Automated parking makes debut
By Staff -- Modern Materials Handling, 3/1/1999
Fully automated parking garages are more than just a concept here in the U.S.Robotic Parking Inc. has developed a modular automated parking system (MAPS) using a patented robotics-based system for storing and retrieving cars based on enhanced automated warehousing technology.
The 56 ft tall, 324 space garage will be built on a 10,000 sq ft lot in Hoboken, N.J.
General Electric will supply the motor, and motion controls. The operating software platform for the computer system and fabrication of all machines and modules are done by in-house GE specialists.
The system is easy to use. A driver pulls into a bay and inserts a card into a computer. All cars are transported to and stored in available slots on individual steel pallets.
When the driver needs to retrieve the car, the card is inserted into the computer and a code is punched in. The car is then delivered to the bay.
Space compartments are located left to right, from the floor to the ceiling. Shuttles and carriers on rails move in the aisles between compartments.
MAPS provides the separation of the three internal movements-laterally in the aisles, in/out of the storage bays, and up/down of the vertical lift into autonomous operating modules. Multiple movements can occur in the structure simultaneously on various floors.
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