Patents Assigned to Shinki Electric Co., Ltd.
  • Patent number: 5488277
    Abstract: In the travel control method in the mobile robot system including a plurality of mobile robots and the control station for controlling these mobile robot, the control station directs one of a plurality of mobile robots to the destination robot, responding to the direction, searches the route to the destination directed by the control station and sends the result to the control station. The control station which receives this in formation checks if the travel path searched by the mobile robot is already reserved by other mobile robots or not by the reservation table. If not, the control station informs the reserve completion to said mobile robot. The mobile robot which received the information of the reservation completion travels automatically along the travel path which is already reserved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1992
    Date of Patent: January 30, 1996
    Assignee: Shinki Electric Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Yuji Nishikawa, Masanori Onishi