Working method of intelligent shopping cart and intelligent shopping cart

Abstract

The invention discloses a working method of an intelligent shopping cart and the intelligent shopping cart. The intelligent shopping cart comprises a base, an adjustable support and a shopping basket used for containing commodities, all of which are sequentially connected from bottom to top. The shopping basket is provided with a depth camera and a scanning camera, the base comprises an industrial personal computer, a bottom layer control panel, an inertial measurement unit, an odometer, a wireless communication positioning module, a plurality of direct current motors and a plurality of Mecanum wheels, and a laser radar module is installed on the shopping basket or the base. Automatic target following, intelligent navigation and autonomous obstacle avoidance can be realized according to data acquired by the depth camera, the scanning camera, the inertial measurement unit, the odometer and the laser radar module, diversified requirements of customers can be met, more convenient shopping experience is provided, and the intelligent shopping cart has a relatively high intelligent level.

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technical field [0001] The invention relates to the technical field of shopping carts, in particular to a working method of an intelligent shopping cart and the intelligent shopping cart. Background technique [0002] Traditional hand-push shopping carts are still used in current large-scale shopping malls, relying on customers to push the shopping carts to designated places. The customer takes the goods on the shelf, puts them in the shopping cart, and finally pushes them to the settlement location for settlement. This kind of shopping cart basically only realizes the function of temporarily storing goods. On the one hand, it needs to be pushed by manpower. If the customer chooses more goods, it will be very laborious to push the shopping cart full of goods. When there are many customers in the shopping mall, all the customers will push the shopping cart to the designated place to settle, which may also cause a certain degree of congestion. Therefore, it is necessary to ex...

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Problems solved by technology

Although this self-service settlement function greatly saves the time of queuing for settlement and payment, it also has obvious shortcomings: first, the intelligent settlement shopping cart is still driven by manpower, which has the disadvantages of traditional shopping carts; secondly, the intelligent settlement shopping cart The car relies on reading the RFID chip information in the product to determine the type information of the added product, then it is necessary to add an RFID chip to each product, and when it is used in a large supermarket, adding RFID chips to all products will cause A very large workload, time-consuming and labor-intensive; in addition, it is necessary to install a touch-sensitive interactive display on each shopping cart, which will also increase the cost of the supermarket

[0005] To sum up, the function of a single automatic following shopping cart is still not perfect, it may not be able to adapt to the complex and changeable supermarket environment, and it lacks the function of autonomous obstacle avoidance; and the shopping cart with self-service settlement function still needs to be pushed by hand disadvantages, and the collection of product information is inconvenient; although some smart shopping carts are equipped with interactive touch screens, which can be used for self-service settlement, it greatly increases the cost

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