Title:Recent Patents on Automated Transporting Vehicle in Automatic Car Parking System
VOLUME: 9 ISSUE: 1
Author(s):Tianhua He, Junpeng Shao, Yongde Zhang, Jingang Jiang and Boyang Gu
Affiliation:Intelligent Machine Institute of Harbin University of Science and Technology, Harbin 150080, P.R. China.
Keywords:Automatic car parking system, automated transporting vehicle, lifting mechanism, movement mechanism, navigation
method, stereo-garage.
Abstract:The application of stereo-garage relieves the problem of short of parking spaces. The automated
transporting vehicle applied in automatic car parking system further raises the efficiency and reliability
of the system, and from structural considerations, the automated transporting vehicle is divided
into two parts: movement mechanism and lifting mechanism. This paper reviews various representative patents related
to the automated transporting vehicle, especially focuses on the navigation method of movement mechanism and the
type of lifting mechanism. The differences of different methods and different types are compared and analyzed and the
characters are concluded. In the end, current and future development of automated transporting vehicle are also discussed.
