Warehousing Robot Sliding Climbing Component for Shelf-Track Docking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Warehousing robots face difficulties in aligning their center with the centers of shelves and maintaining consistent spacing and parallelism, leading to issues with docking and climbing, which affects their service life and operational efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A warehousing robot with a climbing component that is slidably connected to an underframe, allowing the driving wheels to adjust their position and slide horizontally during docking, ensuring proper alignment with the tracks without dragging the underframe, and featuring a telescopic mechanism to adapt to varying shelf distances.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If the walking mechanism drives the warehousing robot to move to the position between the two climbing tracks, then the robot can reach the climbing position, but it is difficult to ensure that the center of the robot body is consistent with the center between the shelves on both sides, causing misalignment
Solution Approach 1:
The climbing component is designed with sliding capability relative to the underframe, allowing dynamic adjustment of the driving wheels' position. This enables the climbing component to adapt to variations in shelf spacing and maintain proper alignment with the climbing tracks despite differences in shelf positions, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of positioning and precision of center alignment.
2Adaptability or versatility
If the climbing component is fixed to the underframe, then the structure is simple, but the driving wheel cannot adapt to varying shelf spacings, affecting docking and climbing
Solution Approach 1:
The climbing component is designed with sliding capability relative to the underframe, allowing dynamic adjustment of the driving wheels' position. This enables the climbing component to adapt to variations in shelf spacing and maintain proper alignment with the climbing tracks despite differences in shelf positions, thereby resolving the contradiction between ease of positioning and precision of center alignment.
3Reliability
If the climbing component is rigidly connected to the underframe, then the structure is stable, but the walking mechanism may be damaged when the robot attempts to climb with misaligned tracks
Solution Approach 1:
The sliding connection between the climbing component and underframe provides a protective mechanism: when shelf spacing variations cause misalignment, the climbing component can slide horizontally to accommodate the discrepancy, preventing transmission of damaging forces to the walking mechanism while maintaining sufficient connection strength for climbing operations.
4Adaptability or versatility
If the robot body is forced to adapt to inconsistent shelf spacing, then the robot maintains structural integrity, but the docking and climbing performance deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The sliding connection between the climbing component and underframe provides a protective mechanism: when shelf spacing variations cause misalignment, the climbing component can slide horizontally to accommodate the discrepancy, preventing transmission of damaging forces to the walking mechanism while maintaining sufficient connection strength for climbing operations.
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AI summary
A warehousing robot, including: a climbing component and an underframe (20); the climbing component is configured to dock with a track on a shelf and drive the warehousing robot to climb along the shelf after completing a docking; and the climbing component is slidably connected with the underframe to enable the climbing component to slide relative to the underframe along a preset direction in a horizontal plane during a docking process of the climbing component and the track. Compared with the fixed connection of the climbing component and the underframe, when the distances between the warehousing robot and the two tracks are not equal, the position of the driving wheel on the climbing component can be adjusted, so that the driving wheel is docked with the track, and the climbing component will slide on the underframe without dragging the underframe to move on the ground.