Steering system for train of wheeled vehicles

Details Steering system for train of wheeled vehicles Steering system for train of wheeled vehicles

B - Operations, Transporting

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B62D 13/00 (2006.01) B62D 13/04 (2006.01) B65G 41/00 (2006.01)

Patent

CA 2588161

A steering system and method are capable of steering a plurality of vehicles, such as mobile conveyors, arranged in a train with adjacent vehicles pivotally connected to each other for movement about a vertical axis. Each vehicle has a pair of steerable wheels with one pair at one end of the train being a selected leading pair having its steering angle determined by an operator. An electrical control system automatically steers all of the wheels trailing behind the leading pair. Vehicle angle sensors measure intercar angles between adjacent vehicles and provide this information to the control system. There is an indicator for providing the controller with the current distance travelled by the train. Wheel angle sensors provide signals indicative of the current steering angle for each pair of wheels in the train. The controller adjusts the actual steering angle for each trailing pair to a desired angle by calculating adjustments based on the distance travelled, a stored series of sensed steering angles, and the current intercar angles for the respective trailing pairs.

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