Warehouse Robot Storage Space Detection for Safe Rack Placement
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Solution Overview
Problem
Intelligent warehousing systems face challenges in ensuring real-time detection of storage spaces before goods are stored, leading to potential safety hazards and inefficiencies due to manual inspection methods and measurement errors.
Innovation Solution
A method and device that utilize sensors, such as laser sensors, 2D cameras, or 3D cameras, to detect vacant spaces on storage racks, ensuring that goods are stored only in continuous vacant spaces of a preset size, and include modules for obstacle removal and adjustment of adjacent goods to optimize storage space utilization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If manual regular inspection mode is used to determine storage condition, then operation simplicity is maintained, but storage safety deteriorates due to lack of real-time detection
Solution Approach 1:
The robot performs self-detection of storage space conditions using its own sensors before executing storage operations. The robot autonomously detects whether the target storage location is vacant and suitable for the goods to be stored, eliminating the need for separate manual inspection processes while ensuring storage safety.
Solution Approach 2:
Manual inspection is replaced with automated sensor-based detection. The robot uses sensors (such as laser sensors, 2D cameras, or 3D cameras) to automatically detect storage space conditions, replacing the mechanical/manual inspection process with an automated optical/electronic detection system.
2Reliability
If preselected storage locations are used without real-time detection, then storage efficiency is improved, but storage safety deteriorates due to potential occupation errors
Solution Approach 1:
The robot performs detection of the target storage space condition before executing the storage operation. By checking whether the storage location is vacant and suitable in advance, the system ensures storage accuracy while maintaining efficient operations, as the detection is integrated into the storage process flow.
Solution Approach 2:
The robot obtains feedback information about the actual storage space condition through sensor detection and uses this information to determine whether to proceed with the storage operation. The detection result provides feedback on whether the target location is suitable, allowing the robot to adjust its storage decision accordingly.
3Measurement precision
If measurement errors occur in warehousing system or robot, then storage precision deteriorates, but real-time detection capability is reduced
Solution Approach 1:
Traditional measurement systems are replaced with sensor-based detection systems. The robot uses sensors (laser sensors, 2D cameras, or 3D cameras) to detect storage space conditions, providing more accurate and reliable measurement information that is less prone to errors and can be processed in real-time.
Solution Approach 2:
Sensors serve as intermediaries between the robot and the storage space. The sensors capture accurate information about the storage location conditions and transmit this information to the robot's control system, enabling precise measurement and decision-making without direct mechanical contact or manual measurement.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
This approach enhances storage safety by ensuring real-time detection of available spaces, reducing the risk of damage during storage and improving space utilization, thereby increasing efficiency and reducing warehousing costs.
Implementation Method 1
detecting a storage space corresponding to the storage instruction, where the storage space for the goods to be stored is determined according to size information of the goods to be stored and a dynamic goods storage space on a rack
Implementation Method 2
detecting a storage space corresponding to the storage instruction by means of a sensor arranged on the robot
Data Source
AI summary
Provided in this embodiment of the present disclosure are a method and device for storing goods, a robot, a warehousing system and a storage medium. The method for storing goods includes: moving to a target position according to a storage instruction for goods to be stored; detecting a storage space corresponding to the storage instruction, where the storage space for the goods to be stored is determined according to size information of the goods to be stored and a dynamic goods storage space on a rack corresponding to the goods to be stored; determining, according to the detection result, whether the storage space corresponding to the storage instruction includes continuous vacant spaces of preset size; and storing the goods to be stored in the vacant spaces of the preset size of the storage space in response to determining that the storage space corresponding to the storage instruction includes the continuous vacant spaces of the preset size. The storage space is detected before the goods are stored so as to determine that the storage space is enough to store the goods. The safety for goods storage is improved.