control the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the parking entrance point toward loading on the vehicle transport shuttle;
- control the movement of the autonomous vehicle transport shuttle toward a designated parking location;
- and
- control the movement of the autonomous vehicle from the vehicle transport shuttle toward the designated parking location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.