Warehouse Robot Docking With Independent Conveyor Lines
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing warehousing systems face inefficiencies due to manual material transportation and shared conveyor lines, which reduce overall working efficiency as workstations with low processing efficiency can hinder the entire conveyor line's performance.
Innovation Solution
A warehousing system that includes a robot and control terminal, where the robot performs material fetching and transportation based on control instructions, automatically docking with conveyor lines at designated workstations, allowing for independent operation of each workstation's conveyor line, thereby eliminating the need for manual participation and minimizing the impact of low processing efficiency on other workstations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If manual transporting or unloading is used to place materials on the conveyor line, then the system is simpler to operate, but the material transporting efficiency is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
The robot performs material fetching and transporting operations autonomously based on control instructions from the control terminal. The robot navigates to material storage locations, picks up materials, and delivers them to the conveyor line without requiring manual intervention, thereby improving material transporting efficiency while maintaining operational simplicity through automated control.
2Device complexity
If multiple workstations share one annular conveyor line, then the system structure is simpler, but the workstation with low material processing efficiency will affect the material conveying efficiency of the whole conveyor line
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides the conveyor line into multiple independent conveyor lines, with each conveyor line dedicated to a specific workstation. This segmentation allows each workstation to operate independently on its own conveyor line, preventing workstations with low processing efficiency from affecting the material conveying efficiency of other workstations, thereby improving overall working efficiency while maintaining reasonable system structure.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a warehousing system, a material transporting method, a control terminal, a robot and a storage medium. Where the robot performs material fetching according to a control instruction of a control terminal, transports a material to a destination, and automatically docks with a conveyor line at the destination so as to automatically transport the material to the conveyor line. Manual participation is not needed in the material transporting process, therefore material transporting efficiency can be improved; besides, by configuring different conveyor lines corresponding to different workstations, the material conveying of each workstation does not affect each other, and the workstation with low material processing efficiency does not cause effect on other workstations, thereby facilitating to improve overall work efficiency of all workstations.