Patent ID: 11953915
Assignee: VANDERLANDE INDUSTRIES B.V.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for intralogistic transport of products, comprising
a number of vehicles, each vehicle being provided with an on-board control device for managing movement of the vehicle over a floor within a movement area, and with a carrying member that is designed at least to carry a product, wherein each vehicle is designed to turn on a vertical turning axis which, viewed from above, lies within periphery of the vehicle where, viewed from above, there is a maximum distance amax between the vertical turning axis and a point on the periphery of the vehicle, which point is located the furthest from the vertical turning axis in comparison with other points on the periphery; and
a central control device that is designed to transmit a control signal to the on-board control devices, wherein the on-board control devices are designed to receive the control signals, wherein the central control device and/or the on-board control device of at least a portion of the number of vehicles comprise a digitized grid of grid points that represents the movement area or at least a portion thereof, which grid points are arranged at least partially according to a hexagonal pattern where the distance between an interlying grid point located away from the periphery of the movement area and any one of the neighbouring grid points that neighbour the grid point in question is equal to distance d, which distance d is greater than 2.0 times the maximum distance amax, where three directional lines are determined such that each of the directional lines runs straight through two neighbouring grid points located directly opposite one another relative to the interlying grid point;
wherein the central control device and/or the on-board control device of at least a portion of the number of vehicles are designed to move a vehicle from a first grid point to a second grid point within a strip that runs between the first grid point and the second grid point, where the direct connecting line between the first grid point and the second grid point does not run parallel to one of the three directional lines, which strip consists of at least two mutually connected straight strip portions, each of which runs parallel to one of the three directional lines.