JP2012051686A - Method for controlling movement of moving body - Google Patents

Abstract

【Task】
Control related to the transportation of articles (moving objects) in a warehouse or the like requires the operation of the person in charge according to the output slip. That is, the subject that a person in charge takes time will arise. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to control transportation with high accuracy while omitting this effort.
[Solution]
In the present invention, a reader function in which a manufacturing number code of an article is associated with time-space information indicating time and space related to the article in advance, and the manufacturing number code recorded on a tag attached to the article is installed on the mobile body Read by. Then, using the read production number code as a key, the business information of the article indicated by the production number code is specified, and the movement (destination) of the moving body is controlled using this and the spatiotemporal information.
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Description

  The present invention is for controlling a moving body (forklift or the like) that transports an article in a factory, a warehouse, or the like. Among them, in particular, information read from a tag by a reader is used.

  Currently, when goods are transported in factories and the like, transport is controlled in consideration of the next process, delivery schedule, and the like.

  For example, Patent Document 1 adopts the following configuration for the purpose of automating work instructions from a person in charge of packing to a person in charge of transportation that have been performed manually in conventional process management. That is, the work management unit 2 performs the delivery of the work in progress from the work in progress storage warehouse 11 based on the delivery plan, and transmits the delivery results and each data of the delivery plan, and the delivery plan and the delivery results. Based on each data, the packing product number and the packing planned quantity are discriminated, and the transporting quantity of the transporting machine 17 to the product storage warehouse 18 is set once, and every time the packing quantity in the packing line 15 becomes the transporting quantity, Based on the packing management unit 3 that transmits the matching data and the packing record data, the data such as the packing product number and the packing planned quantity based on the shipping record, and the storage data from the storage management unit 5, A transport management unit 4 that determines a storage location and outputs a slip 8 indicating the storage location to a person in charge of the transporter 17 each time the matching data from the packing management unit 3 is received. It is obtain things.

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  However, in Patent Document 1, an operation of a person in charge is required in accordance with the output slip. That is, the subject that a person in charge takes time will arise. Therefore, an object of the present invention is to control transportation with high accuracy while omitting this effort.

  In the present invention, a reader function in which a manufacturing number code of an article is associated with time-space information indicating time and space related to the article in advance, and the manufacturing number code recorded on a tag attached to the article is installed on the mobile body Read by. Then, using the read production number code as a key, the business information of the article indicated by the production number code is specified, and the movement (destination) of the moving body is controlled using this and the spatiotemporal information.

  According to the present invention, it is possible to automatically control movement (transport) by a moving body.

It is a figure which shows the system configuration | structure and control flow (outline) in one Embodiment of this invention.

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below.
First, the preconditions for the processing of this embodiment will be described. In the present embodiment, inventory management and receipt / shipment management of articles (goods) are performed in a warehouse using a so-called computer such as a server. And the conveyance of the articles | goods in a warehouse is performed by the mobile body 02. FIG. This movement control of the moving body 02 is executed in this embodiment. The movement (transportation) of the mobile body 02 is controlled according to business information indicating the business such as the delivery destination of the article.

  Each article (individual) is attached with a tag in which a production number code for identifying the article is recorded. This tag includes a so-called barcode, a two-dimensional barcode, and an RFID tag. Each serial number code is stored in association with spatiotemporal information (location information) in the server described above. In other words, it can be expressed that a server that saves the spatiotemporal information of an article or a mobile object to be read is operating.

  Hereinafter, the control will be described with reference to the drawings. First, the mobile body 02 reads the manufacturing number code (001 to 002) from the tag of the article to be transported (the article placed on the body) by at least one of the readers 01-1 to 01-4 that the mobile body 02 has. At this time, the space-time information stored in the tag is also read, or the own space information is acquired by other input means (such as manual input by the user).

  Then, the read manufacturing number code and own space information are transmitted to the server 04 via the reader antenna 03. Next, the server 04 searches the business information stored in association with the transmitted serial number code as a key. This business information is information indicating the handling of each article, and indicates when and where to transport it.

  Next, the server 04 determines how (when and where) the moving body 02 is to be moved from the information regarding the transportation destination indicated by the identified business information and the current position indicated by the own space information. Then, the server 03 transmits control information indicating this content to the mobile unit 02 (via a network or the like not shown). In accordance with this control information, the movement control unit of the moving body (not shown) controls the movement of the moving body 02. That is, the movement is executed to the movement destination according to the control information.

01-1 to 4 ... Reader, 02 ... Moving object, 03 ... Reader antenna, 04 ... Server, 05 ... Database

Claims (1)

In a movement control method of a moving body that controls movement of a moving body that conveys an article,
The reader installed on the mobile body reads the serial number code of the article from a tag attached to the article and the article installed on the mobile body for transportation,
The reader transmits the serial number code to a server device;
The server device accepts own space information of the article associated with the manufacturing number code,
The server device identifies business information about the article stored in association with the serial number code from a database,
The server device generates control information for controlling movement of the mobile body for transporting the article according to the business information from the business information and the own space information, and transmits the control information to the mobile body And
The moving control method of a moving object, wherein the moving object controls its own movement according to the control information.

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