Autonomous vehicle always facing target direction at end of run and control method thereof
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Oct 24, 2000
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Feb 27, 1998
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Feb 28, 1997
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An autonomous vehicle includes a chassis, pair of drive wheels, a motor for driving these drive wheels, a gyrosensor provided at the chassis for detecting a direction of the chassis, and a travel control unit responsive to an output of the gyrosensor at the end of a travel of a predetermined run indicating difference from a target direction for providing control of the rotation amount of the drive wheels so that the direction of the chassis is corrected by a predetermined amount to be aligned with the target direction. A method of controlling this autonomous vehicle is also disclosed.
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