Data processing: vehicles – navigation – and relative location – Vehicle control – guidance – operation – or indication – Automatic route guidance vehicle
Reexamination Certificate
2005-06-07
2005-06-07
Black, Thomas G. (Department: 3663)
Data processing: vehicles, navigation, and relative location
Vehicle control, guidance, operation, or indication
Automatic route guidance vehicle
C318S568120, C340S435000, C700S245000, C342S457000
Reexamination Certificate
active
06904343
ABSTRACT:
A method of controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system having a plurality of AGVs includes setting a moving path with task times of all the AGVs taken into account, and controlling the AGVs according to the set moving path. The setting the moving path includes calculating respective costs required for the AGVs to perform a plurality of tasks and calculating a number of cases occurring by allocation of each of the tasks to the AGVs. The setting the moving path also includes calculating respective total costs required for the AGVs to perform a corresponding task or corresponding tasks for all of the cases, determining a smallest and largest value out of the respective total costs for each of the cases, and setting the moving path of the AGVs according to the case having the smallest value.
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Black Thomas G.
Samsung Electronics Co,. Ltd.
Staas & Halsey , LLP
To Tuan C
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