Unmanned traveling vehicle, travel system, and method for controlling unmanned traveling vehicle

A traveling system, comprising:

• an acquirer to acquire strength information transmitted by a communicator of an unmanned traveling vehicle, the strength information indicating a reception strength of a radio wave from a base station and a current position of the unmanned traveling vehicle acquired by a position acquirer of the unmanned traveling vehicle;
• an updater to update at least one of position information and channel information based on the reception strength and the current position included in the strength information acquired by the acquirer;
• and
• a transmitter to transmit the at least one of the position information and the channel information updated by the updater to the unmanned traveling vehicle;
• wherein
• the unmanned traveling vehicle includes:
• a block information acquirer to acquire the position information and the channel information, the position information being information on blocks each of which is a range of positions in an area within which the unmanned traveling vehicle is allowed to travel, the channel information indicating a wireless channel available inside each of the blocks;
• the position acquirer to acquire the current position of the unmanned traveling vehicle;
• a determiner to identify, with reference to the position information, a block including the current position acquired by the position acquirer from among the blocks, and determine, with reference to the channel information, a wireless channel to be used for wireless communication inside the block identified;
• and
• the communicator to perform the wireless communication using the wireless channel determined by the determiner and indicated by the channel information;
• the block information acquirer acquires, as the channel information, channel information indicating two or more wireless channels available inside each of the blocks;
• the determiner determines, with reference to the channel information, two or more wireless channels to be used for the wireless communication inside the block identified:
• the communicator includes two or more wireless interfaces, and performs the wireless communication using the two or more wireless channels determined by the determiner through the two or more wireless interfaces;
• the communicator transmits the strength information to the acquirer;
• and
• the block information acquirer acquires, as the position information and the channel information, the position information and the channel information that are updated by the updater.

A method for controlling an unmanned traveling vehicle, the method comprising:

• acquiring position information and channel information, the position information being information on blocks each of which is a range of positions in an area within which the unmanned traveling vehicle is allowed to travel, the channel information indicating a wireless channel available inside each of the blocks;
• acquiring a current position of the unmanned traveling vehicle;
• identifying, with reference to the position information, a block including the current position acquired in the acquiring of the current position from among the blocks;
• determining, with reference to the channel information, a wireless channel to be used for wireless communication inside the block identified;
• performing the wireless communication by the wireless channel determined in the determining and indicated by the channel information;
• wherein
• channel information indicating two or more wireless channels available inside each of the blocks is acquired as the channel information;
• with reference to the channel information, two or more wireless channels to be used for the wireless communication inside the block identified are determined;
• and
• the wireless communication is performed using the two or more wireless channels through two or more wireless interfaces.