摘要 |
PURPOSE:To effectively control automatically guided vehicles without causing them to collide with each other by combining the automatically guided vehicles, a computer network and a software system. CONSTITUTION:Activation instructions to the automatically guided vehicles are registered to a host computer HCP 11 by radio terminal equipment 12. The HCP 11 draws an automatically guide vehicle 1 nearest to an operation starting point and, simultaneously, in an unoccupied condition, from an automatically guide vehicle condition management table, executes a starting instruction, and updates a corresponding part to a '1'. Said vehicle 1 is started, is stopped at the branching point of a dividing zone C once, receives a proceeding direction instruction from the HCP 11, is stopped at an automatically guided vehicle stopping position, and executes a loading. Thereafter, the vehicle 1 is stopped at the branching point of the zone C again, proceeds straight by the proceeding direction instruction from the HCP 11 again, and a zone symbol is updated from the C to an E. In the same way, it proceeds from zone to zone in the sequence of zones E H J G I K N, is stopped, executes the loading, and transmits the completion to the HCP 11. |