Patent ID: 11904917
Assignee: MIRLE AUTOMATION CORPORATION
Field: Transport (Mechanical engineering)
Classification: CPC B | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An anti-collision control method applicable in a rail vehicle control system, wherein the rail vehicle control system includes a control apparatus, a plurality of vehicles, and a plurality of rails, and the control apparatus is configured to control each of the plurality of vehicles to move along one of the plurality of rails and to implement the anti-collision control method to prevent the plurality of vehicles moving on the plurality of rails from colliding with each other, the anti-collision control method comprising:
a transfer requirement receiving step implemented by receiving a transfer requirement data;
a deciding step implemented by deciding which one of the plurality of vehicles is to move along which one of the plurality of rails according to the transfer requirement data, wherein one of the plurality of vehicles assigned to move along one of the plurality of rails is defined as an assigned vehicle, and at least one of the plurality of rails that the assigned vehicle is assigned to move on is defined as an assigned rail;
a path planning step implemented by planning a movement path and a movement space according to the transfer requirement data and a vehicle dimension data of the assigned vehicle, wherein the movement space is a sum of a plurality of spaces occupied by the assigned vehicle when the assigned vehicle moves according to the movement path on the assigned rail; and
a determining step implemented by determining whether any portion of the movement space is reserved;
in response to any portion of the movement space being reserved, a stop step is implemented, and the stop step is implemented by controlling the assigned vehicle to not move; and
in response to any portion of the movement space being not reserved, a reserving step and a moving step are implemented;
the reserving step is implemented by reserving the movement space; and
the moving step is implemented by controlling the assigned vehicle to move according to the movement path along the at least one assigned rail,

wherein, when the assigned vehicle moves to an assigned position according to the movement path, the control apparatus releases the movement space, so as to enable the movement space to be reserved.