JPH01315203A - Traveling control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To raise a conveying efficiency by altering the traveling destination of traveling means when the destinations of two or more traveling means are the same. CONSTITUTION:A plurality of traveling means 115 travel along travel guide means 111 by an operating force to traveling operation means 113. Traveling destination information storage means 119 stores information concerning a plurality of destinations. A traveling controller 117 alters the second destination based on the information when the destination of second traveling means 115 designated by introduced traveling command 121 is the same as the first destination of already traveling first traveling means 115. Thus, a conveying efficiency can be raised.

Description

[Detailed Description of the Invention] [Summary] This invention relates to a travel control system that uses, for example, a near motor to control the traveling state of a carrier on a transport rail, and is aimed at increasing transport efficiency. A plurality of travel means provided along the means, a plurality of travel means capable of traveling along the travel guide means by the acting force between the travel action means, and travel destination information storing information regarding the travel destination. When the storage means and the travel instruction are introduced and the same travel destination as the first travel destination of the first travel means that is already in operation is specified, the designated travel destination is
After changing the driving destination information based on the driving destination information storage means, the driving control means sends an instruction to the driving effecting means and controls the second driving means to travel to the changed second driving destination.

[Industrial application field]

The present invention relates to a travel control system, and more particularly, to a travel control system that uses, for example, a near motor to control the travel state of a carrier on a transport rail.

[Conventional technology]

Known linear motor cars have recently attracted attention because they are capable of high-speed transportation without being equipped with a power source.

As a system using such a linear motor car, the present applicant has proposed a system using Japanese Patent Application Laid-open No. 187204/1983 (Japanese Patent Application No.
-43587) r Linear Motor Car Control System” and JP-A-62-299468 (Japanese Patent Application No. 61-144)
276).

Japanese Patent Application No. 62-299469 (Patent Application No. 61-14427)
7) The rill feed control system j has already been proposed.

This system is, for example, a system for transporting cash and various documents within a bank store. At a bank counter, a customer requests money processing (deposit/withdrawal, FI transfer remittance, etc.). Transaction data for the requested process is entered by the teller using an online teller's machine (having a keyboard, display, printer, etc.) connected to the system controller. Next, the teller counts the cash requested by the customer using the teller deposit machine, and the transaction data such as the deposit is printed on the passbook by the terminal writer. Additionally, cash is loaded into the carrier via the cash input/output port.

The carrier runs on transport rails and transports cash to the cash teller machine and unloads it. In addition, cash loaded by the dispensing device is transported to the counter side. This allows deposits and withdrawals. In this way, the carrier can travel back and forth on the feed rail between the teller side and the cash teller machine side, and the starting, acceleration/deceleration, and stopping are controlled by a linear motor. .

A plurality of stations are distributed at intervals along the transport rail, and an excitation mechanism as a linear motor is provided. That is, the carrier has a rotor plate serving as a secondary conductor, and each station has a stator serving as a primary coil. Transport control of carriers by each station is commanded by a linear motor controller. All the stations are commonly supplied with electric power to operate as a linear motor car, and a driving force for the carrier is generated between each stator and the rotor plate of the carrier, causing the carrier to travel on the transport rail.

For example, when a linear motor controller is commanded to run a carrier from a station located at a cash insertion/removal port to a station installed in a cash storage device, the carrier is Determines the control speed. Based on the determined conveyance control speed, the carrier is started at the maximum speed and is accelerated or decelerated. In this way, transport control from a certain station to the destination station is performed.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

Incidentally, each station of such a transport system is provided with a retraction mechanism, and is operated so as not to interfere with the travel of other carriers traveling on a common transport rail between treatments by tellers.

However, when two or more carriers travel to the same destination, the next carrier cannot travel until the first carrier returns to the traveling light station, resulting in poor transport efficiency.

The present invention was created in view of these points, and an object of the present invention is to provide a travel control system that increases transport efficiency when carriers travel to the same destination.

[Means to solve the problem]

FIG. 1 is a principle block diagram of the travel control system of the present invention.

In the figure, each of the plurality of traveling effect means 113 is
It is provided along the traveling guide means 111.

Each of the plurality of traveling means 115 has the traveling action means 11
It is possible to travel along the travel guide means 111 due to the acting force between the vehicle and the travel guide means 111.

The travel destination information storage means 119 stores information regarding a plurality of travel destinations.

When a travel instruction 121 is introduced and a travel destination that is the same as the first travel destination of the first travel means 115 that is already in operation is specified, the travel control means 117 converts the designated travel destination into travel destination information. After the change is made based on the storage means 119, an instruction is sent to the travel effecting means 113 to control the second travel means 115 to travel to the changed second travel destination.

Therefore, as a whole, the vehicle is configured to change the destination based on the information stored in the destination information storage means 119 when the destination becomes the same.

[For production]

According to the control of the travel control means 117, the travel guide means 11
An acting force acts between each of the plurality of travel effecting means 113 provided along the travel guide means 111 and the travel means 115, and the travel means 115 travels along the travel guide means 111.

The travel destination information storage means 119 stores information regarding a plurality of travel destinations, and the travel control means 117 determines whether the travel destination of the second travel means 115 specified by the introduced travel instruction 121 is already traveling. When the destination is the same as the first destination of the first traveling means 115, the destination is changed to the second destination based on this information.

In the present invention, when the traveling destinations of two traveling means 115 overlap, by changing the traveling destination of one of the traveling means 115, it is possible to increase the conveyance efficiency.

〔Example〕

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail based on the drawings.

FIG. 2 shows an example in which the travel control system according to the present invention is applied as a transportation system for cash and various documents within a bank store.

■ The relationship between 乍1 and 1゛Here, the correspondence relationship between the embodiment of the present invention and FIG. 1 will be shown.

Travel guide means 111 corresponds to transport rail 211.

Travel effect means 113 corresponds to station 213.

The traveling means 115 corresponds to the carrier 215.

The travel control means 117 includes a system controller 217,
It corresponds to the linear motor controller 241.

The driving destination information storage means 119 is a change information storage section 2'19.
corresponds to

The travel instruction 121 is given by the insertion/removal section 251 or the insertion/removal section 251.
This corresponds to the traveling light information supplied from the extraction unit 271 to the system controller 217.

Examples of the present invention will be described below assuming that the correspondence relationship as described above exists.

In FIG. 2, the travel control system of the present invention includes a plurality of (for example, 19) stations 213. to 213,9 provided along a conveyor rail 211, and a predetermined station. A plurality of carriers 215 (carrier 215I) belonging to the station
~2153), and a plurality of insertion/extraction units 251 (insertion/extraction units 251) installed corresponding to predetermined stations.
．． , 251□.

2513), insertion/extraction section 271 (insertion/extraction section 27
11.271z, 271z), a system controller 217 that controls the entire travel control system according to instructions from various loading/unloading sections, and a system controller 217 that sends instructions to each station to start, accelerate, decelerate, and stop the carrier 215. It includes a linear motor controller 241 that performs control, and a change information storage section 219 that stores information regarding the destination of the carrier 215.

This change information storage unit 219 contains information regarding destinations where the same purpose can be achieved (for example, station 213.7).
Stations 21317 to 213+9) in case an operator corresponding to 213.9 performs the same process are stored.

Further, the plurality of stations 213 are connected to the transport rail 211
The carriers 215 are arranged in consideration of the installation conditions 8 (curves, steps, necessity of traveling to different floors, etc.), and have an excitation mechanism for each carrier 215.

As shown in the figure, the excitation mechanism is not provided as a linear motor over the entire transport rail 211, but is dispersed, thereby achieving an inexpensive system configuration.

The teller in the teller department 250 operates a terminal device (not shown) provided in the teller department 250 to process slips, perform single-person withdrawals, etc., and also relies on the operator in the slip processing department 270 to handle the processing. can.

When the counter section 250 requests the slip processing section 270 to process a slip, for example, the teller at the station 2131 operates the insertion/removal section 2511 to insert the carrier 215. The document to be processed is loaded into the machine. After that, this Carrier 215I loaded with the slip took off.

It is accelerated, decelerated, stopped, and sent to station 213+7.

Station 213. , the operator operates the insertion/ejection section 2711 to insert the carrier 215. Take out the slips loaded in the machine and perform the necessary processing. After that, carrier 215. The result slip is loaded onto the station 2151 and sent back to the station 2151 via the opposite route to that described above.

A series of controls for the carrier 215 are performed by instructions from the linear motor controller 241 to each station 213, and information regarding the route (start light station and travel destination station) is given from the system controller 217.

In the traveling control system shown in FIG. 2, data regarding the traveling of the carrier 215 is constantly notified to and held in the system controller 217. Therefore, the system controller 2I7 knows the running state of the carrier 215.

Next, in this system, two carriers 215, .
The operation when the destinations of 215□ overlap will be explained. For example, carrier 215I is station 213. From station 213. , and during the evacuation, the teller corresponding to station 2134 carries carrier 215.
Consider the case where a travel instruction to station 213.7 is given.

Station 2131 now? It is assumed that the same processing (for example, slip processing) can be performed by any operator corresponding to each of 21319 to 21319, and that information to that effect is stored in the change information storage unit 219.

FIG. 3 shows the operating procedure of the embodiment. Reference will now be made to FIGS. 2 and 3.

Normally, the system controller 217 determines whether or not there is an instruction to travel the carrier from each insertion/removal section 251, 271 (step 311), and repeats this determination process until a travel instruction is received.

From the insertion/extraction section 2513 to the station 213. of the carrier 2153. ? When a driving instruction is input, the system controller 217 makes an affirmative determination in step 311, and
Next, it is determined whether there is a starting run (step 3).
12).

Station 213. ? Now, let's move on to Career 2, which we reached first.
15 is being evacuated, so the judgment is affirmative. Furthermore, carrier 21
5. is station 213. A positive judgment is also made when the vehicle is traveling to .

If an affirmative determination is made, the system controller 217 determines whether there is a station where the destination can be changed (Step 3). The system controller 217 reads out the information in the change information storage section 219 and updates the change station 2.
131s (or station 2131.), and an affirmative determination is made in step 313.

Next, the system controller 217 executes the searched station 213. , determines whether it is vacant or not (
Step 314) If the vehicle is vacant, an affirmative determination is made and the running light is changed (Step 315). carrier 2153
from station 213+7 to station 2
Change to 13+e.

After that, the system controller 217 notifies the linear motor controller 241 of the changed travel destination (station 213+e), and the linear motor controller 241
by carrier215. station 213. Travel control to E is performed (step 316).

Further, when a negative judgment is made in each of steps 312 to 314, it is impossible to change the running light, so the linear motor controller 241 is notified of the running destination (station 213□) before the change, and the linear motor controller 241 In the conventional type control (carrier 2
153 independent running control or station 213
, 7, the carrier 215I is evacuated to station 2.
After returning to step 131, the carrier 2153 starts traveling (step 316).

■Summary of 1 In this way, Teller has various input/extraction parts (insertion/extraction part 2
51 or 271) to input travel instructions for each carrier 215. This travel instruction is supplied to the system controller 217, and when the travel destinations of the two carriers overlap, the system controller 217 searches for a changeable travel destination based on the change information storage unit 219 and changes the travel destination. . Thereafter, the changed travel destination is sent to the linear motor controller 241, and the changed travel destination is sent to the linear motor controller 241.
41 controls the travel of the carrier 215 according to the destination to which it is sent.

Therefore, when there is a destination station that can be changed, by changing the destination to that station and causing the carrier to travel, the next carrier can run in parallel with the first carrier, increasing the transport efficiency. It becomes possible to raise the

Further, since the carrier 215 loaded with slips, cash, etc. is kept waiting for travel, there is an effect of increasing the safety of the gifts.

■, Yuhi of H. Note that in the embodiment of the present invention, we considered the case where the carrier 215 and the carrier 2153 travel at the same destination.
The present invention can also be applied when the destinations of two or more carriers overlap while they are running, or when two or more instructions regarding the same destination are output from each insertion/extraction section.

In addition, in ``correspondence between Examples and Figure 1'',
Although the correspondence between the present invention and the embodiments has been described, those skilled in the art can easily imagine that the present invention is not limited to this and that there are various modifications.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As mentioned above, when the travel destinations of two or more travel means overlap, by changing the travel destination of the travel means, it is possible to increase the conveyance efficiency, which is extremely useful in practice. .

[Brief explanation of the drawing]

Fig. 1 is a principle block diagram of the cruise control system of the present invention, Fig. 2 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment to which the cruise control system of the present invention is applied, and Fig. 3 is an explanatory diagram of the operation of an embodiment of the present invention. be. In the figure, 111 is a travel guide means, 113 is a travel action means, 115 is a travel means, 117 is a travel control means, 119 is a travel destination information storage means, 121 is a travel instruction, 211 is a transport rail, 213 is a station, and 215 is a travel direction. 217 is a system controller, 219 is a change information storage unit, 241 is a linear motor controller, 250 is a counter department, 251 and 271 are insertion/extraction units, and 270 is a slip processing department. After the American invention, Figure 1 Invention Department 4 Department 219-Brother No. 9 and Ita's, r--5, Figure 2 Dynamics of regular implementation/IJF-Explanatory diagram Figure 3

Claims (1)

[Claims] (1) Travel along the travel guide means (111) due to the acting force between the travel effect means (113) and a plurality of travel effect means (113) provided along the travel guide means (111). A plurality of possible travel means (115) and a travel destination information storage means (115) that stores information regarding the travel destination.
19), when the travel instruction (121) is introduced and the same travel destination as the first travel destination of the first travel means (115) that is already in operation is specified, the designated travel destination is Travel control means for controlling the second travel means (115) to travel to the changed second travel destination by sending an instruction to the travel action means (113) after changing the travel destination information based on the travel destination information storage means (119). (117) A travel control system comprising: