CN114308681B

CN114308681B - Information processing method, device, equipment and storage medium

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Publication number: CN114308681B
Application number: CN202111600078.3A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 金丹
Original assignee: Shanghai Yucan Information Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Shanghai Yucan Information Technology Co ltd
Priority date: 2021-12-24
Filing date: 2021-12-24
Publication date: 2024-02-06
Anticipated expiration: 2041-12-24
Also published as: CN114308681A

Abstract

The invention provides an information processing method, a device, equipment and a storage medium, wherein the information processing method applied to transportation equipment provided with a weight sensor in cargo sorting comprises the following steps: receiving an extracted quantity of goods to be sorted; reading the total weight of the goods located on the transportation device from the weight sensor in response to receiving the pick-up completion indication at the sorting end; determining the weight of the single goods to be sorted according to the ratio of the total weight to the extraction quantity; acquiring weight information read by the weight sensor, and determining a weight change value; and determining the number of the cargoes to be sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single cargoes to be sorted, wherein the number of the cargoes to be sorted is used for checking sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted. The invention assists the sorter to count and check goods on the premise of not building any database, so as to flexibly adapt to wide sorting scenes.

Description

Information processing method, device, equipment and storage medium

Technical Field

The present invention relates to the field of computer applications, and in particular, to an information processing method, apparatus, system, device, and storage medium.

Background

In the cargo sorting process, a sorter needs to take out cargoes from the goods shelves, place the cargoes on the cargo allocation and transportation device and transport the cargoes to the corresponding sorting port for sorting. The sorter needs to take away from the cargo conveyance device by oneself in the sorting process, and the quantity of cargoes placed at the sorting opening is counted to be convenient for match with its letter sorting task and check.

However, in the manual counting mode of the sorter, there is often a counting error, so that a sorting error occurs.

In some schemes, in order to facilitate checking whether the goods taking position of the sorter is accurate or not, a weight sensor is arranged on the goods position, a corresponding relation between the number of the weight sensor and the goods position is maintained, when the goods is put in by the goods distributor, weight change information is generated by the weight sensor, the system searches the corresponding goods position according to the number of the weight sensor generating the weight change information, and the goods position is matched with the goods position associated with the order for putting the goods, so that whether the goods is put in accurately or not by the goods distributor at the time is determined.

In the scheme, the goods are confirmed according to the weight sensor, the quantity of the goods still needs to be counted manually during specific delivery, and meanwhile, the corresponding relation between the weight sensor number and the goods is also required to be maintained, so that the auxiliary capacity is limited, the flexibility is low, and the applicable conditions are harsh

Similarly, for the scheme of building and maintaining a database to assist the sorter to sort, the scheme is difficult to adapt to various scenes of an e-commerce platform, especially in scenes that single commodity stock units such as community group purchase and sales promotion activities need to be sorted for multiple times (the database needs to be queried for the same goods for multiple times, the query matching process is redundant), and the types of goods are greatly changed (the database needs to be updated frequently).

Therefore, how to assist the sorter to count and check the cargoes without building any database so as to flexibly adapt to a wide sorting scene is a technical problem to be solved urgently by the skilled man.

Disclosure of Invention

In order to overcome the defects of the related art, the invention provides an information processing method, an information processing device, information processing equipment and an information processing storage medium, so that a sorter is assisted to count and check cargoes on the premise of not establishing any database, and the information processing method, the information processing device, the information processing equipment and the information processing storage medium are flexibly suitable for wide sorting scenes.

According to an aspect of the present invention, there is provided an information processing method applied to a transportation apparatus in sorting of cargoes, the transportation apparatus being provided with a weight sensor, the information processing method comprising:

Receiving an extracted quantity of goods to be sorted;

reading the total weight of the goods located on the transportation device from the weight sensor in response to receiving the pick-up completion indication at the sorting end;

determining the weight of the single goods to be sorted according to the ratio of the total weight to the extraction quantity;

acquiring weight information read by the weight sensor, and determining a weight change value;

and determining the number of the cargoes to be sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single cargoes to be sorted, wherein the number of the cargoes to be sorted is used for checking sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted.

In some embodiments of the present application, after determining the number of the cargos to be sorted that have been sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of the cargos to be sorted, the method includes:

displaying the number of the cargos to be sorted which are already sorted and the number of the cargos to be sorted which remain on the conveying equipment in a display module of the conveying equipment.

In some embodiments of the present application, the sorting task includes a plurality of sorting sub-tasks, each sorting sub-task associating a sorting opening and a required sorting number of sorting openings, and after determining the number of the sorted cargos according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of cargos to be sorted, the method includes:

The number of the cargoes to be sorted is sent to the sorting end, and the sorting end compares the number of the cargoes to be sorted according to the sum of the number of the cargoes to be sorted and the number of the cargoes to be sorted of the submitted sorting sub-task; or the sorting end automatically submits the sorting subtasks according to the comparison of the number of the sorted cargoes to be sorted and the number of the sorting subtasks to be sorted.

In some embodiments of the present application, the transportation device is provided with a position sensor, the acquiring weight information read by the weight sensor, determining the execution of the weight change value, and triggering according to the following steps:

acquiring position information of the position sensor;

determining that the transport device is moving from one sort port to another sort port based on the position information of the position sensor,

wherein the weight change value is the difference between the weight information read by the weight sensor last time and the weight of the weight information read by the weight sensor last time.

In some embodiments of the present application, the determining the number of the cargos to be sorted that have been sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of the cargos to be sorted includes:

And determining the quantity of the cargoes to be sorted in the moving process of the conveying equipment according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single cargoes to be sorted, wherein the quantity of the cargoes to be sorted in the moving process of the conveying equipment is used for checking with the required sorting quantity of the sorting subtasks of the initial sorting opening of the moving of the conveying equipment.

In some embodiments of the present application, the check result of the number of goods to be sorted that have been sorted during this movement of the transport apparatus with the required sorting number of sorting sub-tasks of the starting sorting gate of this movement of the transport apparatus is used to mark the sorting sub-tasks.

In some embodiments of the present application, the check result of the number of cargoes to be sorted that have been sorted during the movement of the transporting device and the required sorting number of sorting sub-tasks of the initial sorting mouth of the transporting device is used to automatically submit the sorting sub-tasks.

In some embodiments of the present application, the determining that the transport apparatus moves from one sort port to another sort port based on the position information of the position sensor includes:

Identifying initial position information and destination position information of single movement of the transportation equipment according to the change of the position information of the position sensor along with time;

and determining that the transportation equipment moves from one sorting port to another sorting port according to the initial position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transportation equipment.

In some embodiments of the present application, the determining that the transportation device moves from one sort port to another sort port according to the start position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transportation device includes:

and when the distance between the destination position information and the initial position information is larger than a first distance threshold value, determining that the transportation equipment moves from one sorting port to the other sorting port.

and when the initial position information and the destination position information are respectively positioned in the position ranges of two different sorting mouths, determining that the conveying equipment moves from one sorting mouth to the other sorting mouth.

In some embodiments of the present application, when the number of cargoes to be sorted in the moving process of the transporting apparatus is inconsistent with the check of the required sorting number of the sorting subtasks of the starting sorting port of the moving transporting apparatus, the mark of the sorting subtask is set to be failed in the check, the distance between the target position information and the starting position information is further used for comparing with a second distance threshold, and the comparison result is used for correcting the mark of the sorting subtask.

In some embodiments of the present application, the distance between the destination location information and the starting location information is used to determine a sorting opening of the transportation device passing through at the time of the movement, the sorting opening of the transportation device passing through at the time of the movement is used to determine a target sorting sub-task, and the sum of the required sorting numbers of the target sorting sub-tasks is used to check with the number of cargos to be sorted which have been sorted during the movement of the transportation device, so as to correct the marking of the sorting sub-task.

According to still another aspect of the present application, there is also provided an information processing method applied to a sorting end in sorting of goods, the information processing method including:

Sending the pick-up quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transport device

Sending a pickup completion indication to the transportation equipment;

receiving the quantity of the cargoes to be sorted, which are determined by the transportation equipment and are executed by the information processing method;

and performing checking of sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted based on the number of the cargoes to be sorted.

According to still another aspect of the present application, there is also provided an information processing apparatus applied to a transportation device in sorting of cargoes, the transportation device being provided with a weight sensor, the information processing apparatus including:

a first receiving module configured to receive an extracted quantity of goods to be sorted;

a reading module configured to read a total weight of the goods located on the transportation device from the weight sensor in response to receiving the pick-up completion indication at the sorting end;

a single weight determining module configured to determine a weight of a single item of goods to be sorted based on a ratio of the total weight to the extracted number;

the weight change determining module is configured to acquire weight information read by the weight sensor and determine a weight change value;

and the sorted quantity determining module is configured to determine the quantity of the sorted cargoes to be sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single cargoes to be sorted, wherein the quantity of the sorted cargoes to be sorted is used for checking sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted.

According to still another aspect of the present application, there is further provided an information processing apparatus applied to a sorting end in sorting of goods, the information processing method apparatus:

a first sending module configured to send the pick-up quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transportation device

A second sending module configured to send a pick-up completion indication to the transport device;

a second receiving module configured to receive the determined number of cargoes to be sorted, which have been sorted, by the transportation apparatus performing the information processing method as described above;

and the checking module is configured to perform checking of sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted based on the number of the cargoes to be sorted.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is also provided an electronic apparatus including: a processor; a storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by the processor, performs the steps as described above.

According to a further aspect of the present invention there is also provided a storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, performs the steps as described above.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:

Through the interaction of sorting end and transportation equipment to provide and get goods state and draw quantity for transportation equipment, thereby transportation equipment can be triggered according to getting goods state and acquire weight information of weighing sensor, and then calculate the weight that obtains the list piece and wait to sort goods based on drawing quantity and weight information, when weight information of weighing sensor changes, can be based on the weight of list piece and wait to sort goods confirm the quantity of getting away goods from transportation equipment, in order to regard as the quantity of waiting to sort goods that has already been sorted, from this, can be used for carrying out the check of waiting to sort the sorting task of waiting to sort goods through the quantity of waiting to sort goods that has been already sorted.

On the one hand, the conveying equipment used by the same sorter is directly communicated with the sorting end of the sorter, and the sorting end does not need to distinguish and identify the weight sensor of the conveying equipment, so that a database of the corresponding relation between the weight sensor and the conveying equipment/goods space is not required to be established; on the other hand, the weight of a single piece of goods to be sorted can be directly calculated and obtained through the goods taking state and the goods taking quantity provided by the sorting end, and a database of the corresponding relation between the goods and the weight of the goods is not required to be maintained; on the other hand, the calculation of the weight of the single goods to be sorted is simple division, the calculation force requirement is small, and the processing speed is high; on the other hand, the goods taking quantity on the transportation equipment can be counted based on the weight of the single goods to be sorted, so that the manual counting times of the sorter are reduced, and meanwhile, the sorter can be assisted in checking the sorting quantity; on the other hand, the method can be flexibly suitable for wide sorting scenes because the database is not required to be established and maintained, and is particularly suitable for scenes in which single commodity stock units such as community group purchase and sales promotion activities need to be sorted for a plurality of times (the step of redundant query matching is omitted), and the goods types are greatly changed (the step of frequently updating the database is omitted), so that the data processing efficiency of auxiliary sorting is improved, and the sorting experience and the manual sorting efficiency of sorters are further improved.

Drawings

The above and other features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent by describing in detail exemplary embodiments thereof with reference to the attached drawings.

Fig. 1 shows a flowchart of an information processing method applied to a transportation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 2 shows a flowchart of an information processing method applied to a sorting side according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 3 shows a timing chart of an information processing method according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 4 shows a timing chart of an information processing method according to a second embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 5 shows a timing chart of an information processing method according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 6 shows a timing chart of an information processing method according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 7 shows a block diagram of an information processing apparatus applied to a transportation device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 8 shows a block diagram of an information processing apparatus applied to a sorting side according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 9 schematically illustrates a computer-readable storage medium according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.

Fig. 10 schematically illustrates an electronic device according to an exemplary embodiment of the invention.

Detailed Description

Example embodiments will now be described more fully with reference to the accompanying drawings. However, the exemplary embodiments may be embodied in many forms and should not be construed as limited to the examples set forth herein; rather, these embodiments are provided so that this disclosure will be thorough and complete, and will fully convey the concept of the example embodiments to those skilled in the art. The described features, structures, or characteristics may be combined in any suitable manner in one or more embodiments.

Furthermore, the drawings are merely schematic illustrations of the present invention and are not necessarily drawn to scale. The same reference numerals in the drawings denote the same or similar parts, and thus a repetitive description thereof will be omitted. Some of the block diagrams shown in the figures are functional entities and do not necessarily correspond to physically or logically separate entities. These functional entities may be implemented in software or in one or more hardware modules or integrated circuits or in different networks and/or processor devices and/or microcontroller devices.

The flow diagrams depicted in the figures are exemplary only and not necessarily all steps are included. For example, some steps may be decomposed, and some steps may be combined or partially combined, so that the order of actual execution may be changed according to actual situations.

The application is applied to warehouse goods letter sorting to having weight sensor's transportation equipment come with the interaction of letter sorting end, assisting the sorter to sort quantity check, letter sorting task commit etc. in order to get the goods from the goods space and place on transportation equipment after receiving letter sorting task, transport to the letter sorting mouth after through transportation equipment, take out the goods from transportation equipment, and place the letter sorting process that sorts in the letter sorting mouth and carry out intelligent assistance.

The methods of the various embodiments of the present application are performed at the transport facility and at the sorting end, respectively. The transport device may be, for example, a pallet/basket that is movable, or the transport device may include a forklift, a small trailer, a transport vehicle, and a pallet/basket placed on the forklift, the small trailer, the transport vehicle. The methods of the embodiments of the present application may be performed by an intelligent module disposed on a forklift or may also be performed by an intelligent module disposed on a pallet/basket. In some variations, a portion of the functional modules (such as weight sensors) may also be disposed on the pallet/basket, a portion of the functional modules (logic computation related modules) may be disposed on the forklift, and the pallet/basket disposed portion of the functional modules may be in communication with the portion of the functional modules disposed on the forklift to facilitate flexible mating of the forklift, pallet/basket.

The sorting end is deployed in the form of an application, applet, web page, etc. on a portable device (such as a cell phone, tablet computer, and handheld device dedicated to sorting, etc.) to provide sorting services to the sorters. The sorting end may display sorting tasks, sorting mouth subtasks (sorting tasks corresponding to the sorting mouths), information on the goods to be sorted and related quantity information to the sorter. Meanwhile, various flow control controls can be provided for displaying different information provided to the sorter in different sorting stages so as to assist sorting. The sorting side may communicate with a warehouse management server. Further, when the goods, the goods shelves, the sorting openings and the like in the warehouse can be provided with intelligent modules such as wireless radio frequency tags, sensors and identification modules or identifiable information, the sorting end can interact with the intelligent modules through portable equipment where the sorting end is located, so that information related to sorting is acquired, and sorting efficiency is further improved by a sorter.

Referring now to fig. 1, fig. 1 illustrates a flowchart of an information processing method of a transportation device applied to sorting of goods according to an embodiment of the present invention. The information processing method includes the steps of:

Step S110: an extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted is received.

Step S120: in response to receiving a pick complete indication at the sorting end, the total weight of the cargo located on the transportation device is read from the weight sensor.

Specifically, after receiving the sorting task displayed at the sorting end, the sorter can reach the goods position indicated by the sorting task to take goods, so that the goods to be sorted are carried from the goods position to the conveying equipment. The sort end would provide the sorter with an input box of the number of extractions. The sorter can input the number of the sorters to be sorted, which are extracted by the sorter, through the input box. Further, in some variations, when a sensor (such as an image sensor, a weight sensor, a light sensor) or the like for counting the articles is provided at the cargo space, the amount of the picked-up articles to be sorted may also be provided by an intelligent module at the cargo space, which is not limited in this application.

Further, after the sorter finishes picking, a picking completion control is operated at the sorting end to generate a picking completion indication. When the sorting end generates a goods taking completion instruction, the goods taking completion instruction is sent to the transportation equipment to trigger the transportation equipment to read the total weight of goods on the transportation equipment from the weight sensor.

Step S130: and determining the weight of the single goods to be sorted according to the ratio of the total weight to the extraction quantity.

Step S140: and acquiring weight information read by the weight sensor, and determining a weight change value.

Step S150: and determining the number of the cargoes to be sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single cargoes to be sorted, wherein the number of the cargoes to be sorted is used for checking sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted.

In some embodiments, the weight change value may be determined in real time as the weight information changes. In still other embodiments, the reading of weight information may be performed periodically to determine the weight change value over the period. In other embodiments, the reading of weight information and the calculation of weight change values may also be performed via event triggering. Since the weight of the single piece of the cargos to be sorted has been calculated in step S130, the number of the cargos to be sorted taken out/put in from the transporting apparatus can be determined according to the weight change value.

In some embodiments, the number of goods to be sorted taken from/into the transportation device may be displayed at the transportation device for the sorter to check. In still other embodiments, the number of goods to be sorted that are removed/placed from the transportation device is sent to the sorting end for display and/or automatic verification by the sorting end. Further, the number of goods to be sorted remaining on the transportation device may also be displayed at the transportation device and/or the sorting end to provide a further number checking dimension.

The sorting side may perform the information processing method as shown in fig. 2, corresponding to the above-described information processing method performed at the transportation device. The information processing method includes the steps of:

step S210: and sending the extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted to the conveying equipment.

Step S220: and sending a goods taking completion indication to the transportation equipment.

Step S210 and step S220 may be performed sequentially or in reverse order, and in some variations, step S210 and step S220 may be performed simultaneously.

Specifically, when the sorter takes cargoes, the cargoes to be sorted that can take are counted to input the extraction quantity of the cargoes to be sorted through the sorting end. In this case, considering that the sorter may take more (prevent the damage of the goods, avoid the exchange of the goods) or less (due to the limitation of the transportation device or the transportation capability, it is inconvenient to complete the transportation of the total number to be sorted by taking the goods once), it is more appropriate and appropriate to match and confirm the relevant sorting information of the sorter for this transportation according to the number of the sorted goods extracted by the sorter instead of the total number to be sorted in the sorting task.

Furthermore, the sorting end can also compare the extraction quantity input by the user with the total quantity to be sorted of the target sorting task, and when the quantity of the extraction quantity and the total quantity to be sorted of the target sorting task are inconsistent, prompt information can be generated to prompt a sorter so as to avoid the situation that the sorter does not accurately pick goods due to the fact that the sorter misviews the quantity (instead of the more or less pick of the normal reason). When the two quantities are consistent or after being prompted, the sorter confirms the current pick quantity, and the sorting end completes the pick verification process. Step S210 and step S220 may be performed after the pick-up verification is completed.

Step S230: and receiving the quantity of the cargoes to be sorted, which is determined by the conveying equipment.

Step S240: and performing checking of sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted based on the number of the cargoes to be sorted.

Specifically, the checking of the total number of the cargos to be sorted (the checking of the sum of the sorting numbers submitted to the sorting sub-task), the checking of the number of the cargos to be sorted periodically, the checking of the number of the cargos to be sorted of the sorting sub-task of each sorting port, and the like may be performed according to the timing of the weight change value determination of the transportation apparatus, which is not limited in this application.

According to the information processing method, through interaction between the sorting end and the conveying equipment, the goods taking state and the extraction quantity are provided for the conveying equipment, so that the conveying equipment can trigger to acquire weight information of the weight sensor according to the goods taking state, further calculate to acquire weight of single goods to be sorted based on the extraction quantity and the weight information, and when the weight information of the weight sensor changes, the quantity of the goods to be sorted can be determined to be taken from the conveying equipment based on the weight of the single goods to be sorted, so that the quantity of the goods to be sorted can be used as the quantity of the goods to be sorted, and the quantity of the goods to be sorted can be used for checking sorting tasks of the goods to be sorted.

The first to fourth embodiments of the present application are described below with reference to fig. 3 to 6, respectively, in each of which the transport apparatus may also be provided with a position sensor.

Referring now to fig. 3, fig. 3 shows an interactive timing diagram of the transportation apparatus 100 and sorting side 200 of the information processing method according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 3 shows the following steps:

step S301: the sorting end 200 sends the extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transporting apparatus 100.

Step S302: the sorting end 200 sends a pick complete indication to the transport apparatus 100.

Step S303: the transport apparatus 100 reads the total weight of the goods located on the transport apparatus from the weight sensor.

Step S304: the transport apparatus 100 determines the weight of the single piece of goods to be sorted according to the ratio of the total weight to the extracted number.

Step S305: the transportation device 100 acquires position information of the position sensor.

Step S306: the transportation device 100 transmits the position information to the sorting terminal 200.

Step S307: the sorting end 200 determines that the transport apparatus is moving from one sorting gate to another based on the position information of the position sensor.

In some embodiments, the transportation device 100 may send the position information to the sorting end 200 in real time, and the sorting end 200 may identify the start position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transportation device according to the change of the position information of the position sensor with time. For example, the change in the speed of the transportation device with time may be acquired from the change in the position information with time, and when the speed thereof is accelerated by a distance from 0 and decelerated to 0, the position information at the time when the start speed thereof is 0 may be acquired as the start position information, and the position information at the time when the end speed thereof is 0 may be acquired as the destination position information.

After determining the starting position information and the destination position information of a single movement of the transport device, it may be further determined that the transport device is moving from one sorting gate to another sorting gate.

For example, when the distance between the destination location information and the starting location information is greater than a first distance threshold, it is determined that the transport apparatus is moving from one sort port to another sort port. The first distance threshold may be set, for example, as the distance of adjacent sorting gates. When the distances of the sorting gates are not uniform, the first distance threshold may be set to the shortest distance of adjacent sorting gates. The present application is not limited in this regard.

For another example, it may be determined that the transportation device is moving from one sort port to another sort port when the start position information and the destination position information are respectively located within the position ranges of two different sort ports. The position range of the sorting gate can be pre-stored in the sorting terminal/warehouse management server, for example. The sorting end is matched with the position area of the pre-stored sorting opening according to the initial position information and the target position information, so that whether the conveying equipment moves from one sorting opening to the other sorting opening can be determined.

Further, in some variations, step S307 may also be performed by the transporting apparatus 100, where after the transporting apparatus 100 determines the starting position information and the destination position information, the starting position information and the destination position information are sent to the sorting end 200 for position matching.

Step S308: the sorting end 200 sends a trigger instruction to the transport apparatus 100.

Specifically, when the sorting end 200 determines that the transporting apparatus moves from one sorting mouth to another sorting mouth according to the position information of the position sensor, it indicates that the sorter has completed sorting the goods to be sorted at the starting sorting mouth (has completed the sorting sub-task corresponding to the starting sorting mouth), and thus, a trigger instruction may be sent to the transporting apparatus 100 to trigger the transporting apparatus to read the current weight information from the weight sensor of the transporting apparatus.

Step S309: the transportation device 100 acquires the weight information read by the weight sensor, and uses the difference between the weight information read by the weight sensor on the upper side and the weight information read this time as a weight change value.

Step S310: the transporting apparatus 100 determines the number of cargoes to be sorted that have been sorted at the initial sorting gate of this movement, based on the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of cargoes to be sorted.

Step S311: the transport device 100 sends the number of goods to be sorted, which have been sorted at the initial sorting gate of this movement, to the sorting end.

Step S312: and submitting the sorting subtasks corresponding to the initial sorting opening when the number of the cargoes to be sorted at the initial sorting opening moved at the time is consistent with the required sorting number of the cargoes to be sorted at the initial sorting opening.

In this embodiment, the transporting apparatus 100 is moved from the pick-up location to a sorting port a for sorting, and after sorting, the sorter pushes the transporting apparatus 100 to move from the sorting port a to the sorting port B. When the transporting apparatus 100 moves from the sorting port a to the sorting port B, the sorting end 200 sends a trigger instruction to the transporting apparatus 100, and reads current weight information from the weight sensor, and the weight information read last time is the weight information read at step S303, whereby the weight information read at step S303 can be subtracted from the weight information read last time to determine a weight change value. According to the weight change value, the number of cargoes to be sorted, which are sorted at the sorting opening A by a sorter, can be calculated, so that the cargoes to be sorted at the sorting opening A are compared, and when the numbers are consistent with the number to be sorted at the sorting opening A, the sorter is indicated to finish sorting subtasks corresponding to the sorting opening A, and therefore, the sorting end can automatically submit the sorting subtasks corresponding to the sorting opening A.

The above steps may be performed in a cyclic manner, and when the sorter moves from the sorting port a to the sorting port B to sort the sorting port B, the sorter pushes the transporting apparatus 100 to move from the sorting port B to the sorting port C after sorting is completed. When the transporting device 100 moves from the sorting opening B to the sorting opening C, the sorting end 200 sends a trigger instruction to the transporting device 100, and the weight sensor reads current weight information, and the weight information read last time at this time is weight information read when the sorter arrives at the sorting opening B and has not been sorted yet, so that the weight information read when the sorter arrives at the sorting opening B and the weight information read this time has not been sorted yet can be subtracted to determine a weight change value. According to the weight change value, the number of cargoes to be sorted, which are sorted at the sorting opening B by the sorter, can be calculated, so that the cargoes to be sorted at the sorting opening B are compared, and when the number is consistent with the number to be sorted at the sorting opening B, the sorter is indicated to finish the sorting subtask corresponding to the sorting opening B, and therefore, the sorting end can automatically submit the sorting subtask corresponding to the sorting opening B. And so on.

Referring now to fig. 4, fig. 4 shows an interactive timing diagram of the transportation apparatus 100 and sorting side 200 of the information processing method according to the second embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, before step S311, steps S301 to S310 as shown in fig. 3 may be performed.

Step S312': the sorting end 200 compares the number of goods to be sorted that have been sorted with the number of submitted sorting sub-tasks (the sorting sub-tasks corresponding to the initial sorting mouth of the transport apparatus 100 moving this time).

If the comparison is consistent, the sorting end 200 can complete the submitted sorting sub-task quantity verification.

If the comparison is inconsistent, the sorting end 200 performs step S313': and marking the sorting subtasks of the sorting subtasks corresponding to the initial sorting opening. For example, marked as sort errors. For another example, the submitted sort sub-task may be set to green when the checkpasses, and marked red when the checkpasses.

Step S314': the sorting terminal 200 determines a sorting mouth of the path of the transporting apparatus 100 at this time of movement according to the start position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transporting apparatus 100.

In some embodiments, when the distances between the adjacent sorting gates are equal, the number of sorting gates of the path when the transporting apparatus 100 moves this time may be determined according to the ratio of the distance between the start position information and the destination position information (or the movement track distance between the start position information and the destination position information) of the single movement of the transporting apparatus 100 to the distance between the adjacent sorting gates, and at the same time, the start sorting gate and the destination sorting gate may be determined according to the start position information and the destination position information, and the sorting gates of the path may be determined according to the number of sorting gates of the path, the start sorting gate and the destination sorting gate, so that the sorting gates of the path when the transporting apparatus 100 moves this time may be determined.

Step S315': sorting end 200 determines the sorting sub-tasks during this movement based on the sorting mouth of the path of transport apparatus 100 during this movement.

Step S316': and checking the sum of the required sorting numbers of the target sorting subtasks with the number of the cargoes to be sorted which are sorted in the moving process of the conveying equipment.

Step S317': the marking of the sorting sub-task (the sorting sub-task corresponding to the starting sorting mouth of the transport apparatus 100 that is moved this time) is corrected.

In some variations, the sorter may also manually make the correction to the marking of the sorting sub-task described above.

For example, when a sorter moves from sort port a to sort port B for sorting at sort ports B and C, after sorting is completed, the sorter may push the transport apparatus 100 from sort port B, route sort port C to sort port D. When the transporting device 100 moves from the sorting opening B to the sorting opening D, the sorting end 200 sends a trigger instruction to the transporting device 100, and the weight sensor reads current weight information, and the weight information read last time at this time is weight information read when the sorter arrives at the sorting opening B and has not been sorted yet, so that the weight information read when the sorter arrives at the sorting opening B and the weight information read this time has not been sorted yet can be subtracted to determine a weight change value. The number of cargoes to be sorted by the sorter at this time can be calculated according to the weight change value, and thus, the sorted cargoes are compared with the number to be sorted at the sorting port B, and when the comparison is inconsistent, the sorting end 200 marks the sorting subtasks of the sorting port B, and further judges according to the position information, and when the transporting device 100 moves from the sorting port B to the sorting port D, the sorting port B, the sorting port C and the sorting port D are routed. Sorting mouth D is the destination sorting mouth, and therefore, there is no need to acquire the sorting subtasks corresponding to sorting mouth D. At this time, the sorting subtasks (if any) of the sorting mouth B and the sorting mouth C are obtained, and the sum of the sorting quantity of the sorting subtasks of the sorting mouth B and the sorting mouth C is compared with the quantity of the cargoes to be sorted which are sorted by the sorter at this time, if the comparison is consistent, the sorting subtasks of the sorting mouth B and the sorting mouth C are completed, and at this time, the marks of the sorting subtasks corresponding to the sorting mouth B can be corrected. The above steps may be circularly performed, and are not described herein.

In some variations, it may also be determined whether the transporting apparatus 100 passes beyond two sorting gates during the single movement of the transporting apparatus 100 based on the comparison of the start position information and the destination position information of the single movement with a second distance threshold, and when the transporting apparatus 100 passes beyond two sorting gates during the single movement (i.e., passes beyond the start sorting gate and the destination sorting gate), it may be determined whether the sorter performs a plurality of sorting sub-tasks during the single movement, such that a wrong number comparison of the sorting sub-tasks of the start sorting gate may be caused by the execution of the plurality of sorting sub-tasks. On this basis, the marks of the sorting sub-tasks can be directly corrected without further collation, whereby collation efficiency can be improved. The second distance threshold is greater than the first distance threshold, which in some embodiments may be twice the first distance threshold, as the present application is not limited in this regard.

Referring next to fig. 5, fig. 5 shows a timing chart of an information processing method according to a third embodiment of the present invention.

Step S401: the sorting end 200 sends the extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transporting apparatus 100.

Step S402: the sorting end 200 sends a pick complete indication to the transport apparatus 100.

Step S403: the transport apparatus 100 reads the total weight of the goods located on the transport apparatus from the weight sensor.

Step S404: the transport apparatus 100 determines the weight of the single piece of goods to be sorted according to the ratio of the total weight to the extracted number.

Step S405: the transportation device 100 acquires position information of the position sensor.

Step S406: the transport apparatus 100 determines that the transport apparatus moves from one sort port to another sort port based on the position information of the position sensor.

Step S407: the transportation device 100 acquires the weight information read by the weight sensor, and uses the difference between the weight information read by the weight sensor on the upper side and the weight information read this time as a weight change value.

Step S408: the transporting apparatus 100 determines the number of cargoes to be sorted that have been sorted at the initial sorting gate of this movement, based on the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of cargoes to be sorted.

Step S409: the transport device 100 sends the number of goods to be sorted, which have been sorted at the initial sorting gate of this movement, to the sorting end.

Step S410: and submitting the sorting subtasks corresponding to the initial sorting opening when the number of the cargoes to be sorted at the initial sorting opening moved at the time is consistent with the required sorting number of the cargoes to be sorted at the initial sorting opening.

Referring next to fig. 6, fig. 6 shows a timing chart of an information processing method according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention. In the present embodiment, before step S411, steps S401 to S410 as shown in fig. 5 may be performed.

Step S411: the transport device 100 sends the number of goods to be sorted, which have been sorted at the initial sorting gate of this movement, to the sorting end.

Step S412': the sorting end 200 compares the number of goods to be sorted that have been sorted with the number of submitted sorting sub-tasks (the sorting sub-tasks corresponding to the initial sorting mouth of the transport apparatus 100 moving this time).

If the comparison is inconsistent, the sorting terminal 200 performs step S413': and marking the sorting subtasks of the sorting subtasks corresponding to the initial sorting opening. For example, marked as sort errors.

Step S414': the sorting terminal 200 transmits a judgment request of the moving path to the transporting apparatus 100.

Step S415': the transporting apparatus 100 determines a sorting mouth of the way in which the transporting apparatus 100 moves at this time, based on the start position information and the destination position information of its single movement.

Step S416': the transport apparatus 100 sends the sorting mouth of the route at this time of movement to the transport apparatus 100.

Step S417': sorting end 200 determines the sorting sub-tasks during this movement based on the sorting mouth of the path of transport apparatus 100 during this movement.

Step S418': and checking the sum of the required sorting numbers of the target sorting subtasks with the number of the cargoes to be sorted which are sorted in the moving process of the conveying equipment.

Step S419': the marking of the sorting sub-task (the sorting sub-task corresponding to the starting sorting mouth of the transport apparatus 100 that is moved this time) is corrected.

The embodiment shown in fig. 5 is similar to fig. 3, the embodiment shown in fig. 6 is similar to fig. 4, and unlike fig. 3 and 4, the processing for the position information in fig. 5 and 6 is performed by the transport apparatus 100. The present application is not limited thereto, and the steps of processing the location information and comparing the sorting number may be performed by allocating the location information to the transportation device 100/the sorting end 200 according to the calculation force requirement, the hardware cost, the number of transmission times, the transmission efficiency, and the like, which are not described herein.

The above are merely a plurality of specific implementations of the information processing method of the present invention, and each implementation may be implemented independently or in combination, and the present invention is not limited thereto. Further, the flow chart of the present invention is merely illustrative, and the execution order of steps is not limited thereto, and the splitting, merging, sequential exchange, and other synchronous or asynchronous execution of steps are all within the scope of the present invention.

Referring now to fig. 7, fig. 7 is a block diagram showing an information processing apparatus of a transportation device applied to sorting of cargoes according to an embodiment of the present invention. The transport device is provided with a weight sensor. An information processing apparatus 810 includes a first receiving module 811, a reading module 812, a single weight determination module 813, a weight change determination module 814, and a sorted number determination module 815.

The first receiving module 811 is configured to receive an extracted quantity of goods to be sorted.

The reading module 812 is configured to read the total weight of the cargo located on the transportation device from the weight sensor in response to receiving the pick-complete indication at the sorting end.

The individual weight determination module 813 is configured to determine the weight of the individual goods to be sorted based on the ratio of the total weight to the extracted number.

The weight change determination module 814 is configured to obtain the weight information read by the weight sensor and determine a weight change value.

The sorted quantity determination module 815 is configured to determine a quantity of the sorted cargoes to be sorted for verification of sorting tasks of the cargoes to be sorted based on a ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of the cargoes to be sorted.

Referring now to fig. 8, fig. 8 is a block diagram illustrating an information processing apparatus applied to a sorting side in sorting cargoes according to an embodiment of the present invention. An information processing apparatus 820 includes a first transmitting module 821, a second transmitting module 822, a second receiving module 823, and a collation module 824.

The first sending module 821 is configured to send the extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transportation apparatus.

The second sending module 822 is configured to send a pick complete indication to the transportation device.

The second receiving module 823 is configured to receive the determined number of cargoes to be sorted, which have been sorted, by the transportation apparatus performing the information processing method as described above.

The collation module 824 is configured to perform collation of sorting tasks of the items to be sorted based on the number of items to be sorted that have been sorted.

In the information processing apparatus of the transportation device and the sorting terminal applied to the goods sorting according to the exemplary embodiment of the invention, the sorting terminal is interacted with the transportation device to provide the picking state and the picking quantity for the transportation device, so that the transportation device can trigger to acquire the weight information of the weight sensor according to the picking state, further calculate to acquire the weight of the single piece of goods to be sorted based on the picking quantity and the weight information, and when the weight information of the weight sensor changes, the quantity of the goods to be picked up from the transportation device can be determined based on the weight of the single piece of goods to be sorted as the quantity of the goods to be sorted, thereby the quantity of the goods to be sorted can be used for checking the sorting task of the goods to be sorted.

Fig. 7 and 8 are only schematic views showing the information processing apparatuses 810 and 820 provided by the present invention, and the splitting, combining, and adding of the modules are all within the scope of the present invention without departing from the concept of the present invention. The information processing devices 810 and 820 provided by the present invention may be implemented by software, hardware, firmware, plug-ins, and any combination thereof, which is not limited to this.

In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, a computer-readable storage medium is also provided, on which a computer program is stored, which program, when being executed by, for example, a processor, can implement the steps of the information processing method described in any of the above embodiments. In some possible embodiments, the aspects of the invention may also be implemented in the form of a program product comprising program code for causing a terminal device to carry out the steps according to the various exemplary embodiments of the invention as described in the above-mentioned information processing method section of this specification, when said program product is run on the terminal device.

Referring to fig. 9, a program product 700 for implementing the above-described method according to an embodiment of the present invention 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 invention 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. The readable storage medium can be, for example, but is not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or a combination of any of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the readable storage medium would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable disk, a hard disk, random Access Memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), optical fiber, portable compact disk 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 data signal propagated in baseband or as part of a carrier wave, with readable program code embodied therein. Such a propagated data signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. A readable storage medium may also be any readable medium 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 of the present invention 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 tenant computing device, partially on the tenant device, as a stand-alone software package, partially on the tenant computing device, partially on a remote computing device, or entirely on a remote computing device or server. In the case of remote computing devices, the remote computing device may be connected to the tenant 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., connected through the internet using an internet service provider).

In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, an electronic device is also provided, which may include a processor, and a memory for storing executable instructions of the processor. Wherein the processor is configured to perform the steps of the information processing method described in any of the above embodiments via execution of the executable instructions.

Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the various aspects of the invention may be implemented as a system, method, or program product. Accordingly, aspects of the invention may be embodied in the following forms, namely: an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining hardware and software aspects may be referred to herein as a "circuit," module "or" system.

An electronic device 500 according to this embodiment of the present invention is described below with reference to fig. 10. The electronic device 500 shown in fig. 10 is merely an example, and should not be construed as limiting the functionality and scope of use of embodiments of the present invention.

As shown in fig. 10, the electronic device 500 is embodied in the form of a general purpose computing device. The components of electronic device 500 may include, but are not limited to: at least one processing unit 510, at least one memory unit 520, a bus 530 connecting the different system components (including the memory unit 520 and the processing unit 510), a display unit 540, etc.

Wherein the storage unit stores program code executable by the processing unit 510 such that the processing unit 510 performs the steps according to various exemplary embodiments of the present invention described in the above-mentioned information processing method section of the present specification. For example, the processing unit 510 may perform the steps shown in fig. 1 or 2.

The memory unit 520 may include readable media in the form of volatile memory units, such as Random Access Memory (RAM) 5201 and/or cache memory unit 5202, and may further include Read Only Memory (ROM) 5203.

The storage unit 520 may also include a program/utility 5204 having a set (at least one) of program modules 5205, such program modules 5205 including, but not limited to: an operating system, one or more application programs, other program modules, and program data, each or some combination of which may include an implementation of a network environment.

Bus 530 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 500 may also communicate with one or more external devices 600 (e.g., keyboard, pointing device, bluetooth device, etc.), one or more devices that enable a tenant to interact with the electronic device 500, and/or any device (e.g., router, modem, etc.) that enables the electronic device 500 to communicate with one or more other computing devices. Such communication may be through an input/output (I/O) interface 550. Also, electronic device 500 may communicate with one or more networks such as a Local Area Network (LAN), a Wide Area Network (WAN), and/or a public network, such as the Internet, through network adapter 560. The network adapter 560 may communicate with other modules of the electronic device 500 via the bus 530. It should be appreciated that although not shown, other hardware and/or software modules may be used in connection with electronic device 500, including, but not limited to: microcode, device drivers, redundant processing units, external disk drive arrays, RAID systems, tape drives, data backup storage systems, and the like.

From the above description of embodiments, those skilled in the art will readily appreciate that the example embodiments described herein may be implemented in software, or may be implemented in software in combination with the necessary hardware. Thus, the technical solution according to the embodiment of the present invention may be embodied in the form of a software product, which may be stored in a non-volatile storage medium (may be a CD-ROM, a usb disk, a mobile hard disk, etc.) or on a network, and includes several instructions to cause a computing device (may be a personal computer, a server, or a network device, etc.) to perform the information processing method according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the advantages that:

Other embodiments of the invention will be apparent to those skilled in the art from consideration of the specification and practice of the invention disclosed herein. This application is intended to cover any variations, uses, or adaptations of the invention following, in general, the principles of the invention and including such departures from the present disclosure as come within known or customary practice within the art to which the invention pertains. It is intended that the specification and examples be considered as exemplary only, with a true scope and spirit of the invention being indicated by the following claims.

Claims

1. An information processing method, characterized by being applied to a transportation apparatus in sorting of cargoes, the transportation apparatus being provided with a weight sensor, the information processing method comprising:

receiving an extracted quantity of goods to be sorted;

the transportation equipment is provided with a position sensor, the weight information read by the weight sensor is acquired, the execution of the weight change value is determined, and the transportation equipment is triggered according to the following steps: acquiring position information of the position sensor; identifying initial position information and destination position information of single movement of the transportation equipment according to the change of the position information of the position sensor along with time; determining that the transportation equipment moves from one sorting port to another sorting port according to the initial position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transportation equipment;

Wherein the weight change value is the difference between the weight information read by the weight sensor last time and the weight of the weight information read by the weight sensor last time;

2. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein after the determining of the number of the cargos to be sorted that have been sorted according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of the cargos to be sorted, comprising:

3. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the sorting task includes a plurality of sorting sub-tasks, each sorting sub-task being associated with a sorting mouth and a required sorting number of sorting mouths, the determining the number of the sorted cargos after the determining the number of the sorted cargos according to the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of the cargos to be sorted includes:

4. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the determining the number of the cargos to be sorted that have been sorted based on the ratio of the weight change value to the weight of the single piece of the cargos to be sorted includes:

5. The information processing method according to claim 4, wherein a result of collation of the number of cargoes to be sorted which have been sorted during the movement of the transporting apparatus with the number of sorting sub-tasks required for the start sorting mouth of the movement of the transporting apparatus is used to mark the sorting sub-tasks.

6. The information processing method according to claim 4, wherein a result of collation of the number of cargoes to be sorted which have been sorted during the movement of the transporting apparatus with the number of sorting sub-tasks to be sorted of the initial sorting port of the movement of the transporting apparatus is used for automatically submitting the sorting sub-tasks.

7. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the determining that the transportation apparatus moves from one sort port to another sort port based on the start position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transportation apparatus includes:

8. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein the determining that the transportation apparatus moves from one sort port to another sort port based on the start position information and the destination position information of the single movement of the transportation apparatus includes:

9. The information processing method according to claim 1, wherein when the number of cargoes to be sorted during the movement of the transporting apparatus is inconsistent with the check of the number of sorting sub-tasks required of the start sorting port of the movement of the transporting apparatus, the flag of the sorting sub-task is set to be checked, the distance between the destination location information and the start location information is also used for comparison with a second distance threshold, and the comparison result is used for correcting the flag of the sorting sub-task.

10. The information processing method according to claim 9, wherein a distance between the destination location information and the start location information is used to determine a sorting opening of the transportation apparatus passing by at the time of the movement, the sorting opening of the transportation apparatus passing by at the time of the movement is used to determine a target sorting sub-task, and a sum of sorting-required numbers of the target sorting sub-tasks is used to check with the number of cargos to be sorted which have been sorted during the movement of the transportation apparatus to correct a mark of the sorting sub-task.

11. An information processing method, which is applied to a sorting end in sorting cargoes, the information processing method comprising:

Sending the extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transportation equipment;

sending a pickup completion indication to the transportation equipment;

receiving the determined number of goods to be sorted, which have been sorted, by the transportation means performing the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10;

12. An information processing apparatus, characterized by being applied to a transportation device in sorting of cargoes, the transportation device being provided with a weight sensor, the information processing apparatus comprising:

13. An information processing apparatus, characterized by being applied to a sorting end in sorting cargoes, the information processing method apparatus:

a first sending module configured to send the extracted quantity of the goods to be sorted to the transportation device;

a second receiving module configured to receive the determined number of cargoes to be sorted, which have been sorted, by the transportation apparatus performing the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 10;

14. An electronic device, the electronic device comprising:

A processor;

a memory having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by the processor, performs:

the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 11.

15. A storage medium having a computer program stored thereon, the computer program when executed by a processor performing:

the information processing method according to any one of claims 1 to 11.