Patent ID: 11934201
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 0:
1. A system for use in directing transport of articles by computer-controlled vehicles, the system comprising a server, computer-controlled vehicles, a grid comprising grid cells for the computer-controlled vehicles to travel thereon, the server comprising a memory, a processor, and a routing engine, the system configured to:
assign, by the routing engine, travel routes about the grid for first and second computer-controlled vehicles to travel thereon for transporting first and second articles respectively;
allocate, by the routing engine, a time slot for a turning maneuver of a second computer-controlled vehicle at a second grid cell that is adjacent to a first grid cell such that the second computer-controlled vehicle does not undertake the turning maneuver during a period when the first computer-controlled vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver in the first grid cell.