Vehicle Transfer Control for Shorter Receiving Location Occupancy
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Solution Overview
Problem
In existing delivery systems, when multiple vehicles arrive at a receiving location, they often wait until their articles are received, occupying the location and reducing its use efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A control device that selects one vehicle to remain at the location with the article and another to depart, allowing the departing vehicle to leave once the article is transferred to the remaining vehicle, thereby optimizing the use of the receiving location.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If multiple vehicles wait at the receiving location until their articles are received, then the articles can be delivered reliably, but the receiving location occupancy time increases and use efficiency decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by having the control device select which vehicle should remain and which should depart before the actual article transfer occurs. The departure vehicle transfers its article to the remaining vehicle in advance, allowing it to leave the receiving location sooner, thus reducing occupancy time while ensuring the article still reaches its destination reliably.
2Productivity
If multiple vehicles stay at the receiving location, then all articles can be delivered, but the use efficiency of the receiving location decreases
Solution Approach 1:
The system extracts the article from the departing vehicle and transfers it to the remaining vehicle before the departing vehicle leaves the receiving location. This extraction and transfer process allows the departing vehicle to be removed from the receiving location while the article remains in the system through the remaining vehicle, thus maintaining delivery productivity while improving location availability.
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AI summary
A control device (500) includes a selector (550) that selects one of a first vehicle and a second vehicle as a remaining vehicle that stores a first article and a second article and that remains at a receiving location where the first article and the second article are to be received, and selects another of the first vehicle and the second vehicle as a departing vehicle that departs from the receiving location, when the second vehicle storing the second article arrives at the receiving location while the first vehicle storing the first article stays at the receiving location. Additionally, the control device (500) includes a storage controller (560) that identifies the first article or the second article stored in the selected departing vehicle as a transfer article to be transferred from the departing vehicle to the remaining vehicle, and causes the identified transfer article to be stored in the remaining vehicle. Furthermore, the control device (500) includes a movement controller (540) that causes the departing vehicle to depart from the receiving location when the transfer article is stored in the remaining vehicle.