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Method of controlling automatic guided vehicle system

  • US 6,904,343 B2
  • Filed: 10/29/2002
  • Issued: 06/07/2005
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/04/2002
  • Status: Expired due to Fees
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1. A method of controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system, the AGV system having a plurality of AGVs, comprising:

  • setting a moving path of the AGVs with task performing times of all the AGVs taken into account; and

    controlling the AGVs according to the set moving path;

    wherein the setting the moving path comprises;

    calculating an order of a plurality of tasks to be performed;

    calculating respective costs required for the AGVs to perform all of the tasks;

    calculating a number of cases occurring by allocating the tasks to the AGVs;

    calculating respective total costs required for the AGVs to perform a corresponding task or corresponding task for each of the cases; and

    determining a smallest and largest value out of the respective total costs of the AGVs for each of the cases, and setting the moving path of the AGVs according to a case having the smallest value.

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