Patent ID: 11952024
Assignee: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B  H

Claim 0:
1. A transportation facility comprising:
a plurality of transport vehicles each configured to move in a forward direction along a transport path set in advance, and transport an article;
a plurality of transfer target locations arranged on the transport path, and each configured to serve as a target location to/from which the article is transferred; and
a controller configured to, when a task requiring a transport of the article by a transport vehicle occurs, output a movement command specifying one of the plurality of transfer target locations as a destination to each of the plurality of transport vehicles,
wherein the controller outputs, to each of the plurality of transport vehicles, a forward movement command for moving in the forward direction along the transport path toward the destination, and a reverse movement command for moving in a reverse direction along the transport path toward the destination, and
when a target task occurs as the task, the controller determines a transport vehicle to execute the target task from among the plurality of transport vehicles as candidates to execute the target task, while also including, as one of the candidates to execute the target task, a transport vehicle located on a downstream side of the transport path relative to the destination, at a timing when the target task occurs.