OPENTECHNICAL PUBLICATION
OT-2026-000001091

Controller and method for transporting devices

Published: 2026-09-15T19:03:51.525718Z
Permanent URL: https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001091
Categories: Material Handling > Conveying Systems

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ABSTRACT

A controller is provided to control movement of a plurality of transporting
devices. In particular, the controller provides improved robot shunting. More
specifically, the controller delays the planning of a shunt path for an idle
robot until closer to the time the idle robot needs to move out of the way.
Advantageously this avoids the computing burden of planning shunts in advance
that are never performed because the idle robot is subsequently tasked before
the shunt were due to start. In particular, shunt paths can be planned very
close to the time at which they need to be executed thereby providing a more
efficient solution to robot shunting because very close to the execution time
there is a very small probability that the plan will change in a way that the
shunt needs to be recalculated.

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OpenTechnical publication OT-2026-000001091
Published 2026-09-15T19:03:51.525718Z
https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001091