Warehouse Handling Robot With Reference-Line Item Transfer
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing handling robots in intelligent warehousing systems have limited capacity to load inventory items and operate inefficiently due to constraints in their design, particularly in loading and unloading processes.
Innovation Solution
A handling robot equipped with a telescopic arm, manipulator, and lifting assembly that extends along a preset horizontal reference line to load and unload inventory items from a storage frame, allowing for efficient movement and increased capacity by using a pusher assembly and temporary storage units to manage inventory items between shelves and storage units.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Productivity
If existing handling robot design is used, then the robot can perform basic inventory item handling, but the quantity of inventory items that can be loaded is too few and efficiency is low
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a horizontal reference line dimension for material handling operations. The telescopic arm moves materials along this horizontal reference line, enabling efficient loading and unloading operations that increase both the quantity of inventory items that can be loaded and the overall loading efficiency, resolving the contradiction between productivity and quantity handling capacity
2Quantity of substance
If more inventory items are loaded onto the robot, then capacity increases, but space utilization becomes inefficient
Solution Approach 1:
The patent employs dynamic space utilization through the telescopic arm mechanism that can extend and retract along the horizontal reference line. This dynamic adjustment allows the robot to optimize space usage while loading larger quantities of inventory items, as the arm can position materials precisely along the reference line, maximizing the use of available storage space without wasting volume
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AI summary
A method for retrieving an inventory item based on a handling robot, where the handling robot includes: a storage frame; and a material handling device installed on the storage frame, and including a telescopic arm and a manipulator installed to the telescopic arm; and the method for retrieving an inventory item includes: driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator to extend to a preset position of warehouse shelf along a preset horizontal reference line; loading, by the manipulator that is remained on the reference line, the inventory item located in the preset position; driving, by the telescopic arm, the manipulator loaded with the inventory item to move to the storage frame along the reference line; and unloading, by the manipulator that is remained on the reference line, the inventory item to the storage frame.