Patents by Inventor Paul Verstraete

Paul Verstraete has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Use Adaptation of Schedule for Multi-Vehicle Ground Processing Operations
    Publication number: 20130046525
    Abstract: A method of controlling outdoor ground processing operations of two or more work vehicles (15, 260, 270, 280, 290, 300), involves running a computer model (100, 110, 120) of the operations using a number of candidate schedules of the ground processing operations using predicted conditions, the operations involving work vehicle movements and work vehicle processing tasks, at least one of the operations for one of the work vehicles being a dependent operation, being dependent on another (25) of the work vehicles. An overall schedule for the operations is generated and used to control actual execution of the ground processing operations by the work vehicles. The computer model is updated as changes in the conditions occur as monitored during the actual execution, and used to adapt the actual execution of a remaining part of the ground processing operations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2011
    Publication date: February 21, 2013
    Inventors: Osman Ali, Paul Valckenaers, Bart Saint Germain, Paul Verstraete, Jan Van Belle