Intelligent warehousing system, method for fetching and placing material and background processing terminal thereof

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11565882-B2
Application number	US-202117379956-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jul 19, 2021
Priority date	Jan 21, 2019
Publication date	Jan 31, 2023
Grant date	Jan 31, 2023

Abstract

An intelligent warehousing system, a material fetching and placing method and a processing terminal thereof, where the intelligent warehousing system includes a first warehousing robot and a second warehousing robot, the first warehousing robot is configured to receive a first scheduling instruction, move to a fixed shelf to fetch and place a material box according to the first scheduling instruction, and handle the material box to a first target position; and the second warehousing robot is configured to receive a second scheduling instruction, move to a portable shelf according to the second scheduling instruction, and handle the portable shelf to a second target position. Through the technical solution of the present application, compatibility of the intelligent warehousing system is improved, which may be applied to a warehouse with different shelves, thus improving the utilization rate of the warehouse.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. An intelligent warehousing system, comprising at least one first warehousing robot, at least one second warehousing robot, at least one fixed rack, and at least one portable rack,
wherein the at least one fixed rack is configured to store a first material box, and the first material box is configured to store a first material; and
the at least one portable rack is configured to store a second material, and each of the at least one portable rack is located within a lower space of each of the at least one fixed rack to form a combined rack;
wherein the at least one first warehousing robot is configured to receive a first scheduling instruction, move to the at least one fixed rack to fetch the first material box according to the first scheduling instruction, and move the first material box to a first target position; and
the at least one second warehousing robot is configured to receive a second scheduling instruction, move to the at least one portable rack according to the second scheduling instruction, and move the at least one portable rack to a second target position.

2. The warehousing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the at least one fixed rack is further configured to store a first pallet, wherein the first pallet is configured to hold a third material or a third material box storing a fourth material; and
the at least one portable rack is further configured to store a fourth material box storing a fifth material or a second pallet, wherein the second pallet is configured to hold a sixth material or a fifth material box storing a seventh material.

3. The warehousing system according to claim 1 , wherein each of the at least one first warehousing robot comprises a mobile chassis, a picking component, a lift component, and a storage rack, wherein the storage rack is configured to store the first material box that has been picked by the picking component from the at least one fixed rack.

4. The warehousing system according to claim 1 , further comprising: a processing terminal,
wherein the processing terminal is configured to send at least one of the first scheduling instruction and the second scheduling instruction, the first scheduling instruction is used to instruct the at least one first warehousing robot to fetch the first material from the at least one fixed rack, and the second scheduling instruction is used to instruct the at least one second warehousing robot to move the at least one portable rack;
wherein the processing terminal stores material storage association information, and the material storage association information comprises at least one of the following information: material identification information, material box identification information, rack identification information, position information of a rack storing a material, position information of a material box storing a material, a corresponding relationship between racks and material boxes, a corresponding relationship between racks and materials, a corresponding relationship between material boxes and materials; and
wherein the processing terminal is specifically configured to:
obtain information of a material to be fetched, and determine a position of the material to be fetched based on the information of the material to be fetched and the material storage association information; send, based on the position of the material to be fetched, the first scheduling instruction to instruct the at least one first warehousing robot to move to the at least one fixed rack to fetch the material to be fetched; or, send the second scheduling instruction to instruct the at least one second warehousing robot to move to the at least one portable rack to fetch the at least one portable rack that is storing the material to be fetched.

5. The warehousing system according to claim 1 , wherein
the warehousing system comprises a plurality of fixed racks and a plurality of portable racks, wherein the plurality of fixed racks are located at different positions in a same area, and the plurality of portable racks are located at different positions in a same area.

6. A material fetching and placing method, applied to a processing terminal to be used in an intelligent warehousing system, wherein the intelligent warehousing system comprises at least one first warehousing robot, at least one second warehousing robot, at least one first fixed rack, at least one second fixed rack, at least one first portable rack, and at least one second portable rack,
wherein the at least one second fixed rack is configured to store a first material box, and the first material box is configured to store a first material; and
the at least one second portable rack is configured to store a second material, and each of the at least one second portable rack is located within a lower space of each of the at least one second fixed rack to form a combined rack; the method further comprising:
obtaining information of a material to be fetched; and
performing, according to the information of the material to be fetched, at least one of following operations:
sending a first scheduling instruction to instruct the at least one first warehousing robot to move to the at least one second fixed rack to fetch the first material box, and move the first material box to a first target position, and sending a second scheduling instruction to instruct the at least one second warehousing robot to move to the at least one second portable rack, and move the at least one second portable rack to a second target position.

7. The method according to claim 6 , further comprising:
storing material storage association information,
wherein the material storage association information comprises at least one of the following information:
material identification information, material box identification information, rack identification information, position information of a rack storing a material, position information of a material box storing a material, a corresponding relationship between racks and material boxes, a corresponding relationship between racks and materials, and a corresponding relationship between material boxes and materials.

8. The method according to claim 7 , further comprising:
determining, based on the information of the material to be fetched, a type of the material to be fetched, the type of the material to be fetched comprises at least one of:
a first ordinary material, a second ordinary material, a large material, and a pendant material,
wherein the first ordinary material is stored on the at least one second fixed rack, and the second ordinary material, the large material and the pendant material are stored on the at least one second portable rack;
the method further comprising:
when the material to be fetched is the first ordinary material, selecting the first warehousing robot to fetch the material to be fetched; and
when the material to be fetched is the second ordinary material, the large material or the pendant material, selecting the second warehousing robot to fetch the at least one second portable rack storing the material to be fetched.

9. The method according to claim 7 , wherein the at least one first portable rack is located at an aisle entrance, and the information of the material to be fetched comprises order information of the material to be fetched, the method further comprising:
querying a type of the material to be fetched based on the order information of the material to be fetched,
wherein the type of the material to be fetched comprises at least one of a first ordinary material, a second ordinary material, a large material, and a pendant material,
wherein the first ordinary material is stored on the at least one second fixed rack, and the seco

Assignees

• Hai Robotics Co Ltd

Inventors

• Chen Yuqi
• Cheng Jui-Chun
• Zhou Hongxia
• Ai Xin

Classifications

• G06Q10/087

  Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders · CPC title

• G05D1/0217

  in accordance with energy consumption, time reduction or distance reduction criteria · CPC title

• G05D1/0297

  by controlling means in a control room · CPC title

• G05D2201/0216

  Physics · mapped topic

• G06Q10/06316

  Sequencing of tasks or work · CPC title