Traveling vehicle and traveling vehicle system
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorsYuji Shimizu, Seiji Yamagami
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Abstract
A traveling vehicle is operable to travel along a predetermined travel path, and includes an indicator with switchable lighting states, an imager to capture an image of a preceding traveling vehicle located in front of a subject traveling vehicle to include the indicator provided to the preceding traveling vehicle in the captured image, and a controller to control traveling of the subject traveling vehicle based on a determination result of the lighting states of the indicator included in the captured image. The indicator includes a first indicator to notify a state of the subject traveling vehicle, and a second indicator to include both images of the indicator in a lit state and the indicator in an unlit state in the captured image.
Claims6
A traveling vehicle to travel along a predetermined travel path, the traveling vehicle comprising:
- an indicator with switchable lighting states configured to be switchable;
- an imager to capture an image of a preceding traveling vehicle located in front of the traveling vehicle, the captured image including an indicator of the preceding traveling vehicle;
- and
- a controller to control traveling of the traveling vehicle based on a determination result of lighting states of the indicator of the preceding traveling vehicle included in the captured image;
- wherein
- the indicator of the traveling vehicle includes:
- a plurality of first indicators to notify a state of the traveling vehicle;
- and
- a plurality of second indicators provided in a same number as a number of the plurality of first indicators and respectively corresponding to the plurality of first indicators;
- and
- the plurality of second indicators have lighting states switchable by the controller to be opposite to lighting states of the respectively corresponding plurality of first indicators such that a portion of the indicator of the traveling vehicle is in a lit state and a portion of the indicator of the traveling vehicle is in an unlit state.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.