Warehouse Robot Image Checks for Safe Material Box Handling
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Solution Overview
Problem
In intelligent warehousing systems, warehouse robots face safety hazards due to vibrations or manual errors causing material boxes to shift or fall, leading to potential collisions during pickup and storage tasks.
Innovation Solution
A warehouse robot control method and apparatus that uses an image acquisition apparatus to acquire data of target storage locations, determining execution conditions such as obstacle presence, size, and object state before executing carrying tasks, ensuring safety by avoiding dangerous situations.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If the warehouse robot operates automatically to pick up and store material boxes, then productivity is improved, but safety deteriorates due to potential collisions with shifted or fallen material boxes
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary detection of the target storage location and material box state using an image acquisition apparatus before the robot executes the pickup or storage action. This advance inspection allows the robot to identify potential hazards such as shifted or fallen material boxes before approaching, enabling it to adjust its path or abort the task to avoid collisions while maintaining automated operation.
2Productivity
If the robot moves quickly to complete carrying tasks, then productivity is improved, but safety deteriorates due to reduced detection time and increased collision risk
Solution Approach 1:
The image acquisition apparatus captures images of the target storage location and material box in advance before the robot begins its movement. This preliminary imaging allows the system to process and analyze the environment data before the robot arrives, enabling fast movement while maintaining safety through pre-validated path planning and hazard identification.
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AI summary
The present disclosure provides a warehouse robot control method and apparatus, a device and a readable storage medium. According to the method of the present disclosure, before a carrying task is executed, image data of a target storage location is acquired through an image acquisition apparatus, whether an execution condition of a carrying task is satisfied is determined according to the image data of the target storage location, and in a case that the execution condition of the carrying task is satisfied, that is, no danger may happen during execution of the carrying task by a carrying apparatus, the carrying apparatus is controlled to execute the carrying task. The occurrence of danger is avoided and the safety of warehouse robots is improved.