CN110889925B - Intelligent vending cabinet and control method - Google Patents

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CN110889925B
CN110889925B CN201811057350.6A CN201811057350A CN110889925B CN 110889925 B CN110889925 B CN 110889925B CN 201811057350 A CN201811057350 A CN 201811057350A CN 110889925 B CN110889925 B CN 110889925B
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吕永杰
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Abstract

The invention discloses an intelligent vending cabinet and a control method thereof.A grating is oppositely arranged at a cabinet opening, a data acquisition unit reads and analyzes grating data, a data processing unit records optical axis change points of the grating data according to time accumulation, and a control unit analyzes the data of the data acquisition unit and the data processing unit. The control unit analyzes the track of the articles passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening, and deduces the taken articles according to the placement layout of the articles in the intelligent vending cabinet. This cabinet control principle is sold to intelligence is simple, simple structure, with low costs.

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Intelligent vending cabinet and control method
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of vending cabinets, in particular to an intelligent vending cabinet and a control method.
Background
With the rise of new retail, automatic selling, unmanned self-taking and other devices are increasing. Accurate discernment judges the article that the consumer took, is the technical key of cabinet is sold to intelligence. The current cabinet is sold to intelligence adopts technologies such as weighing, image recognition, RFID to discern the article of judging the consumer and taking usually, and general structure is complicated, with high costs. How to provide an identification device and method applied to an intelligent vending cabinet, which have simple structure and low cost, is a technical problem which is urgently solved by technical personnel in the field.
Disclosure of Invention
The invention provides an intelligent vending cabinet and a control method, which are simple in structure and low in cost.
The technical scheme provided by the invention is that the intelligent vending cabinet comprises a cabinet opening formed on a cabinet body, wherein the cabinet opening comprises a first cabinet opening edge and a second cabinet opening edge which are oppositely arranged, a third cabinet opening edge and a fourth cabinet opening edge which are oppositely arranged, gratings are respectively arranged in the length directions of the first cabinet opening edge, the second cabinet opening edge and/or the third cabinet opening edge and the fourth cabinet opening edge, and the two gratings which are oppositely arranged are oppositely irradiated, and the intelligent vending cabinet also comprises:
the data acquisition unit is used for reading and analyzing the grating data;
a data processing unit for recording optical axis change points in time accumulation for raster data;
and the control unit is used for analyzing the data of the data acquisition unit and the data processing unit.
Further, the opening mode of the grating is a normally open mode or a trigger opening mode.
Furthermore, the intelligent selling cabinet is a vertical refrigerator or a horizontal refrigerator or a normal temperature cabinet or a refrigerating and heating cabinet.
The invention also discloses a control method applied to the intelligent vending cabinet, which comprises the following steps:
s1: the grating is opened, and the two oppositely arranged gratings are oppositely emitted;
s2: the data acquisition unit acquires grating data, reads and analyzes the grating data, and feeds back the result to the control unit;
s3: the control unit judges whether the state of the optical axis changes;
s4: when the optical axis changes, the control unit feeds back grating data to the data processing unit, and the data processing unit records the change point of the optical axis in an accumulated mode according to time and feeds back the change point of the optical axis to the control unit;
s5: the control unit analyzes the track of the article passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the article relative to the cabinet opening;
s6: the control unit deduces the taken articles according to the placement layout of the articles in the intelligent vending cabinet, the track of the articles passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening.
Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages and positive effects that:
the invention provides an intelligent vending cabinet and a control method, wherein gratings are oppositely arranged at a cabinet opening, a data acquisition unit reads and analyzes grating data, a data processing unit records optical axis change points of the grating data according to time accumulation, and a control unit analyzes the data of the data acquisition unit and the data processing unit. The control unit analyzes the track of the articles passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening, and deduces the taken articles according to the placement layout of the articles in the intelligent vending cabinet. This cabinet control principle is sold to intelligence is simple, simple structure, with low costs.
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In order to more clearly illustrate the embodiments of the present invention or the technical solutions in the prior art, the drawings needed to be used in the description of the embodiments or the prior art will be briefly introduced below, and it is obvious that the drawings in the following description are some embodiments of the present invention, and for those skilled in the art, other drawings can be obtained according to these drawings without creative efforts.
FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a smart vending cabinet according to an embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 2 is a flowchart of a control method for an intelligent vending cabinet according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Wherein, 100-cabinet opening, 110-first cabinet opening side, 120-second cabinet opening side, 130-third cabinet opening side, 140-fourth cabinet opening side, and 200-grating.
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In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present invention clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present invention will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present invention, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some, but not all, embodiments of the present invention. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present invention.
The invention discloses an intelligent selling cabinet which can be a vertical refrigerator, a horizontal refrigerator, a normal-temperature cabinet, a refrigerating and heating cabinet and the like, wherein the vertical refrigerator is taken as an example in the embodiment and is shown in figure 1, the intelligent selling cabinet comprises a cabinet opening 100 formed on a cabinet body, and the cabinet opening 100 comprises a first cabinet opening edge 110, a second cabinet opening edge 120, a third cabinet opening edge 130 and a fourth cabinet opening edge 140 which are oppositely arranged. The first opening edge 110, the second opening edge 120, and/or the third opening edge 130, and the fourth opening edge 140 are respectively provided with gratings 200 along the respective length directions, that is, one pair or two pairs of gratings 200 are provided on the opening 100, and it is ensured that each pair of oppositely disposed gratings 200 is oppositely emitted. The grating 200 needs to be arranged along the length direction of the cabinet opening edge and fully cover the cabinet opening edge, so as to ensure that the optical axis emitted by the oppositely arranged grating 200 can cover the whole cabinet opening area.
The cabinet is sold to intelligence still includes:
the data acquisition unit is used for reading and analyzing the grating data;
a data processing unit for recording the optical axis change point for the raster data in time accumulation;
and the control unit is used for analyzing the data of the data acquisition unit and the data processing unit.
The opening mode of the grating can be a normally open mode, and can also be a trigger opening mode, for example, the opening of the grating is triggered by an induction device.
The intelligent vending cabinet control method comprises the following steps, referring to fig. 2:
s1: the grating is opened, and two oppositely arranged gratings are oppositely emitted;
s2: the data acquisition unit acquires grating data, reads and analyzes the grating data, and feeds back the result to the control unit;
s3: the control unit judges whether the state of the optical axis changes;
s4: when the optical axis changes, the control unit feeds back grating data to the data processing unit, and the data processing unit records the change point of the optical axis in an accumulated manner according to time and feeds back the change point to the control unit;
s5: the control unit analyzes the track of the articles passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening;
s6: the control unit deduces the taken articles according to the placement layout of the articles in the intelligent vending cabinet, the track of the articles passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening.
It should be noted that the purpose of the intelligent vending cabinet of this embodiment is to infer the general type range of the articles to be taken out, that is, the articles are placed in the cabinet according to a certain layout in advance, then the system of the types of the articles placed in each corresponding area of the cabinet opening is known, and the intelligent vending cabinet can infer the general type of the articles to be taken out by detecting the track of the articles taken out by the consumer passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening.
By matching the embodiment with other identification modes, such as weighing, image identification, RFID and other technologies, the article identification rate can be improved.
Finally, it should be noted that: the above examples are only intended to illustrate the technical solution of the present invention, but not to limit it; although the present invention has been described in detail with reference to the foregoing embodiments, it will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art that: the technical solutions described in the foregoing embodiments may still be modified, or some technical features may be equivalently replaced; and such modifications or substitutions do not depart from the spirit and scope of the corresponding technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention.

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1. The utility model provides a cabinet is sold to intelligence, is including forming the cabinet mouth on the cabinet body, the cabinet mouth is including relative first cabinet mouthful limit, second cabinet mouthful limit that sets up and relative third cabinet mouthful limit, the fourth cabinet mouthful limit that sets up, a serial communication port, first cabinet mouthful limit second cabinet mouthful limit and/or third cabinet mouthful limit fourth cabinet mouthful limit border respective length direction is equipped with the grating respectively, relative two that sets up the grating correlation, the cabinet is sold to intelligence still includes:
the data acquisition unit is used for reading and analyzing the grating data;
a data processing unit for recording the optical axis change point for the raster data in time accumulation;
the control unit is used for analyzing the data of the data acquisition unit and the data processing unit to obtain the track of the article passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the cabinet opening, and the control unit deduces the article to be taken out according to the placement layout of the article in the intelligent vending cabinet, the track of the article passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the cabinet opening.
2. The smart merchandiser of claim 1, wherein the open mode of the shutters is a normally open mode or a triggered open mode.
3. The intelligent merchandiser of claim 1, wherein the intelligent merchandiser is a vertical freezer or horizontal freezer or ambient or heating cabinet.
4. A control method applied to the intelligent vending cabinet as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 3, characterized by comprising the following steps:
s1: the grating is opened, and the two oppositely arranged gratings are oppositely emitted;
s2: the data acquisition unit acquires grating data, reads and analyzes the grating data, and feeds back the result to the control unit;
s3: the control unit judges whether the state of the optical axis changes;
s4: when the optical axis changes, the control unit feeds back grating data to the data processing unit, and the data processing unit records the change point of the optical axis in an accumulated mode according to time and feeds back the change point of the optical axis to the control unit;
s5: the control unit analyzes the track of the article passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the article relative to the cabinet opening;
s6: the control unit deduces the taken articles according to the placement layout of the articles in the intelligent vending cabinet, the track of the articles passing through the cabinet opening or the position of the articles relative to the cabinet opening.
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