Warehouse Handling Robot for Box-to-Item Material Picking
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current handling robots in intelligent warehousing systems have low efficiency in fetching and placing materials within material boxes, and are inflexible in material replenishment or return operations, affecting overall material management efficiency.
Innovation Solution
A handling robot system equipped with a vertical bracket, pallet, and a handling system that includes a multidimensional mechanical joint and terminal actuator for flexible material transfer, enabling the robot to fetch materials from and return material boxes to shelves, improving material fetching and replenishment efficiency.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Device complexity
If full-box fetching is used, then material box transport is simplified, but material fetching efficiency decreases when not all materials need to be fetched
Solution Approach 1:
The handling system is divided into two independent components: a material box handling component for transporting material boxes, and a material transfer component for extracting and transferring individual materials. This segmentation allows the system to fetch only needed materials rather than entire boxes, resolving the contradiction between operational simplicity and fetching efficiency.
2Device complexity
If material fetching device only handles material boxes, then device structure is simple, but automation degree of material sorting is low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the material box handling component with the material transfer component into a unified handling system. The material transfer component includes a multidimensional mechanical joint and terminal actuator that work together with the box handling component, enabling both automated box transport and automated material extraction/sorting in an integrated system.
3Ease of operation
If material fetching device only operates on material boxes, then operation scope is limited, but flexibility of material replenishment or return is insufficient
Solution Approach 1:
The handling system is designed with multi-functionality to handle diverse material operations. The material transfer component can extract materials from boxes, transfer them to different locations, and support both replenishment and return operations. The multidimensional mechanical joint provides versatile movement capabilities for adapting to different operational requirements.
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AI summary
A handling robot, a material fetching method, a material replenishing or returning method, and an intelligent warehousing system, the handling robot comprises a vertical bracket (19); a pallet (22) for storing a material box; and a handling system installed to the vertical bracket (19), where the pallet (22) is installed to the handling system, and the handling system is used for fetching a material box from one of a warehouse shelf (24) and the pallet (22), storing it onto the other, and/or fetching out a material from a material box stored on the pallet (22). With the configuration of the handling system, a material can be fetched out from a material box stored on the pallet, and after the material is fetched out, the material box is placed back onto the warehouse shelf, such manner of material fetching is flexible, and has high efficiency.