Enhancement of Reliability and Precision of Navigation by Odometry

New technologies offer decisive advantages over stationary conveyor systems. They are much more flexible in terms of routing. Traffic routes can be used jointly by people and the conveyor technology elements, the autonomously navigating systems. In order to realise this, a high level of availability and reliability is required in the self-positioning of the vehicles. Since individual sensors can fail in different and conditionally detectable ways, redundant architectures are used. In the example shown, the availability and accuracy of the recorded trajectory can be improved with a 3oo6 architecture. Even several simultaneously occurring errors can be detected and the vehicle is transferred to a safe state if necessary.