US 12,391,522 B2
Operating method for a loading system and automation system for controlling the loading system
Markus Schaub, Oberasbach (DE); Fabricio De Carvalho Ferreira, Erlangen (DE); Johannes Benkert, Fürth (DE); Bernd Wielens, Ahaus (DE); and Janus Zirbs, Rugendorf (DE)
Assigned to Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed by Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Munich (DE)
Filed on Sep. 18, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/369,269.
Claims priority of application No. 22196372 (EP), filed on Sep. 19, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2024/0095278 A1, Mar. 21, 2024
Int. Cl. B66C 13/00 (2006.01); B66C 13/46 (2006.01); G06T 7/00 (2017.01); G06T 7/50 (2017.01)
CPC B66C 13/46 (2013.01) [G06T 7/50 (2017.01); G06T 2207/10028 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An operating method for a loading system which loads or moves a load along a route, a collision between the load and objects in an environment being avoided during loading, the method comprising:
providing a digital load image file describing a spatial overall extent of the load;
recording an environment image file cyclically via an imaging sensor system;
adding a protective distance to data of the load image file to provide a collision model image file;
providing a cutout file as a virtually recorded image file with a viewing angle from one position of the load as a function of a route, the cutout file being obtained as a reduced representation from the environment image file;
providing a differential image file from the collision model image file and the cutout file via differentiation; and
performing an evaluation by examining the differential image file for a possible collision.