CN108722882B - Intelligent sorting and packaging system and sorting and packaging method thereof - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an intelligent sorting and packaging system which comprises a sorting workstation, a packaging workstation and a control system, wherein the sorting workstation and the packaging workstation are electrically connected with the control system; the sorting workstation comprises a sorting visual device, a sorting robot and a code scanning device, wherein the sorting visual device and the code scanning device are electrically connected with the sorting robot; the control system comprises a database module and a controller, the controller is set to judge whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device, and when the article information is matched with the article information, a sorting signal is sent to the sorting robot; when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system; and the packing workstation is used for carrying out stacking and packing operations. The sorting and packaging method of the intelligent sorting and packaging system provided by the invention realizes unmanned sorting and packaging operation of articles, improves the operation efficiency and reduces the error rate and labor cost.
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Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of logistics automation, in particular to an intelligent sorting and packaging system and a sorting and packaging method thereof.
Background
Along with the opening of retail industry in China, the competition of the retail industry is intensified, and the field of competition is also expanded from the outside (such as store sites, consumers and the like) to the inside (such as business management, finance, logistics and the like). The knowledge that logistics is a "third source of profit" is being accepted more and more widely, and some advanced logistics techniques and operation methods are being learned and practiced by practitioners of retail logistics in our country.
Foreign letter sorting system starts earlier, generally adopts automatic letter sorting system at present, and china's letter sorting system starts late, and letter sorting system's technical development is still relatively laggard in developed country relatively, and present manual work's the condition is still more common, and commodity circulation letter sorting equipment laggard, mostly uses artifical manual as the owner, sorts inefficiency, and the error rate is high. The automatic sorting system is an operation mode which is provided by developed countries for improving the efficiency of transporting articles after two war hours, and is widely applied to large markets and express delivery industries. Along with the development of the technology, foreign sorting systems have higher and higher automation degree and higher accuracy, and the development of the domestic sorting technology is slower because the system has larger one-time investment, slower capital recovery, complex system structure and higher requirement on the appearance of the articles.
With the rapid development of the e-commerce and logistics distribution industries, sorting and packaging operations for articles have become two important links, and the workload is increasing. At present, the two blocks of sorting and packaging in the domestic logistics industry are mainly and independently operated, and are manually dispatched to a packaging work area after general sorting is finished, so that the problems of high working strength, low production efficiency, nonstandard operation and high error rate exist; in addition, in recent years, the labor cost is increased correspondingly due to the shortage of labor in China; in addition, if the article is wrongly pasted or printed when stored in the vertical warehouse, a manual error checking and preventing process needs to be additionally added before the sorting operation, so that the labor cost is increased; in the sorting and packaging processes of the articles, the problems of wrong quantity and types of picked and packaged articles are easy to occur, manual confirmation and error prevention are often needed before packaging, so that the labor cost is increased, otherwise, the orders are delivered to the customer, and the problems of customer complaints, goods return and the like are easy to occur, so that the economic and reputation losses of enterprises are caused.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention aims to solve the problems and provides an intelligent sorting and packaging system and a sorting and packaging method thereof, wherein a control system, a sorting work station and a packaging work station are adopted to work together to realize a series of operations such as scheduling, sorting, conveying, stacking, packaging and the like of objects, so that the automatic distribution of the objects is realized, two procedures of automatic judgment and error prevention are added in the sorting and packaging processes, the work efficiency is improved, and the error rate and the manual labor cost are greatly reduced.
In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:
the utility model provides an intelligence letter sorting baling system, includes letter sorting workstation, baling workstation and control system, letter sorting workstation, baling workstation all are connected with the control system electricity, wherein:
letter sorting workstation, it passes through the transfer chain with external storage area and is connected, including letter sorting vision device, letter sorting robot and sweep a yard equipment, letter sorting vision device, sweep a yard equipment and all be connected with letter sorting robot electricity, wherein:
the sorting vision device is used for identifying information of the articles to be sorted and feeding the information back to the sorting robot;
the code scanning device is arranged to scan codes on articles and feed back the codes to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot is arranged to generate sorting coordinates according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device, sort the articles to be sorted according to the sorting coordinates, and transfer the sorted articles to the working area of the packing workstation;
the sorting robot is also arranged to send the article information identified by the sorting vision device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system through a network;
the control system comprises a database module and a controller, wherein:
the database module is used for storing the article codes, the article information and the binding relationship of the article codes and the article information;
the controller is set to call the article information corresponding to the code stored in the database module according to the code scanned by the code scanning device, judge whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device,
when the two are matched, sending a sorting signal to the sorting robot;
when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system;
the packing workstation is used for receiving the articles transferred by the sorting workstation, stacking and packing the articles, and outputting the articles to the outside after packing;
in a further embodiment, the packing workstation includes pile up neatly vision device, pile up neatly robot and baling equipment, pile up neatly vision device, baling equipment all are connected with the pile up neatly robot electricity, wherein:
the palletizing vision device is used for identifying the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeding the information back to the palletizing robot;
the palletizing robot is set to generate palletizing coordinates according to the object information recognized by the palletizing vision device and palletize objects to be palletized according to the palletizing coordinates; feeding back the information of the stacked objects to the control system through a network;
the packaging equipment is arranged to receive the objects to be packaged stacked by the stacking robot and perform packaging operation.
In a further embodiment, the controller is further configured to determine, responsive to the item information identified by the palletizing vision device, whether the item information identified by the palletizing vision device matches the order requirement information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to packing equipment;
and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system.
In a further embodiment, the intelligent sorting and packaging system further comprises a conveying device electrically connected with the control system, the conveying device having a first conveying device and a second conveying device, wherein:
the first conveying equipment is arranged between the external storage area and the sorting work station;
the second conveying device is arranged between the sorting work station and the packing work station.
In a further embodiment, the first conveyor device has sorting target locations including first and second sorting target locations symmetrically disposed at an end of the first conveyor device adjacent to an end of the sorting station.
In a further embodiment, the number of the sorting vision devices and the number of the code scanning devices are at least 2, and the sorting vision devices are respectively positioned above the first sorting target position and the second sorting target position.
In a further embodiment, the second conveyor device has a palletizing target position, which is arranged at an end of the second conveyor device adjacent to an end of the baling station.
According to the improvement of the invention, the invention also provides a sorting and packaging method of the intelligent sorting and packaging system, which comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot; the sorting robot picks the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device; the code scanning device scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot sends the article information identified by the sorting visual device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system;
2) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning equipment, and when the article information is matched with the article information, a sorting signal is sent to the sorting robot, and the step 3 is carried out; when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot places the sorted articles in a working area of a packing work station;
4) the packaging workstation stacks the articles transferred by the picking workstation according to the order demand information generated by the system and performs packaging operation on the stacked articles; outputting the packed articles, and finishing the sorting and packing operation.
According to the improvement of the invention, the invention also provides a sorting and packaging method of the intelligent sorting and packaging system, which comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot; the sorting robot picks the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device; the code scanning device scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot sends the article information identified by the sorting visual device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system;
2) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning equipment, and when the article information is matched with the article information, a sorting signal is sent to the sorting robot, and the step 3 is carried out; when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot places the sorted articles in a working area of a packing work station;
4) the palletizing vision device identifies the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeds the information back to the palletizing robot;
the palletizing robot palletizes the objects to be palletized according to the object information identified by the palletizing vision device; feeding back the information of the objects identified by the stacking vision device in real time to a control system after the stacking task is finished;
5) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the palletizing vision device is matched with the order demand information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to packing equipment, and carrying out packing operation by the packing equipment; and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging.
According to the improvement of the invention, the invention also provides a sorting and packaging method of the intelligent sorting and packaging system, which comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot; the sorting robot picks the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device; the code scanning device scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot sends the article information identified by the sorting visual device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system;
2) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning equipment, and when the article information is matched with the article information, a sorting signal is sent to the sorting robot, and the step 3 is carried out; when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot places the sorted articles on the conveying equipment, and the conveying equipment conveys the articles to a working area of the packing workstation under the control of the control system according to the order demand information.
4) The palletizing vision device identifies the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeds the information back to the palletizing robot;
the palletizing robot palletizes the objects to be palletized according to the object information identified by the palletizing vision device; feeding back the information of the objects identified by the stacking vision device in real time to a control system after the stacking task is finished;
5) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the palletizing vision device is matched with the order demand information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to packing equipment, and carrying out packing operation by the packing equipment; and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging.
Compared with the prior art, the intelligent sorting and packaging system and the sorting and packaging method thereof have the obvious beneficial effects that,
1) the system and the sorting and packaging method thereof can realize automatic and high-speed repetitive operation, and carry out unmanned sorting and packaging operation at a working time far higher than that of manual work; and two procedures of automatic judgment and error prevention are added in the sorting and packaging processes, so that the operation efficiency is improved, and the error rate and the labor cost are greatly reduced.
2) The system and the sorting and packing method thereof can effectively link the sorting work station and the packing work station through the conveying equipment, meet the ordered conveying of articles, have compact equipment structure and reduce the installation space.
3) The system and the sorting and packaging method thereof can complete sorting and packaging operation according to the order demand information, can meet the application in the industries of food, medical treatment, cosmetics and the like, and have wide application.
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fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an intelligent sorting and packaging system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 2 is a schematic view of the installation layout of the intelligent sorting and packaging system according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 3 is a schematic flow chart of a sorting and packing method of the intelligent sorting and packing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. 4 is a schematic flow chart of a sorting and packing method of the intelligent sorting and packing system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.
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As shown in fig. 1 to 4, according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, an intelligent sorting and packaging system is suitable for unmanned logistics ex-warehouse sorting and packaging operations in the industries of food, medical treatment, cosmetics, etc. to adapt to the rapid development of the industries of e-commerce and logistics distribution, and includes a sorting workstation, a packaging workstation, and a control system 11, where the sorting workstation and the packaging workstation are electrically connected with the control system 11 for signal interaction.
The letter sorting workstation, it passes through the transfer chain with external storage area and is connected, including letter sorting vision device 14, letter sorting robot 15 and sweep a yard equipment 16, letter sorting vision device 14, sweep a yard equipment 16 and all be connected in order to carry out signal interaction with letter sorting robot 15 electricity.
The sorting vision device 14 is arranged to identify and feed back to the sorting robot 15 information about the items to be sorted, such as their shape, colour, angle, volume, etc. The code scanning device 16 is configured to scan codes on articles (each article has a unique code, such as a two-dimensional code, a bar code, etc.) and feed the codes back to the sorting robot 15. The sorting robot 15 is configured to generate sorting coordinates according to the article information (such as the shape, color, angle, volume, etc. of the article) recognized by the sorting vision device 14, and select a suitable traveling path and sorting posture according to the sorting coordinates to sort the article, and the sorted article is directly transferred to the working area of the packing workstation. The sorting robot 15 is also arranged to send the item information identified by the sorting vision device 14 and the code scanned by the code scanning apparatus 16 to the control system 11 via the network.
The control system 11 comprises a database module and a controller. The database module is used for storing an article code (such as a two-dimensional code) and article information (such as the shape, color, angle, volume and the like of an article) and the binding relationship thereof in advance. The controller is set to call the article information corresponding to the code stored in the database module according to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, judge whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, when the article information is matched with the article information, the controller sends a sorting signal to the sorting robot 15, and the sorting robot 15 transfers the sorted article to a working area of a packing work station, which is a first inspection error-proof procedure, so that the problem that the article code is wrongly pasted or wrongly printed when the article is stored in a vertical warehouse to cause subsequent sorting and packing errors is avoided; when the alarm information and the alarm information are not matched, an alarm signal is generated to a background system 13 (WCS system), and a manager of the WCS system can record and count the alarm after seeing the alarm information for reference and improvement in the following work; and related personnel can be arranged to go to the site for fault treatment, so that the labor time cost is reduced. In certain embodiments, control system 11 is a PLC system.
The packing workstation is arranged to receive the articles transferred by the sorting workstation, stack and pack the articles, and output the articles to the outside after the packing is finished.
It should be understood that the aforementioned sorting robot 15, palletizing robot 18, packing workstation, database module and controller are well known in the art and that any suitable structure, either existing or developed in the future, may be used in accordance with the present disclosure. In this embodiment, the sorting robot 15 and the palletizing robot 18 are six-axis robots having a controller, and the sorting and palletizing operations of the whole system are realized by signal interaction between the sorting vision device 14, the code scanning device 16 and the palletizing vision device 17 and the controllers of the sorting robot 15 and the palletizing robot 18. Of course, in other embodiments, those skilled in the art may select other industrial personal computers according to actual needs and specific situations.
The working principle of the intelligent sorting and packaging system disclosed by the invention is as follows: all equipment of the system is started, and order demand information (including quantity, type and the like of articles) issued by a background WCS system is received; the articles to be sorted are transferred from the vertical warehouse to a working area of a sorting workstation to wait for sorting, the sorting vision device 14 takes pictures of the articles to identify the articles to obtain parameters such as shapes, angles, colors and the like of the articles, and in order to improve the sorting efficiency and stability and reliability, the sorting robot 15 selects a proper path, sorting coordinates and sorting postures according to the parameters to sort the articles; the code scanning device 16 scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot 15; the sorting robot 15 sends the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 and the code scanned by the code scanning device 16 to the control system 11; the controller of the control system 11 retrieves the article information corresponding to the code pre-stored in the database module according to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, determines whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 matches with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, and when the article information matches with the article information, it indicates that the correspondence between the article code and the article is correct, the controller sends a sorting signal to the sorting robot 15, and the sorting robot 15 transfers the picked article to the working area of the packing workstation, which is a first error checking procedure, so as to avoid the problem that the article code is wrongly pasted or the printing error causes the subsequent sorting error when the article is stored in the vertical warehouse (it should be understood that, when the background WCS system issues a plurality of articles of different types, a plurality of articles of different types are picked one by one another according to the number of orders issued by the control system 11 according to the above-mentioned steps, Checking for error proofing, placing in a packing workstation until picking of the order quantity is completed); when the alarm information and the alarm information are not matched, an alarm signal is generated to a background system 13 (WCS system), and a manager of the WCS system can record and count the alarm after seeing the alarm information for reference and improvement in the following work; and related personnel can be arranged to go to the site for fault treatment, so that the labor time cost is reduced. Finally, the packing workstation automatically stacks and packs the articles transferred by the sorting workstation; and finishing the sorting and packaging operation, namely finishing the last procedure and then delivering the finished product out of the warehouse.
In certain preferred embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the packing workstation comprises a palletizing vision device 17, a palletizing robot 18 and a packing device 19, wherein the packing device 19 is installed at 10 of fig. 2, and the palletizing vision device 17 and the packing device 19 are electrically connected with the palletizing robot 18 for signal interaction. The palletizing vision device 17 is arranged to recognize information of the objects (such as the shape, color, angle, volume, etc. of the objects) placed in the working area of the packing station and feed back to the palletizing robot 18. The palletizing robot 18 is configured to generate palletizing coordinates according to the object information (such as the shape, color, angle, volume, etc. of the object) recognized by the palletizing vision device 17, select an appropriate path, picking coordinates and picking posture to palletize the object at the palletizing target position (it should be understood that, when the background WCS system issues the order demand information, a plurality of different types of objects are palletized one by one according to the foregoing steps until the palletizing of the order quantity is completed according to the order quantity issued by the control system 11). After the palletizing task is finished, feeding back the information (such as the overall shape, color, volume and the like of the object) of the object identified again by the palletizing vision device 17 in real time to the control system 11; the control system 11 judges whether the article information (such as the overall shape, color, volume and the like of the article) identified by the stacking vision device 17 is matched with the order requirement information, when the article information is matched with the order requirement information, a packing signal is sent to the packing equipment 19, and the packing equipment 19 carries out packing operation, which is a secondary error-proofing inspection process, so that the problems of article missing and wrong delivery caused by wrong quantity and type of the articles in the sorting and stacking processes are avoided, and the error rate is greatly reduced; when the alarm information and the alarm information are not matched, an alarm signal is generated to the background system 13, and a manager of the WCS system can record and count the alarm after seeing the alarm information for reference and improvement in the following work; and related personnel can be arranged to go to the site for fault treatment, so that the labor time cost is reduced.
In some preferred embodiments, as shown in fig. 1 and 2, the intelligent sorting and packing system further includes a conveying device 12 electrically connected to the control system 11, and the control system 11 controls conveying of the objects to the sorting target location and/or the palletizing target location according to the order requirement information (including the number, type, etc. of the objects) of the background system 13. In this embodiment, the conveyor apparatus 12 is an automated conveyor shuttle and/or an automated conveyor line. So, link up the letter sorting workstation and the packing workstation effectively through conveying equipment 12, satisfied the orderly transport of article, equipment structure is compact, has reduced installation space. It should be understood that the aforementioned conveyor apparatus 12 is well known in the art and that any suitable structure, either now existing or later developed, may be used in accordance with the present disclosure.
The conveyor apparatus 12 has a first conveyor apparatus and a second conveyor apparatus. The first conveying equipment is arranged between the external storage area and the sorting work station; the second conveying device is arranged between the sorting work station and the packing work station. In this embodiment, the first conveying device is a conveying belt, the external shuttle vehicle takes out the turnover box and the articles to be sorted and packed in the turnover box from the vertical warehouse according to the order demand information issued by the background system 13 and places the turnover box and the articles to be sorted and packed on the conveying belt, and the first conveying device is controlled by the control system 11 to convey the articles to the sorting workstation according to the order demand information; the second conveying devices are shuttles (as shown at 5 in fig. 2) and have at least 5 pieces, so that the sorting robot 15 can place different kinds of objects on different shuttles according to the order requirement information (one order may include different kinds of objects, and the stacking order and manner of the different kinds of objects are different) to facilitate the subsequent stacking by the stacking robot 18, and meanwhile, the utilization rate of the shuttles can be improved.
Preferably, to improve the sorting efficiency of the baling station, as shown in fig. 2, the first conveying device has sorting target locations including first and second sorting target locations symmetrically arranged at ends (e.g., 7, 9 of fig. 2) of the first conveying device adjacent to one end of the baling station. The number of the sorting vision devices 14 and the code scanning devices 16 is at least 2, and the sorting vision devices 14 are respectively positioned above the first sorting target position and the second sorting target position. In this way, the sorting robot 15 is installed at 1, and a sorting vision device 14 is installed above 3 and 4, respectively, for collecting information of articles to be sorted and feeding back the information of the articles to the sorting robot 15. The positions 7 and 9 are respectively a first sorting target position and a second sorting target position (in this embodiment, articles are placed in the turnover box and conveyed by the first conveying equipment), the turnover box can pick and place the articles to be sorted in the turnover box 9 in the process of being conveyed to the position 7, the picked and placed turnover box moves to the position 8 by the first conveying equipment and then is conveyed away from the middle, the operation efficiency of the sorting robot 15 is improved by sequentially rotating, and the like until the sorting robot 15 picks the order task number issued by the upper computer, and the sorting robot 15 does not finish the task.
Preferably, in order to improve the stacking efficiency of the packing workstation, as shown in fig. 2, the second conveying device has a stacking target position, and the stacking target position is arranged at an end (as shown in fig. 6 of fig. 2) of the second conveying device near one end of the packing workstation, so that the stacking robot 18 (as shown in fig. 2 at 2) can conveniently grab the object to be stacked, the operation time is shortened, and the operation efficiency is improved.
According to the improvement of the invention, as shown in fig. 1 and fig. 2, a sorting and packing method of the intelligent sorting and packing system is also provided, the method comprises:
1) the sorting vision device 14 identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot 15; the sorting robot 15 picks up the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14; the code scanning device 16 scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot 15;
the sorting robot 15 sends the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 and the code scanned by the code scanning device 16 to the control system 11;
2) the control system 11 judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, and when the article information is matched with the article information, sends a sorting signal to the sorting robot 15, and enters step 3); when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system 13, and ending the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot 15 places the picked items in the work area of the packing work station;
4) the packaging workstation stacks the articles transferred by the picking workstation according to the order demand information generated by the system and performs packaging operation on the stacked articles; outputting the packed articles, and finishing the sorting and packing operation.
According to the improvement of the invention, as shown in fig. 4, a sorting and packing method of the intelligent sorting and packing system is also provided, which comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device 14 identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot 15; the sorting robot 15 picks up the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14; the code scanning device 16 scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot 15;
the sorting robot 15 sends the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 and the code scanned by the code scanning device 16 to the control system 11;
2) the control system 11 judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, and when the article information is matched with the article information, sends a sorting signal to the sorting robot 15, and enters step 3); when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system 13, and ending the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot 15 places the picked items in the work area of the packing work station;
4) the palletizing vision device 17 identifies the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeds the information back to the palletizing robot 18;
the palletizing robot 18 palletizes the objects to be palletized according to the object information recognized by the palletizing vision device 17; after the palletizing task is finished, feeding back the information of the objects identified by the palletizing vision device 17 in real time to the control system 11;
5) the control system 11 determines whether the item information identified by the palletization vision device 17 matches the order requirement information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to the packing equipment 19, and carrying out packing operation by the packing equipment 19; and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system 13, and finishing the sorting and packaging.
According to the improvement of the invention, as shown in fig. 3, a sorting and packing method of the intelligent sorting and packing system is also provided, which comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device 14 identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot 15; the sorting robot 15 picks up the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14; the code scanning device 16 scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot 15;
the sorting robot 15 sends the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 and the code scanned by the code scanning device 16 to the control system 11;
2) the control system 11 judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device 14 is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device 16, and when the article information is matched with the article information, sends a sorting signal to the sorting robot 15, and enters step 3); when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system 13, and ending the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot 15 places the sorted items on the conveying device 12, and the conveying device 12 conveys the items to the work area of the packing work station under the control of the control system 11 according to the order demand information.
4) The palletizing vision device 17 identifies the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeds the information back to the palletizing robot 18;
the palletizing robot 18 palletizes the objects to be palletized according to the object information recognized by the palletizing vision device 17; after the palletizing task is finished, feeding back the information of the objects identified by the palletizing vision device 17 in real time to the control system 11;
5) the control system 11 determines whether the item information identified by the palletization vision device 17 matches the order requirement information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to the packing equipment 19, and carrying out packing operation by the packing equipment 19; and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system 13, and finishing the sorting and packaging.
The intelligent sorting and packaging system and the sorting and packaging method thereof provided by the invention have the following advantages:
1) the system and the sorting and packaging method thereof can realize automatic and high-speed repetitive operation, and carry out unmanned sorting and packaging operation at a working time far higher than that of manual work; and two procedures of automatic judgment and error prevention are added in the sorting and packaging processes, so that the operation efficiency is improved, and the error rate and the labor cost are greatly reduced.
2) The system and the sorting and packing method thereof can effectively link the sorting work station and the packing work station through the conveying equipment, meet the ordered conveying of articles, have compact equipment structure and reduce the installation space.
3) The system and the sorting and packaging method thereof can complete sorting and packaging operation according to the order demand information, can meet the application in the industries of food, medical treatment, cosmetics and the like, and have wide application.
Although the present invention has been described with reference to the preferred embodiments, it is not intended to be limited thereto. Those skilled in the art can make various changes and modifications without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Therefore, the protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the appended claims.
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1. The utility model provides an intelligence letter sorting baling system, its characterized in that, includes letter sorting workstation, baling workstation, conveying equipment and control system, letter sorting workstation, baling workstation all are connected with the control system electricity, wherein:
the conveying equipment is provided with a first conveying equipment and a second conveying equipment, and the first conveying equipment is arranged between an external storage area and the sorting work station; the second conveying equipment is arranged between the sorting work station and the packing work station;
the first conveying device is provided with sorting target positions, the sorting target positions comprise a first sorting target position and a second sorting target position, and the first sorting target position and the second sorting target position are symmetrically arranged at the end part of one end of the first conveying device, which is close to the sorting work station;
letter sorting workstation, it is connected through first conveying equipment with external storage area, including letter sorting vision device, letter sorting robot and sweep a yard equipment, letter sorting vision device, sweep a yard equipment and all be connected with letter sorting robot electricity, wherein:
the sorting vision device is used for identifying information of the articles to be sorted and feeding the information back to the sorting robot;
the code scanning device is arranged to scan codes on articles and feed back the codes to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot is arranged to generate sorting coordinates according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device, sort the articles to be sorted according to the sorting coordinates, and transfer the sorted articles to the working area of the packing workstation through the second conveying equipment;
the sorting robot is also arranged to send the article information identified by the sorting vision device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system through a network;
the control system comprises a database module and a controller, wherein:
the database module is used for storing the article codes, the article information and the binding relationship of the article codes and the article information;
the controller is set to call the article information corresponding to the code stored in the database module according to the code scanned by the code scanning device, judge whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning device,
when the two are matched, sending a sorting signal to the sorting robot;
when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system;
the packing workstation is arranged to receive the articles transferred by the sorting workstation, stack and pack the articles, and output the articles to the outside after the packing is finished.
2. The intelligent sorting and packaging system of claim 1, wherein the packaging workstation comprises a palletizing vision device, a palletizing robot and a packaging device, the palletizing vision device and the packaging device are both electrically connected with the palletizing robot, and wherein:
the palletizing vision device is used for identifying the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeding the information back to the palletizing robot;
the palletizing robot is set to generate palletizing coordinates according to the object information recognized by the palletizing vision device and palletize objects to be palletized according to the palletizing coordinates; feeding back the information of the stacked objects to the control system through a network;
the packaging equipment is arranged to receive the objects to be packaged stacked by the stacking robot and perform packaging operation.
3. The intelligent sortation packaging system of claim 2,
the controller is further configured to determine, responsive to the item information identified by the palletizing vision device, whether the item information identified by the palletizing vision device matches the order requirement information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to packing equipment;
and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to the background system.
4. The intelligent sorting and packaging system of claim 3, wherein the number of the sorting vision devices and the code scanning devices is at least 2, and the sorting vision devices are respectively positioned above the first sorting target position and the second sorting target position.
5. The intelligent sortation and packing system of claim 3, wherein the second conveyor apparatus has a palletized target location disposed at an end of the second conveyor apparatus adjacent an end of the packing station.
6. A sorting and packaging method of an intelligent sorting and packaging system, which is based on the intelligent sorting and packaging system of any one of claims 1-5, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot; the sorting robot picks the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device; the sorting is that the sorting robot alternately sorts the articles to be sorted from the first sorting target position and the second sorting target position;
the code scanning device scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot sends the article information identified by the sorting visual device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system;
2) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning equipment, and when the article information is matched with the article information, a sorting signal is sent to the sorting robot, and the step 3 is carried out; when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot conveys the sorted articles through the second conveying equipment and places the sorted articles in a working area of the packing work station;
4) the packaging workstation stacks the articles transferred by the picking workstation according to the order demand information generated by the system and performs packaging operation on the stacked articles; outputting the packed articles, and finishing the sorting and packing operation.
7. A sorting and packaging method of an intelligent sorting and packaging system, which is based on the intelligent sorting and packaging system of any one of claims 3-5, and is characterized in that the method comprises the following steps:
1) the sorting vision device identifies information of the articles to be sorted and feeds the information back to the sorting robot; the sorting robot picks the articles to be sorted according to the article information identified by the sorting vision device; the sorting is that the sorting robot alternately sorts the articles to be sorted from the first sorting target position and the second sorting target position;
the code scanning device scans codes on the picked articles and feeds the codes back to the sorting robot;
the sorting robot sends the article information identified by the sorting visual device and the code scanned by the code scanning equipment to the control system;
2) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the sorting vision device is matched with the article information corresponding to the code scanned by the code scanning equipment, and when the article information is matched with the article information, a sorting signal is sent to the sorting robot, and the step 3 is carried out; when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging operation;
3) the sorting robot places the sorted articles on second conveying equipment, and the second conveying equipment conveys the articles to a working area of the packing workstation under the control of the control system according to the order demand information;
4) the palletizing vision device identifies the information of the objects placed in the working area of the packing workstation and feeds the information back to the palletizing robot;
the palletizing robot palletizes the objects to be palletized according to the object information identified by the palletizing vision device; feeding back the information of the objects identified by the stacking vision device in real time to a control system after the stacking task is finished;
5) the control system judges whether the article information identified by the palletizing vision device is matched with the order demand information,
when the two are matched, sending a packing signal to packing equipment, and carrying out packing operation by the packing equipment; and when the two are not matched, generating an alarm signal to a background system, and finishing the sorting and packaging.
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