Method and system to mitigate vehicular contacts in autonomously marshalled manufacturing using ultrasonics
AssigneeFord Global Technologies, LLC
InventorsDaniel Denomme, Vivekananda Krishnamurthy
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Abstract
A system for alerting a user against a vehicular contact includes an alerting device. The alerting device includes an ultrasonic receiver configured to receive ultrasonic signals emitted by an ultrasonic transmitter of a vehicle, and an intensity determination module configured to determine whether an intensity of the ultrasonic signals is increasing or decreasing during a predetermined period. The alerting device is configured to generate an alert to the user or move the user away from the vehicle in response to a determination by the intensity determination module that the intensity of the ultrasonic signals is increasing during the predetermine period.
Claims13
A system for alerting a user against a vehicular contact, the system comprising:
- an alerting device comprising:
- an ultrasonic receiver configured to receive ultrasonic signals emitted by an ultrasonic transmitter of a vehicle;
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- an intensity determination module configured to determine whether an intensity of the ultrasonic signals is increasing or decreasing during a predetermined period;
- a lower torso exoskeletal structure designed to be worn on legs of the user;
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- a movement control module in communication with the alerting device;
- wherein the alerting device is configured to generate a signal in response to a determination by the intensity determination module that the intensity of the ultrasonic signals is increasing during the predetermined period, the intensity determination module configured to, in response to receiving the signal, send data relating to a desired moving path for the lower torso exoskeletal structure to the movement control module, which then controls and moves the lower torso exoskeletal structure out of a moving path of the vehicle.
A system for alerting a user against a vehicular contact, the system comprising:
- an alerting device comprising:
- an ultrasonic receiver configured to receive ultrasonic signals emitted directly by an ultrasonic transmitter of a vehicle;
- an intensity determination module configured to determine whether an intensity of the ultrasonic signals is increasing or decreasing during a predetermined period;
- a lower torso exoskeletal structure designed to be worn on legs of the user;
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- a movement control module;
- and
- a movement determination module in communication with the movement control module;
- wherein the movement determination module is configured to determine and send data relating to a desired moving path for the lower torso exoskeletal structure to the movement control module in response to a determination by the intensity determination module that the intensity of the ultrasonic signals is increasing during the predetermined period, the movement control module configured to control and move the lower torso exoskeletal structure according to the desired moving path for the lower torso exoskeletal structure.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.