Improving positioning, guidance, system and communication technology of AVCS by optics

This paper presents a number of new approaches for ground vehicles to improve the positioning, guidance, navigation, multivehicle system approach and communication system for all functions by using laser and light beams and corner cubes. Regarding the positioning, guidance and navigation, two types of method, active and passive, are presented with effective, useful experiments and their commercial availability is considered. On multivehicle systems, passing control and blocking control systems are presented using optical scanning beam and corner cubes. On vehicle to vehicle communication, two types of attenuated total reflection of corner cube prism and reflector-mirror movement control for modulation of the incident light beam are considered. These proposed and experimentally confirmed prototypes are useful and attractive for intelligent vehicle transportation system and also will be applicable to all types of automation and intelligent guidance system on AGV in factory and off road vehicles as well as terrain vehicles like agricultural and construction systems