Transport Facility

Abstract: a transport facility includes a transport vehicle that transports a transport article along a movement path, a movable object including a communication device that performs wireless communication with the transport vehicle being within a communication range and being movable separately from the transport vehicle, and a movable object controller that controls the movable object. the movable object controller causes, in response to determining that the transport vehicle is faulty, the movable object to be within the communication range of the transport vehicle and causes the communication device to transmit, to the transport vehicle, a recovery command for recovery of the transport vehicle.

Inventor(s): Daisuke Ogawa, Hiroshi Otsuka, Tadashi Nishikawa, Kenshin Hashiguchi, Yuya Hirao, Daichi Tomida, Kosuke Kimura

CPC Classification: B65G43/02 (detecting dangerous physical condition of load carriers, e.g. for interrupting the drive in the event of overheating)

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