Nederlands
Efficient determination of a route for guided vehicles
Reijer Idema

Site of the project:
FROG navigation systems
Krommewetering 21
3543 AP Utrecht
The Netherlands

start of the project: October 2004

In February 2005 the Interim Thesis has been appeared and a presentation has been given.

The Master project has been finished in August 2005 ( Masters Thesis). For working address etc. we refer to our alumnipage.

Summary of the master project:
Frog Navigation Systems BV, located in Utrecht, The Netherlands, produces guided vehicles, together with a control computer and a supervisory system. Much software has been developed, which is currently enhanced and renewed. One of the latest developments is the inclusion of NURBS to define the route.

Automatic guided bus


See also: the arrival of Phileas at a station, 1.5 MB and a test with Phileas 2.1 MB.

A tool has been developed to draw the routes, which are used to guide the vehicle. The tool is used in practice, however a number of topics remain to be investigated in order to make the tool more versatile. Below some of these topics are given:

  1. NURBS curve synthesis using a model for the vehicle.
  2. Determine the critical section in a layout.
  3. Synthetise NURBS routes with constraints on the available space.
  4. Hull curve detection by guiding a vehicle with two control points over a NURBS curve.
  5. Approximate a NURBS route over a serie of points.
  6. Reparameterise a NURBS curve to the length of the curve.
  7. Define the position and the orientation of a vehicle using higher dimensional NURBS.
  8. Add new routines to the NURBS library in C++.

Contact information: Kees Vuik

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