CN110833990A

CN110833990A - Picking apparatus, picking method and picking control device

Info

Publication number: CN110833990A
Application number: CN201810937287.9A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 郭思思; 魏元春; 樊航成; 陈晓华
Original assignee: Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Ltd
Current assignee: Cainiao Smart Logistics Holding Ltd
Priority date: 2018-08-16
Filing date: 2018-08-16
Publication date: 2020-02-25
Also published as: TW202009816A; WO2020034943A1

Abstract

The embodiment of the application provides a picking device, a picking method and a picking control device, so that timeliness of sorting of logistics objects is guaranteed. The sorting apparatus comprises: a control terminal, a vehicle body; the vehicle body comprises at least one layer of commodity shelf, at least one prompting component, at least one distance measuring sensor and a weighing sensor; the at least one prompting component and the at least one ranging sensor are arranged on the commodity shelf; the commodity shelf is provided with at least one sorting unit; so that the sorting equipment can sort one or more sorting units at a time, thereby improving the sorting efficiency; through the distance measuring sensor and the weighing sensor, the error rate can be reduced in the sorting process, the timeliness of sorting the logistics objects is guaranteed, and the time for the logistics objects to leave the warehouse is reduced.

Description

Picking apparatus, picking method and picking control device

Technical Field

The present application relates to the field of computer technology, and in particular, to a sorting device, a sorting method, and a sorting control device.

Background

With the rapid development of the e-commerce, the time efficiency of the package becomes an important dimension of the user experience satisfaction, and the adjustment of the warehouse process can optimize the time efficiency of the package.

In the existing warehouse process, errors often exist in the picking process of logistics objects such as goods in packages, for example, the problems of missing picking, multiple picking, non-conformity of goods and the like of the packages occur. Therefore, after the goods are picked in the warehouse, a plurality of packages are required to be subjected to quality inspection, and the goods can be delivered out of the warehouse after the quality inspection is passed. Quality control needs to detect every parcel, including the quantity of goods, commodity kind, damaged secondary check-up and detection processes such as packing, and is corresponding, just needs the warehouse to set up quality control platform and the quality control person of certain area to accomplish above quality control process.

The quality inspection process after sorting is finished, so that the time for the logistics objects to leave the warehouse is prolonged, and the timeliness of the logistics objects is influenced.

Disclosure of Invention

The embodiment of the application provides a sorting device to guarantee timeliness of logistics object sorting.

Correspondingly, the embodiment of the application also provides a picking method and a picking control device.

In order to solve the above problem, an embodiment of the present application discloses a sorting apparatus, where the sorting apparatus includes: a control terminal, a vehicle body; the vehicle body comprises at least one layer of commodity shelf, at least one prompting component, at least one distance measuring sensor and a weighing sensor; the at least one prompting component and the at least one ranging sensor are arranged on the commodity shelf; the commodity shelf is provided with at least one sorting unit; the control terminal controls a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be released to prompt according to the acquired logistics object information of the logistics object to be released in the picking task; the distance measuring sensor is used for detecting whether the logistics objects to be thrown pass through the target sorting unit or not; and the weighing sensor is used for weighing the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit.

Optionally, the control terminal and the picking device are separately designed or integrally designed.

Optionally, the method further includes: the code scanning device is used for scanning a logistics object to be launched to obtain logistics object information and sending the logistics object information to the control terminal; and the prompt component is used for carrying out the release prompt of the logistics object to be released.

Optionally, the prompt component further includes: the prompting lamp and the digital display module are arranged on the shell; the prompting lamp is used for prompting the target sorting unit by lighting, flashing or changing color; and the digital display module prompts the number of the released digits by displaying the corresponding digits.

Optionally, the control terminal receives distance data returned by the distance measuring sensor; sending a measurement instruction to a weighing sensor; and checking the weight of the logistics objects in the corresponding sorting units according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensors.

Optionally, the control terminal includes a display screen; and the display screen displays various information of the picking tasks.

Optionally, the picking apparatus further comprises: a printing device; the control terminal sends a printing instruction to the printing equipment; and the printing equipment prints the bill corresponding to the sorting unit according to the printing instruction.

Optionally, the picking apparatus further comprises: an image acquisition device; the image acquisition equipment records video data of the logistics object sorting.

The embodiment of the application also discloses a goods picking method applied to the picking equipment, wherein the method comprises the following steps: the control terminal controls a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be put to prompt according to the acquired logistics object information of the logistics object to be put in the picking task; and detecting whether the logistics objects to be put pass through the target sorting unit or not by a distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, if so, controlling a weighing sensor on the sorting equipment to weigh the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit by the control terminal.

Optionally, the number of the target sorting units is one or more; the control terminal and the picking equipment are designed separately or integrally.

Optionally, the method further includes: and the control terminal acquires a picking path corresponding to the logistics object to be thrown in the picking task.

Optionally, the method further includes: the control terminal determines the layout information of the sorting units on the commodity shelf, wherein the layout information comprises: the system comprises position information of at least one sorting unit and a prompt component corresponding to the sorting unit.

Optionally, the method further includes: and the code scanning device scans the logistics object to be launched to obtain logistics object information and sends the logistics object information to the control terminal.

Optionally, the prompting component corresponding to the control target sorting unit performs prompting, including: sending a prompt instruction to a prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit; the method further comprises the following steps: and the prompt component prompts the release of the logistics objects to be released according to the prompt instruction.

Optionally, the prompting of the release of the to-be-released logistics object includes at least one of the following steps: the prompting lamp of the prompting component prompts the target sorting unit by lighting, flashing or changing color; and according to the number of the logistics objects, the digital display module of the prompt component prompts the number of the input objects by displaying corresponding numbers.

Optionally, the controlling terminal controls a weighing sensor on the picking device to weigh the logistics objects dropped in the target sorting unit, including: the control terminal sends a measurement instruction to the weighing sensor; the weighing sensor measures weight information according to the measurement instruction and sends the weight information to the control terminal; and the control terminal checks the weight of the logistics objects put in the corresponding target sorting unit according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensor.

Optionally, the method further includes: detecting distance data by a distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, and returning the distance data to the control terminal; and the control terminal generates a measurement instruction after determining that the logistics objects to be released pass through the target sorting unit according to the measured distance data.

Optionally, the control terminal determines layout information of the sorting units on the shelf, including: the control terminal acquires a picking task; and determining the layout information of the sorting units on the commodity shelf according to the sorting task.

Optionally, determining layout information of the sorting units on the rack according to the sorting task includes: determining a logistics object list according to the picking task; and determining the number, the size information, the position information and the corresponding prompt components of the sorting units according to the logistics object list to generate layout information.

Optionally, the method further includes: determining a picking path according to the picking task; and displaying a library position and logistics object information corresponding to the library position on a screen of the control terminal according to the picking path.

Optionally, when there are a plurality of target sorting units, the sending a prompt instruction to a prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit includes any one of the following steps: sequentially sending prompt instructions to prompt components corresponding to the target sorting units according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be released; and sending a prompt instruction of flashing a control lamp to a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit in which the logistics objects are put according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be put, and sending a prompt instruction of turning on the control lamp to prompt components corresponding to other target sorting units waiting for placing the logistics objects.

Optionally, the method further includes: the control terminal judges that the sorting of the sorting units on the commodity shelf is finished and sends a printing instruction to the printing equipment; and the printing equipment prints the bill corresponding to the sorting unit according to the printing instruction.

Optionally, the method further includes: the control terminal sends a video recording instruction to the image acquisition equipment; and the image acquisition equipment records video data sorted by the logistics objects according to the video recording instruction.

The embodiment of the application also discloses a control device selects, is applied to the control terminal who selects equipment, the device include: the task obtaining module is used for controlling the terminal to obtain the picking task; the prompt control module is used for controlling a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be released to prompt according to the logistics object information of the logistics object to be released in the picking task; and the measurement control module is used for detecting whether the logistics objects to be put in pass through the target sorting unit or not through the distance data of the distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, and if so, controlling a weighing sensor on the sorting equipment to weigh the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit.

Compared with the prior art, the embodiment of the application has the following advantages:

in the embodiment of the application, the picking equipment can comprise a control terminal, a vehicle body; the vehicle body comprises at least one layer of commodity shelf, at least one prompting component, at least one distance measuring sensor and a weighing sensor; the at least one prompting component and the at least one distance measuring sensor are arranged on the commodity shelf, and the prompting component comprises the distance measuring sensor; at least one sorting unit can be placed on the storage rack, so that the sorting equipment can sort one or more sorting units at a time, and the sorting efficiency is improved; the control terminal controls the prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be put for prompting according to the acquired logistics object information of the logistics object to be put in the picking task, so that the time for searching the sorting unit can be reduced, and the probability of putting the logistics object into the wrong sorting unit can be reduced; the distance measuring sensor can detect whether the logistics objects to be thrown in pass through the target sorting unit or not, so that when the logistics objects to be thrown in pass through the target sorting unit, the weighing sensor weighs the logistics objects thrown in the target sorting unit, the error rate can be reduced in the sorting process, the timeliness of sorting the logistics objects is guaranteed, and the time for the logistics objects to leave a warehouse is shortened.

Drawings

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a picking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 2 is a flow chart of steps in an embodiment of a method of picking a product according to the present application;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of another picking apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 4 is a flow chart of steps in another method embodiment of the present application;

FIG. 5 is a block diagram of an embodiment of a picking control apparatus according to the present application;

FIG. 6 is a block diagram of another embodiment of a pick control apparatus of the present application;

fig. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of an apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application.

Detailed Description

In order to make the aforementioned objects, features and advantages of the present application more comprehensible, the present application is described in further detail with reference to the accompanying drawings and the detailed description.

In the embodiment of the present application, the picking device may refer to a device for sorting and packing the logistics objects in the warehouse. After a user purchases a logistics object on a shopping website, a warehouse picks up goods and packs the goods, and then the packed logistics object (such as a package) is delivered to the user through logistics, so that a shopping process is completed. Wherein, the processes of picking and packing in the warehouse can be executed by adopting a picking device.

The picking equipment can comprise a control terminal and a vehicle body; the vehicle body includes at least one deck supporter, at least one suggestion subassembly, at least one range sensor and weighing sensor, and wherein, weighing sensor can adopt various sensors that can measuring mass, like gravity sensor etc.. The at least one prompting component and the at least one distance measuring sensor are arranged on the commodity shelf; the sorting unit can sort one or more sorting units at a time, sorting efficiency is improved, sorting prompt of logistics objects is carried out through the prompt component corresponding to the sorting unit, time for searching the sorting unit can be shortened, probability of putting the logistics objects into a wrong sorting unit is reduced, weight information of the logistics objects in the sorting unit is measured through the weighing sensor, error rate can be reduced in the sorting process, timeliness of sorting the logistics objects is guaranteed, and time for the logistics objects to leave a warehouse is reduced. The letter sorting unit in this application embodiment refers to the subassembly that bears the weight of commodity circulation object on the supporter, if can be for containers such as letter sorting case, letter sorting dish, also can be other equipment, and this application embodiment does not do the restriction to this.

Referring to fig. 1, a schematic structural diagram of a sorting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present application is shown.

The picking apparatus includes: a control terminal 10 and a vehicle body 20; the vehicle body includes a shelf 210, a reminder assembly 220, a load cell 230, and a distance measuring sensor 240. Wherein, each vehicle body can be provided with at least one layer of storage rack, such as 3 layers of storage racks in fig. 1; the vehicle body may also include at least one prompting assembly and at least one distance measuring sensor, wherein the at least one prompting assembly and the at least one distance measuring sensor may be disposed on each layer of rack, such as 3 prompting assemblies on each layer of rack in fig. 1. The target sorting units are one or more; the control terminal and the picking equipment are designed separately or integrally.

The prompt component corresponds to the sorting unit for placing the logistics objects in the embodiment of the application, so that the input of the logistics objects such as input positions, quantity and the like is prompted through the prompt component, and therefore the combination and the placement mode of the prompt component can be determined according to actual scenes. In the embodiment of the present application, the position on the shelf of the picking device where the sorting unit is placed may be referred to as a basket position (or a bin position). The prompting component can be arranged in various ways, for example, if basket positions corresponding to the sorting units are fixed on a shelf of the sorting equipment, the prompting component can be arranged for each basket position; if the basket position on the storage rack of the picking equipment is not fixed, a plurality of prompting components can be arranged, and then the prompting components are determined according to the number of the corresponding sorting units of each picking task.

In the embodiment of the present application, a load cell may be provided in the vehicle body, so that the load cell weighs the logistics object placed in each sorting unit, and the weight of the logistics object placed in the sorting unit is determined by the increment of the weight. In the example shown in fig. 1, a load cell may be disposed under the lowermost shelf, so that the weight of the 3-layer shelf may be measured by the load cell, and the weight of the physical distribution object placed may be determined by the increased weight. In the actual process, the position and number of the weighing sensors can be adjusted based on the scene, for example, one weighing sensor is arranged under each layer of the commodity shelf, and the weighing sensor measures each commodity shelf to determine the weight of the commodity circulation objects placed in each sorting unit on the commodity shelf. If a weighing sensor is arranged below each sorting unit, the prompting component and the weighing sensor can be combined into a basket processing module in the mode, and the prompting and the measurement of the logistics objects placed on the sorting units are realized. The load cell may be any of various sensors capable of measuring weight, such as a gravity sensor, etc.

The distance measuring sensor can measure distance data so as to assist the weighing sensor to carry out weighing measurement, the distance measuring sensor can detect whether a logistics object to be put in passes through the target sorting unit, and if the logistics object to be put in passes through the target sorting unit, the control terminal controls the weighing sensor on the sorting equipment to weigh the logistics object put in the target sorting unit. The distance measuring sensor may be various sensors capable of measuring distance data, such as an infrared sensor.

Referring to fig. 2, a flow chart of steps of an embodiment of the picking method of the present application is shown.

Step 202, a picking task is obtained.

The rack of the sorting equipment can be used for placing a plurality of sorting units, so that a control terminal of the sorting equipment can sort the sorting tasks at a time, the sorting tasks can be the sorting tasks corresponding to the sorting units on the sorting equipment, and can also be the sorting tasks of the whole sorting equipment, and therefore the layout information and the like of the sorting units can be determined based on the sorting tasks. The picking tasks corresponding to the sorting units can be obtained from one piece of picking task information, so that the control terminal can analyze the picking paths of the picking equipment and the processing operation of the sorting prompts of the logistics objects based on the picking tasks. And determining information such as logistics objects needing to be put in each sorting unit according to the picking task information corresponding to the picking tasks.

And 204, controlling a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be released to prompt according to the logistics object information of the logistics object to be released in the picking task.

After the logistics object information of the logistics objects to be put in the picking task is acquired, the corresponding sorting units needing to be put in can be determined as target sorting units according to the logistics object information, so that one or more target sorting units can be determined for one logistics object to be put in, and then the corresponding prompt components of the control target sorting units can be prompted, so that the picking personnel can be assisted to sort the logistics objects.

Step 206, the distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit detects whether the logistics object to be thrown passes through the target sorting unit.

In the process of goods sorting, the distance measuring sensor can measure distance information, so that the change of the distance information can be measured when an obstacle passes through, whether the obstacle passes through can be judged according to the change of the distance measured by the distance measuring sensor, correspondingly, the distance measuring sensor in the prompting assembly corresponding to the target sorting unit measures, and the obtained distance data can detect whether a logistics object to be thrown passes through the target sorting unit.

If yes, the logistics object to be released passes through the target sorting unit, and step 208 is executed; if not, that is, the logistics object to be delivered does not pass through the target sorting unit, the step 206 is returned to continue the detection.

And 208, controlling a weighing sensor on the picking device to weigh the logistics objects thrown in the target sorting unit by the control terminal.

When the logistics objects to be thrown in are detected to pass through the target sorting unit, the logistics objects can be considered to be thrown in the target sorting unit, the control terminal can also send a measuring instruction to the weighing sensor, and the weighing sensor measures weight information of the target sorting unit and weighs the logistics objects thrown in the target sorting unit.

To sum up, can once sort one or more letter sorting unit, improve letter sorting efficiency, through the suggestion subassembly that the letter sorting unit corresponds carries out the letter sorting suggestion of commodity circulation object, can reduce the time of looking for the letter sorting unit and reduce the probability that the commodity circulation object put into wrong letter sorting unit, measure the weight information of commodity circulation object in the letter sorting unit through weighing sensor simultaneously, can reduce the error rate at the letter sorting in-process, guarantee the ageing of commodity circulation object letter sorting, reduced the time that the commodity circulation object goes out of the warehouse.

In the embodiment of the application, the picking equipment can receive the picking tasks through the control terminal, corresponding picking task information can be obtained according to the picking tasks, and layout information of the sorting units on the racks in the picking equipment can be determined according to the picking task information. The layout information includes: the system comprises position information of at least one sorting unit and a prompt component corresponding to the sorting unit. The location information includes the location of the sorting unit on the racks in the sorting facility, such as the first of the first tier racks, the last of the second tier racks, etc. In order to facilitate the prompt of the sorting units required to be placed by the logistics objects, the prompt component can prompt, so that after the position information of the sorting units is determined, the corresponding relation between the sorting units and the prompt component is established according to the position information, and the prompt is facilitated.

Each sorting unit can correspond to a logistics object list, the logistics object list can include logistics object information of each logistics object, such as a logistics object name, a logistics object identifier, the number of the logistics objects and the like, and can also include other logistics object information such as a logistics object price and the like, the logistics object identifier is used for identifying one logistics object, and the logistics objects can be matched based on the logistics object name or the logistics object identifier. The display screen of the control terminal can also display various information required to be displayed, such as the logistics object list of each sorting unit.

In an optional embodiment, the code scanning device scans a logistics object to be launched to obtain logistics object information, and sends the logistics object information to the control terminal. After determining the layout information of the sorting units in the sorting equipment, the sorting units can be placed on the storage rack of the sorting equipment according to the layout information. After the sorting unit is placed, the logistics objects can be searched and placed, the control terminal can prompt the needed logistics objects to be in the corresponding bin of the warehouse, and therefore the needed logistics objects can be scanned through the code scanning device after the logistics objects to be released are taken from the bin, the identification codes on the logistics objects to be released can be scanned, the identification codes are data capable of representing one or more logistics objects, for example, the identification codes can be two-dimensional codes, bar codes and the like, and the logistics object information of the logistics objects to be released can be determined through code scanning. The logistics object information may include a name of the logistics object, an identifier of the logistics object, and may further include information related to various logistics objects such as a type of the logistics object, a price, a weight, a manufacturer, and a material. The code scanning device can send the logistics object information to the control terminal.

Therefore, the control terminal can determine one or more target sorting units to be placed on the logistics object to be placed according to the logistics object information, for example, the logistics object information is compared with a logistics object list corresponding to each sorting unit on the sorting equipment to determine one or more target sorting units to be placed on the logistics object to be placed. And then determining the prompt assemblies corresponding to the sorting units, and controlling the prompt assemblies corresponding to the sorting units, so that the corresponding prompt assemblies can prompt in modes of prompting lamps, displaying numbers and the like.

In the embodiment of the application, in order to prompt the sorting of the logistics objects conveniently, the control terminal controls the prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit to prompt, and a prompt instruction can be sent to the prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit; and the prompt component prompts the release of the logistics objects to be released according to the prompt instruction. The prompt component comprises: warning light and digital display module. The prompting lamp indicates the target sorting unit by lighting, flashing or changing color; the digital display module is used for prompting the number of the objects to be placed by displaying corresponding numbers, and can display the number of the logistics objects to be placed by the target sorting unit.

In one example, after the layout of the sorting units is completed and the sorting units are placed on a shelf of the sorting equipment to start sorting, the logistics objects to be placed at present are obtained according to the sorting sequence of the control terminal, the logistics objects are scanned through the code scanning equipment to obtain corresponding logistics object information, and information such as the target sorting units to be placed corresponding to the logistics objects to be placed and the logistics object quantity of the logistics objects in each target sorting unit can be determined according to the logistics object information. The control terminal can generate a prompt instruction and send the prompt instruction to the prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit, so that the prompt component prompts according to the prompt instruction. Wherein, the prompting lamp in the prompting component can be lightened or twinkled or discolored, thereby prompting the picking user that the sorting unit at the position needs to place the code-scanned logistics object. The digital display module in the prompt component can also display the quantity of the logistics objects required to be placed in the corresponding sorting units, so that the quantity of the logistics objects of the sorting user is prompted, and the error probability in the sorting process is reduced. In this application embodiment, the prompt component and the control terminal may further include a sound device, so that the sound device plays audio data to prompt that the loading and the release of the logistics object are completed, for example, after one logistics object in the target sorting unit is released, the audio data is played to prompt that the release is completed.

In this application embodiment, adopt a weighing sensor or in modes such as whole equipment of selecting sets up a weighing sensor at one deck supporter, adopt weighing sensor to measure under the scene of a plurality of letter sorting units, the opportunity of weighing is confirmed to the ranging sensor in the suggestion subassembly that the accessible target letter sorting unit corresponds, and suggestion weighing sensor measures. The ranging sensor measures distance data and returns the distance data to the control terminal. The control terminal judges whether the distance data meets a distance threshold value or not according to the distance data; after the measured distance data is judged to meet the distance threshold, confirming that the logistics objects to be put pass through the target sorting unit, and sending a measuring instruction to the weighing sensor; and checking the weight of the logistics objects in the corresponding sorting units according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensors. And the weighing sensor measures weight information according to the measurement instruction and sends the weight information to the control terminal.

Sorting of logistics objects is carried out through the sorting unit on the sorting equipment, and the sorting unit can be a packing box for packaging the logistics objects, so that the sorting unit can be packaged to form corresponding packages after sorting is finished, and the packages can be delivered out of a warehouse for logistics transportation. The sorting device may therefore also comprise a printing device by means of which documents, such as delivery sheets for parcels or the like, can be printed after the sorting of the items on the sorting units of the sorting device has been completed. The control terminal of the picking device can control the picking device to acquire and place the logistics objects required by the picking device, so that the control terminal can determine the sorting units with finished picking, print the documents for the sorting units after the picking of the goods is finished in one sorting unit, and print the documents together after all the sorting units complete picking. The control terminal sends a printing instruction to the printing equipment; and the printing equipment acquires the sorting task information according to the printing instruction and prints the bill corresponding to the sorting unit. The control terminal can generate a printing instruction when determining that the document needs to be printed, then the printing instruction is sent to the printing equipment, the printing equipment determines the information of the document needing to be printed according to the printing instruction, and then the corresponding document is printed, wherein the document information can be obtained from the control terminal.

The control terminal comprises a display screen, and the display screen can display various information of the picking tasks, such as various information of picking task information, picking paths, logistics objects corresponding to the positions of the bins, the number of the logistics objects, logistics object information obtained by code scanning and the like.

Sometimes, after the package is delivered to the user, the user opens the package to find that the logistics object is damaged or lacked, and the like, which may be caused by logistics in the transportation and delivery processes or may be a problem in picking up goods. In order to facilitate finding reasons when problems occur, the picking equipment can also comprise image acquisition equipment such as a camera and the like, and the image acquisition equipment can record video data for sorting the logistics objects, wherein the control terminal can generate a video recording instruction after acquiring the picking task information and then send the video recording instruction to the image acquisition equipment; and the image acquisition equipment records video data sorted by the logistics objects according to the video recording instruction. Therefore, whether the logistics objects are sorted in a problem or not, whether the sorted logistics objects are damaged or not and the like can be reviewed through the video data when the problems occur.

In another schematic structural diagram of the picking apparatus shown in fig. 3, the picking apparatus includes: the control terminal 10, the code scanning device 30, the vehicle body 20, the printing device 40, the image capturing device 50, and may further include other components such as a battery 60, and the like. The vehicle body includes a shelf 210, a reminder assembly 220, a load cell 230, and a distance measuring sensor 240. The prompt component 220 includes: a cue light 224 and a digital display module 226.

In fig. 1 and 3 of the embodiment of the application, devices such as a prompting lamp and a digital display module in a prompting assembly adopt gray representation to indicate an off-working state, and sorting units corresponding to the prompting assembly do not need to load logistics objects in the off-working state; and the bright or flashing working state is represented by black, and the target sorting unit corresponding to the prompting component needs to load the currently scanned logistics object in the working state. Wherein, the color that the warning light lights under different states is probably different, if light for first color when waiting to pick up goods, pick up in-process or when picking up goods and finish the scintillation, it becomes second color etc. to pick up goods and finish reaching after the certain time, like in figure 3 light and digital display module group demonstration for "12" for first warning light on the left, like second line second warning light lights and digital display module group demonstration for "2", and in figure 1 and figure 3, digital display module group takes the mode such as luminous two takeover as the example, it can be like numeral "8" under the state of going out, still can adopt the digital display module group of other forms such as dot matrix, liquid crystal display etc. in the actual processing, this application embodiment does not limit this.

Referring to fig. 4, a flow chart of steps of another method embodiment of the present application is shown.

Step 402, the control terminal acquires a picking task.

Step 404, determining layout information of the sorting units on the shelf according to the sorting task.

A picking user may operate a picking device to pick logistics objects, wherein one picking device may pick a plurality of packages or the like at the same time. The picking equipment can receive picking tasks picked by the logistics objects through the control terminal, can obtain corresponding picking task information according to the picking tasks, and then determines required sorting units, positions of the sorting units and the like according to the picking task information, so that layout information of the sorting units on the commodity shelf is determined.

Wherein, according to select task information, confirm the layout information of letter sorting unit on the supporter, include: determining a logistics object list according to the picking task information; and determining the number, the size information, the position information and the corresponding prompt components of the sorting units according to the logistics object list to generate layout information. The logistics object list refers to a list of the logistics objects required in the sorting unit. For example, in a web shopping scenario, each order may be shipped in one package or multiple packages, each package corresponding to a list of logistics objects. In the picking task, each sorting unit can correspond to a logistics object list, and a total logistics object list can also be determined based on the whole picking task, and then a sub-logistics object list is determined for each sorting unit, so that the whole picking task can be conveniently planned, and each sorting unit can be conveniently processed. The sorting device can be used for sorting logistics objects, a plurality of sorting units can be simultaneously sorted, therefore, for one sorting task of the sorting device, the sorting task corresponding to the sorting task information can comprise a logistics object list of one or more sorting units, so that the size information of the sorting units can be determined based on the logistics object list, the position information of each sorting unit is distributed, a prompt component corresponding to the sorting unit is determined according to the position information, and the layout information of the sorting device is generated.

Step 406, determining a picking path according to the picking order.

Step 408, displaying the bin and the logistics object corresponding to the bin on the screen of the control terminal according to the picking path.

The logistics objects in the warehouse all have corresponding placement positions, according to the logistics object list corresponding to the picking task, the positions (or called storage positions) of the logistics objects needed to be picked by the picking equipment in the warehouse can be determined, the positions for storing all the logistics objects needed by the whole picking equipment are integrated, a picking path can be obtained, the picking path can be planned according to various rules, for example, the picking path is determined according to the rule with the shortest route, and the picking path is determined according to the rule with the shortest time. After the picking path is determined, the bin where the logistics objects are located on the video can be correspondingly determined, the sequence of obtaining the logistics objects is determined, corresponding display prompt information is generated, and then the bin where the logistics objects are located and the logistics objects corresponding to the bin can be displayed on a screen of the control terminal according to the display prompt information. When the bin and the corresponding logistics objects are displayed, the bin order and the corresponding logistics objects can be displayed, one logistics object and the corresponding bin can be displayed each time according to the order, the next logistics object and the corresponding bin can be displayed after the logistics object is sorted, the number of the needed logistics objects can be prompted, and the like.

Step 410, the code scanning device scans the logistics object to be launched to obtain logistics object information, and sends the logistics object information to the control terminal.

According to the prompt on the screen of the control terminal, a picking user can acquire the logistics object to be released on the corresponding bin, the code scanning device scans the identification codes such as the bar code and the two-dimensional code of the logistics object to be released, corresponding logistics object information is acquired, and then the logistics object information is sent to the control terminal.

Step 412, the control terminal determines at least one target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object and the number of the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit according to the logistics object information.

And 414, determining a prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit, and sending a prompt instruction to the prompt component.

After receiving the logistics object information, the control terminal can compare the logistics object information with the logistics object lists of the sorting units, for example, the logistics object information is compared according to the logistics object names, the logistics object identifications and the like, if the logistics objects have differences such as sizes and the like, the control terminal can also compare the logistics object information with other information such as the sizes and the like, and determine one or more target sorting units corresponding to the logistics objects to be released and the quantity of the logistics objects to be released in the target sorting units. And then, determining a corresponding prompt component according to the target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be released, generating a prompt instruction and sending the prompt instruction to the prompt component. The prompt instruction can comprise an instruction that a prompt lamp is turned on or flickers or changes colors, and can also comprise an instruction that a digital display module displays the number of the logistics objects.

After the control terminal receives the logistics object information, such as the name of the logistics object, the corresponding sorting unit, the quantity of the logistics object and the like, can be displayed on the screen so as to prompt a sorting user.

And step 416, the prompt component prompts the release of the logistics object to be released according to the prompt instruction.

The prompt component can prompt the release of the logistics objects to be released according to the received prompt instructions. The prompting of the release of the logistics objects to be released comprises at least one of the following steps: the prompting lamp of the prompting component prompts the target sorting unit by lighting, flashing or changing color; and according to the number of the logistics objects, the digital display module of the prompt component prompts the number of the input objects by displaying corresponding numbers.

A prompt lamp is arranged in the prompt component, the prompt lamp can be turned on to prompt the logistics object needing to be scanned with the code at present, and the logistics object needing to be scanned with the code at present can also be prompted by flashing. In an optional embodiment, when more than one sorting unit places the logistics objects to be dropped, that is, when there are a plurality of target sorting units, the sending a prompting instruction to the prompting component corresponding to the target sorting unit includes any one of the following steps: sequentially sending prompt instructions to prompt components corresponding to the target sorting units according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be released; and sending a prompt instruction of flashing a control lamp to a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit in which the logistics objects are put according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be put, and sending a prompt instruction of turning on the control lamp to prompt components corresponding to other target sorting units waiting for placing the logistics objects.

In one example, when there are more than one target sorting unit, the placing sequence of the logistics objects to be dropped may be determined, such as from left to right, from top to bottom, and the like, and then the control terminal sequentially instructs, according to the placing sequence of the logistics objects to be dropped, each target sorting unit to correspond to the prompting component to prompt, that is, first instructs the first target sorting unit to correspond to the prompting component to prompt, and then instructs the next target sorting unit to correspond to the prompting component to prompt after the logistics objects are placed in the target sorting units, until all the target sorting units requiring the logistics objects are placed with the logistics objects. The target sorting unit can be determined according to the measurement of the distance measuring sensor and the weighing sensor after the logistics objects are placed.

In another example, when there are more than one target sorting units, the control terminal may determine a placement order of the logistics objects to be dropped, such as a left-to-right order, a top-to-bottom order, and the like, then send a prompt instruction for controlling the turn-on of the prompt lamp to the prompt component corresponding to each target sorting unit, and send a prompt instruction for controlling the flashing of the lamp to the prompt component corresponding to the first target sorting unit in which the logistics objects need to be placed according to the placement order of the logistics objects to be dropped; after the first target sorting unit finishes the placement of the logistics objects, sending a prompt instruction of controlling lamp flashing to a prompt component corresponding to the next target sorting unit needing to place the logistics objects, and so on until all the target sorting units needing to place the logistics objects finish the placement of the logistics objects. The target sorting unit which is used for placing the logistics objects can be controlled to be turned on or turned off, or the prompting lamps are controlled to be different in color before and after being put in, and the like. The sorting unit can determine that the sorting unit finishes placing the logistics objects according to the measurement of the distance measuring sensor and the weighing sensor.

According to the embodiment of the application, the number of the logistics objects required by the target sorting unit can be prompted through the digital display module, and the digital display module of the prompting component can display corresponding numbers. Wherein, the suggestion subassembly can set up one of them of digital display module assembly and warning light, or both set up, digital display module assembly and warning light can make up when both all set up and carry out the suggestion of target letter sorting unit, for example under the circumstances such as the lamp lights, twinkles, digital display module assembly all shows the figure that logistics object quantity corresponds. In the embodiment of the application, the prompt component and the control terminal can further comprise sound equipment, so that the logistics objects are prompted to be loaded and put in the terminal through the sound equipment playing audio data.

And 418, detecting distance data by a distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, and returning the distance data to the control terminal.

Step 420, the control terminal generates a measurement instruction after determining that the logistics object to be launched passes through the target sorting unit according to the measured distance data.

Step 422, the control terminal sends a measurement instruction to the weighing sensor.

In this embodiment, the weight of the logistics objects placed in the sorting unit is measured by the weighing sensor, so that whether the placed logistics objects are enough or not can be determined, and the problems of less placing or more placing and the like are reduced. Wherein the load cell can measure the weight gain in real time. In order to accurately distinguish the weight of the logistics objects placed in different sorting units, the distance data can be measured through the distance measuring sensor, whether articles are placed or not is judged based on the distance data, and therefore the weighing sensor is prompted to measure.

The distance measuring sensor can be started to measure distance data, the measured distance data are sent to the control terminal, the control terminal judges whether a distance threshold value is met or not according to the distance data, the distance threshold value is used for determining whether a logistics object to be thrown passes or not, the corresponding logistics object obtained by a picking user is thrown to the sorting unit, the distance measuring sensor senses that the object passes through, and therefore corresponding distance data are measured. So that it can be determined whether a logistic queue is dropped into the sorting unit based on the weighing sensor.

Step 424, the weighing sensor measures weight information according to the measurement instruction, and sends the weight information to the control terminal.

And 426, the control terminal checks the weight of the logistics objects in the corresponding target sorting units according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensors.

And after receiving the measurement instruction, the weighing sensor can measure the weight to obtain corresponding weight information, and sends the weight information to the control terminal. The control terminal can determine the weight information added in the measurement according to the weight information, can check the weight of the logistics objects in the corresponding target sorting unit according to the weight increment, can judge whether the weight of the logistics objects which should be placed in the sorting unit is matched with the weight of the logistics objects in the corresponding target sorting unit according to the weight increment information, if the weight of the logistics objects is matched with the weight of the logistics objects, the logistics objects in the sorting unit are confirmed to be placed completely, and otherwise, the logistics objects are continuously prompted to be placed in the sorting unit.

In other embodiments, if the logistic objects are incorrectly placed in the non-target sorting unit, the distance data can be measured by the distance measuring sensor of the non-target sorting unit, the distance data is analyzed by the control terminal to judge that the logistic objects are placed, the weighing sensor is started to measure weight information, the control terminal confirms that the logistic objects are placed according to the weight information, and the non-target sorting unit is also instructed to prompt corresponding to the prompting component, for example, a prompting lamp turns red and flashes, and for example, a digital display module displays a maximum value or a minimum value and flashes. Therefore, the basket position of the goods to be thrown can be measured based on the matching of the distance measuring sensor and the weighing sensor, whether the throwing is accurate or not is analyzed, and the prompt component is indicated to perform corresponding prompt.

After a physical distribution object is placed in each of the required picking boxes, the next required physical distribution object can be obtained according to the prompt of the control terminal, and the above steps 410-426 are performed until the loading of the required physical distribution object in the sorting units on the shelf is completed, that is, the picking of the sorting units on the shelf is completed.

In step 428, the control terminal determines that the sorting unit on the rack has finished picking, and sends a printing instruction to the printing device.

And 430, printing the bill corresponding to the sorting unit by the printing equipment according to the printing instruction.

After the control terminal judges that the sorting unit on the commodity shelf finishes sorting, a printing instruction can be generated, the printing instruction can carry information of a document to be printed, and then the printing instruction is sent to printing equipment. The printing equipment can acquire the information of the corresponding document of each sorting unit according to the printing instruction and then print the corresponding document. Wherein documents may be printed in an order, such as left to right, top to bottom, so that the picker may apply the documents to the sorting units in that order.

In the embodiment of the application, after the control terminal acquires the selecting task information, a video recording instruction can be generated, and then the video recording instruction is sent to the image acquisition equipment, and the image acquisition equipment records the video data sorted by the logistics objects according to the video recording instruction.

In one example, when a picking user operates a picking device, the control terminal may obtain picking task information after picking a picking task on the control terminal of the picking device. Then, the layout information of the picking device is determined according to the picking task information, and the box type of the sorting units can be displayed on the display screen of the control terminal according to the layout information, namely, the information of the number, the size, the position and the like of the sorting units is displayed. After the picking user places the corresponding sorting units according to the layout information and confirms that the group is completely equipped, the control assembly can display the current and a plurality of bins to be picked and the information of the corresponding logistics objects, such as the logistics objects, the quantity of the logistics objects, the sorting units to be placed and the like. After the picking task is picked, the control terminal can also send a video recording instruction to the image acquisition equipment, so that the image acquisition equipment records video data of the logistics object sorting.

The sorting user can find the logistics objects to be thrown in corresponding bins according to the indication on the display screen, then the code scanning device is adopted to scan the logistics objects to be thrown in to obtain logistics object information, the control terminal determines all target sorting units where the logistics objects to be thrown in need to be placed, the quantity of the logistics objects to be thrown in all the target sorting units and information such as weight according to the logistics object information, the information can be displayed in the display screen of the control terminal, corresponding prompt instructions are generated and sent to the prompt component, prompt lamps in the prompt component can be lightened or flickered or changed in color, and the digital display module can display the numbers corresponding to the quantity of the logistics objects. In the example shown in fig. 3, after the logistics objects are scanned, it is determined that the first sorting unit from the left and the second sorting unit from the second row are required to be the target sorting unit, and the number of the logistics objects is 12 and 2 respectively, so that a prompt instruction can be sent to the corresponding prompt component, the prompt lamp of the first prompt component from the left is turned on and the digital display module is displayed as "12", and the prompt lamp of the second prompt component from the second row is turned on and the digital display module is displayed as "2". The first prompting lamp of the first assembly from left can be set to flash initially, and after the logistics objects in the first assembly are determined to be loaded, the prompting lamp of the second prompting assembly in the second row can flash.

Starting a distance measuring sensor, measuring distance data through the distance measuring sensor and sending the distance data to a control terminal, generating a measuring instruction and sending the measuring instruction to a weighing sensor after the control terminal judges that the measured distance data meets a distance threshold, measuring weight information through the weighing sensor according to the measuring instruction, and sending the weight information to the control terminal; and the control terminal checks the weight of the logistics object in the corresponding target sorting unit according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensor, wherein the logistics object is confirmed to be put in within a certain error range of the weight data of the logistics object and the measured weight increasing information. If other target sorting units still need the logistics objects to be released, the weighing sensor of the next target sorting unit needing the logistics objects to be released can be started to measure until the logistics objects of all the target sorting units are placed completely. After the logistics object required by the target sorting unit is placed, the prompting lamp can be turned off or changed in color to prompt that the logistics object is placed, for example, the logistics object is changed from yellow to green. In the embodiment of the application, the prompting component and the control terminal can further comprise sound equipment, so that the logistics object is prompted to be loaded and put in the terminal through the sound equipment playing audio data. And then, acquiring the next logistics object according to the prompt of the control terminal, and executing the processes of code scanning, prompting, releasing and measuring of the logistics objects until the logistics objects required by the picking task are acquired. The control terminal can send a printing instruction to the printing equipment, the printing equipment prints the bills corresponding to the sorting units according to the printing instruction, and the picking user puts the bills into each sorting unit in sequence to complete the picking of the sorting units. And filling materials can be placed in the sorting unit subsequently, boxes are sealed, documents are attached, the picking and packaging of one package are completed, then the control terminal can send a recording ending instruction, and the image acquisition equipment ends the recording and storage of the video data. The packages may then be shipped out of the warehouse for the logistics transportation phase.

In the embodiment of the application, the position of the logistics object thrown by the picking user can be positioned through the image acquisition equipment, so that whether the logistics object is thrown into a correct sorting unit or not is verified. A sliding rail structure can be added in the sorting equipment, and whether the quantity of the logistics objects is accurate or not can be confirmed by sequentially adding the logistics objects into the sliding rail through the sliding rail structure.

In this application embodiment, the suggestion subassembly is that warning light, digital display module assembly and range finding sensor can assemble the combination to this suggestion subassembly can be based on the concrete structure of selecting equipment and make up. In some embodiments, the prompting lamp can also adopt a lamp strip structure, the digital display module adopts a strip-shaped dot matrix or other strip-shaped display screens and is arranged on the shelf, so that the prompting lamp and the digital display module can be lightened at corresponding positions according to the positions of the sorting units, and the combination mode is more flexible.

The prompting component and the control terminal can help the picking user to efficiently and correctly complete the picking task through multi-channel sensory (visual and auditory) stimulation such as light, sound and the like. After the logistics objects are scanned to obtain the logistics object information, the character information does not need to be processed, the logistics objects with corresponding quantity can be placed into the sorting unit through the corresponding prompt lamps and the digital display, the weight increasing sensor is used for measuring the correctness of the weight increasing verification quantity, one or more effects of correct prompt tones, color change of the prompt lamps and digital display closing are accompanied if the logistics objects are correct, corresponding effects can be displayed if the logistics objects are wrong, and sorting and subpackaging of the logistics objects are facilitated.

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 embodiments are not limited by the order of acts described, as some steps may occur in other orders or concurrently depending on the embodiments. Further, those skilled in the art will also appreciate that the embodiments described in the specification are presently preferred and that no particular act is required of the embodiments of the application.

On the basis of the above embodiments, the present embodiment further provides a sorting control device, which is applied to a control terminal of a sorting apparatus.

Referring to fig. 5, a block diagram of a structure of an embodiment of a picking control apparatus according to the present application is shown, which may specifically include the following modules:

a task obtaining module 502, configured to control the terminal to obtain the picking task.

And a prompt control module 504, configured to control a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be dropped to prompt according to the logistics object information of the logistics object to be dropped in the picking task.

And the weighing control module 506 is configured to detect whether the logistics object to be dropped passes through the target sorting unit according to the distance data of the distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, and if so, control the weighing sensor on the sorting device to weigh the logistics object dropped in the target sorting unit.

In conclusion, the sorting equipment can sort one or more sorting units at a time, so that the sorting efficiency is improved; the control terminal can obtain the picking tasks corresponding to the sorting units on the picking equipment, and control the prompt assemblies corresponding to the target sorting units corresponding to the logistics objects to be thrown in to prompt according to the logistics object information of the logistics objects to be thrown in the picking tasks, so that the time for searching the sorting units can be reduced, and the probability of the logistics objects being thrown in wrong sorting units can be reduced; the distance measuring sensor can detect whether the logistics objects to be thrown in pass through the target sorting unit or not, so that when the logistics objects to be thrown in pass through the target sorting unit. The weighing sensor is used for weighing the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit, so that the error rate can be reduced in the sorting process, the timeliness of the logistics object sorting is ensured, and the time for the logistics objects to leave the warehouse is reduced.

Referring to fig. 6, a block diagram of another embodiment of the picking control apparatus of the present application is shown, which may specifically include the following modules:

a task obtaining module 502, configured to control a terminal to obtain a picking task; determining layout information for sorting units on a shelf, the layout information comprising: the position information of at least one sorting unit and a prompt component corresponding to the sorting unit; and acquiring the picking paths corresponding to the sorting units on the picking equipment.

And a video recording control module 510, configured to send a video recording instruction.

A display module 508 for determining a picking path according to the picking order; and displaying the bin and the logistics object corresponding to the bin on a screen of the control terminal according to the picking path.

And the printing control module 512 is used for judging that the sorting unit on the shelf finishes picking and sending a printing instruction.

The prompt control module 504 is configured to send a prompt instruction to a prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit.

The measurement control module 506 is configured to receive distance data; and determining that the logistics objects to be released pass through the target sorting unit according to the measured distance data, and then generating and sending a measurement instruction.

A task obtaining module 502, configured to obtain picking task information, and determine layout information of sorting units on the shelf according to the picking task. Wherein the task obtaining module 502 may determine a logistics object list according to the picking task; and determining the size information, the position information and the corresponding prompt component of the sorting unit according to the logistics object list to generate layout information.

The prompt control module 504 is configured to sequentially send prompt instructions to prompt components corresponding to the target sorting units according to the placement order of the logistics objects to be delivered; and/or sending a prompt instruction of controlling lamp flashing to a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit in which the logistics objects are put according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be put, and sending a prompt instruction of controlling lamp lighting to prompt components corresponding to other target sorting units in which the logistics objects are to be put.

The present application further provides a non-transitory, readable storage medium, where one or more modules (programs) are stored, and when the one or more modules are applied to a device, the device may execute instructions (instructions) of method steps in this application.

Embodiments of the present application provide one or more machine-readable media having instructions stored thereon, which when executed by one or more processors, cause an electronic device to perform the methods as described in one or more of the above embodiments. In the embodiment of the application, the electronic equipment comprises a detection device, transportation equipment and other equipment.

Embodiments of the present disclosure may be implemented as an apparatus, which may include electronic devices such as control terminals for a picking device, using any suitable hardware, firmware, software, or any combination thereof, for a desired configuration. Fig. 7 schematically illustrates an example apparatus 700 that may be used to implement various embodiments described herein.

For one embodiment, fig. 7 illustrates an exemplary apparatus 700 having one or more processors 702, a control module (chipset) 704 coupled to at least one of the processor(s) 702, a memory 706 coupled to the control module 704, a non-volatile memory (NVM)/storage 708 coupled to the control module 704, one or more input/output devices 710 coupled to the control module 704, and a network interface 712 coupled to the control module 706.

The processor 702 may include one or more single-core or multi-core processors, and the processor 702 may include any combination of general-purpose or special-purpose processors (e.g., graphics processors, application processors, baseband processors, etc.). In some embodiments, the apparatus 700 can be used as a control terminal of the picking device in the embodiments of the present application.

In some embodiments, the apparatus 700 may include one or more computer-readable media (e.g., the memory 706 or the NVM/storage 708) having instructions 714 and one or more processors 702 in combination with the one or more computer-readable media configured to execute the instructions 714 to implement modules to perform the actions described in this disclosure.

For one embodiment, control module 704 may include any suitable interface controllers to provide any suitable interface to at least one of processor(s) 702 and/or any suitable device or component in communication with control module 704.

The control module 704 may include a memory controller module to provide an interface to the memory 706. The memory controller module may be a hardware module, a software module, and/or a firmware module.

The memory 706 may be used, for example, to load and store data and/or instructions 714 for the apparatus 700. For one embodiment, memory 706 may comprise any suitable volatile memory, such as suitable DRAM. In some embodiments, the memory 706 may comprise a double data rate type four synchronous dynamic random access memory (DDR4 SDRAM).

For one embodiment, control module 704 may include one or more input/output controllers to provide an interface to NVM/storage 708 and input/output device(s) 710.

For example, NVM/storage 708 may be used to store data and/or instructions 714. NVM/storage 708 may include any suitable non-volatile memory (e.g., flash memory) and/or may include any suitable non-volatile storage device(s) (e.g., one or more hard disk drive(s) (HDD (s)), one or more Compact Disc (CD) drive(s), and/or one or more Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) drive (s)).

NVM/storage 708 may include storage resources that are physically part of the device on which apparatus 700 is installed, or it may be accessible by the device and need not be part of the device. For example, NVM/storage 708 may be accessible over a network via input/output device(s) 710.

Input/output device(s) 710 may provide an interface for apparatus 700 to communicate with any other suitable device, input/output device(s) 710 may include communication components, audio components, sensor components, and so forth. Network interface 712 may provide an interface for device 700 to communicate over one or more networks, and device 700 may communicate wirelessly with one or more components of a wireless network according to any of one or more wireless network standards and/or protocols, such as access to a communication standard-based wireless network, such as WiFi, 2G, 3G, 4G, 5G, etc., or a combination thereof.

For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 702 may be packaged together with logic for one or more controller(s) (e.g., memory controller module) of control module 704. For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 702 may be packaged together with logic for one or more controllers of control module 704 to form a System In Package (SiP). For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 702 may be integrated on the same die with logic for one or more controller(s) of control module 704. For one embodiment, at least one of the processor(s) 702 may be integrated on the same die with logic for one or more controllers of control module 704 to form a system on a chip (SoC).

In various embodiments, the apparatus 700 may be, but is not limited to being: a server, a desktop computing device, or a mobile computing device (e.g., a laptop computing device, a handheld computing device, a tablet, a netbook, etc.), among other terminal devices. In various embodiments, apparatus 700 may have more or fewer components and/or different architectures. For example, in some embodiments, device 700 includes one or more cameras, a keyboard, a Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) screen (including a touch screen display), a non-volatile memory port, multiple antennas, a graphics chip, an Application Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC), and speakers.

The detection device may adopt a main control chip as a processor or a control module, the sensor data, the position information and the like are stored in a memory or an NVM/storage device, the sensor group may serve as an input/output device, and the communication interface may include a network interface.

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.

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.

Embodiments of the present application 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 application. 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 application 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 the preferred embodiment and all such alterations and modifications as fall within the true scope of the embodiments of the application.

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 picking device, the picking method and the picking control device provided by the present application are introduced in detail, and specific examples are applied in the present application to explain the principle and the implementation of the present application, and the description of the above embodiments is only used to help understand the method and the core idea of the present application; meanwhile, for a person skilled in the art, according to the idea of the present application, 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 application.

Claims

1. A picking apparatus, characterized in that the picking apparatus comprises:

a control terminal, a vehicle body; the vehicle body comprises at least one layer of commodity shelf, at least one prompting component, at least one distance measuring sensor and a weighing sensor; the at least one prompting component and the at least one ranging sensor are arranged on the commodity shelf;

the commodity shelf is provided with at least one sorting unit;

the control terminal controls a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be released to prompt according to the acquired logistics object information of the logistics object to be released in the picking task;

the distance measuring sensor is used for detecting whether the logistics objects to be thrown pass through the target sorting unit or not;

and the weighing sensor is used for weighing the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit.

2. The picking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control terminal is of a separate design or an integral design with the picking apparatus.

3. The sorting apparatus of claim 1, further comprising:

the code scanning device is used for scanning a logistics object to be launched to obtain logistics object information and sending the logistics object information to the control terminal;

and the prompt component is used for carrying out the release prompt of the logistics object to be released.

4. The picking apparatus of claim 3, wherein the prompting assembly further includes: the prompting lamp and the digital display module are arranged on the shell;

the prompting lamp is used for prompting the target sorting unit by lighting, flashing or changing color;

and the digital display module prompts the number of the released digits by displaying the corresponding digits.

5. The sorting apparatus of claim 1,

the control terminal receives distance data returned by the distance measuring sensor; sending a measurement instruction to a weighing sensor; and checking the weight of the logistics objects in the corresponding sorting units according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensors.

6. The picking apparatus of claim 1, wherein the control terminal includes a display screen;

and the display screen displays various information of the picking tasks.

7. The picking apparatus of claim 1, further comprising: a printing device;

the control terminal sends a printing instruction to the printing equipment;

and the printing equipment prints the bill corresponding to the sorting unit according to the printing instruction.

8. The picking apparatus of claim 1, further comprising: an image acquisition device;

the image acquisition equipment records video data of the logistics object sorting.

9. A picking method is characterized by being applied to a picking device, and the method comprises the following steps:

the control terminal controls a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be put to prompt according to the acquired logistics object information of the logistics object to be put in the picking task;

and detecting whether the logistics objects to be put pass through the target sorting unit or not by a distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, if so, controlling a weighing sensor on the sorting equipment to weigh the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit by the control terminal.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein the target sorting unit is one or more; the control terminal and the picking equipment are designed separately or integrally.

11. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

and the control terminal acquires a picking path corresponding to the logistics object to be thrown in the picking task.

12. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

the control terminal determines the layout information of the sorting units on the commodity shelf, wherein the layout information comprises: the system comprises position information of at least one sorting unit and a prompt component corresponding to the sorting unit.

13. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

and the code scanning device scans the logistics object to be launched to obtain logistics object information and sends the logistics object information to the control terminal.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein prompting the prompting component corresponding to the control target sorting unit comprises:

sending a prompt instruction to a prompt component corresponding to the target sorting unit;

the method further comprises the following steps: and the prompt component prompts the release of the logistics objects to be released according to the prompt instruction.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the prompting for the release of the to-be-released logistic object comprises at least one of the following steps:

the prompting lamp of the prompting component prompts the target sorting unit by lighting, flashing or changing color;

and according to the number of the logistics objects, the digital display module of the prompt component prompts the number of the input objects by displaying corresponding numbers.

16. The method of claim 9, wherein the control terminal controls a weighing sensor on the picking device to weigh the logistics objects dropped in the target sorting unit, and comprises:

the control terminal sends a measurement instruction to the weighing sensor;

the weighing sensor measures weight information according to the measurement instruction and sends the weight information to the control terminal;

and the control terminal checks the weight of the logistics objects put in the corresponding target sorting unit according to the weight information returned by the weighing sensor.

17. The method of claim 16, further comprising:

detecting distance data by a distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, and returning the distance data to the control terminal;

and the control terminal generates a measurement instruction after determining that the logistics objects to be released pass through the target sorting unit according to the measured distance data.

18. The method according to claim 12, wherein the control terminal determines layout information of the sorting units on the shelf, comprising:

the control terminal acquires a picking task;

and determining the layout information of the sorting units on the commodity shelf according to the sorting task.

19. The method of claim 18, wherein said determining layout information for sorting units on a shelf in accordance with said picking order comprises:

determining a logistics object list according to the picking task;

and determining the number, the size information, the position information and the corresponding prompt components of the sorting units according to the logistics object list to generate layout information.

20. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

determining a picking path according to the picking task;

and displaying a library position and logistics object information corresponding to the library position on a screen of the control terminal according to the picking path.

21. The method according to claim 14, wherein when the target sorting unit is plural, the sending the prompting instruction to the prompting component corresponding to the target sorting unit comprises any one of the following steps:

sequentially sending prompt instructions to prompt components corresponding to the target sorting units according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be released;

and sending a prompt instruction of flashing a control lamp to a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit in which the logistics objects are put according to the placement sequence of the logistics objects to be put, and sending a prompt instruction of turning on the control lamp to prompt components corresponding to other target sorting units waiting for placing the logistics objects.

22. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

the control terminal judges that the sorting of the sorting units on the commodity shelf is finished and sends a printing instruction to the printing equipment;

23. The method of claim 9, further comprising:

the control terminal sends a video recording instruction to the image acquisition equipment;

and the image acquisition equipment records video data sorted by the logistics objects according to the video recording instruction.

24. A picking control device is characterized in that the device is applied to a control terminal of a picking device, and the device comprises:

the task obtaining module is used for controlling the terminal to obtain the picking task;

the prompt control module is used for controlling a prompt component corresponding to a target sorting unit corresponding to the logistics object to be released to prompt according to the logistics object information of the logistics object to be released in the picking task;

and the measurement control module is used for detecting whether the logistics objects to be put in pass through the target sorting unit or not through the distance data of the distance measuring sensor corresponding to the target sorting unit, and if so, controlling a weighing sensor on the sorting equipment to weigh the logistics objects put in the target sorting unit.