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NL2008832C2 - A road control member retrieving and placing system, vehicle, and road control member retrieving and placing methods. - Google Patents

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NL2008832C2
NL2008832C2 NL2008832A NL2008832A NL2008832C2 NL 2008832 C2 NL2008832 C2 NL 2008832C2 NL 2008832 A NL2008832 A NL 2008832A NL 2008832 A NL2008832 A NL 2008832A NL 2008832 C2 NL2008832 C2 NL 2008832C2
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A road control member retrieving and placing system, vehicle, and road control member retrieving and placing methods
The invention relates to a road control member retrieving and placing system and a vehicle comprising such a road control member retrieving and placing system. The invention also relates to a method for retrieving road control members and a method for placing road control members 5
Road control member retrieving and placing systems are widely known in the prior art. Road control members, which are alternatively referred to as pylons or road signaling cones, are placed for example in case of roadworks or when a section of a road needs to be closed off in the case of an accident. Employing road control member retrieving and placing systems 10 ensures that individuals involved are not at risk from passing traffic when placing or removing road control members. However, the known systems are usually not satisfactory as will be explained below with reference to prior art disclosures.
Replacing manual operations by automated operations performed by a system or device is 15 only advantageous when the benefits of the replacement outweigh the disadvantages of such replacement. Benefits of automation may be increased speed, increased accuracy and/or increased safety, where disadvantages may be reduced reliability, reduced robustness and/or increased costs.
20 US patent publication US 5,525,021 discloses a vehicle including a road control member retrieving and placing system which is able to automatically place road control members and to automatically retrieve road control members. Only a driver for the vehicle is required.
Although US 5,525,021 claims to have disclosed a simple and reliable system, the disclosed 25 system comprises a lot of components and also needs to be adjusted extensively when changing between a road control member placing configuration as shown in Fig. 3 of US 5,525,021 and a road control member retrieving configuration as shown in Fig. 9 of US 5,525,021. As a result of the amount of components, the complexity of the system and the corresponding costs of the system, this system is not attractive to be used from an 30 economical point of view.
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The same can be said about the vehicle including road control member retrieving and placing system disclosed in international patent publication WO 2005/071167 A1, which also requires a lot of components, is complex and thus expensive.
5 US patent application US 2003/0147733 A1 discloses a simpler vehicle including a road control member retrieving system. The shown system uses a rotating arm which due to its size and the at least two portions extending on both sides of the rotation axis poses some safety issues. Further, oil and/or water present between the retrieving lug and a road control member may cause a road control member to uncontrollably disengage from the retrieving 10 lug. Another disadvantage is that this vehicle can not be used to easily place road control members.
Another relatively simple vehicle including a road control member retrieving system is disclosed in FR 2.832.435, in which the road control members are first toppled and then 15 picked up by an insertion member which is inserted into a bottom opening of the lying road control members and subsequently rotated to a vertical orientation. A disadvantage of this system that it is not suitable for placing road control members.
Another disadvantage, which also applies to the other disclosed systems, is that toppling the 20 road control members for retrieving them is done in an unreliable way, so that there is a risk that after toppling the road control member the orientation of the road control member is insufficient to pick up the road control member with the result that the road control member may be damaged or is not retrieved at all. This is especially the case when the road control member has a square base and none of the sides of the square base are aligned with 25 respect to a toppling portion of the system to act as pivoting axis during toppling. Current measures to reduce this risk have been unsatisfactory or complex.
Hence, it is desirable to provide a road control member retrieving and placing system which is more reliable. It is further desirable to provide a road control member retrieving and 30 placing system which is easy to use for both retrieving and placing road control members. It is also desirable to provide a road control member retrieving and placing system which is attractive from a cost point of view.
According to an embodiment of the invention, there is provided a road control member 35 retrieving and placing system according to claim 1.
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The toppling and erecting device may engage an upright road control member while being moved in one direction, thereby aligning the road control member with the toppling portion and the erecting portion using the guiding portion, so that subsequently the toppling portion can engage with an upper portion of the upright road control member to topple the road 5 control member. Toppling the road control member may result in engagement between a lower portion of the road control member with the erecting portion to guide the lower portion of the road control member during further toppling. At the end, the road control member has been moved to a lying orientation in which the road control member is ready to be picked up by the pick up and lay down device.
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When being moved in an opposite direction, the erecting portion of the toppling and erecting device may first engage with a bottom portion of a lying road control member, so that the lying road control member is erected by the erecting portion. Erecting the lying road control member may result in the road control member also engaging with the toppling portion to 15 guide the road control member during the erecting process. This allows the pick up and lay down device to lay down a road control member in a lying orientation which the toppling and erecting device can erect to an upright orientation.
It is thus not necessary for both the erecting portion and the toppling portion to always 20 engage with the road control member during toppling and erecting of the road control member. Hence, the toppling and erecting portion may also be configured such that during toppling of the road control member by the toppling portion the erecting portion only engages with the road control member to guide the road control member when the orientation of the road control member deviates too much from a desired orientation, and 25 such that during erecting of the road control member by the erecting portion the toppling portion only engages with the road control member to guide the road control member when the orientation of the road control member deviates too much from a desired orientation.
An advantage of the road control member retrieving and placing system is the configuration 30 of the toppling and erecting device which has a separate toppling portion and erecting portion cooperating during toppling and erecting, so that the orientation of the road control member after toppling or erecting is ensured and thus a more reliable system is provided.
Another advantage may be that the separate toppling and erecting portion allow the system 35 to be used in a similar manner for retrieving and placing as the operations for retrieving a road control member can simply be done in the reverse order to place the road control -4- member. This ensures an easy to use system during both retrieving and placing. No adaptations are required in order to change between retrieving and placing.
Another advantage may be that the less components and also less complex components 5 are required, so that the costs of the system can be relatively low.
In an embodiment, the insertion member has a substantial cone shape. This cone shape may be formed by a closed surface, but may for instance also be formed by multiple rods arranged such that together they define a cone shape.
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In an embodiment, the second frame comprises an alignment member to engage with a lower portion of a road control member in order to rotate the road control member about a longitudinal axis of the road control member to a desired position at least during toppling of the road control member. This alignment operation is preferably done while the road control 15 member is engaged by the toppling and erecting portion, so that the forces applied by the alignment member to the road control member do not result in an undesired displacement of the road control member, but only in rotation about the longitudinal axis. Hence, rotation of the road control member is done in a controlled manner. The desired position may be that a side of a square base of the road control member is arranged parallel to the ground surface, 20 so that the road control member is positioned in a stable orientation on the ground surface.
In an embodiment, the road control member retrieving and placing system comprises a sensor to detect a by the toppling and erecting device toppled road control member. This allows to automate the pick up of the road control member as the sensor will indicate 25 whether a road control member has been toppled by the toppling and erecting device and is ready for pick up.
In an embodiment, the road control member retrieving and placing system comprises a control unit configured to control the drive means based on an output of the sensor while 30 retrieving road control members. Additionally, the control unit may be configured to control the drive means based on a velocity of the vehicle as this allows to control the timing of the pick up operation, where the sensor indicates that the pick up operation is required to pick up a by the sensor detected road control member.
35 The invention also relates to a vehicle including a road control member retrieving and placing system according to the invention, wherein the toppling and erecting device and the -5- pick up and lay down device are aligned relative to each other to allow the retrieval and placement of road control members.
In an embodiment, the first and second frame are attachable to either side of the vehicle, so 5 that road control members can be retrieved and/or placed on a right or left side of the vehicle at the choice of the operator. This can for instance be implemented by providing a guiding system which allows to move the first and/or second frame between the two sides of the vehicle, wherein the first and/or second frame can be fixed in position relative to the guiding system during retrieving and placing. In an alternative embodiment, the first and/or 10 second frame are releasably mountable to the vehicle on both sides of the vehicle.
In an embodiment, the vehicle comprises a velocity sensor to detect the velocity of the vehicle, wherein the road control member retrieving and placing system comprises a control unit configured to control the drive means based on an output of the velocity sensor.
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The invention also relates to a method for retrieving an upright road control member according to claim 9.
In an embodiment, the method also comprises the following steps: 20 - detecting the presence of a road control member after being toppled by the toppling and erecting device; detecting the velocity of the vehicle; wherein picking up the lying road control member with the pick up and lay down device is controlled based on the detected presence of the road control member and the detected 25 velocity.
The invention also relates to a method for placing a road control member according to claim 11.
30 In an embodiment, the method also includes the step of detecting the velocity of the vehicle, wherein laying down a road control member with the pick up and lay down device is controlled based on the detected velocity of the vehicle.
The invention also relates to a road control member retrieving and placing system, which 35 when attached to a vehicle, is able to carry out the method for retrieving upright road control members according to the invention and/or the method for placing road control members according to the invention.
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The invention will now be described in a non-limiting way by reference to the accompanying drawings in which like parts are indicated by like reference symbols, and in which:
Fig. 1 depicts a schematic view of a vehicle including road control member retrieving 5 and placing system according to an embodiment of the invention;
Fig. 2 depicts a top view of the toppling and erecting device of the road control member retrieving and placing system of Fig. 1;
Figs. 3-9 depict different steps of a method to retrieve a road control member using the road control member retrieving and placing system.
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Fig. 1 schematically depicts a vehicle VE including a road control member retrieving and placing system RPS according to an embodiment of the invention, which road control member retrieving and placing system is attached to the vehicle VE to operate on a side of the vehicle, in this example on a right side of the vehicle VE. The road control member 15 retrieving and placing system may also be attached to the opposite, i.e. the left side, of the vehicle to operate on said opposite side. The components of the road control member retrieving and placing system may therefore be mountable to both sides of the vehicle and/or may be moveably mounted to the vehicle to be moved between the two sides of the vehicle.
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The road control member retrieving and placing system comprises a toppling and erecting device TED and a pick up and lay down device PLD.
The pick up and lay down device PLD comprises a first frame FF that is attached to the 25 vehicle VE. Rotatably mounted to the first frame is an arm RA, wherein the rotation of the arm RA about rotation axis AX is driven by drive means DM. The drive means are in this example embodied by a pneumatic or hydraulic cylinder arranged between the first frame FF and the rotatable arm RA, but it will be apparent to the skilled person in the art that any suitable drive means may be selected for this purpose.
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At a free end of the rotatable arm, an insertion member IM is provided for insertion into a bottom opening of a road control member. The insertion member IM in this example has a cone shape as this more or less matches with the inner shape of a cavity in the road control member. It will be apparent to the person skilled in the art that using other road control 35 members having a different inner shape of the cavity may require the use of a differently shaped insertion member.
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The rotatable arm RA is shown in two positions, namely a first position (shown in solid lines), in which the insertion member is able to be inserted into the bottom opening of a road control member that lies on the ground GR in a lying orientation, and a second position (shown in dashed lines), in which the insertion member is able to support a road control 5 member in an upright orientation. The second position allows a person on the vehicle to position a road control member on the insertion member during placing of road control members on the ground GR or to remove a picked up road control member from the insertion member during retrieving of road control members on the ground GR. Due to the road control member retrieving and placing system this can be done in a safe way without 10 requiring the person to lean out of the vehicle.
The toppling and erecting device TED comprises a second frame SF mounted to the vehicle VE and aligned with the pick up and lay down device PLD.
15 The second frame SF comprises a guide portion GP configured to engage with a middle portion of an upright road control member in order to capture said upright road control member and to align the road control member with a toppling portion TP and an erecting portion EP in a horizontal direction perpendicular to a normal traveling direction TD of the vehicle VE.
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The toppling portion TP is configured to engage with an upper portion of a road control member in order to topple the road control member from an upright orientation to a lying orientation or to guide the road control member during erecting of the road control member.
25 The erecting portion EP is configured to engage with a lower portion of a road control member in order to erect the road control member from a lying orientation to an upright orientation or to guide the road control member during toppling of the road control member.
The road control member retrieving and placing system may further be provided with a 30 sensor to detect a by the toppling and erecting device toppled road control member, e.g. a ultrasound transducer, wherein an output of the sensor can be used by a control unit to drive the drive means DM.
The vehicle VE may be configured with a velocity sensor to measure the velocity of the 35 vehicle relative to the ground GR, wherein an output of the velocity sensor may be used by the control unit to drive the drive means DM.
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Fig. 2 depicts a top view of the toppling and erecting device TED of the road control member retrieving and placing system RPS of Fig. 1. Shown is the second frame SE which is attached to the vehicle VE (not shown in Fig. 2).
5 Fig. 2 also clearly indicates the guide portion GP which is in this example formed by two fork elements FE that capture road control members RCM and guide, i.e. align, them with the toppling portion TP and erecting portion EP.
The road control member RCM usually has a square base B and on top of that square base 10 a pylon element P having a conical or frusto-conical shape. The guide portion GP engages with a middle portion of the road control member and thus engages with a portion of the road control member having a relatively large diameter as indicated by D1.
The toppling portion TP engages with an upper portion of a road control member as it is 15 provided at a higher level than the guide portion GP and thus engages with a portion of the road control member having a relatively small diameter as indicated by D2.
The erecting portion EP is provided on an opposite side of the toppling portion compared to the guide portion GP seen in traveling direction TD. The erecting portion EP will engage with 20 a lower portion of the road control member and in this case will thus engage with the square base B.
In the shown example of Fig. 2, the square base of the road control member is oriented such that the side facing away from the toppling and erecting device TED is parallel to the 25 horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction. In this way, toppling the road control member RCM with the toppling and erecting device will result in a reliable end orientation after toppling, because said side of the square base can be used as pivoting axis. However, when the road control member RCM is rotated about a longitudinal axis LA of the road control member such that none of the sides of the square base are parallel to said 30 horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction, toppling of the road control member may result in an unreliable end orientation or end position. To avoid this, the toppling and erecting device may be provided with an alignment member AM extending adjacent the erecting portion so that when the road control member is not in the desired orientation about the longitudinal axis, the alignment member AM engages with a side of the 35 base to move the road control member automatically to a desired orientation during toppling which results in a stable and reliable toppling process.
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Fig. 3-9 depict different steps of a method for retrieving a road control member. The method for retrieving a road control member comprising the steps: providing a vehicle with a toppling and erecting device and a pick up and lay down device (Fig. 3); 5 - moving the vehicle in a traveling direction thereby engaging a middle portion of the upright road control member with a guiding portion of the toppling and erecting device to align the road control member in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the traveling direction of the vehicle relative to a toppling portion and erecting portion of the toppling and erecting device (Fig. 4); 10 - moving the vehicle in the traveling direction thereby engaging an upper portion of the upright road control member with the toppling portion to topple the road control member (Fig. 5); - moving the vehicle in the traveling direction thereby engaging a lower portion of the upright road control member with the erecting portion during toppling of the road 15 control member to guide the road control member (Fig. 6 and 7); - moving the vehicle in the traveling direction until the road control member has moved from the upright orientation to a lying orientation (Fig. 8); and picking up the lying road control member with the pick up and lay down device (Fig.
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The abovementioned method will be explained in more detail below with reference to the Figs. 3-9.
Fig. 3 depicts the vehicle VE of Fig. 1 which is about to retrieve a road control member RCM.
25 To this end, the vehicle VE is driving in a negative traveling direction NTD, i.e. the vehicle is driving backwards. This is not necessary, but determined by the way the toppling and erecting device TED and the pick up and lay down device PLD are mounted to the vehicle. It is thus envisaged that the toppling and erecting device and the pick up and lay down device are mounted to the vehicle in a different way such that the vehicle has to drive forwards (in 30 an opposite direction to the negative traveling direction NTD) in order to retrieve road control members.
Fig. 4 depicts the vehicle VE in a situation in which the road control member RCM is captured in between the two fork elements FE (see Fig. 2) of the guiding portion GP of the 35 second frame SF of the toppling and erecting device TED. The guiding portion GP will guide the road control member towards the toppling portion TP and erecting portion EP by engaging with a middle portion of the road control member RCM.
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In Fig. 5, the toppling portion TP engages with an upper portion of the road control member RCM. The upper portion is situated above the center of gravity of the road control member, so that engagement between the toppling portion and the road control member will start to 5 topple the road control member as shown in Fig. 6. During toppling, the base B, i.e. the lower portion of the road control member, is guided by the erecting portion EP, which means that any deviation from a desired trajectory will result in engagement between the base and the erecting portion forcing the base to follow substantially the desired trajectory and thus resulting in a stable and reliable end position on the ground. It is also possible that the 10 erecting portion and the base B are always engaged with each other during at least a portion of the toppling process, so also in case the base is following the desired trajectory.
Fig. 7 depicts the situation in which the road control member has toppled a bit more than in Fig. 6, but is not yet in a lying orientation. Please note that the erecting portion is still guiding 15 the base B of the road control member. In Fig. 6 and 7 the base B of the road control member may engage with the alignment member AM of Fig. 2 in order to rotate the road control member about its longitudinal axis LA to a desired orientation, thereby ensuring a stable and reliable end position of the road control member on the ground GR.
20 In Fig. 8, the situation is shown that the road control member is lying on the ground after being toppled by the toppling and erecting device. A sensor SE is provided that detects the presence of the toppled road control member, for instance using ultrasound, light or any other suitable detection mechanism.
25 The output of the sensor SE may be provided to a control unit CU which drives the drive means DM in order to pick up the road control member from the ground. The sensor SE allows to only perform a pick up operation if a road control member is present.
The vehicle VE may further be provided with a velocity sensor to measure the velocity of the 30 vehicle relative to the ground, wherein an output of the velocity sensor can be provided to the control unit, so that the drive means can be operated in dependency of the velocity of the vehicle. This allows to control the timing of movement of the rotatable arm RA with respect to the relative position of the vehicle to the lying road control member.
35 Fig. 9 depicts the situation after picking up of the lying road control member. The insertion member has been inserted into a cavity of the road control member via a bottom opening and by rotating the rotatable arm to the second position, the road control member is -11 - supported by the insertion member in an upright orientation in which the road control member is ready to be removed from the insertion member by a user on the vehicle.
The Figs. 3-9 also depict the different steps of a method for placing road control members 5 on the ground GR, but in that case the order of the Figures is reversed. The method includes the following steps: providing a vehicle with a toppling and erecting device and a pick up and lay down device (Fig. 9); - laying down a road control member with the pick up and lay down device, wherein 10 the road control member is laid down in a lying orientation (Fig. 8); moving the vehicle in a traveling direction thereby engaging a lower portion of the road control member with an erecting portion of the toppling and erecting device to erect the road control member (Fig. 7); moving the vehicle in the traveling direction thereby engaging the upper portion of 15 the road control member with a toppling portion of the toppling and erecting device during erecting of the road control member to guide the road control member (Figs. 6 and 7); moving the vehicle in the traveling direction until the road control member has moved from the lying orientation to an upright orientation (Figs. 3, 4 and 5).
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To this end, the vehicle needs to move in a positive traveling direction (indicated only in Fig.
3) which is opposite to the negative traveling direction. The method may also include a person manually putting a road control member on the insertion member when the rotatable arm is in the second position (Fig. 9).
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It will be apparent to the person skilled in the art that the shown embodiments are merely examples of the invention and that other embodiment may also fall within the scope of the invention.

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Een wegregelelement ophaal- en plaatsingssysteem voor plaatsing op een voertuig, omvattende: 5. een kantel- en oprichtinrichting; - een oppak- en neerleginrichting; waarbij de oppak- en neerleginrichting omvat: - een eerste frame voor bevestiging aan het voertuig, zodat de oppak- en neerleginrichting is uitgelijnd ten opzichte van de kantel- en oprichtinrichting; 10. een roteerbare arm; - aandrijfmiddelen voor het aandrijven van de rotatie van de arm; en - een inbrengelement voor opname in een bodemopening van een wegregelelement; waarbij de roteerbare arm roteerbaar is vastgemaakt aan het eerste frame met 15 een uiteinde van de roteerbare arm, waarbij het inbrengelement is vastgemaakt aan het andere uiteinde van de arm, en waarbij de aandrijfmiddelen zijn ingericht om rotatie van de arm aan te drijven ten opzichte van het eerste frame tussen een eerste positie, waarin het inbrengelement in een bodemopening van een liggend wegregelelement kan worden ingebracht, en een tweede positie, waarin het 20 inbrengelement een wegregelelement kan dragen in een staande oriëntatie, waarbij de kantel- en oprichtinrichting een tweede frame omvat voor bevestiging aan het voertuig, met het kenmerk, dat het tweede frame omvat: - een geleidingsdeel; - een kanteldeel; en 25. een oprichtdeel, waarbij het geleidingsdeel is ingericht om aan te grijpen op een middelste deel van een staand wegregelelement om het staande wegregelelement in te vangen en om het wegregelelement uit te lijnen ten opzichte van het kanteldeel en het oprichtdeel in een horizontale richting loodrecht op een rijrichting van het voertuig, 30 waarbij het kanteldeel is ingericht om aan te grijpen op een bovenste deel van een staand wegregelelement om het wegregelelement te kantelen van een staande oriëntatie naar een liggende oriëntatie of om het wegregelelement te geleiden tijdens het oprichten van het wegregelelement, waarbij het oprichtdeel is ingericht om aan te grijpen op een onderste deel van een 35 wegregelelement om het wegregelelement op te richten van een liggende oriëntatie naar een staande oriëntatie of om het wegregelelement te geleiden tijdens het kantelen van het wegregelelement. -13-A road control element retrieval and placement system for placement on a vehicle, comprising: 5. a tilting and erecting device; - a picking and laying device; wherein the pick-up and lay-down device comprises: - a first frame for attachment to the vehicle, so that the pick-up and lay-down device is aligned with respect to the tilting and raising device; 10. a rotatable arm; - driving means for driving the rotation of the arm; and - an insertion element for receiving in a bottom opening of a road control element; wherein the rotatable arm is rotatably attached to the first frame with one end of the rotatable arm, the insertion member being attached to the other end of the arm, and wherein the drive means are adapted to drive rotation of the arm relative to the first frame between a first position, in which the insertion element can be inserted into a bottom opening of a horizontal path control element, and a second position, in which the insertion element can carry a path control element in a standing orientation, wherein the tilting and erecting device comprises a second frame for attachment to the vehicle, characterized in that the second frame comprises: - a guide part; - a tilting part; and 25. an erecting member, the guiding member being adapted to engage a middle part of a standing road control element to capture the upright road control element and to align the road control element with respect to the tilting part and the erecting part perpendicularly in a horizontal direction on a driving direction of the vehicle, the tilting part being adapted to engage an upper part of a standing road control element to tilt the road control element from a standing orientation to a horizontal orientation or to guide the road control element during the erection of the road control element wherein the erecting member is adapted to engage a lower portion of a path control element to raise the path control element from a horizontal orientation to a standing orientation or to guide the path control element during tilting of the path control element. -13- 2. Een wegregelelement ophaal- en plaatsingssysteem volgens conclusie 1, waarbij het inbrengelement een in hoofdzaak conische vorm heeft.A path control element retrieval and placement system according to claim 1, wherein the introducer element has a substantially conical shape. 3. Een wegregelelement ophaal- en plaatsingssysteem volgens conclusie 1, waarbij het tweede frame een uitlijnelement omvat om aan te grijpen op een onderste deel 5 van een wegregelelement om het wegregelelement te roteren rond een langsas van het wegregelelement naar een gewenste oriëntatie tijdens het kantelen van het wegregelelement.A road control element retrieval and placement system according to claim 1, wherein the second frame comprises an alignment element for engaging a lower part of a road control element to rotate the road control element about a longitudinal axis of the road control element to a desired orientation during tilting of the road control element. 4. Een wegregelelement ophaal- en plaatsingssysteem volgens conclusie 1, omvattende een sensor voor het detecteren van een door de kantel- en 10 oprichtinrichting gekanteld wegregelelement.4. A road control element retrieval and placement system according to claim 1, comprising a sensor for detecting a road control element tilted by the tilting and erecting device. 5. Een wegregelelement ophaal- en plaatsingssysteem volgens conclusie 4, omvattende een regeleenheid ingericht voor het regelen van de aandrijfmiddelen op basis van een uitgangssignaal van de sensor tijdens het ophalen van wegregelelementen.A path control element retrieval and placement system according to claim 4, comprising a control unit adapted to control the drive means on the basis of an output signal from the sensor during the retrieval of path control elements. 6. Een voertuig met een wegregelelement ophaal- en plaatsingssysteem volgens conclusie 1, waarbij de kantel- en ophaalinrichting en de oppak- en neerleginrichting ten opzichte van elkaar zijn uitgelijnd.A vehicle with a road control element retrieval and placement system according to claim 1, wherein the tilt and retrieval device and the retrieval and depositing device are aligned relative to each other. 7. Een voertuig volgens conclusie 6, waarbij het eerste en tweede frame vastgemaakt kunnen worden aan beide zijden van het voertuig.A vehicle according to claim 6, wherein the first and second frame can be attached to both sides of the vehicle. 8. Een voertuig volgens conclusie 6, omvattende een snelheidssensor voor het detecteren van de snelheid van het voertuig, waarbij het wegregelelement ophaaien plaatsingssysteem een regeleenheid omvat die is ingericht om de aandrijfmiddelen te regelen op basis van een uitgangssignaal van de snelheidssensor.A vehicle as claimed in claim 6, comprising a speed sensor for detecting the speed of the vehicle, wherein the road-control element pick-up placement system comprises a control unit which is adapted to control the drive means on the basis of an output signal from the speed sensor. 9. Een werkwijze voor het ophalen van een staand wegregelelement, waarbij de werkwijze de volgende stappen omvat: a. het verschaffen van een voertuig met een kantel- en oprichtinrichting en een oppak- en neerleginrichting; b. het bewegen van het voertuig in een rijrichting waardoor aangegrepen 30 wordt op een middelste deel van het staande wegregelelement door een geleidingsdeel van de kantel- en oprichtinrichting om het wegregelelement uit te lijnen ten opzichte van een kanteldeel en een oprichtdeel van de kantel- en oprichtinrichting in een horizontale richting loodrecht op de rijrichting; 35 c. het bewegen van het voertuig in de rijrichting waardoor aangegrepen wordt op een bovenste deel van het staande wegregelelement door het kanteldeel om het wegregelelement te kantelen; - 14- d. het bewegen van het voertuig in de rijrichting waardoor aangegrepen wordt op een onderste deel van het staande wegregelelement door het oprichtdeel tijdens het kantelen van het wegregelelement om het wegregelelement te geleiden; 5 e. het bewegen van het voertuig in de rijrichting totdat het wegregelelement is bewogen van de staande oriëntatie naar een liggende oriëntatie; f. het oppakken van het liggende wegregelelement met de oppak- en neerleginrichting.A method for retrieving a standing road control element, the method comprising the steps of: a. Providing a vehicle with a tilt and raise device and a pick up and drop device; b. moving the vehicle in a driving direction engaging a middle part of the standing road control element by a guide part of the tilting and erecting device to align the road control element with respect to a tilting part and an erecting part of the tilting and erecting device in a horizontal direction perpendicular to the direction of travel; 35 c. moving the vehicle in the direction of travel, thereby engaging an upper part of the standing road control element through the tilting part to tilt the road control element; - 14- d. moving the vehicle in the direction of travel thereby engaging a lower part of the standing road control element by the erecting part during tilting of the road control element to guide the road control element; 5 e. moving the vehicle in the direction of travel until the road control element has moved from the standing orientation to a horizontal orientation; f. picking up the horizontal road control element with the picking and depositing device. 10. Een werkwijze volgens conclusie 9, verder omvattende de stappen: 10. het detecteren van de aanwezigheid van een wegregelelement na gekanteld te zijn door de kantel- en oprichtinrichting; - het detecteren van de snelheid van het voertuig; waarbij het oppakken van het liggende wegregelelement met de oppak- en neerleginrichting wordt geregeld op basis van de gedetecteerde aanwezigheid van 15 het wegregelelement en de gedetecteerde snelheid.A method according to claim 9, further comprising the steps of: 10. detecting the presence of a path control element after being tilted by the tilting and erecting device; - detecting the speed of the vehicle; wherein picking up the horizontal road control element with the pick-up and lay-down device is controlled on the basis of the detected presence of the road control element and the detected speed. 11. Een werkwijze voor het plaatsen van een wegregelelement, waarbij de werkwijze de volgende stappen omvat: a. het verschaffen van een voertuig met een kantel- en oprichtinrichting en een oppak- en neerleginrichting; 20 b. het neerleggen van een wegregelelement met de oppak- en neerleginrichting, waarbij het wegregelelement wordt neergelegd in een liggende oriëntatie; c. het bewegen van het voertuig in een rijrichting waardoor aangegrepen wordt op een onderste deel van het wegregelelement door een oprichtdeel 25 van de kantel- en oprichtinrichting om het wegregelelement op te richten; d. het bewegen van het voertuig in de rijrichting waardoor aangegrepen wordt op een bovenste deel van het wegregelelement door een kanteldeel van de kantel- en oprichtinrichting om het wegregelelement te geleiden tijdens het oprichten; en 30 e. het bewegen van het voertuig in de rijrichting totdat het wegregelelement bewogen is van een liggende oriëntatie tot een staande oriëntatie.A method for placing a road control element, the method comprising the steps of: a. Providing a vehicle with a tilting and erecting device and a picking and depositing device; B. depositing a path control element with the picking and depositing device, wherein the path control element is laid down in a horizontal orientation; c. moving the vehicle in a direction of travel whereby engaging a lower part of the road control element by an erecting part 25 of the tilting and erecting device to erect the road control element; d. moving the vehicle in the direction of travel thereby engaging an upper part of the road control element through a tilting part of the tilting and erecting device to guide the road control element during erecting; and 30 e. moving the vehicle in the direction of travel until the road control element has moved from a horizontal orientation to a vertical orientation. 12. Een werkwijze volgens conclusie 11, verder omvattende de stap van het detecteren van de snelheid van het voertuig, waarbij het neerleggen van het wegregelelement wordt geregeld op basis van de gedetecteerde snelheid van het 35 voertuig.12. A method according to claim 11, further comprising the step of detecting the speed of the vehicle, wherein the depositing of the road control element is controlled on the basis of the detected speed of the vehicle.
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