Autonomous golf vehicle system
AssigneeTextron Inc.
InventorsSamuel Smith, Charles Daniel Dauchess, Ricky Veldee Kemp, Donny Lee Hammond, Baily Guyton Wood, Trevor Douglas Roebuck
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Abstract
An autonomous golf cart system includes one or more processing circuits configured to receive an input including a destination for an autonomous golf cart, determine a terrain parameter between a current location of the autonomous golf cart on a golf course and the destination, determine a designated path for the autonomous golf cart to reach the destination at least based on the terrain parameter, and provide instructions to the autonomous golf cart based on the designated path to autonomously drive along the designated path to the destination
Claims20
An autonomous golf cart system comprising:
- one or more processing circuits configured to:
- receive an input including a destination for an autonomous golf cart;
- determine a terrain parameter between a current location of the autonomous golf cart on a golf course and the destination;
- determine a designated path for the autonomous golf cart to reach the destination at least based on the terrain parameter;
- and
- provide instructions to the autonomous golf cart based on the designated path to autonomously drive along the designated path to the destination.
An autonomous golf cart system for a golf course, a hole of the golf course is sub-divided into a plurality of regions, the autonomous golf cart system comprising:
- one or more processing circuits configured to:
- receive an input including a destination for an autonomous golf cart;
- assign the autonomous golf cart a subregion of the plurality of regions based on the destination, the subregion defining a location for the autonomous golf cart to enter or exit a fairway of the hole;
- and
- determine a designated path at least partially within the subregion for the autonomous golf cart to reach the destination.
An autonomous golf cart system comprising:
- one or more processing circuits configured to:
- receive an input requesting for an autonomous golf cart to autonomously drive from a current location on a fairway or cart path of a hole to a parking location proximate a green of the hole that a golfer associated with the autonomous golf cart is playing on;
- determine a designated path for the autonomous golf cart to reach the parking location from the current location;
- and
- provide instructions to the autonomous golf cart at least based on the designated path to cause the autonomous golf cart to drive from the current location to the parking location without the golfer onboard.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.