Shinko Electric Company, Ltd.

Hidemitsu Tabata

Teppei Yamashita

Masanori Onishi

Masanao Murata

Yuji Nishikawa

A moving robot system, employing a charging control system for robots, is configured by plural moving robots, at least one charging station and a control station. Each moving robot is designed to perform an operation thereof in accordance with programs stored therein under control of the control station. When the power of a charging-type-battery equipped in each moving robot is consumed and lowered to the predetermined level, it automatically moves to its nearest charging station designated by the control station other than the charging station which is used for another moving robot. In this case, the control station controls the moving robots such that plural moving robots are not simultaneously concentrated to one charging station.

Charging control system for moving robot system

A self-contained unmanned vehicle (robot car) is designed to be capable of independently traveling, on the basis of previously specified geographic data, to convey parts, finished products, etc. etc. in a factory or similar, and achieves fine travel position control while simultaneously reducing the X memory capacity for the geographic data and ensures easy preparation and entry of geographic data and facilitates the comprehensibility of the contents of the geographic data. The vehicle includes: a first memory for storing the coordinate data of the node located on the traversable travel path; a second memory for storing the geographic data consisting of operation codes indicating the travel path conditions, and a scene command with the main operands denoting the continuous distance of the travel path under these operation codes; a decision-making unit for determining the path to be traversed by establishing the nodes to be traversed by the unmanned vehicle on its approach towards the designated target location; and a travel control section for controlling the travel movement of the unmanned vehicle on the basis of scene commands in accordance with the pre-set sequence in which the predetermined nodes are to be traversed; and, furthermore, a geographic data inputting device for entering the geographic data; and a geographic data display for displaying, during the input operation to enter the georgaphic data with the geographic data input device, line segments whose length corresponds to the value of the main operand, by means of a line type previously set in accordance with the operation code type.

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Hidemitsu Tabata