Warehouse Handling Robot With Vertical Storage Frame Loading
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing handling robots in intelligent warehousing systems have a low capacity to load inventory items due to their design, resulting in inefficient storage and retrieval processes.
Innovation Solution
A handling robot equipped with a storage frame, a material handling device featuring a telescopic arm and a manipulator, and a lifting assembly, which allows for the efficient retrieval and storage of inventory items by aligning the manipulator with preset positions on the warehouse shelf and moving items to storage units along a horizontal reference line.
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 utilizes the vertical dimension by distributing multiple storage units at different heights, allowing the handling robot to load inventory items from multiple levels simultaneously or sequentially, thereby increasing the total quantity of items loaded without expanding the horizontal footprint
2Quantity of substance
If more inventory items are loaded onto the handling robot, then storage capacity increases, but the robot's maneuverability and operation complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The storage frame is divided into multiple independent storage units distributed in the vertical direction, allowing the robot to load and manage items in discrete, organized segments rather than as a single large load, simplifying operation and retrieval processes
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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.