Patent ID: 9592836
Date: 2017-03-14
CPC Classifications: B61B,B61L,G06Q

Claim:
1. A travelling vehicle system comprising: a track; a travelling vehicle which travels on the track and has a travelling vehicle controller for controlling driving of the travelling vehicle; a switching device which switches a state of the track in a switching region; and a host controller which can communicate with the travelling vehicle and the switching device and manages the travelling vehicle, wherein the switching device includes a switching unit which is provided in the switching region and switches the state of the track, a detector which detects the state of the track in the switching region, a report device which is arranged along the track from the switching region toward an upstream side of the track and reports switching information showing the state of the track detected by the detector, and a switching controller which controls the switching unit based on an instruction from the host controller, the host controller includes a switching instruction part which instructs the switching controller to switch the state of the track based on a request from the travelling vehicle controller, and a permission issuing part which issues to the travelling vehicle controller a passage permission of the switching region, and the travelling vehicle controller includes a travelling control part which determines whether or not the travelling vehicle stops before the switching region based on the passage permission from the host controller and the switching information from the report device.