Patent ID: 11926483
Assignee: DAIFUKU CO., LTD.
Field: Semiconductors (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC B  H | IPC B

Claim 0:
1. An article transport facility comprising:
a plurality of article transport vehicles configured to travel along a specified travelable route and transport articles; and
a controller configured to control the article transport vehicles,
the controller setting a set route for causing the article transport vehicle to travel from a current position to a destination on the travelable route,
the article transport vehicles comprising, as operation states, a first state of traveling toward a transport destination that is a destination set for receiving an article or delivering an article, and a second state in which the transport destination has not been set,
wherein the controller divides an entirety of the travelable route into a plurality of set areas and executes imbalance reduction control to arrange a standby transport vehicle such that imbalance of densities of standby transport vehicles present in the plurality of set areas is within a predetermined range, and the standby transport vehicles are the article transport vehicles in the second state.