Transportation robot control system for warehouse system and control method

A method for controlling a transportation robot in a warehouse system that stores items in a rack and includes a plurality of transportation robots for transporting the items stored, the method comprising:

• a central wireless communication step of wirelessly communicating with the transportation robots in a specific region of the warehouse system;
• an individual wireless communication step of wirelessly communicating with the transportation robots;
• and
• individual control steps of respectively controlling movements of the transportation robots,
• wherein the individual wireless communication step includes
• information reading steps that are respectively performed in the transportation robots and
• a plurality of information holding steps that are respectively performed in a plurality of positions in the rack,
• each of the information holding steps is to hold position information indicating a position of the information holding step in the rack and
• each of the information reading steps is to read position information held by the information holding steps.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a processor instruction,

• wherein when the processor instruction is executed by one or more processors, the one or more processors are caused to perform, in a warehouse system that stores items in a rack and includes a plurality of transportation robots for transporting the items stored,
• a central wireless communication step of wirelessly communicating with the transportation robots in a specific region of the warehouse system,
• an individual wireless communication step of wirelessly communicating with the transportation robots and
• individual control steps of respectively controlling movements of the transportation robots,
• wherein the individual wireless communication step includes
• information reading steps that are respectively performed in the transportation robots and
• a plurality of information holding steps that are respectively performed in a plurality of positions in the rack,
• each of the information holding steps is to hold position information indicating a position of the information holding step in the rack and
• each of the information reading steps is to read position information held by the information holding steps.