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Date of Patent:
Oct. 23, 2018

Filed:

Feb. 03, 2017
Applicant:

B&r Industrial Automation Gmbh, Eggelsberg, AT;

Inventors:

Alexander Radak, Ebenau, AT;

Stefan Huber, Salzburg, AT;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/00 (2006.01); B60L 13/03 (2006.01); B65G 54/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B65G 43/00 (2013.01); B60L 13/03 (2013.01); B65G 54/02 (2013.01); B65G 2811/0673 (2013.01);
Abstract

In order to be able to plan and control the movement of a transportation unit of a conveying device along a conveying line more easily and more quickly, provision is made so that at least part of the conveying line () is assigned at least one logical sector (LSi), wherein the at least one logical sector (LSi) is allocated to one or more conveying segments (FSi) or parts thereof, a movement profile for the transportation unit (TEi) is allocated to the at least one logical sector (LSi), the transportation unit (TEi) is moved in accordance with the specified movement profiles along the at least one logical sector (LSi) and in doing so a new setpoint (S) of the movement is ascertained in each cycle step of the setpoint selection, and the setpoint (S) is transferred via the allocation to one or more conveying segments (FSi), or parts thereof, to the allocated conveying segment(s) (FSi) for adjustment.


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