Control for automated guided vehicles

摘要

In a fully automatic control system for guiding vehicles conveying articles along a production line comprising a first travel path loop 5 and a second travel path loop 4, along which a first group and a second group respectively of the vehicles travel, a common travel path is provided along which the vehicles of both groups travel, to enable a transfer of articles between the groups of automated guided vehicles. A correlating unit for correlates a vehicle of the first group with another vehicle of the second group to ensure that the components on each are compatible and to prevent collisions on the common travel path. A transfer control unit controls the transfer of the articles between the vehicles only if the vehicles are correlated with each other by the correlating unit. ……