Delivery Robot Dispatch With Cabinet Buffering for Busy Fleets
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Solution Overview
Problem
In the context of online shopping, delivery robots often become busy, leading to wait times for deliverers as they need to wait for the robots to become idle before handing over goods, which reduces delivery efficiency.
Innovation Solution
An unmanned delivery device and method that includes a container body connected to multiple delivery robots and a transfer module, allowing the device to identify and instruct the appropriate robot to deliver goods based on order information, even when robots are busy, by temporarily storing goods in designated cabinet groups or receiving bins and transferring them to available robots.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Extent of automation
If delivery robots are used to deliver goods, then delivery automation is improved, but delivery efficiency deteriorates when robots are busy causing wait times
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by pre-storing goods in cabinet groups corresponding to different delivery robots before the robots are needed. When a robot becomes available, the system can immediately assign and transfer the pre-prepared goods, eliminating wait times. This is achieved through the container body storing multiple cabinet groups with goods ready for different robots, and the transfer module being prepared to move goods on demand.
Solution Approach 2:
The delivery system is segmented into multiple independent cabinet groups, each corresponding to a specific delivery robot. This segmentation allows the container body to manage and store goods for multiple robots simultaneously, and the transfer module can selectively transfer goods to different robots based on their availability, thereby maintaining high delivery efficiency even when some robots are busy.
2Quantity of substance
If multiple delivery robots are deployed, then delivery capacity is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The transfer module is designed with multi-functionality to handle goods transfer to any of the M delivery robots universally. Rather than having dedicated transfer mechanisms for each robot, a single transfer module can serve multiple robots, reducing overall system complexity while maintaining the capacity to support multiple delivery robots simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The system employs a nested structure where M cabinet groups are organized within the container body, with each cabinet group corresponding to a delivery robot. This nested organization allows efficient space utilization and simplified management of multiple robots' goods within a single container structure, reducing the complexity of managing multiple separate storage systems.
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AI summary
The embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an unmanned delivery device, a delivery robot dispatching method, and an electronic device. The unmanned delivery device includes a container body, M delivery robots and a transfer module. The container body is provided with M cabinet groups and each of the cabinet groups is used to store goods to be delivered by a corresponding delivery robot. The container body is configured to identify a target delivery robot, determine order information of target goods stored in a target cabinet group corresponding to the target delivery robot, and instruct the target delivery robot to deliver the target goods according to the order information. The transfer module is used to move the target goods stored in the target cabinet group corresponding to the target delivery robot to the target delivery robot.