Patents Assigned to Max-Planc-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E.V.
  • Patent number: 11270232
    Abstract: In a method of transporting objects with transport vehicles, a starting point, a destination, a starting time and an arrival time are noted as object coordinates in a space-time. A transport path network of possible transport paths together with average speeds on the possible transport ways is defined. Suitable transport paths of the possible transport paths between the object coordinates of the objects are determined and noted in the space-time. In the space-time, one of the suitable transport paths per object is bundled into driving routes of the transport vehicles, transport capacities and the actual locations of the transport vehicles of the plurality of transport vehicles being considered. The driving routes together with the object coordinates of the associated objects are transmitted to those transport vehicles involved. Then, the objects are transported in that the transport vehicles involved are driven along the transmitted driving routes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Max-Planc-Gesellschaft Zur Foerderung Der Wissenschaften E.V.
    Inventors: Stephan Herminghaus, Marc Timme, Andreas Sorge, Matthias Wendland, Johannes Kassel