Method of controlling transport vehicle in production factory, vehicle control device, and article transport system
AssigneeSemes Co., Ltd.
InventorJae Hyoung CHO
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Abstract
A method of controlling a transport vehicle in an article transport system in a production factory includes checking tasks for transporting articles, searching for routes for the respective tasks for a plurality of transport vehicles, calculating expected power consumption for the respective tasks of the transport vehicles, and assigning the tasks to the transport vehicles based on the expected power consumption for the respective tasks and remaining power of the transport vehicles.
Claims20
A method of controlling a transport vehicle in an article transport system in a production factory, the method comprising:
- checking tasks for transporting articles;
- searching for routes for the respective tasks for a plurality of transport vehicles;
- calculating expected power consumption for the respective tasks of the transport vehicles;
- and
- assigning the tasks to the transport vehicles based on the expected power consumption for the respective tasks and remaining power of the transport vehicles.
A vehicle control device for controlling a transport vehicle in an article transport system in a production factory, the vehicle control device comprising:
- a communication part configured to receive task information from a manufacturing control device and transmit a control signal to the transport vehicle;
- a processor configured to perform a calculation for controlling the transport vehicle;
- and
- a memory configured to store information for controlling the transport vehicle,
- wherein the processor is configured to:
- check tasks for transporting articles;
- search for routes for the respective tasks for a plurality of transport vehicles;
- calculate expected power consumption for the respective tasks of the transport vehicles;
- and
- assign the tasks to the transport vehicles based on the expected power consumption for the respective tasks and remaining power of the transport vehicles.
An article transport system for a production factory, the article transport system comprising:
- a manufacturing control device configured to create task information for transporting articles in the production factory;
- a vehicle control device configured to receive the task information from the manufacturing control device and assign tasks to transport vehicles;
- and
- the transport vehicles configured to transport the articles in accordance with the tasks assigned by the vehicle control device,
- wherein the vehicle control device is configured to:
- check tasks for transporting the articles;
- search for routes for the respective tasks for the plurality of transport vehicles;
- calculate expected power consumption for the respective tasks of the transport vehicles;
- and
- assign the tasks to the transport vehicles based on the expected power consumption for the respective tasks and remaining power of the transport vehicles.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.