System and Method for Gathering Video Data Related to Operation of an Autonomous Industrial Vehicle

摘要

Abstract A method operates an autonomously guided industrial vehicle that travels through a facility. During that travel, images of the portions of the facility adjacent to the industrial vehicle are acquired. Those images may be produced by a still camera or a video camera. An image file containing a plurality of the images is stored on board the industrial vehicle. Upon occurrence of a predefined incident, such as an unplanned stoppage of the vehicle, an incident message is transmitted wirelessly from the industrial vehicle to a remote management computer. That message contains one or more of the following types of information, a first indication of the type of incident, a second indication of a location of the industrial vehicle, and the plurality of the images acquired immediately prior to the incident. The remote management computer responds to the incident message by providing a notification about the incident to a person. -17