Method for the creation and the follow-up of the path for a vehicle such as a robot.

摘要

Automatic method of creating and following a path defined by reference points (P) whose position is known in a reference frame fixed in the changing location of a vehicle. The path is created automatically or by manually making it follow the vehicle and then performing periodic locatings of beacons with known position in the reference frame. According to the invention, the path is stored in memory in the form of cartesian coordinates of points only and of a model of the path which includes no orientation information. <IMAGE>