CARRIER VEHICLE SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DEPLOYING CARRIER VEHICLE IN CARRIER VEHICLE SYSTEM

摘要

To provide a carrier vehicle system adapted to deploy a carrier vehicle in a desired reciprocally traveling track without manually operating the carrier vehicle.CONSTITUTION: A carrier vehicle system comprises a plurality of carrier vehicles to transport articles, a main track, a plurality of branch tracks that branch respectively from different points in an extending direction of the main track, and a controller that allows, with each branch track and part of the main track used as a reciprocally traveling track, a plurality of carrier vehicles to reciprocally travel and transport articles in each reciprocally traveling track. The controller, when deploying a carrier vehicle in any of the reciprocally traveling tracks, allows a carrier vehicle being made reciprocally travel in a reciprocally traveling track closer in the extending direction than a reciprocally traveling track of a deployment destination to retreat into the branch track of the reciprocally traveling track and then a carrier vehicle desired to be deployed to pass through the main track in the reciprocally traveling track.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 3