Handling Robot Telescopic Arm Horizontal Reference Line
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing handling robots in intelligent warehousing systems have limited capacity to load inventory items and are inefficient in their operation, as they can only handle a small quantity due to design constraints.
Innovation Solution
A handling robot equipped with a telescopic arm and manipulator that extends along a preset horizontal reference line to load and move inventory items from a warehouse shelf to a storage frame, utilizing a lifting assembly for vertical alignment and a detection device for precise positioning, allowing for increased capacity and efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If existing handling robot design is used, then the robot can operate in intelligent warehousing, but the quantity of inventory items that can be loaded is too few and efficiency is low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a vertical dimension by adding a lifting assembly to the handling robot. This allows the robot to access inventory items on multiple vertical levels of warehouse shelves, transforming a single-plane loading operation into a multi-level three-dimensional operation. The lifting assembly enables the manipulator to move vertically, significantly increasing the quantity of inventory items that can be loaded from vertical shelving structures.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent implements dynamic capabilities through the telescopic arm that can extend and retract, and the lifting assembly that can move vertically. These dynamic components allow the robot to adapt its reach and positioning to access inventory items at various distances and heights, optimizing the loading operation for different warehouse shelf configurations and increasing both the quantity of items loaded and operational efficiency.
2Quantity of substance
If the handling robot is equipped with a shelf, then it can store inventory items, but the quantity of inventory items that can be loaded is limited
Solution Approach 1:
The lifting assembly adds vertical movement capability to the handling robot, enabling it to access and load inventory items from multiple vertical levels of warehouse shelves. This vertical dimension expansion allows the robot to utilize the full height of warehouse storage structures, significantly increasing the quantity of inventory items that can be loaded without requiring additional horizontal storage space on the robot itself.
Solution Approach 2:
The manipulator serves as an intermediary between the warehouse shelf and the robot's storage frame. It can grasp and transport inventory items from various positions on the warehouse shelf to the storage frame, enabling efficient transfer of large quantities of items without requiring the entire storage capacity to be on the robot body, thus resolving the space limitation.
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AI summary
A method for retrieving an inventory item based on a handling robot, where the handling robot includes: a storage frame; and a material handling device installed on the storage frame, and including a telescopic arm and a manipulator installed to the telescopic arm; and the method for retrieving an inventory item includes: driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator to extend to a preset position of warehouse shelf along a preset horizontal reference line; loading, by the manipulator that is remained on the reference line, the inventory item located in the preset position; driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator loaded with the inventory item to move to the storage frame along the reference line; and unloading, by the manipulator that is remained on the reference line, the inventory item to the storage frame.