Automated guided cart system control
AssigneeGM Global Technology Operations LLC
InventorPaul H. Vavrick
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Abstract
A method of operating an automated guided cart may include directing, using a controller, the cart on a production operation path; automatically detecting a state-of-charge in an on-board battery pack; signaling to a remote station the state-of-charge; and when the state-of-charge is below a predetermined charge limit, the remote station automatically signaling the cart to automatically veer from the production operation path to a low battery charge path and stop at a battery station.
Claims12
A method of operating an automated guided cart, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) directing, using a controller, the cart on a production operation path;
- (b) automatically detecting a state-of-charge in an on-board battery pack;
- (c) signaling to a remote station the state-of-charge;
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- (d) when the state-of-charge is below a predetermined charge limit, the remote station automatically signaling the cart to automatically veer from the production operation path to a low battery charge path and stop at a battery station.
A method of operating an automated guided cart, the method comprising the steps of:
- (a) directing, using a controller, the cart on a production operation path;
- (b) automatically detecting a state-of-charge in an on-board battery pack;
- (c) wirelessly signaling to a remote station the state-of-charge;
- (d) when the state-of-charge is below a predetermined charge limit, the remote station automatically signaling the cart to automatically veer from the production operation path to a low battery charge path and stop at a battery station;
- (e) swapping the on-board battery pack for a spare battery pack at the battery station;
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- (f) activating the cart to return to the production operation path.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.