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APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR CONTROLLING TRAVEL OF VEHICLES

  • US 20120330540A1
  • Filed: 11/08/2010
  • Published: 12/27/2012
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/09/2009
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A travel control apparatus for unmanned vehicles, which causes a plurality of unmanned vehicles to travel along respective travel routes, comprising:

  • a reservation-requested route generation section which generates, for respective vehicles, reservation-requested routes that are parts of travel routes from current positions to travel stop positions and that have, as terminal positions, positions which do not interfere with an interference region on a map and terminal positions of reservation-requested routes for other vehicles,a deadlock judgment section which judges for respective vehicles that the reservation-requested route for the own vehicle does not interfere with already reserved routes for the other vehicles, and that deadlock does not occur when it is assumed that an already reserved route, which has the reservation-requested route for the own vehicle already reserved, is generated,an already reserved route generation section which generates the already reserved route with the reservation-requested route for the own vehicle already reserved, anda travel control section which controls respective vehicles to travel from current positions to terminal positions of already reserved routes.

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