CPC B60D 1/36 (2013.01) [B60D 1/015 (2013.01); B60D 1/62 (2013.01); B60R 19/48 (2013.01); B60W 10/02 (2013.01); B60W 10/06 (2013.01); B60W 10/10 (2013.01); B60W 10/20 (2013.01); B60W 30/18036 (2013.01); B60W 40/105 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/0223 (2013.01); B60W 2300/14 (2013.01); B60W 2710/0605 (2013.01); B60W 2710/1005 (2013.01); B60W 2720/10 (2013.01); B60Y 2200/147 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0213 (2013.01)] | 27 Claims |
1. An autonomous dock system, comprising:
a vehicle comprising a processor-controllable speed-control mechanism comprising one or both of a motor or an engine;
at least one sensor or transceiver on the vehicle;
at least one transponder on a target;
a control system, comprising a processor, a tangible memory device, and processor executable instructions stored in the tangible memory device, the processor executable instructions, which when executed by the processor, configured to implement an autonomous dock process comprising:
calculating a connection distance between the at least one sensor or transceiver and the at least one transponder; and
controlling the processor-controllable speed-control mechanism to output a torque to autonomously ramp a vehicle speed and traverse the connection distance to connect the vehicle with the target.
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