| Currently in the truck washing robotics manufacturing | | | | household feather duster could be deployed on a long |
| industry electronic optical flow sensors are not used. | | | | shaft with an optical flow sensor or for optical flow |
| Some of the newer systems use optical sensors but | | | | sensors, which were set back 6 feet equal distance |
| not optical flow sensors. The truck washing industry | | | | apart. The spinning brush would move forward and |
| also uses sonar sensors for soap float levels and | | | | back and clean between all the nooks and crannies. |
| other things but optical flow sensors have yet not | | | | Optical flow sensors are currently used in many |
| been deployed. | | | | industries especially unmanned vehicles such as |
| It would make sense that the robotic truck washing | | | | underwater unmanned vehicles, unmanned aerial |
| industry would look at optical flow sensors because | | | | vehicles and unmanned ground vehicles to ensure that |
| the current roll over systems do not seem to be able | | | | the vehicle does not bump into anything. The truck |
| to clean the truck more than about 90%. This is | | | | wash manufacturers to design and build robotic title |
| because the brushes that go over the truck cannot | | | | truck launches must use this technology to clean the |
| get into the nooks and crannies such as between the | | | | last 10% of the truck that they are currently unable to |
| fuel tank and frame or around the smokestacks. | | | | clean. Please consider all this in 2006. |
| A daisy wheel system, which would resemble a giant | | | | |