Transportation Vehicle System and Charging Method for the Transportation Vehicle System
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Abstract
A plurality of transportation vehicles travel with power from an energy storage member along a predetermined travel route under control of a ground controller. A charging area having charging equipment for charging the energy storage member of the transportation vehicle is provided in the travel route, and the transportation vehicles report a position and remaining capacity of the energy storage member to the ground controller. The ground controller controls a transportation vehicle having remaining capacity of a threshold value or less to travel to the charging area for charging the energy storage member, and controls transportation vehicles in the charging area to travel to positions outside the charging area in accordance with transportation requests.
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7. A transportation vehicle system for running a plurality of transportation vehicles having an energy storage member as a power supply under control of a ground controller along a predetermined travel route, wherein
a charging area having charging equipment for the energy storage member of the transportation vehicles is provided in the travel route, the transportation vehicles have means for reporting positions and remaining capacities to the ground controller, and the ground controller has a charge control unit controlling the transportation vehicles having the remaining capacities of the energy storage member not more than a threshold value to travel to the charging area for charging the energy storage members and a vehicle placement control unit for controlling the transportation vehicles in the charging area to travel to positions outside the charging area.
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