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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 28, 2017
Filed:
Oct. 07, 2015
Murata Machinery, Ltd., Kyoto-shi, Kyoto, JP;
Kazumi Harasaki, Inuyama, JP;
MURATA MACHINERY, LTD., Kyoto, JP;
Abstract
A travelling vehicle system additionally sets a waiting point such that a number of waiting points is equal to a number of empty travelling vehicles present on a travelling route upon detection of an empty travelling vehicle. The system searches a route from a start point to an end point when the additionally set one waiting point is taken as the start point and a position of one empty travelling vehicle is taken as the end point, the one empty travelling vehicle being detected by a detection portion and not waiting at the waiting point. The system allocates to the other empty travelling vehicle the travelling command to move to the one waiting point and allocates to the one empty travelling vehicle the travelling command to move to the other waiting point which becomes empty by movement of the other empty travelling vehicle.