System and method of automated parking system for autonomous vehicles
AssigneeUnitronics Automated Soulutions 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:
- parking entrance unit;
- vehicle transport shuttle;
- shuttle trail means;
- plurality of parking locations;
- and
- controller, adapted to:
- establish communication with the vehicle to be parked in the parking system;
- receive signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receive signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the vehicle;
- control the movement of the vehicle 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 vehicle toward the designated parking location.
A method for automatically parking a vehicle in a parking system comprising a parking entrance unit, a vehicle transport shuttle, shuttle trail means, plurality of parking locations and a controller, the method comprising:
- establishing communication with a vehicle to be parked in the parking system;
- receiving signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receiving signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receiving signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the vehicle;
- controlling the movement of the vehicle 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 vehicle 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 unit, a vehicle transport shuttle, shuttle trail means, and plurality of parking locations, to:
- establish communication with the vehicle to be parked in the parking system;
- receive signal from the vehicle indicating that the vehicle is ready to be controlled by the controller;
- receive signal indicating that the parking system is ready to receive and park the vehicle;
- control the movement of the vehicle 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 vehicle toward the designated parking location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.