Sharp Kabushiki Kaisha Corporation

Naohisa Tsutada

Eiji Kurimoto

Kazushi Horita

A picking system includes a management apparatus, wireless communicator-indicators, an autonomous transport device, and a local-area wireless communication device. The management apparatus transmits picking-instruction information to the autonomous transport device via the local-area wireless communication device. The autonomous transport device receives the picking-instruction information and moves to a target storage position, which is one of storages positions where one or more picking items specified by the picking-instruction information are stored. In a state in which the autonomous transport device has reached a position within a communication range of a target wireless communicator-indicator, which is one of the wireless communicator-indicators disposed so as to correspond to the target storage position, the autonomous transport device transmits an indication instruction to the target wireless communicator-indicator. The target wireless communicator-indicator receives the indication instruction and indicates the target storage position to the operator.

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Sakai, Japan

Naohisa Tsutada