CN111517061A

CN111517061A - Transportation method, system, electronic device and computer readable medium

Info

Publication number: CN111517061A
Application number: CN201910108707.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 张囝; 熊金涛; 王成; 汤敬仁; 张雷
Original assignee: Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Jingdong Qianshi Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2019-02-03
Filing date: 2019-02-03
Publication date: 2020-08-11
Also published as: WO2020156023A1

Abstract

The present disclosure relates to a transportation method, system, electronic device, and computer readable medium. The method comprises the following steps: receiving an item transportation request, wherein the item transportation request comprises a target item; determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item; controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods; wherein the docking platform is used for switching the transport vehicle between a plurality of lanes of a plurality of shelves. The transportation method, the transportation system, the electronic equipment and the computer readable medium can reduce the complexity of the transportation vehicle in changing the lane between the goods shelves and improve the connection efficiency of the logistics transportation system.

Description

Transportation method, system, electronic device and computer readable medium

Technical Field

The present disclosure relates to the field of warehouse logistics, and in particular, to a transportation method, a transportation system, an electronic device, and a computer-readable medium.

Background

The three-dimensional warehouse is also called an elevated warehouse or an elevated warehouse, and generally refers to a warehouse which stores unit articles by using shelves with the heights of several layers, dozens of layers or even dozens of layers and uses corresponding material handling equipment to carry out warehousing and ex-warehouse operation on the articles. The three-dimensional library is used as a relatively mature system at present, and various forms are developed, such as a stacker, a shuttle plate, a shuttle car and other systems become relatively mature application cases in the industry. In many conventional three-dimensional libraries, the scale of a horizontal array formation system is expanded on a lane-by-lane basis. After the scale-up, various problems occur, such as the increase of the input amount of equipment along with the scale-up, and the utilization rate of each storage position in each unit (layer or roadway) is different, so that the efficiency of the equipment is different to a certain extent.

The stacker is arrayed by taking a roadway as a unit, and the stacker does not support the replacement of the roadway because of being heavy equipment. The shuttle cars and the shuttle plates are vertically arrayed and then horizontally arrayed and unfolded one by one in each layer, so that the scale is enlarged, and the number of cars in one roadway is equal to the number of layers. The existing shuttle vehicle is mainly used for replacing a tunnel by a hoisting machine to lower the tunnel and then is transported to other tunnels to lift the hoisting machine. The tunnel of shuttle board is changed and needs to be put down with fork truck or other instrument and transport other tunnel positions again and put up. In the prior art, the running guide rails of stereoscopic warehouse products are solidified, and the replacement of roadways and the working area of single equipment is inflexible.

Accordingly, there is a need for new transportation methods, systems, electronic devices, and computer readable media.

The above information disclosed in this background section is only for enhancement of understanding of the background of the disclosure and therefore it may contain information that does not constitute prior art that is already known to a person of ordinary skill in the art.

Disclosure of Invention

In view of this, the present disclosure provides a transportation method, a transportation system, an electronic device, and a computer readable medium, which can reduce the complexity of changing lanes between shelves of a transport vehicle and improve the connection efficiency of a logistics transportation system.

Additional features and advantages of the disclosure will be set forth in the detailed description which follows, or in part will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the disclosure.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a transportation method is provided, the method including: receiving an item transportation request, wherein the item transportation request comprises a target item; determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item; controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods; wherein the docking platform is used for switching the transport vehicle between a plurality of lanes of a plurality of shelves.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, controlling the transporter to drive into a target location on a rack through a docking platform to access the target item includes: acquiring the current position of the transport vehicle; and determining the docking platform based on the current position and the target position.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the target position includes: the target layer of the goods shelf and the target roadway of the goods shelf; controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the shelf through the docking platform to access the target item comprises: controlling the transport vehicle to horizontally move in the docking platform to the target roadway and then move on a guide rail of a shelf to reach the target layer; and/or controlling the transport vehicle to move horizontally in the connecting platform after moving to the target layer on the guide rail of the goods shelf so as to reach the target roadway.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the entering of the transport vehicle into the target location on the rack through the docking platform to access the target item includes: controlling the transport vehicle to move from the current position to an intermediate position on the docking platform and/or the guide rail; and controlling the transport vehicle to move from the intermediate position to a target position on the docking platform and/or the guide rail to access the target item.

In an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure, the docking platform is arranged at one and/or both ends of the shelf and/or between the shelves.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, further comprising: and determining the position and the number of the docking platforms.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, further comprising: controlling the transport vehicle to charge in the docking platform according to a charging instruction; and/or controlling the transport vehicle to temporarily store articles in the docking platform according to a storage instruction; and/or controlling the transport vehicle to drive into the docking platform for maintenance according to the maintenance instruction.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a transportation system, the system comprising: the goods shelf is used for bearing goods and has a three-dimensional structure; a guide rail disposed on the shelf for carrying a transport vehicle to move thereon; the connecting platform is used for switching the transport vehicle among a plurality of roadways of a plurality of shelves; the server is used for receiving an item transportation request, and the item transportation request comprises a target item; determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item; and controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, further comprising: the charging pile is arranged on the connection platform and used for charging the transport vehicle; and/or the maintenance platform is arranged on the connection platform and used for maintaining the transport vehicle; and/or the object placing platform is arranged on the connecting platform and used for temporarily storing objects.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the shelf includes: a plurality of storage brackets which are sequentially arranged in the vertical direction; and a plurality of vertical upright posts which are vertically arranged are connected to the edge of each layer of the storage bracket and support the storage bracket together.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the guide rail includes: a vertical guide rail and a horizontal guide rail; the horizontal guide rail is arranged on the edge of the plurality of layers of the storage brackets of the goods shelf; the vertical guide rails are installed on a plurality of vertical columns of the goods shelf.

According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an electronic device is provided, the electronic device including: one or more processors; storage means for storing one or more programs; when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement a method as above.

According to an aspect of the disclosure, a computer-readable medium is proposed, on which a computer program is stored, which program, when being executed by a processor, carries out the method as above.

According to the transportation method, the transportation system, the electronic device and the computer readable medium, the transportation vehicle drives into the target position on the goods shelf through the connection platform so as to access the target object, the complexity of changing lanes between the goods shelf of the transportation vehicle can be reduced, and the connection efficiency of the logistics transportation system is improved.

It is to be understood that both the foregoing general description and the following detailed description are exemplary and explanatory only and are not restrictive of the disclosure.

Drawings

The above and other objects, features and advantages of the present disclosure will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings. The drawings described below are merely some embodiments of the present disclosure, and other drawings may be derived from those drawings by those of ordinary skill in the art without inventive effort.

Fig. 1 is a block diagram illustrating an application scenario of a transportation method and system according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating a method of transportation according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a perspective shelf schematic diagram illustrating a method of transportation according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a transportation system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view of a guide rail in a transport system according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a transporter in a transport system according to an exemplary embodiment.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a docking process in a transport system according to an exemplary embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating an electronic device in accordance with an example embodiment.

FIG. 9 is a schematic diagram illustrating a computer-readable storage medium according to an example embodiment.

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. Example embodiments may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The same reference numerals denote the same or similar parts in the drawings, and thus, a repetitive description thereof will be omitted.

Furthermore, the described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments. In the following description, numerous specific details are provided to give a thorough understanding of embodiments of the disclosure. One skilled in the relevant art will recognize, however, that the subject matter of the present disclosure can be practiced without one or more of the specific details, or with other methods, components, devices, steps, and so forth. In other instances, well-known methods, devices, implementations, or operations have not been shown or described in detail to avoid obscuring aspects of the disclosure.

The block diagrams shown in the figures are functional entities only and do not necessarily correspond to physically separate entities. I.e. these functional entities may be implemented in the form of software, or in one or more hardware modules or integrated circuits, or in different networks and/or processor means and/or microcontroller means.

The flow charts shown in the drawings are merely illustrative and do not necessarily include all of the contents and operations/steps, nor do they necessarily have to be performed in the order described. For example, some operations/steps may be decomposed, and some operations/steps may be combined or partially combined, so that the actual execution sequence may be changed according to the actual situation.

It will be understood that, although the terms first, second, third, etc. may be used herein to describe various components, these components should not be limited by these terms. These terms are used to distinguish one element from another. Thus, a first component discussed below may be termed a second component without departing from the teachings of the disclosed concept. As used herein, the term "and/or" includes any and all combinations of one or more of the associated listed items.

It is to be understood by those skilled in the art that the drawings are merely schematic representations of exemplary embodiments, and that the blocks or processes shown in the drawings are not necessarily required to practice the present disclosure and are, therefore, not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 1, the system architecture 100 of the transport system may include

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103, a network 104, and a server 105. The network 104 is used to provide a medium for communication links between the

vehicles

101, 102, 103 and the server 105. Network 104 may include various connection types, such as wired, wireless communication links, or fiber optic cables, to name a few.

The

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 may be AGVs (Automated Guided vehicles). The

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 may be equipped with electromagnetic or optical automatic guiding devices, which can travel along a predetermined guiding path, and have safety protection and various transfer functions, and the

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 do not need drivers in industrial application, and use rechargeable batteries as their power sources. Generally, the traveling route and behavior can be controlled by a computer, or the traveling route can be set up by using an electromagnetic guide (electromagnetic-tracking system), the electromagnetic guide is adhered to the floor, and the

transportation vehicles

101, 102, 103 move and operate according to the information brought by the electromagnetic guide.

The

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 may, for example, receive an item transport request that includes a target item; the

transporters

101, 102, 103 may determine a target location of the target item on the shelf, e.g., from the target item; the

transport carriages

101, 102, 103 may be driven into a target location on the rack, for example, by a docking platform, to access the target item; the connecting platform can be arranged at one end, two ends and/or among the shelves of the plurality of shelves and is used for switching among a plurality of roadways of the shelves of the transport vehicle.

The

vehicles

101, 102, 103 may also drive directly into a target location on a rack, for example, to access the target item.

The

transport carriages

101, 102, 103 may also transport the target item to a designated location, for example, via the docking platform; and/or directly transporting the target item to a designated location.

The server 105 may be a server that provides various services, such as a background server that provides travel route support for the

vehicles

101, 102, 103. The server 105 may perform processing such as analysis on the received order data, determine a travel route of the transportation vehicle from the order data, and then feed back the travel route to the terminal device.

Server 105 may, for example, receive an item shipping request that includes a target item; the server 105 may determine a target location of the target item on the shelf, for example, from the target item; the server 105 may, for example, control the

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 to drive into a target location on the rack via the docking platform to access the target item; the connecting platform can be arranged at one end, two ends and/or among the shelves of the transport vehicle and is used for switching among a plurality of roadways of the shelves of the transport vehicle.

The server 105 may also, for example, control the

vehicles

101, 102, 103 to drive into target locations on the racks to access the target items.

The server 105 may also, for example, control the

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 to transport the target item to a specified location via the docking platform; the server 105 may also, for example, control the

transport vehicles

101, 102, 103 to transport the target item directly to a designated location.

The server 105 may be a server of one entity, and may also be composed of a plurality of servers, for example, it should be noted that the transportation method provided by the embodiment of the present disclosure may be executed by the server 105 and/or the

transportation vehicles

101, 102, 103, and accordingly, the transportation device may be disposed in the server 105 and/or the

transportation vehicles

101, 102, 103.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart illustrating a method of transportation according to an exemplary embodiment. The transportation method 20 includes at least steps S202 to S208.

As shown in fig. 2, in S202, an item transportation request is received, where the item transportation request includes a target item.

In S204, a target position of the target item on the shelf is determined according to the target item, where the target position includes a target layer of the shelf and a target lane of the shelf.

In S206, the transport vehicle is controlled to drive into the target position on the shelf through the docking platform to access the target item. The connecting platform is arranged at one end and/or two ends of the goods shelf and/or between the goods shelf and is used for switching among a plurality of roadways of a plurality of goods shelves of the transport vehicle.

In one embodiment, further comprising: and determining the transport vehicle and the docking platform according to the article transportation request. The platform of plugging into can erect between two goods shelves, and the transport vechicle can directly carry out the position switch between the goods shelves through this platform, arranges in the position, and it can set up the both ends at the goods shelves, if the goods shelves than longer and often change under the condition in tunnel also can set up the intermediate arbitrary position at the goods shelves and promote efficiency.

In one embodiment, further comprising: and determining the position and the number of the docking platforms. The connection platform can be arranged at intervals of a plurality of layers according to the number of vehicles and the frequency of changing the roadway.

In one embodiment, the transport vehicle is controlled to move on the guide rail of the shelf to reach the target layer after moving horizontally to the target roadway in the docking platform; and controlling the transport vehicle to move to the target layer on the guide rail of the goods shelf and then horizontally move in the connecting platform to reach the target roadway.

In one embodiment, the driving of the transporter through the docking platform into the target location on the shelf to access the target item comprises: controlling the transport vehicle to move from the current position to an intermediate position on the docking platform and/or the guide rail; and controlling the transport vehicle to move from the intermediate position to a target position on the docking platform and/or the guide rail to access the target item. In some scenarios, the transport vehicle may directly reach the target position through the docking platform, and in other scenarios, the transport vehicle may first travel to a certain intermediate position of the logistics warehouse through the docking platform or the guide rail, and the intermediate position serves as a transfer station, and then reaches the target position through one or more docking platforms or through traveling on the guide rail.

FIG. 3 is a perspective shelf schematic diagram illustrating a method of transportation according to an exemplary embodiment. The transport vehicle 410 may be operated horizontally and vertically in a roadway, and when the roadway needs to be changed, the vehicle may travel to the docking platforms 406 at both ends (or an intermediate position, not shown) of the rack 402. The transport vehicle 410 runs on the guide rail 404 of the shelf, continues to run forwards after reaching the docking station, the ground wheels of the transport vehicle 410 and the crawling assembly act simultaneously, and after the crawling assembly is separated from the shelf, the ground wheels completely fall on the docking platform, start to run through the ground wheels, and move along corresponding routes.

In one embodiment, a charging potential can be set on the docking platform, and the transport vehicle can perform various driving actions according to different navigation modes on the docking platform, and is not limited to driving in a straight line. A charging potential can be set at a specific position on the connection platform, and the transport vehicle can be charged at the charging potential. The transport vehicle or other relevant equipment can be stopped on the docking platform when the operation is stopped.

In one embodiment, the docking platform may have a service platform and a storage platform disposed thereon. Controlling the transport vehicle to temporarily store articles in the docking platform according to a storage instruction; and/or controlling the transport vehicle to drive into the docking platform for maintenance according to the maintenance instruction.

The platform of plugging into extends the transport vechicle to the cubical space of "body" from the range of movement of "face", lets the removal of transport vechicle more nimble, among the prior art, need descend to ground, change the tunnel, rise to appointed layer when the transport vechicle in the three-dimensional storehouse trades the layer. According to the transportation method, when the layer and the goods shelf of the transport vehicle are replaced, the transport vehicle only needs to horizontally run to the connection platform, move on the connection platform and enter the specified roadway. The transport vechicle form in this application has reduced the iterative process of going perpendicularly, and the perpendicular action of going again that consumes energy most, so the continuation of the journey of transport vechicle has also been promoted to the platform of plugging into when promoting efficiency.

It should be clearly understood that this disclosure describes how to make and use particular examples, but the principles of this disclosure are not limited to any details of these examples. Rather, these principles can be applied to many other embodiments based on the teachings of the present disclosure.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that all or part of the steps implementing the above embodiments are implemented as computer programs executed by a CPU. When executed by the CPU, performs the functions defined by the above-described methods provided by the present disclosure. The program may be stored in a computer readable storage medium, which may be a read-only memory, a magnetic or optical disk, or the like.

Furthermore, it should be noted that the above-mentioned figures are only schematic illustrations of the processes involved in the methods according to exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure, and are not intended to be limiting. It will be readily understood that the processes shown in the above figures are not intended to indicate or limit the chronological order of the processes. In addition, it is also readily understood that these processes may be performed synchronously or asynchronously, e.g., in multiple modules.

The following are embodiments of the disclosed apparatus that may be used to perform embodiments of the disclosed methods. For details not disclosed in the embodiments of the apparatus of the present disclosure, refer to the embodiments of the method of the present disclosure.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a transportation system in accordance with an exemplary embodiment. The transportation system 400 includes: shelves 402, rails 404, docking platform 406, server 408, and may also include transport vehicles 410.

The shelf 402 is used for bearing goods, and the shelf is of a three-dimensional structure; wherein, goods shelves 402 include: a plurality of storage brackets which are sequentially arranged in the vertical direction; and a plurality of vertical upright posts which are vertically arranged are connected to the edge of each layer of the storage bracket and support the storage bracket together.

A guide rail 404 is disposed on the shelf for carrying a transport vehicle 410 so that the transport vehicle 410 moves thereon; wherein the guide rail includes: vertical rail 4041 and horizontal rail 4042; the horizontal rail 4042 is mounted to an edge of the plurality of storage racks of the rack 402; the vertical rails 4041 are mounted on a plurality of vertical posts of the rack 402.

Docking platforms 406 are disposed in the racks and/or between the plurality of racks 402 for switching the transporter 410 between the plurality of racks 402.

The server 408 is configured to receive an item transportation request, where the item transportation request includes a target item; determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item; acquiring the current position of the transport vehicle; and when the current position of the transport vehicle and the target position meet the preset conditions, controlling the transport vehicle to drive into the target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods.

A charging post may be disposed on the docking platform 406 for charging the transporter 410.

A service platform may be provided on the docking platform 406 for servicing the transport vehicle.

The placement platform may be disposed on the docking platform 406 for temporarily storing the articles.

As shown in fig. 4, in case of the conventional horizontal type transporter system, the system travels a maximum number of vehicles as the maximum number of horizontal guideway, i.e., 4 vehicles. In the case of a system of vertically traveling transport vehicles, since each vehicle needs two vertical tracks for climbing, 4 tracks are needed for two vehicles to travel simultaneously, that is, a single-row cargo space between the vertical cargo spaces where the two vehicles are located cannot be used for climbing, and the number of traveling vehicles of the system is 5 at most. According to the logistics transportation system of the present application, since the transportation vehicles 410 can be switched between horizontal and vertical operation in the rack 402, the number of the vehicles is 9 as shown in the figure, and the number of the vehicles can be increased continuously.

Fig. 5 is a schematic view of a guide rail in a transport system according to an exemplary embodiment. As shown in fig. 5, horizontal rails 4042 are mounted to the edges of the plurality of storage racks 402; the vertical rails 4041 are mounted on a plurality of vertical posts of the rack 402.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the horizontal rail 4042 and the vertical rail 4041 may be connected by a cross-steering assembly 5011, and the cross-steering assembly 5011 is used to switch the direction of the transportation vehicle in the vertical direction or the horizontal direction. It should be noted that the guide rail groove may be cross-shaped or m-shaped.

Fig. 6 is a schematic diagram illustrating a transporter in a transport system according to an exemplary embodiment. The transporter 410 may be, for example, an automated guided transporter. In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the transport vehicle 410 includes: a crawling assembly 4102, wherein the crawling assembly 4102 is provided with a plurality of driving wheels and at least one guiding wheel, the crawling assembly 4102 rotates through a rotating structure inside the transport vehicle, and drives a steering assembly to switch the moving direction, so that the transport vehicle 410 can be switched between a vertical direction and a horizontal direction.

Two creeper assemblies 4102 are disposed on opposite sides of a first end of the vehicle body, respectively, and two other creeper assemblies 4102 are disposed on opposite sides of a second end of the vehicle body, respectively. The four creeper assemblies 4102 support the vehicle body from positions near the four corners of the vehicle body, and are more stable and reliable.

In an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, the transport vehicle further includes: and the fork is used for pulling the target item on the stereoscopic shelf through the extending and retracting actions according to the item transportation request.

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram illustrating a docking process in a transport system according to an exemplary embodiment. In the schematic of fig. 7, there are a rack 402, a rail 404, more specifically, a rail comprising a vertical rail 4041 and a horizontal rail 4042, a docking platform 406, and a transport cart 410.

As shown in fig. 7, docking platforms 406 may be provided at each end of the rack 402 for vehicle change lanes. When the transport vehicle 410 drives into the docking platform 406, the driving wheel driven by the ground of the transport vehicle 410 is docked with the docking platform 406, the guide rail 404 is used for guiding, the vehicle drives onto the docking platform 406 and then is separated from the shelf 402, and the transport vehicle 410 can directly drive to another lane to be docked with the shelf 402 by self-rotation and then the lane is replaced.

An electronic device 200 according to this embodiment of the present disclosure is described below with reference to fig. 8. The electronic device 200 shown in fig. 8 is only an example, and should not bring any limitation to the functions and the scope of use of the embodiments of the present disclosure.

As shown in fig. 8, the electronic device 200 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. The components of the electronic device 200 may include, but are not limited to: at least one processing unit 210, at least one memory unit 220, a bus 230 connecting different system components (including the memory unit 220 and the processing unit 210), a display unit 240, and the like.

Wherein the storage unit stores program code executable by the processing unit 210 to cause the processing unit 210 to perform the steps according to various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure described in the above-mentioned electronic prescription flow processing method section of the present specification. For example, the processing unit 210 may perform the steps as shown in fig. 2.

The memory unit 220 may include readable media in the form of volatile memory units, such as a random access memory unit (RAM)2201 and/or a cache memory unit 2202, and may further include a read only memory unit (ROM) 2203.

The storage unit 220 may also include a program/utility 2204 having a set (at least one) of program modules 2205, such program modules 2205 including, but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each of which, or some combination thereof, may comprise an implementation of a network environment.

Bus 230 may be one or more of several types of bus structures, including a memory unit bus or memory unit controller, a peripheral bus, an accelerated graphics port, a processing unit, or a local bus using any of a variety of bus architectures.

The electronic device 200 may also communicate with one or more external devices 300 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, bluetooth device, etc.), with one or more devices that enable a user to interact with the electronic device 200, and/or with any devices (e.g., router, modem, etc.) that enable the electronic device 200 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication may occur via an input/output (I/O) interface 250. Also, the electronic device 200 may communicate with one or more networks (e.g., a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network such as the Internet) via the network adapter 260. The network adapter 260 may communicate with other modules of the electronic device 200 via the bus 230. It should be appreciated that although not shown in the figures, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in conjunction with the electronic device 200, including but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, and data backup storage systems, among others.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily understand that the exemplary embodiments described herein may be implemented by software, or by software in combination with necessary hardware. Therefore, the technical solution according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (which may be a CD-ROM, a usb disk, a removable hard disk, etc.) or on a network, and includes several instructions to enable a computing device (which may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to execute the above method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

Fig. 9 schematically illustrates a computer-readable storage medium in an exemplary embodiment of the disclosure.

Referring to fig. 9, a program product 400 for implementing the above method according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is described, which may employ a portable compact disc read only memory (CD-ROM) and include program code, and may be run on a terminal device, such as a personal computer. However, the program product of the present disclosure is not limited thereto, and in this document, a readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain, or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.

The program product may employ any combination of one or more readable media. The readable medium may be a readable signal medium or a readable storage medium. A readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the readable storage medium include: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable disk, a hard disk, a Random Access Memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

The computer readable storage medium may include a propagated data signal with readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated data signal may take many forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A readable storage medium may also be any readable medium that is not a readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device. Program code embodied on a readable storage medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wireline, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.

Program code for carrying out operations for the present disclosure may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Java, C + + or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computing device, partly on the user's device, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computing device and partly on a remote computing device, or entirely on the remote computing device or server. In the case of a remote computing device, the remote computing device may be connected to the user computing device through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computing device (e.g., through the internet using an internet service provider).

The computer readable medium carries one or more programs which, when executed by a device, cause the computer readable medium to perform the functions of: receiving an item transportation request, wherein the item transportation request comprises a target item; determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item; controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods; wherein the docking platform is used for switching the transport vehicle between a plurality of lanes of a plurality of shelves.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the modules described above may be distributed in the apparatus according to the description of the embodiments, or may be modified accordingly in one or more apparatuses unique from the embodiments. The modules of the above embodiments may be combined into one module, or further split into multiple sub-modules.

Through the above description of the embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily understand that the exemplary embodiments described herein may be implemented by software, or by software in combination with necessary hardware. Therefore, the technical solution according to the embodiments of the present disclosure may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (which may be a CD-ROM, a usb disk, a removable hard disk, etc.) or on a network, and includes several instructions to enable a computing device (which may be a personal computer, a server, a mobile terminal, or a network device, etc.) to execute the method according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

From the foregoing detailed description, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that a transportation method, system, electronic device, and computer-readable medium in accordance with embodiments of the disclosure have one or more of the following advantages.

According to the transportation method disclosed by the invention, the haulage vehicle can automatically replace the roadway through the connection platform, so that the application efficiency of the equipment is improved.

According to the transportation method disclosed by the invention, the charging point positions of the transportation vehicles are arranged on the connection platform, so that the charging points can be searched nearby for charging when the electric power of the vehicles is insufficient, the vehicles do not need to be separated from the goods shelf and move to the ground fixed area for charging, the time is wasted, and the flow is complex.

According to the transportation method disclosed by the invention, the occurrence of the connection platform reduces the complexity of changing the roadway, and the original roadway is firstly lowered to the ground, then changed and climbed to the specified layer, and then horizontally moved to the connection platform, changed and then moved to the specified layer. The whole process reduces vertical movement of a large part, the process is simple, energy consumption is reduced, and the cruising ability of the transport vehicle is improved.

Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are specifically illustrated and described above. It is to be understood that the present disclosure is not limited to the precise arrangements, instrumentalities, or instrumentalities described herein; on the contrary, the disclosure is intended to cover various modifications and equivalent arrangements included within the spirit and scope of the appended claims.

In addition, the structures, the proportions, the sizes, and the like shown in the drawings of the present specification are only used for matching with the contents disclosed in the specification, so as to be understood and read by those skilled in the art, and are not used for limiting the limit conditions which the present disclosure can implement, so that the present disclosure has no technical essence, and any modification of the structures, the change of the proportion relation, or the adjustment of the sizes, should still fall within the scope which the technical contents disclosed in the present disclosure can cover without affecting the technical effects which the present disclosure can produce and the purposes which can be achieved. In addition, the terms "above", "first", "second" and "a" as used in the present specification are for the sake of clarity only, and are not intended to limit the scope of the present disclosure, and changes or modifications of the relative relationship may be made without substantial changes in the technical content.

Claims

1. A method of transportation, comprising:

receiving an item transportation request, wherein the item transportation request comprises a target item;

determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item;

controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods;

wherein the docking platform is used for switching the transport vehicle between a plurality of lanes of a plurality of shelves.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein controlling the transporter to drive through the docking platform into a target location on the shelf to access the target item comprises:

acquiring the current position of the transport vehicle; and

determining the docking platform based on the current position and the target position.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the target location comprises: the target layer of the goods shelf and the target roadway of the goods shelf;

controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the shelf through the docking platform to access the target item comprises:

controlling the transport vehicle to horizontally move in the docking platform to the target roadway and then move on a guide rail of a shelf to reach the target layer; and/or

And controlling the transport vehicle to move to the target layer on the guide rail of the goods shelf and then horizontally move in the connecting platform to reach the target roadway.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the entering of the transport vehicle into the target location on the rack via the docking platform to access the target item comprises:

controlling the transport vehicle to move from the current position to an intermediate position on the docking platform and/or the guide rail; and

controlling the transport vehicle to move from the intermediate position to a target position on the docking platform and/or guide rail to access the target item.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the docking platform is arranged at one and/or both ends of the pallet and/or between the pallets.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

and determining the position and the number of the docking platforms.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

controlling the transport vehicle to charge in the docking platform according to a charging instruction; and/or

Controlling the transport vehicle to temporarily store articles in the docking platform according to a storage instruction; and/or

And controlling the transport vehicle to drive into the connection platform for maintenance according to the maintenance instruction.

8. A transportation system, comprising:

the goods shelf is used for bearing goods and has a three-dimensional structure;

a guide rail disposed on the shelf for carrying a transport vehicle to move thereon;

the connecting platform is used for switching the transport vehicle among a plurality of roadways of a plurality of shelves; and

the server is used for receiving an item transportation request, and the item transportation request comprises a target item; determining a target location of the target item on the shelf from the target item; and controlling the transport vehicle to drive into a target position on the goods shelf through the connecting platform so as to access the target goods.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising:

the charging pile is arranged on the connection platform and used for charging the transport vehicle; and/or

The overhauling platform is arranged on the connecting platform and used for overhauling the transport vehicle; and/or

And the storage platform is arranged on the connecting platform and used for temporarily storing articles.

10. The system of claim 8, wherein the shelf comprises:

a plurality of storage brackets which are sequentially arranged in the vertical direction; and

and the vertical upright posts are vertically arranged and are connected to the edge of each layer of the storage bracket and support the storage bracket together.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the guide rail comprises:

a vertical guide rail and a horizontal guide rail;

the horizontal guide rail is arranged on the edge of the plurality of layers of the storage brackets of the goods shelf;

the vertical guide rails are installed on a plurality of vertical columns of the goods shelf.

12. An electronic device, comprising:

one or more processors;

storage means for storing one or more programs;

when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to implement the method of any one of claims 1-7.

13. A computer-readable medium, on which a computer program is stored, which, when being executed by a processor, carries out the method according to any one of claims 1-7.