Object Re-Orienting Platform With Metrology-Guided Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional manual handling of loading, rotating, and transferring objects in logistics operations limits efficiency, precision, and capacity, necessitating automated or semi-automated systems for improved accuracy and repeatability.
Innovation Solution
A re-orienting apparatus with a rotatable base and frame, angled support structures, and a pushing mechanism, coupled with a metrology system to determine and execute a rotation sequence, facilitates automated or semi-automated object re-orientation and transfer.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If manual handling is used for loading, rotating, and transferring objects, then operational flexibility is maintained, but efficiency, precision, and capacity are limited
Solution Approach 1:
The system uses sensors to detect object characteristics and automatically adjusts handling parameters without human intervention. The controller self-regulates the rotation speed, pushing force, and transfer timing based on real-time object detection, enabling the system to serve itself and achieve high efficiency while maintaining operational flexibility.
2Measurement precision
If manual handling is used, then adaptability to different objects is maintained, but measurement precision and rotation accuracy deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces manual mechanical handling with an automated system that uses sensors to detect object properties and a controller to precisely regulate rotation and transfer operations. This substitution of mechanical/manual control with sensor-based automated control achieves high rotation accuracy while managing system complexity through integrated control algorithms.
3Productivity
If automated systems are implemented, then handling capacity and precision improve, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system is designed with universal components that can handle multiple object types and orientations. The rotatable platform and adjustable pushing mechanism provide multi-functional capabilities, allowing a single apparatus to perform loading, rotating, and transferring operations for various objects, thereby increasing handling capacity without proportionally increasing complexity.
4Manufacturing precision
If automated re-orienting is implemented, then transfer precision improves, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates sensors that detect object position, orientation, and characteristics, providing feedback to the controller. The controller uses this feedback to automatically adjust rotation angles, pushing force, and transfer timing, achieving high transfer precision while maintaining ease of operation through automated closed-loop control that eliminates the need for manual precision adjustments.
Data Source
AI summary
Various embodiments described herein provide apparatuses, systems, methods, technologies, and/or the like for loading, re-orienting, and/or transferring objects in an automated or semi-automated fashion. Accordingly, various embodiments enable such automated and/or semi-automated loading, re-orienting, and/or transferring of objects in different environments such as mobile environments, stationary environments, and/or the like. Various embodiments involve a supply apparatus that is used to load objects onto a re-orienting apparatus. Additionally, or alternatively, various embodiments involve a re-orienting apparatus that is used to rotate objects from an initial orientation to a desired orientation. Additionally, or alternatively, various embodiments involve a pushing mechanism that is used to transfer objects from a re-orienting apparatus to a downstream apparatus.