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AssigneeTld Europe
InventorsLaurent DECOUX, Charles BESSE
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An electronic system and method controls automatic or semi-automatic docking of a vehicle with a given docking area, applicable, in particular, to the docking of an airport vehicle, such as a baggage belt loader, a catering vehicle, etc., to the fuselage of an aircraft, for example to the door of such an aircraft. The given docking area comprises at least one target. The system includes first determination device configured to determine the position of the docking area by determining the type of target from a set of given types and its position, second determination device configured to determine a guide path for guiding the vehicle towards the given docking area depending on the position of the docking area, and third determination device configured to determine the type of docking destination, the second determination device being capable of determining one or more exclusion areas depending on the type of docking destination, by comparing the type of docking destination with types of docking destination, stored in a database in association with exclusion areas, such that the guide path for guiding the vehicle towards the given docking area does not pass into any of the exclusion areas.
An electronic system for controlling docking of a vehicle at a given docking zone of a docking destination, the given docking zone comprising at least one target, the system comprising first determination means configured to determine the position of the docking zone by determining a type of the target from a set of given types and from its position, second determination means configured to determine a guidance trajectory of the vehicle to h given docking zone depending on the type and on the position of h target, and third determination means configured to determine the type of the docking destination, the second determination means being able to determine one or more exclusion zones depending on a type of the docking destination, by comparison of the type of the docking destination with types of docking destination stored in a database in association with exclusion zones, so that the guidance trajectory of the vehicle to the given docking zone does not pass into any of the exclusion zones.
A method for controlling the docking of a vehicle, at a given docking zone of a docking destination, the given docking zone comprising at least one target, the method comprising a first step of determining a position of the docking zone by determining a type of target from a set of given types and from its position, a second step of determining a guidance trajectory of the vehicle to the docking zone depending on the type and on a position of the target, and a third step of determining a type of the docking destination, the second determination step comprising determination of one or more exclusion zones depending on the type of the docking destination, by comparison of the type of the docking destination with types of docking destinations stored in a database in association with exclusion zones, so that the guidance trajectory of the vehicle to the given docking zone does not pass into any of the exclusion zones.
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