Automatically guided vehicle
AssigneeSiemens Aktiengesellschaft
InventorsMarcus Gutzmer, Uwe Krause, Andreas Lüddeke
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Abstract
An automatically guided vehicle designed as a floor-bound conveying means which is automatically controlled and guided in a contact-free manner for use in a hall includes a travel drive having a travel converter and a dynamo-electric machine, with the travel converter including a printed circuit board. The dynamo-electric machine is connected to wheels of the vehicle. A sensor is arranged or formed in the travel converter on the printed circuit board of the travel converter and designed to detect an acceleration of the vehicle in x, y and/or z direction and/or detect a spatial location of the vehicle.
Claims8
An automatically guided floor-bound transport vehicle which is automatically controlled and guided in a contact-free manner, the automatically guided vehicle comprising:
- a travel drive comprising a travel converter and a dynamo-electric machine, with the travel converter comprising a printed circuit board, and with the dynamo-electric machine being connected to wheels of the vehicle;
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- at least two redundant sensors for each of x, y and/or z directions and designed to detect an acceleration of the vehicle in x, y and/or z direction or to detect a spatial location of the vehicle, the sensors being arranged or formed in the travel converter on the printed circuit board of the travel converter,
- an evaluation unit implemented in the travel converter and having two channels designed to evaluate the detected acceleration in x, y and/or z direction or to evaluate the detected spatial location.
A travel converter for an automatically guided floor-bound transport vehicle which is automatically controlled and guided in a contact-free manner, the travel converter comprising:
- a printed circuit board;
- at least two redundant sensors for each of x, y and/or z directions and designed to detect an acceleration of the vehicle in the x, y and/or z direction or to detect a spatial location of the vehicle, said sensors being arranged or formed in the travel converter on the printed circuit board of the travel converter, and
- an evaluation unit implemented in the travel converter and having two channels designed to evaluate at least one detected acceleration in x, y and/or z direction or to evaluate the detected spatial location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.