INSTRUMENTED LOCK ENTRY AND TRAVERSING SYSTEM

Patent №

US 7,280,914

Granted

2007-10-09

Filed 2004

Owner

PORT OF PITTSBURGH COMMISSION

Lab

AI components

1

kr

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10708449

An instrumented navigation system for aiding a towboat and barge configuration in the entry and traversal of a lock located on a waterway or for navigation around other structures, such as bridge piers or docks. The system consists of wirelessly linked computers on the towboat and the lock which display navigational charts showing the position of the tows as they approach and enter the locks. The computers are also linked to sensors which send information, such as the speed and position of the tows, to the computers for display.

AI classification

Knowledge representation0.61
AI hardware0.01
Natural language0.01
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Vision0.00
Machine learning0.00
Planning0.00

Ownership

PORT OF PITTSBURGH COMMISSION

assignment · 151420040

Assignors

BRAVO, ENRIQUE, BULATAO, JUANA VICTORIA, CHO, MIN CHEOL, GRACE, RICHARD, MUKHOPADHYAY, TRIDAS, PAN, GUOQIANG, VAN DEN AKKER, TY LEONARD

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