摘要 |
<p>A collisions avoiding method for avoiding collisions between vehicles (10; 12) moving in a predetermined area (14), wherein said vehicles may include unmanned vehicles (10) and manned vehicles (12). The method includes storing a map covering at least said predetermined area,said map including possible routes used by said vehicles (10;12). Vehicles moving in said predetermined area continuously transfer data relating to their present positions to a collision avoidance calculation module (20). Also included is continuously predicting specific paths of vehicles based on present positions and possible routes of said vehicles (10;12), preventing collisions between vehicles (10;12) by continuously comparing said predicted paths and possible routes to detect overlapping positions of different vehicles (10; 12) and forwarding interrupting commands to vehicles (10;12) heading to an overlapping position. The apparatus comprises a collision avoidance calculation module (20) and a processing unit (25), said processing unit (25) being arranged to continuously compare said predicted paths of each pair of the vehicles moving in said predetermined area (14) to detect overlapping positions.</p> |