Patent ID: 8473116

Claim:
A traveling vehicle system comprising: a system server; a plurality of access points connected to the system server through a LAN; and a plurality of traveling vehicles arranged to communicate with the plurality of access points in each control cycle through wireless communication; wherein each control cycle includes an instruction time zone to provide instructions from the plurality of access points to the plurality of traveling vehicles, and a report time zone to provide reports from the plurality of traveling vehicles to the plurality of access points; the instruction time zone and the report time zone are separate periods of time; the plurality of access points include an instructing unit arranged to transmit a target position to the plurality of traveling vehicle in the instruction time zone; the plurality of traveling vehicles include a reporting unit to report a position to the plurality of access points in the report time zone; and the system server includes an instruction generator to determine the target positions of the plurality of traveling vehicles based on the position reported to the plurality of access points, the system server being configured to transmit the determined target positions to the plurality of access points.