CN110092122A

CN110092122A - Sow wall, body feed tank, the method and device for dispatching storting apparatus in warehouse

Info

Publication number: CN110092122A
Application number: CN201910273258.1A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张睿
Original assignee: Beijing Wide-Sighted Robot Technology Co Ltd; Beijing Megvii Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Wide-Sighted Robot Technology Co Ltd; Beijing Megvii Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-04-04
Filing date: 2019-04-04
Publication date: 2019-08-06

Abstract

The invention discloses a kind of method and devices of storting apparatus in sowing wall, body feed tank, scheduling warehouse, this method comprises: server is after sending the first job instruction to transporting equipment, determine whether transporting equipment enters the workspace of sowing wall, wherein, first job instruction is used to indicate transporting equipment and carries the workspace that packaged type shelf enter sowing wall, sowing wall includes multiple cache bits, and cache bit is for storing body feed tank；If it is determined that transporting equipment enters the workspace of sowing wall, then the second job instruction is generated, and send the second job instruction to sowing wall；Wherein, the second job instruction is used to indicate sowing wall and is transferred to the body feed tank on packaged type shelf that transporting equipment is carried on the cache bit of sowing wall.As it can be seen that sowing wall plays the role of caching between transporting equipment and staff in the embodiment of the present invention, so that transporting equipment and staff improve the efficiency of picking without mutually waiting during picking.

Description

Method and device for sorting equipment in seeding wall, material box and scheduling warehouse

Technical Field

The invention relates to the field of logistics storage, in particular to a method and a device for sowing a wall, a material box and scheduling sorting equipment in a warehouse.

Background

With the popularization of electronic commerce and the improvement of living standard of people, online shopping gradually becomes a mainstream shopping mode, meanwhile, the order quantity of e-commerce enterprises is greatly increased, the arrival time of order commodities directly influences the shopping experience of consumers, and higher requirements are provided for the warehousing operation efficiency of the e-commerce enterprises. As a critical part of the warehousing operation, the efficiency of the picking operation directly affects the efficiency of the warehousing operation.

In the prior art, picking operation is mainly carried out in a mode of goods-to-person or order/vehicle-to-person, the picking operation mode by means of the transportation equipment can reduce walking and carrying workload of workers to a certain extent, but the transportation equipment and the workers often need to wait for each other when interacting, and therefore picking operation efficiency is low.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for sowing a wall, a material box and sorting equipment in a dispatching warehouse, and aims to solve the technical problem of low sorting operation efficiency in the prior art.

According to a first aspect of the present invention, a sowing wall is disclosed, comprising a shelf, a controller and a material box transfer device;

the goods shelf comprises a support, wherein multiple layers of partition plates are arranged on the support, a cache position used for storing the material boxes is formed between every two adjacent partition plates, the controller is used for receiving an operation instruction issued by the server and controlling the material box transfer device to carry the material boxes to the cache position or carry the material boxes on the cache position to a target position according to the operation instruction.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank transfer device comprises a carrying mechanism, which is movable in a vertical direction, a horizontal direction and a front-back direction.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank transfer device further includes an X-axis horizontal movement mechanism and a Y-axis vertical movement mechanism;

the X-axis horizontal movement mechanism comprises a horizontal guide rail and a sliding block, the horizontal guide rail is fixed on a bracket of the goods shelf and is parallel to a cross beam of the goods shelf, and the sliding block is arranged on the horizontal guide rail and can move left and right on the horizontal guide rail along the X-axis direction;

the Y-axis vertical motion mechanism comprises a vertical guide rail and a support plate, the vertical guide rail is parallel to the upright post of the goods shelf, the vertical guide rail is fixedly arranged on the sliding block, and the support plate is arranged on the vertical guide rail and can move up and down on the vertical guide rail along the Y-axis direction;

the carrying mechanism is arranged on the supporting plate and can move back and forth on the supporting plate along the Z-axis direction, and the carrying mechanism is used for carrying the material box.

Optionally, as an embodiment, a jacking assembly is arranged on the carrying mechanism, and the jacking assembly includes a telescopic component fixedly arranged on the carrying mechanism, and the telescopic component can stretch or contract along the Y-axis direction.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the horizontal guide rail includes an upper guide rail and a lower guide rail, and the slider includes an upper slider and a lower slider;

the upper sliding block is arranged on the upper guide rail and can move left and right on the upper guide rail along the X-axis direction;

the lower sliding block is arranged on the lower guide rail and can move left and right on the lower guide rail along the X-axis direction;

and two ends of the vertical guide rail are respectively and fixedly arranged on the upper sliding block and the lower sliding block.

Optionally, as an embodiment, a plurality of partition bars are disposed on each layer of partition plate to form a plurality of cache bits.

Optionally, as an embodiment, a detection unit is disposed in each cache bit, and the detection unit is in communication connection with the controller and is configured to detect whether there is a material tank in the cache bit.

Optionally, as an embodiment, an electronic tag is disposed on a side surface of the partition corresponding to each cache position, the electronic tag is in communication connection with the controller, and the electronic tag is configured to display basic information of the material tank on the cache position.

Optionally, as an embodiment, universal wheels or universal balls are arranged below the shelf.

According to a second aspect of the invention, a material tank is disclosed, the material tank comprises a tank body and two supporting components, one supporting component is arranged on the left side of the bottom of the tank body, the other supporting component is arranged on the right side of the bottom of the tank body, and the two supporting components are arranged in parallel.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, a method for scheduling picking equipment in a warehouse is disclosed, which is applied to a server for scheduling the above-mentioned sowing wall, and the method comprises:

after sending a first operation instruction to a transportation device, determining whether the transportation device enters a working area of a seeding wall, wherein the first operation instruction is used for instructing the transportation device to carry a movable goods shelf to enter the working area of the seeding wall, the movable goods shelf comprises at least one material box, the seeding wall comprises a plurality of cache positions, and the cache positions are used for storing the material boxes;

if the transportation equipment is determined to enter the working area of the sowing wall, generating a second operation instruction, and sending the second operation instruction to the sowing wall;

the second operation instruction is used for instructing the sowing wall to transfer the material boxes on the movable type goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment to the buffer positions of the sowing wall.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the method further includes:

generating a third operation instruction, and sending the third operation instruction to the seeding wall;

the third operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the material boxes on the cache positions of the seeding wall to the movable type shelf carried by the transportation equipment.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank includes any one of the following: bin SKU, order box and transfer box.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU;

the generating of the third operation instruction comprises:

generating a third operation instruction under the condition that the material box which does not meet the preset caching condition exists in the seeding wall;

wherein the caching condition comprises at least one of: the material box is a target product type SKU, and the material box is the SKU required by the next pass; and the third operation instruction is used for indicating the sowing wall to transfer the material boxes which do not meet the preset caching condition to the movable goods shelves carried by the transportation equipment.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU;

the generating a second job instruction includes:

generating a second operation instruction when the movable type shelf carried by the transportation equipment contains a target item class SKU and the designated buffer position of the sowing wall is free;

the designated buffer positions are one or more of the buffer positions of the seeding wall, and the second operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the target item SKU carried by the transportation equipment to the designated buffer positions.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material box includes an order box or a turnover box;

the generating of the third operation instruction comprises:

generating a third operation instruction under the condition that the material box which finishes sorting and sowing exists in the sowing wall;

the third operation instruction is used for instructing the sowing wall to transfer the material boxes which are sorted in the sowing wall to the movable type goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment.

According to a fourth aspect of the invention, a method of scheduling picking equipment in a warehouse is disclosed, applied to the above sowing wall, the method comprising:

receiving a second operation instruction from the server, wherein the second operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the material boxes on the movable goods shelf carried by the transport equipment to the cache positions of the seeding wall, the movable goods shelf comprises at least one material box, the seeding wall comprises a plurality of cache positions, and the cache positions are used for storing the material boxes;

and responding to the received second operation instruction, and transferring the material boxes on the movable type goods shelf carried by the transport equipment to the buffer positions of the sowing wall.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the method further includes:

receiving a third operation instruction from the server, wherein the third operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the material boxes on the cache positions of the seeding wall to a movable shelf carried by the transportation equipment;

and in response to receiving the third operation instruction, transferring the material boxes on the cache positions of the seeding walls to movable shelves carried by the transportation equipment.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed an apparatus for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, which is applied to a server and used for scheduling the above sowing walls, the apparatus comprising:

the system comprises a determining module, a storage module and a control module, wherein the determining module is used for determining whether a transport device enters a working area of a seeding wall after sending a first operation instruction to the transport device, the first operation instruction is used for instructing the transport device to carry a movable goods shelf to enter the working area of the seeding wall, the movable goods shelf comprises at least one material box, the seeding wall comprises a plurality of cache positions, and the cache positions are used for storing the material boxes;

the first generation module is used for generating a second job instruction under the condition that the determination result of the determination module is yes;

the first sending module is used for sending the second operation instruction to the sowing wall;

Optionally, as an embodiment, the apparatus further includes:

the second generation module is used for generating a third operation instruction;

the second sending module is used for sending the third operation instruction to the sowing wall;

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU;

the second generation module is specifically configured to:

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU;

the first generation module is specifically configured to:

Optionally, as an embodiment, the second generating module is specifically configured to:

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed an apparatus for scheduling sorting equipment in a warehouse, applied to the above sowing wall, the apparatus comprising:

the system comprises a first receiving module, a second receiving module and a control module, wherein the first receiving module is used for receiving a second operation instruction from a server, the second operation instruction is used for instructing a seeding wall to transfer material boxes on a movable goods shelf carried by transportation equipment to a cache position of the seeding wall, the movable goods shelf comprises at least one material box, the seeding wall comprises a plurality of cache positions, and the cache position is used for storing the material boxes;

and the first carrying module is used for responding to the received second operation instruction and transferring the material boxes on the movable goods shelf carried by the transport equipment to the cache positions of the sowing wall.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the apparatus further includes:

the second receiving module is used for receiving a third operation instruction from the server, wherein the third operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the material boxes on the cache positions of the seeding wall to the movable goods shelves carried by the transportation equipment;

and the second carrying module is used for responding to the received third operation instruction and transferring the material box on the cache position of the seeding wall to the movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed a scheduling system comprising a server, a transportation device, and a sowing wall;

the server is used for scheduling the transportation equipment to convey the movable goods shelf to enter a working area of the sowing wall;

the server is further used for scheduling the seeding wall to convey the material boxes on the transportation equipment to the cache positions of the seeding wall, or scheduling the seeding wall to convey the material boxes on the cache positions of the seeding wall to a target position, wherein the seeding wall comprises a plurality of cache positions, and the cache positions are used for storing the material boxes.

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed a server comprising: a memory, a processor and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the above method applied to a picking device in a server-side dispatch warehouse.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, there is disclosed a sowing wall comprising: a memory, a processor and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the above method applied to a sorting equipment in a dispatch warehouse at a planter wall end.

According to a tenth aspect of the invention, a computer readable storage medium is disclosed, having a program stored thereon, which program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the above-mentioned steps of the method for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse on a server side.

According to an eleventh aspect of the invention, a computer readable storage medium is disclosed, having a program stored thereon, which program, when executed by a processor, carries out the steps of the above method applied to a picking device in a dispatch warehouse at a planter wall end.

In the embodiment of the invention, the seeding wall can comprise a controller and a material transfer device, and the server in charge of the picking and dispatching work can control the material transfer device in the seeding wall to automatically and accurately transfer the material boxes carried by the transportation equipment to the cache position of the seeding wall for temporary storage through interaction with the controller in the seeding wall. Because the seeding wall plays a role in caching between the transportation equipment and the workers, the working mode between the transportation equipment and the workers can be changed from the previous serial working mode to the parallel working mode, namely the transportation equipment and the workers do not need to wait each other in the picking operation process, and the picking operation efficiency is improved.

In addition, because the interaction time of the transportation equipment and the seeding wall can be accurately estimated, the server responsible for the sorting and scheduling tasks can more comprehensively plan the running tasks of the transportation equipment based on the estimated interaction time, and the utilization rate of the transportation equipment resources is improved.

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Fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a sowing wall of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a schematic structural view of a material bin of one embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a flow diagram of a method of scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 4 is a diagram of a scenario of a method of scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of a method of scheduling picking devices in a warehouse according to another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 6 is a signaling interaction diagram of a method of scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, according to one embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 7 is a schematic block diagram of an apparatus for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, in accordance with an embodiment of the present invention;

fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present invention comprehensible, embodiments accompanied with figures are described in further detail below.

It should be noted that, for simplicity of description, the method embodiments are described as a series of acts or combination of acts, but those skilled in the art will recognize that the present invention is not limited by the illustrated order of acts, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently in accordance with the embodiments of the present invention. Further, those skilled in the art will appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required to implement the invention.

With the successful application of the storage robot in amazon warehouses, many transportation equipment applications in storage scenes, such as AGVs (Automated Guided vehicles), start to appear in China, and the picking operation in the storage operation is the most difficult part of all operations, so even if the transportation equipment is applied, the transportation equipment and manual interaction operation in the picking operation are still very tedious. Currently, the sorting operation is mainly divided into two categories: a "goods-to-people" mode and an "order/vehicle-to-people" mode, wherein the "goods-to-people" mode is generally: the transportation equipment carries the goods shelf to pick before the person, and the mode of 'order/vehicle to person' is basically as follows: and the transport equipment orders the single vehicle or the wave box to the road junction for sorting.

For convenience of understanding, the transport device is taken as an AGV as an example, and the interactive operation flow of the transport device and the worker in the picking operation in the prior art is described.

Specifically, in a goods-to-person selection operation mode, the AGV transports a movable goods shelf where a storage area appointed SKU is located to an appointed selection workstation according to an instruction issued by a server in a scheduling system; a worker takes out commodities in an appointed SKU from a movable goods shelf carried by the AGV and scans codes; the worker places the scanned commodities into the designated sowing positions of the order sowing wall; the AGV leaves the sorting workstation and transports the movable goods shelf back to the storage area; the next AGV enters the picking station.

Specifically, in the order/vehicle-to-person picking operation mode, the AGV transports a movable goods shelf with an order box or a turnover box to a specified roadway according to an instruction issued by a server in a dispatching system; the worker takes out the commodities in the designated SKU from the roadway shelf and scans the codes; the staff puts the goods after code scanning into order boxes or wave boxes on a movable goods shelf carried by the AGV; the AGV leaves the current lane and transports the movable rack with the order boxes or totes to the next lane or to the next process (e.g., recheck packing station or other); the next AGV enters the roadway.

In the operation mode of selecting among the prior art, AGV and staff interactive operation belong to the serial mode, and staff and AGV just can carry out effective operation when must being ready simultaneously, and the staff is in the wait state when the AGV is not ready, and the AGV is in the wait state when the staff is not ready, and next AGV also is in the state of lining up because of can't getting into to select the workstation.

Although the walking and transporting work of the workers is reduced in the two types of picking operation modes, the picking efficiency is low due to the following problems (mainly the problem that the AGVs and the workers wait for each other) when the AGVs and the workers interact with each other:

the worker waits for an AGV: when the AGV does not reach the picking workstation, in the goods-to-person mode, the worker cannot take the goods from the goods shelf, in the order/vehicle-to-person mode, the worker cannot place the goods into the order box or the wave box, the worker is in a waiting state, and the working efficiency is low;

AGV waiting for staff: when the AGV reaches a picking workstation and a worker does not finish the picking operation, the AGV needs to wait for the worker to take the goods from the goods shelf in a goods-to-person mode, and needs to wait for the worker to put the goods into an order box or a wave box in an order/vehicle-to-person mode, so that the AGV is in a waiting state and has lower working efficiency;

the problem of AGV resource utilization rate is low: limited by the sorting workstation to the number of the remaining AGVs, after the AGV finishes the seeding of the current wave, the AGV needs to drive away from the workstation, and other AGVs enter the workstation; and one staff interacts with 1-2 AGV at most each time, and the effective hit storehouse position that each AGV provided is very limited (generally 1-2), therefore the staff can only use few effective source goods position when seeding at every turn, when the SKU that this wave needs to sow more, need a plurality of AGV transport goods shelves repeatedly because of selecting the position limited. After the class-A commodities (such as orders or hot commodities with a larger account in warehouse-out lists) which most frequently appear in the order structure leave the workstation in the current wave, the class-A commodities are often used in the next wave of sowing, so that the class-A commodities need to be repeatedly transported to a picking workstation by an AGV, and the workload of the AGV is increased; in addition, because the manual participation link is adopted in the working process of the AGV, the stopping time and the manual operation time of the AGV cannot be accurately predicted, the scheduling and planning of a scheduling system are not facilitated, the stations are easy to jam and queue, a large number of AGVs are in a waiting state or cannot be effectively utilized, and the utilization rate of AGV resources is low.

In order to solve the technical problems, the embodiment of the invention provides a method and a device for sowing a wall, a material box and scheduling sorting equipment in a warehouse.

First, a sowing wall provided by an embodiment of the present invention will be described.

The embodiment of the invention provides a seeding wall, which comprises: the device comprises a goods shelf, a controller and a material box transfer device; wherein,

the goods shelf comprises a support, wherein a plurality of layers of partition plates are arranged on the support, and a cache position for storing a material box is formed between every two adjacent partition plates;

the controller is used for receiving an operation instruction issued by the server and controlling the material box transfer device to convey the material box to the cache position of the seeding wall or convey the material box on the cache position of the seeding wall to a target position according to the operation instruction.

In the embodiment of the invention, the controller can control the material box transfer device to transfer the material box on the transportation equipment or on another shelf or on a certain position on the ground to the cache position of the sowing wall according to the operation instruction.

In the embodiment of the invention, the target position can be a specific transportation device, can also be a specific position on another shelf, can also be a certain position on the ground, and can also be another buffer position on a sowing wall.

As can be seen from the above embodiments, in this embodiment, a controller and a material transfer device are added on the basis of a conventional seeding wall, so that the seeding wall can interact with a server responsible for the picking and scheduling work through the controller, and the material transfer device in the seeding wall is controlled to automatically and accurately transfer the material boxes carried by the transportation equipment to the buffer position of the seeding wall for temporary storage. Because the seeding wall can transport the haulage equipment to the material case of selecting the workstation and shift to the buffer position, carry out processing on next step by the staff again (the staff takes off the goods from the goods check of seeding wall buffer position in "goods to people" mode, the staff puts into the order case or the ripples case of seeding wall buffer position with the goods in "order/car to people" mode), after the staff handles to finish, follow-up haulage equipment takes the material case away from the seeding wall, or according to the circumstances with the material case temporary storage in the seeding wall, need not staff and haulage equipment and wait for each other, improved and selected the operating efficiency.

In addition, in the embodiment of the invention, the material box can be temporarily stored on the cache position of the sowing wall, so that for some hot commodities, the material box where the commodity is located can be temporarily stored on the sowing wall, and the carrying times of the transportation equipment are reduced; and because the interaction time of the transport equipment and the sowing wall can be accurately estimated, the server responsible for the sorting and scheduling tasks can more comprehensively plan the running tasks of the transport equipment based on the estimated interaction time, and the utilization rate of transport equipment resources is improved.

In an embodiment of the present invention, the material tank may include: SKU (Stock Keeping Unit, also known as Stock grid) order boxes and wave boxes (also known as totes).

In the embodiment of the invention, the controller can be fixedly arranged on the goods shelf and can also be separated from the goods shelf. The material box transfer device can be fixedly arranged on a support of the goods shelf and can also be separated from the goods shelf. The controller may be in wired connection with the material transfer device.

In an embodiment of the invention, the material box transfer device comprises a carrying mechanism which can move along the vertical direction, the horizontal direction and the front-back direction. In practical applications, the carrying mechanism may be a carrying plate, and may also be one or more forks.

In one embodiment of the invention, the material tank transferring device may comprise: the device comprises a carrying mechanism, an X-axis horizontal movement mechanism and a Y-axis vertical movement mechanism; wherein, X axle horizontal movement mechanism includes: the horizontal guide rail is fixed on a bracket of the goods shelf and is parallel to a beam of the goods shelf, and the sliding block is arranged on the horizontal guide rail and can move left and right on the horizontal guide rail along the X-axis direction; the Y-axis vertical motion mechanism comprises a vertical guide rail and a support plate, the vertical guide rail is parallel to the upright post of the goods shelf, the vertical guide rail is fixedly arranged on the sliding block, and the support plate is arranged on the vertical guide rail and can move up and down along the Y-axis direction on the vertical guide rail; the carrying mechanism is arranged on the supporting plate and can move back and forth on the supporting plate along the Z-axis direction, and the carrying mechanism is used for carrying the material box.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the horizontal rail of the X-axis horizontal movement mechanism may include an upper rail and a lower rail, or may include only the upper rail, or may include only the lower rail.

Specifically, when the horizontal guide rail includes upper guide rail and lower guide rail, the upper guide rail is fixed to be set up on the upper bracket of goods shelves, the lower guide rail is fixed to be set up on the lower carriage of goods shelves, X axle horizontal movement mechanism's slider includes top shoe and lower slider, the top shoe sets up on the top guide rail to can move about along the X axle direction on the top guide rail, the lower slider sets up on the lower guide rail, and can move about along the X axle direction on the lower guide rail, the both ends of perpendicular guide rail are fixed respectively and are set up on top shoe and lower slider.

Specifically, when horizontal guide only included the top rail, the top rail was fixed to be set up on the upper bracket of goods shelves, and X axle horizontal movement mechanism's slider includes the top shoe, and the top shoe sets up on the top rail to can remove about along the X axle direction on the top rail, the upper end of perpendicular guide rail is fixed to be set up on the top shoe.

Specifically, when horizontal guide only included the lower guideway, the lower guideway was fixed to be set up on the lower carriage of goods shelves, and X axle horizontal movement mechanism's slider includes the lower slider, and the lower slider setting is on the lower guideway to can remove about the X axle direction on the lower guideway, the lower extreme of perpendicular guide rail is fixed to be set up on the lower slider.

In the embodiment of the invention, the supporting plate can be provided with a Z-axis guide rail, and the carrying mechanism is arranged on the Z-axis guide rail and can move back and forth on the Z-axis guide rail along the Z-axis direction.

In the embodiment of the invention, the carrying mechanism can be provided with a jacking assembly, the jacking assembly comprises a telescopic part fixedly arranged on the carrying mechanism, and the telescopic part can stretch or contract along the Y-axis direction.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 1, fig. 1 is a schematic structural view of a sowing wall according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the sowing wall 100 may include: the plurality of brackets 1011, the plurality of partition walls 1012, the controller 102, the horizontal lower rail 1031, the lower slider 1032, the horizontal upper rail 1033, the upper slider 1034, the vertical rail 1041, the support plate 1042 and the carrier plate 105, wherein the plurality of brackets 1011 and the plurality of partition walls 1012 form a rack (no number shown in the figure), the horizontal lower rail 1031, the lower slider 1032, the horizontal upper rail 1033 and the upper slider 1034 form an X-axis horizontal movement mechanism (no number shown in the figure), the vertical rail 1041 and the support plate 1042 form a Y-axis vertical movement mechanism (no number shown in the figure), and the carrier plate 105 forms a carrier mechanism (no number shown in the figure).

The controller 102 is fixedly arranged on the bracket 1011, the horizontal lower guide rail 1031 is fixedly arranged on a lower bracket in the bracket 1011, and the lower sliding block 1032 is slidably arranged on the horizontal lower guide rail 1031 and can move left and right on the horizontal lower guide rail 1031 along the X-axis direction; the horizontal upper guide rail 1033 is fixedly arranged on an upper bracket in the bracket 1011, and the upper sliding block 1034 is arranged on the horizontal upper guide rail 1033 in a sliding way and can move left and right along the X-axis direction on the horizontal upper guide rail 1033; two ends of the vertical guide rail 1041 are respectively and fixedly arranged on the lower slider 1032 and the upper slider 1034, and can move left and right along the X axis; the support plate 1042 is slidably disposed on the vertical guide rail 1041 and can move up and down on the vertical guide rail 1041 along the Y-axis direction; a Z-axis guide rail is arranged on the support plate 1042, a slider is arranged at the bottom of the carrying plate 105, and the carrying plate 105 is slidably arranged on the support plate 1042 and can move back and forth on the support plate 1042 along the Z-axis direction. In addition, the carrying plate 105 may further be provided with a lifting assembly (not shown) for lifting the material box carried on the carrying plate 105 by a certain height along the Y-axis direction.

In the embodiment of the invention, besides the material box transfer device with the structure, a mechanical arm type material box transfer device can be adopted, and the material box is transferred through the mechanical arm.

In the embodiment of the invention, in order to manage the storage space of the sowing wall, a plurality of partition bars can be arranged on each layer of partition plate to form a plurality of cache positions, namely, each layer of storage space of the sowing wall is divided into a plurality of cache positions, the interval between adjacent partition bars can be set according to the width of the material box, and under normal conditions, the interval between adjacent partition bars is larger than the width of the material box.

In the embodiment of the invention, in order to facilitate monitoring of the available states of the cache bits, a detection unit can be arranged in each cache bit, and the detection unit is in communication connection with the controller and is used for detecting whether a material box exists in each cache bit. In practical applications, the detecting unit may be a grating detecting unit, an infrared sensor, a weight sensor, an image sensor, or the like.

In the embodiment of the invention, in order to facilitate the picking of the goods by the staff, the side face of the partition plate corresponding to each cache position can be provided with the electronic tag, the electronic tag is in communication connection with the controller, and the electronic tag is used for displaying basic information (such as order numbers of the material boxes, types of articles in the material boxes and the like) of the material boxes on the cache positions. It should be understood that in other embodiments, an identifier (such as a bar code, a two-dimensional code, a one-dimensional code, etc.) may be set at a corresponding position of each buffer bit, and the identifier is used for indicating basic information of the material tank on the buffer bit, and the staff member may scan the identifier through the bar code to obtain the basic information of the material tank.

In the embodiment of the invention, in order to adjust the position of the sowing wall at any time, universal wheels or universal balls can be arranged below the goods shelf.

In order to cooperate with the work of the cache seeding wall, the invention also provides a material box, which can comprise: the box and two supporting components, wherein one supporting component is arranged on the left side of the bottom of the box, the other supporting component is arranged on the right side of the bottom of the box, and the two supporting components are arranged in parallel.

It can be seen from the above-mentioned embodiment that, in this embodiment, can be on the basis of current material case, the bottom both sides increase supporting component for the material case transfer device of seeding wall can stretch into material bottom of the case portion smoothly and carry out the transport of material case.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 2, fig. 2 is a schematic structural diagram of a material tank according to an embodiment of the present invention, and the material tank 200 may include: the box 201 can be a storage grid, and the right supporting component 2012 and the left supporting component 2022 form a reserved space.

It should be noted that, when the material box is transferred to the buffer position by the material box transfer device of the seeding wall, the opening of the reserved space of the material box needs to be placed outwards, so that the material box can be directly stretched into the bottom of the material box for carrying when the material box is carried next time by the material box transfer device.

A method of scheduling picking equipment in a warehouse according to the present invention is described next.

Fig. 3 is a flow diagram of a method of scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, the method being performed by a server, as shown in fig. 3, which may include the steps of: step 301 and step 302, wherein,

in step 301, after sending a first operation instruction to a transportation device, determining whether the transportation device enters a working area of a seeding wall, where the first operation instruction is used to instruct the transportation device to carry a movable shelf to enter the working area of the seeding wall, the movable shelf includes at least one material box, the seeding wall includes a plurality of buffer locations, and the buffer locations are used to store the material box.

In the embodiment of the invention, the transportation equipment can be an AGV, and can also be other types of transfer robots. The material tank may include: SKU, order box or wave box (tote).

In the embodiment of the invention, in one scene, the movable goods shelf and the transportation equipment are two separated individuals, and the movable goods shelf moves under the carrying of the transportation equipment; in another scenario, the movable shelf is fixed on the transportation equipment in a detachable mode or a non-detachable mode, and the movable shelf and the transportation equipment form a whole. In the former scenario, the first work order is specifically used to instruct the transport device to carry up the movable rack and enter the work area of the sowing wall; in the latter scenario, the first operation instruction is specifically used to instruct the transportation device to enter the working area of the sowing wall, and the movable shelf enters the working area of the sowing wall along with the transportation device because the movable shelf is fixed with the transportation device.

In the embodiment of the invention, a seeding wall can be arranged in each picking workstation, and a seeding wall can also be arranged at each roadway. The scheduling server in charge of the picking operation issues a first operation instruction to the transportation equipment, and the transportation equipment carries the movable goods shelf where the designated material box is located to drive to a working area of a seeding wall in the picking workstation/roadway according to the first operation instruction.

Specifically, in a goods-to-people scene, the material box is a SKU, and after a first operation instruction from the server is received, the movable shelf where the designated SKU is located in the transportation equipment carrying storage area is driven to the working area of the seeding wall in the picking workstation.

Specifically, in an order/vehicle-to-person scene, the material box is an order box or a wave box, and after receiving a first operation instruction from the server, the transportation equipment carries the movable goods shelf with the order box or the wave box to drive to a working area of the seeding wall in the specified roadway.

In the embodiment of the invention, the transportation equipment can be provided with the positioning chip or the positioning device, the transportation equipment acquires the position information of the transportation equipment in real time through the positioning chip or the positioning device and reports the real-time position information to the server, and the server determines whether the transportation equipment enters the working area of the sowing wall or not according to the real-time position information reported by the transportation equipment. If the real-time position information reported by the transport equipment falls into the working area of the sowing wall, the server determines that the transport equipment enters the working area of the sowing wall; and if the real-time position information reported by the transport equipment does not fall into the working area of the sowing wall, the server determines that the transport equipment does not enter the working area of the sowing wall.

In step 302, if it is determined that the transportation equipment enters the work area of the seeding wall, a second operation instruction is generated and sent to the seeding wall, wherein the second operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the material boxes on the movable shelves carried by the transportation equipment to the buffer positions of the seeding wall.

In the embodiment of the invention, after the transportation equipment enters the working area of the seeding wall, in order to avoid the overlong stay time of the transportation equipment in the working area of the seeding wall, the server sends a second operation instruction to the seeding wall to instruct the seeding wall to transfer the material boxes on the movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment to the buffer positions of the seeding wall by using the material box transfer device of the seeding wall, so that the next operation can be carried out by a worker.

Specifically, in the 'goods-to-people' scene, the material box is a SKU, after a second operation instruction from the server is received, the seeding wall transfers the SKU on the movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment to a buffer storage position of the seeding wall by using the material box transfer device of the seeding wall, so that a worker can take the goods in the designated SKU from the seeding wall and sweep the codes, the goods after being swept are placed in the designated seeding position of the order seeding wall, and then the next SKU operation is continued.

Specifically, in the order/vehicle-to-person scene, after receiving a second operation instruction from the server, the seeding wall transfers an order box or a sub-box on a movable rack carried by the transportation equipment to a buffer position of the seeding wall by using a material box transfer device of the seeding wall, so that a worker can place a commodity which is taken out from a tunnel rack and scanned into the order box or the sub-box of the buffer position of the seeding wall.

In a preferred embodiment of the present invention, considering that in a "goods-to-people" scenario, some items of popular goods may be used for multiple times, in order to facilitate picking by a worker, the sowing wall may be instructed to place a SKU where the items are located on the sowing wall at a specific buffer position, and accordingly, the material tank is a SKU, and the step of generating the second operation instruction may specifically include the following steps:

generating a second operation instruction under the condition that the movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment contains a target item type SKU and the designated buffer position of the sowing wall is free; the designated buffer positions are one or more of the buffer positions of the seeding wall, and the second operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the target item SKUs carried by the transportation equipment to the designated buffer positions.

In the embodiment of the present invention, the target categories may include: the order or the library order accounts for the larger hot commodities and the commodities sold in the season. Specifying the cache bits may include: a certain layer of buffer positions of the sowing wall can help the workers to select the seeds in a targeted way.

In another embodiment of the invention, in order to improve the utilization rate of the buffer position in the seeding wall, after the worker finishes the picking operation, the server can control the seeding wall to use the material box transfer device of the worker to transfer part or all of the material boxes in the buffer position to the movable goods shelf carried by the transport equipment, so that the material boxes can be carried away together when the transport equipment leaves. Specifically, the following steps (not shown in the figure) may be added on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 3: step 303, in which, in the step of,

in step 303, a third operation instruction is generated and sent to the seeding wall, where the third operation instruction is used to instruct the seeding wall to transfer the material box on the buffer position of the seeding wall to the movable shelf carried by the transportation equipment.

Specifically, in the 'goods-to-people' scene, after receiving a third operation instruction from the server, the seeding wall transfers part or all of the SKUs on the cache position of the seeding wall to the movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment by using the material box transfer device of the seeding wall, so that the SKUs are carried back to the storage area when the transportation equipment leaves the picking workstation.

Specifically, in the order/vehicle-to-person scenario, after receiving a third operation instruction from the server, the seeding wall transfers the order box or the sub-box on the cache position of the seeding wall to the movable shelf carried by the transportation equipment by using the material box transfer device of the seeding wall, so that the transportation equipment can carry the order box or the sub-box to the next lane or the rechecking and packing workstation when leaving the lane.

In another preferred embodiment provided by the present invention, in order to reduce the workload of transporting equipment in the "goods-to-people" scenario, the SKU that is temporarily not used in the seeding wall may be transported away, and accordingly, the step 103 may specifically include the following steps:

generating a third operation instruction under the condition that the material box which does not meet the preset caching condition exists in the seeding wall; wherein, the material case is SKU, and the buffer memory condition includes at least one of the following: the material box is a target product type SKU, the material box is a SKU required by the next pass, and the third operation instruction is used for indicating the seeding wall to transfer the material box which does not meet the preset caching condition to a movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the invention, when the operation is carried out, the required SKU of the next wave can be calculated at the same time, if the required SKU of the next wave exists in the seeding wall, the material tank of the SKU does not need to be taken away from the seeding wall, and only the SKU which does not exist in the current seeding wall needs to be transported, so that the SKU of the type with larger shipment quantity can be stored in the seeding wall for a longer time, and the transporting times of transporting equipment are reduced. In addition, the material box which is not used temporarily is transferred away, and the utilization rate of the cache position in the seeding wall is improved.

In another preferred embodiment provided by the present invention, in the "order/vehicle-to-person" scenario, the step 103 may specifically include the following steps:

generating a third operation instruction under the condition that the sorting and sowing of the material boxes are determined to exist in the sowing wall; the material boxes comprise order boxes or turnover boxes, and the third operation instruction is used for indicating the sowing wall to transfer the material boxes which are sorted and sowed in the sowing wall to the movable goods shelves carried by the conveying equipment.

Therefore, in the embodiment of the invention, the order boxes or the sub-boxes which are sorted and broadcast in the seeding wall can be timely carried away, so that the time for entering the next flow can be shortened on one hand, and the utilization rate of the cache bits in the seeding wall is improved on the other hand.

In the embodiment of the invention, under the condition that the buffer position of the sowing wall is free, the transportation equipment can leave after waiting for the material box transfer device of the sowing wall to move the material box and put a new material box, so that the transportation equipment of the next train number can enter without waiting for workers; the staff need not to wait for the haulage equipment and can accomplish this kind of operation of choosing to broadcast under the condition that the required material case of current ripples is located at the buffer memory of sowing the wall, gets into next operation, and people need not to wait for each other with the haulage equipment.

In one example, as shown in fig. 4, the application scenario includes: the system comprises a server 410, a transportation device 420, a movable shelf 430, a material box 440 and a sowing wall 450; the server 410 schedules the transportation device 420 to carry the movable rack 430 into the work area of the sowing wall 450, and then the server 410 schedules the sowing wall 450 to transfer the material boxes 440 on the movable rack 430 to the buffer positions of the sowing wall 450 using its own material box transfer device.

It can be seen from the above embodiment that, in this embodiment, the sowing wall can be arranged in the picking workstation or the tunnel, so as to play a role of buffering between the transportation device and the worker, and filter the rhythm fluctuation of the transportation device side and the worker side, so that the working mode between the transportation device and the worker can be changed from the previous serial working mode to the parallel working mode, that is, the transportation device and the worker do not need to wait each other in the picking operation process, thereby improving the efficiency of the picking operation.

In addition, because no staff participates in the interaction process of the transportation equipment and the seeding wall, the working time of the transportation equipment can be estimated accurately, the server responsible for the sorting and scheduling tasks can plan the running tasks of the transportation equipment more comprehensively based on the estimated interaction time, and the utilization rate of the transportation equipment resources is improved.

FIG. 5 is a flow diagram of a method of scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, as performed by a seeding wall, as shown in FIG. 5, which may include the steps of: step 501 and step 502, wherein,

in step 501, a second operation instruction from the server is received, where the second operation instruction is used to instruct a seeding wall to transfer a material box on a movable shelf carried by a transportation device to a cache position of the seeding wall, the movable shelf includes at least one material box, the seeding wall includes multiple cache positions, and the cache position is used to store the material box.

In the embodiment of the invention, a seeding wall can be arranged in each picking workstation, and a seeding wall can also be arranged at each roadway. The transport may be an AGV or other type of transfer robot. The material tank may include: SKU, order box or wave box (tote).

In step 502, in response to receiving the second work order, the material boxes on the movable racks carried by the transport equipment are transferred to the buffer positions of the sowing wall.

In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, considering that in a "goods-to-people" scenario, some items of popular goods may be used for multiple times, in order to facilitate the sorting by the staff, the server may issue a second operation instruction to instruct the sowing wall to place SKUs where the items are located on a specific cache position of the sowing wall, and accordingly, the material box is a SKU, where the step 502 specifically includes the following steps:

and in response to receiving the second operation instruction, transferring the target item class SKU carried by the transport equipment to the designated cache positions, wherein the designated cache positions are one or more of the cache positions of the sowing wall.

In another embodiment of the invention, in order to improve the utilization rate of the buffer position in the seeding wall, after the worker finishes the picking operation, the server can control the seeding wall to use the material box transfer device of the worker to transfer part or all of the material boxes in the buffer position to the movable goods shelf carried by the transport equipment, so that the material boxes can be carried away together when the transport equipment leaves. Specifically, the following steps (not shown in the figure) may be added on the basis of the embodiment shown in fig. 5: step 503 and step 504, wherein,

in step 503, a third operation instruction is received from the server, wherein the third operation instruction is used for instructing the seeding wall to transfer the material box on the buffer position of the seeding wall to the movable shelf carried by the transportation equipment.

In step 504, in response to receiving the third operation instruction, the material boxes on the buffer positions of the seeding wall are transferred to the movable shelves carried by the transportation equipment.

In another preferred embodiment of the present invention, in order to reduce the workload of transporting equipment in the "goods-to-people" scenario, the server may instruct the seeding wall to carry away the temporarily unused SKU in the caching slot of the seeding wall through a third operation instruction, and accordingly, the step 504 may specifically include the following steps:

in response to receiving the third operation instruction, transferring the material boxes which do not meet the preset caching condition in the seeding wall to a movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment; wherein, the material case is SKU, and the buffer memory condition includes at least one of the following: the material box is the target item class SKU, and the material box is the SKU required by the next pass.

In another preferred embodiment provided by the present invention, in the "order/vehicle-to-person" scenario, the step 504 may specifically include the following steps:

in response to receiving the third operation instruction, transferring the material boxes which are sorted and sowed in the sowing wall to a movable goods shelf carried by the transportation equipment; wherein, the material case includes order case or turnover case.

In order to facilitate the overall understanding of the technical solution of the present invention, the description is made with reference to the signaling interaction diagram of the multi-port device shown in fig. 6. Fig. 6 is a signaling interaction diagram of a method for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse according to an embodiment of the present invention, as shown in fig. 6, the signaling interaction diagram includes: the transportation equipment, the server and the sowing wall realize the scheduling in the picking operation through the interaction and the cooperation of three ends,

in step 601, the server sends a first job instruction to the transportation device;

in step 602, a transport device receives a first job instruction sent by a server;

in step 603, the transportation equipment carries the movable goods shelf and drives to the working area of the sowing wall;

in step 604, the server determines whether the transportation device enters the work area of the sowing wall;

in step 605, the server determines that the transportation equipment enters a working area of the sowing wall, and generates a second operation instruction;

in step 606, the server sends a second job instruction to the sowing wall;

in step 607, the sowing wall receives the second operation instruction sent by the server;

in step 608, the seeding wall transfers the material box seeding wall cache bit on the movable shelf carried by the transportation equipment to the upper part;

in step 609, the server sends a third operation instruction to the sowing wall;

in step 610, the sowing wall receives a third operation instruction sent by the server;

in step 611, the seeding wall transfers the material boxes on the caching locations of the seeding wall to the movable shelves carried by the transport equipment.

Fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, which is applied to a server, according to an embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 7, an apparatus 700 for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse may include: a determining module 701, a first generating module 702 and a first sending module 703; wherein,

the determining module 701 is configured to determine whether a transport device enters a working area of a seeding wall after sending a first operation instruction to the transport device, where the first operation instruction is used to instruct the transport device to carry a movable shelf to enter the working area of the seeding wall, the movable shelf includes at least one material box, the seeding wall includes a plurality of cache locations, and the cache locations are used to store the material boxes;

a first generating module 702, configured to generate a second job instruction if a determination result of the determining module is yes;

a first sending module 703, configured to send the second operation instruction to the sowing wall;

Optionally, as an embodiment, the apparatus 700 for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse may further include:

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank may include any one of the following:

bin SKU, order box and transfer box.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU;

the second generating module may be specifically configured to:

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU;

the first generating module 702 may be specifically configured to:

Optionally, as an embodiment, the second generating module may be specifically configured to:

Fig. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse, which is applied to a sowing wall, according to another embodiment of the present invention, and as shown in fig. 8, the apparatus 800 for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse may include: a first receiving module 801 and a first carrying module 802; wherein,

the first receiving module 801 is configured to receive a second operation instruction from a server, where the second operation instruction is used to instruct a seeding wall to transfer a material box on a movable shelf carried by a transportation device to a cache position of the seeding wall, the movable shelf includes at least one material box, the seeding wall includes multiple cache positions, and the cache position is used to store the material box;

the first carrying module 802 is configured to transfer the material boxes on the movable racks carried by the transport equipment to the buffer positions of the sowing wall in response to receiving the second operation instruction.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the apparatus 800 for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse may further include:

bin SKU, order box and transfer box.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU; the third operation instruction is specifically used for instructing the sowing wall to transfer the material boxes which do not meet the preset caching condition to a movable shelf carried by the transportation equipment, wherein the caching condition includes at least one of the following conditions: the material box is the target item class SKU, and the material box is the SKU required by the next pass.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the material tank is a SKU; the second operation instruction is specifically used for instructing the sowing wall to transfer the target item class SKU carried by the transportation equipment to the designated cache positions, and the designated cache positions are one or more of the cache positions of the sowing wall.

Optionally, as an embodiment, the third operation instruction is specifically configured to instruct the sowing wall to transfer the material boxes sorted in the sowing wall to the movable rack carried by the transportation device.

For the device embodiment, since it is basically similar to the method embodiment, the description is simple, and for the relevant points, refer to the partial description of the method embodiment.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a scheduling system including a server, a transportation apparatus, and a sowing wall; the server is used for scheduling the transportation equipment to convey the movable goods shelf to enter a working area of the sowing wall; the server is further used for scheduling the seeding wall to convey the material boxes on the transportation equipment to the cache positions of the seeding wall, or scheduling the seeding wall to convey the material boxes on the cache positions of the seeding wall to a target position, wherein the seeding wall comprises a plurality of cache positions, and the cache positions are used for storing the material boxes.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a server including: a memory, a processor and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program, when executed by the processor, implementing the steps of the method as applied to a server-side method for scheduling picking devices in a warehouse as described in any one of the embodiments above.

According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is also provided a sowing wall including: a memory, a processor and a program stored on the memory and executable on the processor, the program when executed by the processor implementing the steps of the method for picking devices in a dispatch warehouse applied to a planter wall end as described in any one of the embodiments above.

The present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores a program that, when being executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method applied to the server-side picking device in the dispatching warehouse as described in any one of the embodiments above.

The present invention also provides a computer-readable storage medium, which stores a program that, when executed by a processor, implements the steps of the method applied to a picking device in a dispatching warehouse of a sowing wall end, as described in any one of the above embodiments.

The embodiments in the present specification are described in a progressive manner, each embodiment focuses on differences from other embodiments, and the same and similar parts among the embodiments are referred to each other.

As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, embodiments of the present invention may be provided as a method, apparatus, or computer program product. Accordingly, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects. Furthermore, embodiments of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied on one or more computer-usable storage media (including, but not limited to, disk storage, CD-ROM, optical storage, and the like) having computer-usable program code embodied therein.

Embodiments of the present invention are described with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, terminal devices (systems), and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each flow and/or block of the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, and combinations of flows and/or blocks in the flow diagrams and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, embedded processor, or other programmable data processing terminal to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing terminal, create means for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer-readable memory that can direct a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer-readable memory produce an article of manufacture including instruction means which implement the function specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

These computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer or other programmable data processing terminal to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer or other programmable terminal to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable terminal provide steps for implementing the functions specified in the flowchart flow or flows and/or block diagram block or blocks.

While preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described, additional variations and modifications of these embodiments may occur to those skilled in the art once they learn of the basic inventive concepts. Therefore, it is intended that the appended claims be interpreted as including preferred embodiments and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the scope of the embodiments of the invention.

Finally, it should also be noted that, herein, relational terms such as first and second, and the like may be used solely to distinguish one entity or action from another entity or action without necessarily requiring or implying any actual such relationship or order between such entities or actions. Also, the terms "comprises," "comprising," or any other variation thereof, are intended to cover a non-exclusive inclusion, such that a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises a list of elements does not include only those elements but may include other elements not expressly listed or inherent to such process, method, article, or terminal. Without further limitation, an element defined by the phrase "comprising an … …" does not exclude the presence of other like elements in a process, method, article, or terminal that comprises the element.

The method and the device for sowing the equipment in the wall, the material box and the dispatching warehouse are introduced in detail, a specific example is applied in the method to explain the principle and the implementation mode of the invention, and the description of the embodiment is only used for helping to understand the method and the core idea of the invention; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present invention, there may be variations in the specific embodiments and the application scope, and in summary, the content of the present specification should not be construed as a limitation to the present invention.

Claims

1. A seeding wall is characterized by comprising a goods shelf, a controller and a material box transfer device;

2. A sowing wall according to claim 1, wherein the material bin transfer device comprises a carrying mechanism which is movable in a vertical direction, a horizontal direction and a front-to-back direction.

3. A sowing wall according to claim 2, wherein the material box transfer device further comprises an X-axis horizontal movement mechanism and a Y-axis vertical movement mechanism;

4. The sowing wall of claim 3, wherein the carrying mechanism is provided with a jacking assembly, the jacking assembly comprises a telescopic part fixedly arranged on the carrying mechanism, and the telescopic part can be stretched or contracted along the Y-axis direction.

5. The planting wall of claim 3, wherein the horizontal rail comprises an upper rail and a lower rail, and the slide comprises an upper slide and a lower slide;

6. The sowing wall of claim 1, wherein a plurality of parting strips are arranged on each layer of the partition to form a plurality of buffer positions.

7. A sowing wall according to claim 6, wherein a detection unit is arranged in each buffer position, and the detection unit is in communication connection with the controller and is used for detecting whether a material tank is arranged in the buffer position.

8. A sowing wall according to claim 6, wherein an electronic tag is arranged on the side face of the partition corresponding to each buffering position, the electronic tag is in communication connection with the controller, and the electronic tag is used for displaying basic information of the material box on the buffering position.

9. A sowing wall according to claim 1, wherein universal wheels or universal balls are arranged below the goods shelf.

10. The material box is characterized by comprising a box body and two supporting assemblies, wherein one supporting assembly is arranged on the left side of the bottom of the box body, the other supporting assembly is arranged on the right side of the bottom of the box body, and the two supporting assemblies are arranged in parallel.

11. A method of scheduling picking equipment in a warehouse for use in a server for scheduling a sowing wall according to any one of claims 1 to 9, the method comprising:

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

13. A method according to claim 11 or 12, wherein the material tank comprises any one of: bin SKU, order box and transfer box.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the bin is a SKU;

the generating of the third operation instruction comprises:

15. The method of claim 13, wherein the bin is a SKU;

the generating a second job instruction includes:

16. The method of claim 13, wherein the material bin comprises an order bin or a tote;

the generating of the third operation instruction comprises:

17. A method of scheduling sorting equipment in a warehouse, applied to a sowing wall according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that it comprises:

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising:

19. An apparatus for scheduling sorting equipment in a warehouse, applied to a server, for scheduling a sowing wall according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that the apparatus comprises:

20. An apparatus for scheduling sorting equipment in a warehouse, applied to a sowing wall according to any one of claims 1 to 9, characterized in that it comprises:

21. A scheduling system, characterized in that it comprises a server, a transport device and a sowing wall according to any one of claims 1 to 9;