Transport system
AssigneeMurata Machinery, Ltd.
InventorKazumi Harasaki
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Abstract
A transport system includes a transport vehicle to travel along a trajectory to transport an article, and a management controller configured or programmed to assign a transport command of the article to the transport vehicle and to include a route selector to select based on the transport command a route on which the transport vehicle travels such that a cost of the route from a departure point to a destination is reduced or minimized, a counter to count a number of transport vehicles entering a setting area in the trajectory, and an adjuster to increase the cost of the route passing through the setting area when a count aggregation value in which the number counted by the counter in an aggregation period is aggregated exceeds a first threshold.
Claims7
A transport system including a plurality of transport vehicles, the transport system comprising:
- a first transport vehicle to travel along a trajectory to transport an article;
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- a management controller configured or programmed to assign a transport command of the article to the first transport vehicle and to include:
- a route selector configured or programmed to select, based on the transport command, a route on which the first transport vehicle travels such that a cost of the route from a departure point to a destination is reduced or minimized;
- a counter configured or programmed to count each of the plurality of transport vehicles that passes through an entering route to a setting area in the trajectory to determine a total number of transport vehicles entering the setting area in the trajectory;
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- an adjuster configured or programmed to increase a cost of a route passing through the setting area when a count aggregation value in which the total number of the transport vehicles counted by the counter in an aggregation period is aggregated exceeds a first threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.