Crown Equipment呼吁使用新型的“貨到人”的機器人系統(tǒng)

2020年9月19日

倉庫實現(xiàn)自動化，不足為奇。從亞馬遜到耐克的公司已經(jīng)開始使用貨物到人的揀貨解決方案，其中機器人將貨物送到人工操作員面前。

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但是，Crown Equipment Corporation在本周提交的專利申請中稱，這些類型的解決方案中的許多解決方案并未充分利用倉庫中的空間。Crown提出的新的解決方案將充分利用多層貨架系統(tǒng)，為自動化環(huán)境奠定了基礎(chǔ)。

該系統(tǒng)依賴于兩輛同時工作的車輛：一輛進行拾取（上圖中的108），另一輛進行運輸（上圖中的106）。

“與其將移動存儲單元專門運輸?shù)降孛嫖恢蒙希蝗鐚⒋鎯卧\輸器與取放車輛協(xié)調(diào)，以提供對存儲單元運輸器無法直接到達的存儲區(qū)，實現(xiàn)自動或半自動送達，”專利內(nèi)容中提及。

根據(jù)Crown的說法，該系統(tǒng)旨在將可移動存儲單元（上圖中的104）從貨架系統(tǒng)運送到人工的揀選處，并用于存儲各種貨物。

由于運輸機是從下方搬運存儲單元的，因此不需要依靠揀選車來運輸?shù)孛嫔系膯卧８鶕?jù)該專利，這意味著倉庫可以將其移動速度更快把貨物放在貨架系統(tǒng)的底部，以加快進出速度。

該專利解釋說，存儲單元運輸機是自動的，但取放車可以手動操作，也可以是部分或完全自動的，并補充說，“這是任何類型的常規(guī)或尚待開發(fā)的能夠移動車輛都可以完成的。實現(xiàn)多級貨架系統(tǒng)中的單元存儲。”

倉庫管理系統(tǒng)將協(xié)調(diào)車輛的移動。

原文： 

Crown Equipment argues for new automatedgoods-to-person robotic system

September 19, 2020

The automation of a warehouse is, at this point, nothing surprising. Companies from Amazon to Nike have started using goods-to-person picking solutions, where robots bring inventory to a humanoperator.

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But many of these types of solutions don't take full advantage of the space in a warehouse, Crown Equipment Corporation argued in a patent application filed this week. Crown made the case for anautomated environment that also takes advantage of a multilevel racking system.

The system relies on two vehicles workingin tandem: one to pick (108 in the image above), and one to transport (106 inthe image above).

"Rather than transporting mobile storage units ... exclusively to floor-level locations, a storage unit transporter can coordinate with a pick-place vehicle to provide automated orsemi-automated access to storage bays not directly accessible to the storage unit transporter," the patent reads.

The system is designed to carry mobile storage units (104 in the image above) from the racking system to the human picker and is designed to store a variety of goods, according to Crown.

Because the transporter carries the storage unit from under neath, it won't need to rely on the picking vehicle for units onthe ground level. This means a warehouse could put its faster-moving inventory on the bottom of the racking system to allow for faster access, according tothe patent.

The storage unit transporter is autonomous,but the pick-place vehicle could be manually operated, or partially or fully autonomous, the patent explains, adding that it is "any type of conventional or yet-to-be-developed vehicle capable of placing mobile storage units in the multiple level racking system."

The warehouse management system would coordinate the movement of vehicles.