CN116986192A

CN116986192A - Client, intelligent distribution station and distribution method thereof

Info

Publication number: CN116986192A
Application number: CN202310770325.7A
Authority: CN
Inventors: 赵敏; 解亚婷
Original assignee: Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co Ltd
Current assignee: Beijing Sankuai Online Technology Co Ltd
Priority date: 2023-06-27
Filing date: 2023-06-27
Publication date: 2023-11-03

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a client, an intelligent delivery station, and a delivery method thereof, the method comprising: the client receives an instruction of using a target delivery station, which is input by a delivery user; the client responds to the instruction of using the target delivery station and displays a delivery page; the client acquires delivery information input by a delivery user through a delivery page and sends a cabinet request associated with the delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; the intelligent distribution service system receives the cabinet request, distributes target grid openings in the target distribution station, and sends grid opening information of the distributed target grid openings to the client; correlating the grid number of the target grid and the delivery interaction information to be used as the pickup information; and the client receives the grid information of the target grid returned by the intelligent distribution service system and displays the grid information to indicate the distribution user to store the piece.

Description

Client, intelligent distribution station and distribution method thereof

Technical Field

The embodiment of the disclosure relates to the technical field of article distribution, in particular to a distribution method for an intelligent distribution station, the intelligent distribution station and a client.

Background

Generally, a user can place an order through a delivery platform, and a delivery person can carry out door-to-door delivery on the ordered articles according to the order of the user. However, some places, such as hotels, business office buildings, etc., are limited from being directly accessed by the dispatcher due to safety and personal privacy, so that the dispatcher cannot deliver the goods to the user on the spot, and then the dispatcher needs to wait for the user to pick up the goods at the appointed place, or the dispatcher places the goods at the delivery station for the user to pick up, and the goods picking-up mode is not friendly to the user.

Disclosure of Invention

It is an object of embodiments of the present disclosure to provide a new solution for delivering items ordered to an ordering user using a smart device.

According to a first aspect of the present disclosure, there is provided a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, the method comprising:

the client receives an instruction of using a target delivery station, which is input by a delivery user; the target delivery station is indicated by the code scanning of the delivery user, and the target delivery station supports the delivery robot to take the article from the target delivery station and deliver the article to the target position;

the client responds to the instruction of the using target delivery station and displays a delivery page;

the client acquires delivery information input by a delivery user through the delivery page and sends a cabinet request associated with the delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; the delivery information comprises piece taking mode information and room number information of a customer, wherein the piece taking mode information indicates whether delivery by a delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for an intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or a customer to a target delivery station corresponding to the room number is used for extracting pieces according to the room number information;

The intelligent distribution service system receives the cabinet request, distributes target grid openings in the target distribution station, and sends grid opening information of the distributed target grid openings to the client; associating the port number of the target port and the delivery interaction information as pickup information;

and the client receives the grid information of the target grid returned by the intelligent distribution service system and displays the grid information to indicate distribution user storage.

Optionally, after the intelligent delivery service system associates the port number of the target port and the delivery interaction information as the delivery information, the method further includes:

and when the piece taking mode information indicates that the delivery robot delivers the pieces of information, the intelligent delivery service system dispatches the delivery robots around the target delivery station to move to the butt joint ports of the target lattice ports according to the piece taking information, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered articles to the storage bin of the delivery robot, and instructs the delivery robot to deliver the delivered articles to the floor position indicated by the room number.

Optionally, the intelligent delivery service system schedules the delivery robot around the target delivery station to move to the docking port of the target dock according to the pickup information, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered article to the storage bin of the delivery robot, and the intelligent delivery service system comprises:

The intelligent delivery service system sends a dispatching instruction for enabling the delivery robots around the target delivery station to move to the butt joint ports of the target lattice ports according to the pickup information;

the distribution robot responds to the scheduling instruction and moves to a butt joint port of the target grid port;

the distribution robot sends a docking response message indicating readiness to the intelligent distribution service system under the condition that the distribution robot reaches the docking port of the target grid port and completes docking with the docking port;

the intelligent distribution service system sends a delivery instruction to the target distribution station according to the docking response message;

the target delivery station opens a bin gate at a butt joint opening of the target grid opening according to the object transmission instruction and sends a door opening instruction to the delivery robot;

and the distribution robot responds to the door opening instruction and opens a door of a storage bin of the distribution robot so as to receive the articles in the target grid transmitted by the target distribution station.

According to a second aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided another embodiment of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, the method being applicable to a client, the method comprising:

Receiving an instruction of using a target delivery station, which is input by a delivery user; the target delivery station supports the delivery robot to take the article from the target delivery station and deliver the article to the target position;

responding to the instruction of the using target delivery station, displaying a delivery page;

acquiring delivery information input by a delivery user through the delivery page; the distribution delivery information comprises room number information of a customer and piece taking mode information indicating whether the piece is taken by the distribution robot or not, wherein the room number information is used for an intelligent distribution service system to dispatch the distribution robot to a room according to the room number, or used for the customer corresponding to the room number to the target distribution station to automatically extract the piece according to the room number information;

sending a cabinet request indicating the delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; the intelligent distribution service system is triggered by the cabinet request to distribute target grid openings in the target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identification, and the grid number of the distributed target grid openings is associated with at least one of room number information or piece taking mode information in the distribution delivery information;

And receiving the grid information of the target grid returned by the intelligent distribution service system according to the cabinet request, and displaying the grid information to indicate the distribution user to store the file.

Optionally, in the case of determining delivery by the delivery robot, the intelligent delivery service system schedules the delivery robot around the target delivery station to move to the docking port of the target dock, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered items to the storage bin of the delivery robot, and instructs the delivery robot to deliver to the floor location indicated by the room number.

Optionally, in the case that the distribution robot is determined to distribute and the target distribution station has a part of position grids to support interactive connection with the distribution robot, receiving grid information of target grids distributed by the intelligent distribution service system according to the grids capable of interactive connection with the distribution robot in the target distribution station.

According to a third aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided another embodiment of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, the method being applicable to an intelligent delivery service system, the method comprising:

receiving a cabinet request sent by a client; the intelligent delivery service system comprises a client, a cabinet request, a delivery service system and a delivery service system, wherein the cabinet request is associated with delivery information input by a delivery user through the client, the delivery information comprises delivery mode information and room number information of a customer, the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by a delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for the intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or the customer corresponding to the room number is used for extracting a part from a target delivery station according to the room number information;

Distributing target grid openings in a target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identification according to the cabinet request, and sending grid opening information of the distributed target grid openings to a client for display;

receiving a cabinet opening request sent by the client for the target grid port, and sending a cabinet opening instruction corresponding to the target grid port to the target distribution station according to the cabinet opening request; the cabinet opening instruction triggers the target distribution station to open a cabinet door of the target grid for distribution users to store pieces;

under the condition that information which is sent by the target distribution station and indicates that the cabinet opening is successful or information which indicates that the article is stored in the target grid, associating the grid number of the target grid with the distribution interaction information to serve as pickup information;

and carrying out the picking processing according to the picking information.

Optionally, the processing of picking up the part according to the picking up information includes:

and when the picking mode information in the picking information indicates that the picking information is delivered by the delivery robot, the delivery robot around the cabinet address of the target delivery station is scheduled to move to the butt joint port of the target lattice port according to the picking information, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered articles to the storage bin of the delivery robot, and the delivery robot is instructed to deliver the delivered articles to the floor position indicated by the room number.

Optionally, the dispatching the delivery robot around the cabinet address of the target delivery station moves to the docking port of the target grid port, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered objects to the storage bin of the delivery robot, and the dispatching method comprises the following steps:

according to the piece taking information, a dispatching instruction for enabling the distribution robot around the cabinet address of the target distribution station to move to the butt joint of the target grid is sent to the distribution robot around the cabinet address of the target distribution station; the dispatching instruction is used for triggering the distribution robot to move to the butt joint port of the target grid port;

under the condition that a docking response message which is reported by the dispatching robot according to the dispatching instruction and indicates successful docking is received, a delivery instruction is sent to the target dispatching station; the docking response message indicating successful docking indicates that the dispensing robot has successfully arrived at the docking port of the target grid port indicated by the scheduling instruction, and the object transmission instruction is used for triggering the target dispensing station to open a bin gate of the docking port of the target grid port and sending a door opening instruction to the dispensing robot; the door opening instruction is used for triggering the distribution robot to open a bin door of a storage bin of the distribution robot so as to receive the articles in the target bin.

According to a fourth aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided another embodiment of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, the method being adapted for the intelligent delivery station, the method comprising:

receiving a cabinet opening instruction which is sent by an intelligent distribution service system and corresponds to a target grid port of the target distribution station; the intelligent delivery service system is used for distributing the delivery information to the delivery user through the client, wherein the target grid is distributed according to a cabinet-using request sent by the client, the cabinet-using request is related to delivery information input by the delivery user through the client, the delivery information comprises piece taking mode information and room number information of a customer, the piece taking mode information indicates whether delivery by the delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for the intelligent delivery service system to dispatch the delivery robot to a room according to the room number, or a customer corresponding to the room number is used for self-extracting pieces from a target delivery station according to the room number information;

responding to the cabinet opening instruction, and controlling the cabinet door of the target grid to be opened for storing the delivery user;

under the condition that the cabinet opening is confirmed to be successful or the articles are stored in the target grid, corresponding confirmation information is sent to the intelligent distribution service system to correlate the grid number of the target grid with the distribution interaction information, and piece taking information is obtained; the picking-up information is used for dispatching the delivery robot to deliver the articles in the target grid to the room indicated by the room number information, or is used for automatically picking up the picking-up items from the customers corresponding to the room number to the target delivery station according to the room number information.

Optionally, the piece taking mode information of the piece taking information indicates that the piece taking information is selected to be delivered by the delivery robot, the corresponding confirmation information is sent to the intelligent delivery service system to correlate the port number of the target port with the delivery interaction information, and after the piece taking information is obtained, the method further includes:

receiving a delivery instruction corresponding to the target grid port sent by an intelligent distribution service system; the object transmission instruction is sent by the intelligent distribution service system according to a docking response message reported by the intelligent robot, the docking response message indicates that the intelligent robot has arrived at a docking position of the intelligent distribution station indicated by a scheduling instruction sent by the intelligent distribution service system, and the object transmission instruction indicates the target grid where the order article corresponding to the distribution order is located;

and transmitting the order articles in the target lattice to a storage bin of the intelligent robot according to the article transmission instruction.

Optionally, the transferring the articles in the target lattice to the storage bin of the intelligent robot according to the article transferring instruction includes:

according to the object transmission instruction, opening a bin gate at the connection port and sending a gate opening instruction to the intelligent robot; the door opening instruction is used for triggering the intelligent robot to open a bin door of the storage bin body so as to receive the conveyed articles in the target bin.

Optionally, after the door opening command is sent to the dispensing robot, the method further includes:

receiving a door opening response message which is returned by the intelligent robot in response to the door opening instruction and indicates successful door opening;

retrieving the empty grid carriers in the storage bin of the intelligent robot according to the door opening response message;

after the empty lattice carriers are retrieved, the lattice carriers with articles in the target lattice indicated by the article transmission instruction are transmitted into the storage bin of the distribution robot, so that the distribution robot completes distribution of the articles according to distribution information; wherein the delivery information includes a floor and a room number of the delivery.

Optionally, after the delivering the bin carrier carrying the article in the target bin indicated by the article delivering instruction into the storage bin of the dispensing robot, the method further includes:

receiving a receiving response message which is sent by the intelligent robot and indicates that the order article is successfully received; the receiving response message is sent by the intelligent robot under the condition that the intelligent robot senses that the storage bin body receives the grid carrier carrying the ordered article;

Reporting a delivery completion message to the intelligent delivery service system according to the response message; the delivery completion message is used for triggering the intelligent delivery service system to send a delivery instruction to the intelligent robot, and the delivery instruction triggers the intelligent robot to deliver the ordered article according to the delivery information sent by the intelligent delivery service system.

According to a fifth aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided a client comprising a memory for storing a computer program and a processor; the processor is for executing a computer program to implement the method according to the second aspect of the present disclosure.

According to a sixth aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided a server comprising a memory for storing a computer program and a processor; the processor is for executing a computer program to implement the method according to the third aspect of the present disclosure.

According to a seventh aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided an intelligent distribution station comprising a memory for storing a computer program and a processor; the processor is for executing a computer program to implement the method according to the fourth aspect of the present disclosure.

According to an eighth aspect of the present disclosure, there is also provided a computer readable storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements a method according to the first, second, third or fourth aspect of the present disclosure.

The method has the advantages that after the delivery user selects the target delivery station in the code scanning mode, the client used by the delivery user displays the delivery page, and the delivery user fills the room number information of the customer and the information of the picking mode in the delivery page, so that the intelligent delivery service system can schedule the intelligent configuration robot to deliver under the condition that the picking mode is the picking mode of the delivery robot. Under the condition that the direct contact between a dispatcher and a user is reduced, the intelligent delivery robot can deliver the articles to the user, so that the experience of the user can be improved, and the delivery efficiency of the dispatcher can be improved.

Other features of the disclosed embodiments and their advantages will become apparent from the following detailed description of exemplary embodiments of the disclosure, which proceeds with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solution of the embodiments of the present invention, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described. It is appreciated that the following drawings depict only certain embodiments of the invention and are therefore not to be considered limiting of its scope.

FIG. 1 is a schematic block diagram of an article dispensing system that can be used to implement a dispensing method for an intelligent dispensing station in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure;

FIG. 2 is a flow diagram of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, according to some embodiments;

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram of a delivery page according to some embodiments;

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram of a delivery page according to further embodiments;

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram of a delivery page according to further embodiments;

FIG. 6 is a schematic diagram of a cabinet opening page according to some embodiments;

FIG. 7 is a flow diagram of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station suitable for client implementation in accordance with some embodiments;

FIG. 8 is a flow diagram of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station suitable for implementation by an intelligent delivery service system, in accordance with some embodiments;

FIG. 9 is a flow diagram of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station suitable for implementation by the intelligent delivery station, in accordance with some embodiments;

FIG. 10 is a block schematic of a client according to further embodiments;

FIG. 11 is a schematic diagram of a hardware architecture of a client according to further embodiments;

FIG. 12 is a block schematic diagram of an intelligent distribution service system according to further embodiments;

FIG. 13 is a schematic hardware architecture of an intelligent distribution service system according to further embodiments;

FIG. 14 is a block schematic diagram of an intelligent distribution station according to further embodiments;

Fig. 15 is a schematic hardware architecture of an intelligent distribution station according to further embodiments.

Detailed Description

Various exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure will now be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. It should be noted that: the relative arrangement of the components and steps, numerical expressions and numerical values set forth in these embodiments do not limit the scope of the present disclosure unless it is specifically stated otherwise.

The following description of at least one exemplary embodiment is merely illustrative in nature and is in no way intended to limit the disclosure, its application, or uses.

Techniques, methods, and apparatus known to one of ordinary skill in the relevant art may not be discussed in detail, but where appropriate, the techniques, methods, and apparatus should be considered part of the specification.

In all examples shown and discussed herein, any specific values should be construed as merely illustrative, and not a limitation. Thus, other examples of exemplary embodiments may have different values.

It should be noted that: like reference numerals and letters denote like items in the following figures, and thus once an item is defined in one figure, no further discussion thereof is necessary in subsequent figures.

It should be noted that, all actions for obtaining signals, instructions, information or data in the present disclosure are performed under the condition of conforming to the corresponding data protection rule policy of the country of location and obtaining the authorization given by the owner of the corresponding device.

< hardware configuration and application scenario >

Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a dispatcher (i.e., depositor) that may deposit items, such as meals, goods, etc., through an intelligent dispensing station to complete the deposit of the items. A user (i.e., recipient) may receive an application scenario of items delivered by the intelligent delivery robot that were removed from the intelligent delivery station.

Fig. 1 is a schematic diagram of the composition of an intelligent delivery service system that may be used to implement a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station in accordance with an embodiment of the present disclosure. The intelligent distribution service system can be integrally applied to the use scene of intelligent equipment distribution. As shown in fig. 1, the intelligent distribution service system is represented as a server 1000, and the intelligent devices may include an intelligent distribution station 2000 and an intelligent distribution robot 3000. The terminal 4000 is a terminal used by a delivery user (i.e., a sender), the terminal 5000 is a terminal used by a customer (or called a subscriber, i.e., a recipient), and the server 1000 is a server corresponding to a platform to which the intelligent delivery station 300 belongs.

The intelligent distribution station 2000, the intelligent distribution robot 3000, the terminal device 4000, and the terminal device 5000 may be communicatively connected to the server 1000 through the same network, or different networks, to achieve information interaction.

The intelligent distribution station 2000 is in communication connection with the server 1000, and the server 1000 may send a cabinet opening instruction to the intelligent distribution station 2000 according to a cabinet opening request sent by the terminal device 4000, so as to complete storage of the articles. The intelligent delivery station 2000 may also open a corresponding slot according to the recipient's input of the character string of the pick-up, etc., so that the pick-up person may pick up the item from the slot. The intelligent delivery station 2000 may also deliver items to the intelligent delivery robot 3000 so that the intelligent delivery robot 3000 can deliver items to a room designated by a consignee or a floor where the room is located.

In some embodiments, the intelligent distribution station 2000 is configured with corresponding conveyors such that items stored in one or more of the bays in the intelligent distribution station 2000 are delivered to the docking port of the intelligent distribution station 2000 for the intelligent distribution robot 3000 to retrieve items from the docking port. For the connection port, each of the lattice ports may correspond to one connection port, may be one connection port shared by a plurality of lattice ports, or may be one connection port shared by all lattice ports, which is not particularly limited herein. The intelligent delivery station 2000 may be a single storage device as a station, or may be a station formed by a plurality of storage devices. The storage device may be a locker, a storage vehicle, a storage box, or the like, and is not particularly limited herein.

The intelligent dispensing robot 3000 is provided with one or more storage bins, each of which can store items. The intelligent dispensing robot 3000 may receive the stored items after reaching the docking port of the intelligent dispensing station 2000 and place the stored items into the empty storage bin. The intelligent delivery robot 3000 may deliver after receiving delivery information of a room instructed by the server 1000 or a floor where the room is located. The intelligent delivery robot 3000 may directly receive the delivery information sent by the server 1000, or the intelligent delivery station 2000 may transfer the delivery information of the server 1000, or the intelligent delivery robot 3000 may perform delivery after a manager in a hotel or a business office building inputs the received delivery information, that is, the manner in which the intelligent delivery robot 300 obtains the delivery information is not particularly limited herein.

The terminal device 4000 runs a delivery client for delivery users, which may be a local application or an applet. The items delivered by the delivery user may be items ordered on the platform to which the intelligent delivery station 2000 belongs, or items ordered on other platforms and deposited on the intelligent delivery station 2000.

The terminal device 5000 runs an order-ordering client, which may be a local application or an applet. The ordering user can purchase goods or meal and other articles through the ordering client, ordering is carried out, the distribution mode can be selected during ordering, and the intelligent robot can distribute to a room designated by the ordering user or a floor where the room is located under the condition of selecting intelligent robot distribution. After the ordering user places an order, the terminal device 5000 sends the information of the article to the server 1000 corresponding to the platform where the ordering client is located.

Server 1000 is a service point providing processing, database, communication facilities. The server 1000 may be an integral server, a distributed server across multiple computers, a cloud server, or a server cluster deployed in the cloud, where order management and distribution management of the same platform may be performed by the same device in the server cluster, or may be performed by different devices in the server cluster, which is not limited herein. The server may be of various types such as, but not limited to, a web server, news server, mail server, message server, advertisement server, file server, application server, interaction server, database server, or proxy server. In some embodiments, each server may include hardware, software, or embedded logic components or a combination of two or more such components for performing the appropriate functions supported by or implemented by the server. For example, a server, such as a blade server, cloud server, etc., or may be a server group consisting of multiple servers, may include one or more of the types of servers described above, etc.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the server 1000 may include a processor 1100, a memory 1200, an interface device 1300, a communication device 1400.

The processor 1100 is configured to execute a computer program that may be written in an instruction set of an architecture such as x86, arm, RISC, MIPS, SSE, etc. The memory 1200 includes, for example, ROM (read only memory), RAM (random access memory), nonvolatile memory such as a hard disk, and the like. The interface device 1300 includes, for example, various bus interfaces such as a serial bus interface (including a USB interface), a parallel bus interface, and the like. The communication device 1400 can perform wired or wireless communication, for example; the communication device 1400 may include, for example, any module that performs WLAN, GPRS, 3G/4G/5G telecommunications.

In some embodiments, the memory 1200 of the server 1000 is used to store a computer program for controlling the processor 1100 to operate to implement a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to embodiments of the present disclosure. The skilled person can design instructions according to the disclosed solution. How the instructions control the processor to operate is well known in the art and will not be described in detail here.

The terminal device 4000 may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, or other portable device, etc. The terminal device 5000 may be a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a PC, etc., which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the terminal apparatus 4000 may include a processor 2100, a memory 2200, an interface device 2300, a communication device 2400, a display device 2500, an input device 2600, a speaker 2700, a microphone 2800, and so forth.

The processor 2100 is configured to execute a computer program that may be written in an instruction set of an architecture such as x86, arm, RISC, MIPS, SSE, etc. The memory 2200 includes, for example, ROM (read only memory), RAM (random access memory), nonvolatile memory such as a hard disk, and the like. The interface device 2300 includes, for example, a USB interface, a headphone interface, and the like. The communication device 2400 can perform wired or wireless communication, for example, the communication device 2400 can include at least one short-range communication module, such as any module that performs short-range wireless communication based on short-range wireless communication protocols such as Hilink protocol, wiFi (IEEE 802.11 protocol), mesh, bluetooth, zigBee, thread, Z-Wave, NFC, UWB, liFi, and the like, and the communication device 2400 can also include a remote communication module, such as any module that performs WLAN, GPRS, 2G/3G/4G/5G remote communication. The display device 2500 is, for example, a liquid crystal display, a touch display, or the like. The input device 2600 may include, for example, a touch screen, a keyboard, and the like. The speaker 2700 is used to output an audio signal. Microphone 2800 is used to collect audio signals.

In some embodiments, the memory 2200 of the terminal device 4000 is used to store a computer program for controlling the processor 2100 to operate to perform the delivery method for the intelligent delivery station according to the embodiments of the present disclosure.

The terminal device 5000 and the terminal device 4000 may have similar hardware structures, which are not described herein.

In some embodiments, the intelligent dispensing station 2000 is exemplified by a single locker that includes a plurality of bins, each of which is provided with a lock. As shown in fig. 1, the intelligent distribution station 2000 is also provided with a processor 2100, a memory 2200, an interface device 2300, a communication device 2400, and the like. The intelligent distribution station 2000 may be communicatively connected to the server 1000 to open a corresponding bin port according to a bin opening instruction issued by the server 1000, so as to allow a depositor to deposit articles and the like.

In some embodiments, as shown in fig. 1, the intelligent robot 3000 is also provided with a processor 3100, a memory 3200, an interface device 3300, a communication device 3400, and the like. The intelligent distribution station 3000 may be communicatively connected to the server 1000 and the intelligent distribution station 3000, respectively, to move to the corresponding intelligent distribution station 3000 according to a scheduling instruction issued by the server 1000, to take out the articles of the intelligent distribution station 3000 for distribution, etc.

It should be understood that although fig. 1 shows only one server 1000, one intelligent distribution station 2000, one intelligent robot 3000, one terminal device 4000, one terminal device 5000, it is not meant to limit the respective numbers, the intelligent distribution service system may include a plurality of servers, and the intelligent device may include a plurality of intelligent distribution stations and a plurality of intelligent robots.

< method example one >

Fig. 2 illustrates a flow diagram of a coordination method for an intelligent distribution station according to some embodiments, the method of the present embodiment relates to an intelligent distribution service system, such as server 1000 in fig. 1, an intelligent distribution robot, such as intelligent robot 3000 in fig. 1, and an intelligent distribution station, such as intelligent distribution station 2000 in fig. 1.

As shown in fig. 2, the matching method for the intelligent distribution station of the present embodiment may include steps S210 to S250:

step S210, the client receives an instruction of using a target delivery station input by a delivery user; the target delivery station is a delivery station indicated by a delivery user code, for example, a delivery station indicated by a cabinet identification input by the delivery user code, and the target delivery station supports the delivery robot to take a piece from the target delivery station and deliver the article to a target position.

In this embodiment, the cabinet identifier may be a unique identifier corresponding to each intelligent distribution station, and the cabinet identifier may be set on the intelligent distribution station for the user to scan. The cabinet identifier is specifically, for example, a serial number, a two-dimensional code, an image, or the like, and is not particularly limited herein. After the terminal equipment used by the user scans the cabinet identifier, the terminal equipment automatically generates an instruction of using the intelligent distribution station corresponding to the cabinet identifier. For example, after the delivery user logs in the corresponding account number at the delivery client, the delivery user invokes a camera on the terminal device to scan the cabinet identifier, and the terminal device can determine that the delivery user needs to use the intelligent delivery station corresponding to the cabinet identifier. For another example, after the ordering user logs in the corresponding account number at the ordering client, the ordering user invokes a camera on the terminal device to scan the cabinet identifier, and the terminal device can determine that the ordering user needs to use the intelligent delivery station corresponding to the cabinet identifier, where the intelligent delivery station corresponding to the cabinet identifier is the target delivery station.

In some examples, some venues, such as hotels, business offices, etc., may be provided with one or more dispensing stations, each of which may be used to remove items stored and dispense them by a dispensing robot. A navigation program may be preset in each of the dispensing robots, and the dispensing robots may navigate to a position in the venue corresponding to the indication according to the indication, that is, the dispensing robots may move the article from the intelligent dispensing station to the target position according to the indication. For example: the distribution robot receives an instruction of distributing the article to a certain room, the distribution robot obtains the article, determines the floor where the room number is located and the specific position corresponding to the room, and then the distribution robot can move to the specific position from the intelligent distribution station based on a built-in navigation program. The distribution robot can move according to the indication issued by the intelligent distribution service system, and can also move according to the indication issued by the site manager, and the distribution robot is not particularly limited herein.

In step S220, the client displays the delivery page in response to the instruction of using the target delivery station.

In some examples, after the delivery personnel scans the cabinet identification through the terminal device, the delivery page displayed by the client is shown in fig. 3, in which the delivery personnel may select the pick-up mode of the order subscriber and fill in the customer room number of the order subscriber.

Step S230, the client acquires delivery information input by a delivery user through a delivery page and sends a cabinet request for associated delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; the delivery information comprises delivery mode information and customer room number information, wherein the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by the delivery robot is selected; the intelligent distribution service system is used for distributing the distribution robots to the rooms according to the room numbers or for distributing the customers corresponding to the room numbers to the target distribution stations according to the room number information.

The intelligent distribution service system can support customers to take meals according to the last four digits of the contact phones associated with orders and the like besides supporting the customers to extract the parts according to room number information.

The room number information may be a specific room number of a place where the customer is located, or may be a floor where a specific room where the customer is located, and is not particularly limited here.

In some embodiments, the client may check whether the delivery information entered by the delivery user matches the set format, and if so, send a cabinet request to the intelligent delivery service system; and under the condition of no matching, the prompt format is wrong, so that the delivery modification modifies the input delivery information according to the prompt information until the format of the input delivery information is matched with the set format.

In these embodiments, the client may activate a confirmation-free control if the delivery information format matches the set format, and send a cabinet request to the intelligent delivery service system if the delivery user triggers the control to improve the reliability of the system operation.

For example, taking an intelligent delivery station as a take-out cabinet, a delivery user triggers a control for taking a take-out cabinet, a control for confirming no errors is changed from a non-triggerable state to a triggerable state, and after the delivery user triggers the control for confirming no errors, a client sends a cabinet request to an intelligent delivery service system.

For another example, after receiving an instruction of using the target delivery station input by the delivery user, the client sends a room number format request for the target delivery station to the intelligent delivery service system, and after receiving the room number format request, the intelligent delivery service system determines a room number format corresponding to the target delivery station and sends the room number format to the client. Wherein the intelligent distribution service system pre-stores the correct room number format for each intelligent distribution station.

For another example, the client pre-stores the configuration format of the delivery information for matching with the delivery interactive information input by the user.

Taking the example of fig. 5 as an example, the delivery user fills 008 characters, the character format of 008 does not conform to the corresponding room number format, the client displays a prompt message of "please correctly input 4-digit room number, such as 8008", to the delivery user, and the control for confirming no error cannot be triggered.

Taking the example of fig. 4 as an example, a delivery user fills in 8008 characters, the character format of 8008 accords with the corresponding room number format, a control for confirming that no errors can be triggered, after the delivery user triggers the control for confirming that no errors, the client sends a cabinet using request to the intelligent delivery service system, after the intelligent delivery service system distributes target grids according to the cabinet using request, grid information of the target grids is returned to the client, so that the client pops up a cabinet opening page, and the cabinet opening page displays the grid position of the target grids at a target delivery station so as to instruct the delivery user to store the objects into the corresponding grids. In other words, by storing the correct room number format into the intelligent distribution service system, the accuracy of the room number of the user who inputs the order can be effectively improved, so that the waste of distribution resources of the distribution robot is reduced.

Step S240, the intelligent distribution service system receives the cabinet request, distributes target grid openings in the target distribution station, and sends grid opening information of the distributed target grid openings to the client; and associating the grid number of the target grid and the delivery interaction information as the pickup information.

After the client receives the grid information of the target grid, the opening page can be popped up based on the grid information, so that the grid position of the target grid in the target distribution station is displayed on the opening page, the identification of a distribution user is facilitated, and the distribution user can confirm whether the target grid distributed by the intelligent distribution service system meets the use requirement. The opening page can display an opening control named as 'clicking the opening', for example, a delivery user can input an opening request confirming the use of the target grid through triggering the opening control to the client, and the client sends the opening request to the intelligent delivery service system under the condition of receiving the opening request so as to trigger the intelligent delivery service system to control the target delivery station to open the target grid according to the opening request, so that the delivery user can store the articles.

For example, the target delivery station is exemplified by a take-away cabinet having a plurality of pockets. After the delivery user triggers the control to confirm the error, the client pops up the cabinet opening page as shown in fig. 6. In the opening page, an image representing the takeout cabinet can be displayed, and the client can change the display color, display brightness and the like of one of the grids of the takeout cabinet in the image to be different from the display modes of other grids so as to represent that the grid is the grid to be unlocked. The number of the grid corresponding to the grid to be unlocked is displayed in the opening page, for example, the number of the grid to be unlocked in fig. 6 is 9. And under the condition that the delivery user triggers the control for clicking the cabinet opening, the client side sends a cabinet opening request to the intelligent delivery service system, and the intelligent delivery service system can control the grid opening of the target delivery station to be unlocked according to the cabinet opening request. In other words, by setting the cabinet opening page, the user can be helped to find the unlocked grid more quickly, and the experience of the user is improved.

In this embodiment, the target grid in the target delivery station may be selected in different manners for delivering the customer to store the piece. For example, the intelligent delivery service system may access the target delivery station by actively accessing the target delivery station, and the target delivery station may return the grid information of the target grid without the item to the intelligent delivery service system. For another example, each intelligent delivery station may also feed back the service condition of the grid of the intelligent delivery station to the intelligent delivery service system by actively reporting, where the article is stored in the grid of the intelligent delivery station, so that the intelligent delivery service system may determine the grid of the intelligent delivery station that is not filled with the article. In these examples, the intelligent distribution service system may send the bin information for the target bin to the client after selecting the target bin. The port information may include a port number, a port position, and the like of the port. And after receiving the grid information, the client displays the pop-up cabinet opening page.

The intelligent delivery service system associates the number of the target grid with delivery interaction information and uses the number of the target grid as the delivery information, so that a customer can carry out self-lifting from the target delivery station through the delivery information, and the delivery robot can deliver the article to the customer from the target delivery station according to the delivery information. The pickup information may further include a cabinet identifier of the target delivery station, that is, the intelligent delivery service system may further associate other information such as the cabinet identifier with the delivery interaction information and the number of the target grid as the pickup information, which is not limited herein.

In some embodiments, in order to schedule the surrounding delivery robots to be able to send items to the indicated room number or the floor location indicated by the room number, the intelligent delivery service system associates the number of the target grid and the delivery interaction information as the pick-up information, the method further comprises: when the picking-up mode information indicates that the picking-up robot delivers the picking-up mode information, the intelligent delivery service system determines a cabinet address corresponding to the cabinet identifier according to the cabinet identifier of the target delivery station in the picking-up information. The intelligent distribution service system can determine distribution robots positioned around the cabinet address according to the cabinet address and the robot path information reported by each distribution robot. A distribution robot and a distribution station located in the same location may be associated, and these distribution robots may be considered as robots of the cabinet address service range of the distribution station. That is, the intelligent distribution service system may associate the cabinet address of the distribution station with the robot identification of the corresponding distribution robot, such that the intelligent distribution service system may schedule the distribution robot associated with the distribution station through the robot identification.

For example, the robot path information reported by the delivery robot may include the current plane position and the floor where the delivery robot is located, and the intelligent delivery service system may output a scheduling instruction to the delivery robot located on the same floor and within a set distance from the cabinet address, so that the delivery robot receiving the scheduling instruction moves to a docking port of the target dock to take a piece, so that the delivery robot located at the intelligent delivery station may take a piece preferentially to improve the delivery efficiency of the delivery robot, thereby improving the experience of customers. The set distance may be 10m, 50m, or 100m, and is not particularly limited here.

For example, the robot path information reported by the delivery robots can include the bearing state of the robots, the intelligent delivery service system determines the delivery robots in the idle state, and the intelligent delivery service system can output a scheduling instruction from one or a plurality of the delivery robots, so that the delivery robots receiving the scheduling instruction can move to the butt joint ports of the target grid ports to take the articles, the situation that the butt joint delivery robots cannot accommodate articles can be effectively avoided, and the waste of delivery resources of the delivery robots is effectively reduced.

For example, the robot travel information reported by the delivery robots can include the travel state of the robots, the intelligent delivery service system determines the delivery robots in the return state, and the intelligent delivery service system can output a scheduling instruction from one or a plurality of the delivery robots, so that the delivery robots receiving the scheduling instruction can move to the butt joint ports of the target grid ports to take the articles, the situation that the butt joint delivery robots cannot accommodate articles is effectively avoided, and the waste of delivery resources of the delivery robots is effectively reduced.

In these embodiments, each of the sockets of each of the distribution stations may correspond to one of the interfaces, and in this case, when the intelligent distribution station performs the article transfer, the carrier carrying the article in any of the sockets is transferred to the common interface, that is, the plurality of sockets may multiplex the same interface. In addition, the ports of the distribution station may be in one-to-one correspondence with the interfaces, that is, each port supporting the robot distribution is configured with an independent interface, which is not particularly limited herein. When the delivery robot moves to the interface with the target dock of the target delivery station, the target delivery station conveys the delivered articles to the storage bin of the delivery robot and instructs the delivery robot to deliver to the floor position indicated by the room number. The movement of the dispensing robot upon indication is not specifically described herein for the prior art.

In some examples, a transport channel is provided within the intelligent distribution station for movement of the crate load. The intelligent robot is not deposited under the condition that article has been placed empty check mouth and carries the thing in its storing storehouse, under the condition that intelligent robot and intelligent delivery station butt joint are accomplished, the check mouth that is located in intelligent robot storing storehouse carries the thing and can remove to intelligent delivery station's the mouth of plugging into under intelligent robot's control, intelligent delivery station can control to remove to the check mouth carrier of plugging into the mouth and remove to appointed target check mouth through a certain transfer passage. Meanwhile, the intelligent distribution station controls the grid port carrier carrying the article in the target grid port to move from the other conveying channel to the connection port, the grid port carrier carrying the article can move into the storage bin of the intelligent robot, then the intelligent robot can sense that the storage bin body receives the grid port carrier carrying the article, and the intelligent robot can send a receiving response message indicating that the article is successfully received to the intelligent distribution station. And then, the intelligent delivery station reports a delivery completion message to the intelligent delivery service system according to the received response message, so that the intelligent robot can deliver the article under the instruction of the intelligent delivery service system.

In some examples, each of the sockets within the intelligent robot and the intelligent distribution station corresponds to a socket carrier. In one example, the compartment carrier may be a trolley accommodated in the compartment, and a corresponding motor is arranged in the trolley to drive wheels of the trolley to move in the storage compartment of the intelligent robot or the intelligent distribution station, so that the compartment carrier carrying the article can move from the compartment of the intelligent distribution station to the storage compartment of the intelligent robot, or the empty compartment carrier can move from the storage compartment of the intelligent robot to the compartment of the intelligent distribution, so that the occurrence of scattering or damage in the process of conveying the direct article into the intelligent robot is reduced, the distribution quality is improved, and the experience of a user is improved.

In some embodiments, in order to enable the delivery robot to take out the article in the delivery station, after the intelligent delivery service system associates the port number of the target port and the delivery interaction information as the pickup information, the intelligent delivery service system sends a scheduling instruction for moving the delivery robot to the port of the target port to the delivery robot around the cabinet address of the target delivery station according to the pickup information. Subsequently, the dispatch robot receives the dispatch instruction and, in response to the dispatch instruction, executes a program that moves to the target dispatch station so that the dispatch robot can move to the docking interface of the target dispatch station. When the distribution robot arrives at the docking port of the target grid port and completes docking with the docking port, the distribution robot sends a docking response message indicating readiness and a robot identification of the distribution robot to the intelligent distribution service system. And the intelligent distribution service system determines that the distribution robot and the target distribution station are in butt joint according to the robot identification and the butt joint response message, and then sends a delivery instruction to the target distribution station. The target delivery station receives the object transmission instruction and responds to the object transmission instruction, the target object is sent to the butt joint opening from the target lattice opening, and then the bin gate at the butt joint opening of the target lattice opening is opened. After the docking of the delivery robot and the target delivery station is completed, the delivery robot and the target delivery station can interact with each other in information, so that a bin gate at the docking station is opened, a door opening command can be sent to the delivery robot, and the delivery robot responds to the door opening command to open a bin gate of a storage bin of the delivery robot so as to receive articles in a target bin port transmitted by the target delivery station. In other words, the intelligent robot is controlled to cooperate with the intelligent distribution station through the intelligent distribution service system, and the intelligent distribution station and the intelligent robot cooperate with each other, so that the intelligent robot can quickly take out articles of the intelligent distribution station and distribute the articles to a designated room or a floor where the room is located according to the indication of the intelligent distribution service system.

Step S250, the client receives the grid information of the target grid returned by the intelligent distribution service system, and displays the grid information to indicate the distribution user to store the file.

In this embodiment, the client may pop up the opening page to display the grid information, as shown in fig. 6, the terminal device of the delivery user may display the opening page, the delivery user triggers a control for clicking the opening, the client may send an opening request to the intelligent delivery service system, and the intelligent delivery service system sends an unlocking instruction for the target grid to the target delivery cabinet according to the opening request, so that the corresponding target grid is unlocked, and the delivery user may store the article in the unlocked grid.

< method example two >

Fig. 7 is a schematic diagram of an interaction flow of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to some embodiments, and the delivery method for an intelligent delivery station of the present embodiment is described below with a terminal device of a delivery user of fig. 1 as an execution subject, that is, with a client as an implementation subject.

As shown in fig. 7, the method for matching the intelligent distribution station and the intelligent robot may include steps S710 to S750:

step S710, receiving an instruction of using a target delivery station, which is input by a delivery user; the target delivery station supports the delivery robot to take the article from the target delivery station and deliver the article to the target position.

Step S720, in response to the instruction of using the target delivery station, displays the delivery page.

Step S730, obtaining delivery information input by a delivery user through a delivery page; wherein the delivery information includes room number information of the customer and pickup mode information indicating whether or not pickup by the delivery robot is selected; the room number information is used for the distribution system to distribute the room number to the distribution robot according to the room number, or is used for self-extracting from a customer to a target distribution station of the room number.

Step S740, sending a cabinet request indicating delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; wherein triggering the intelligent distribution service system with the cabinet request allocates a target grid port in the target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identification, wherein the grid port number of the allocated target grid port is associated with at least one of room number information or piece taking mode information in the distribution delivery information.

Step S750, receiving the grid information of the target grid returned by the intelligent distribution service system according to the cabinet request, and displaying the grid information to indicate the distribution user to store the file.

In some embodiments, in the event that a determination is made to be delivered by the delivery robot, the intelligent delivery service system dispatches the delivery robot surrounding the target delivery station to move to the counter interface of the target dock, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered item to the storage bin of the delivery robot and instructs the delivery robot to deliver to the floor location indicated by the room number. The distribution robots surrounding the target distribution station may be robots whose service areas include the target distribution station.

In some embodiments, in the event that it is determined that the delivery is performed by the delivery robot and the target delivery station has a portion of the location slots supporting interactive docking with the delivery robot, receiving the slot information for the target slots allocated by the intelligent delivery service system according to the slots in the target delivery station that are capable of interactive docking with the delivery robot.

According to the delivery method for the intelligent delivery station shown in fig. 7, a delivery user inputs a room number of a customer and a delivery mode through a client, the client can feed back to an intelligent delivery service system, the intelligent delivery service system controls the intelligent delivery station to be matched with an intelligent robot, and articles are delivered into the intelligent robot from the intelligent delivery station, so that the intelligent robot delivers the articles to the customer, and the use experience of the customer for the delivery client is improved.

< method example three >

Fig. 8 is a schematic diagram of an interactive flow of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to some embodiments, and the delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to this embodiment is described below with the intelligent delivery service system of fig. 1 as an execution subject.

As shown in fig. 8, the delivery method for the intelligent delivery station may include steps S810 to S850:

Step S810, receiving a cabinet request sent by a client; the intelligent delivery service system comprises a cabinet request and a delivery user, wherein the cabinet request is associated with delivery information input by the delivery user through a client, the delivery information comprises delivery mode information and room number information of a customer, the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by a delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for an intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or the customer corresponding to the room number is used for extracting a delivery from a target delivery station according to the room number information.

And step S820, distributing target grid openings in the target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identification, and sending grid opening information of the distributed target grid openings to the client for display.

The cabinet identification may be associated with the cabinet request, either with the cabinet identification or with other information associated with the cabinet identification, from which the intelligent distribution service system may determine the cabinet identification.

Step S830, receiving a cabinet opening request sent by a client for a target grid port, and sending a cabinet opening instruction corresponding to the target grid port to a target distribution station according to the cabinet opening request; the cabinet opening instruction triggers the target distribution station to open a cabinet door of the target grid port so as to store the delivery user.

In step S840, when receiving the information indicating that the cabinet opening is successful or the information indicating that the article has been stored in the target port sent by the target distribution station, the port number of the target port and the distribution interaction information are associated as the pickup information.

Step S850, carrying out the picking processing according to the picking information.

In some embodiments, the pickup processing according to the pickup information includes the following steps: when the picking mode information in the picking information indicates that the picking robot is used for picking, the picking mode information is used for dispatching the picking robots around the target picking station to move to the opposite interfaces of the target lattice according to the picking information, so that the target picking station can convey the picked articles to the storage bin of the picking robot, and the picking robot can be instructed to pick up the articles to the floor position indicated by the room number. The dispatch robots surrounding the target dispatch station may be robots located within a service area of the target dispatch station, which may determine the dispatch robots surrounding the target dispatch station based on, for example, the cabinet address of the target dispatch station.

In some embodiments, a dispatch robot surrounding a dispatch station is dispatched to a pair of interfaces of a target dock to cause the target dispatch station to transfer a dispatched item to a storage bin of the dispatch robot, comprising the steps of: according to the piece taking information, a dispatching instruction for enabling the distribution robot around the cabinet address of the target distribution station to move to the butt joint of the target grid port is sent; the dispatching instruction is used for triggering the dispatching robot to move to the butt joint of the target grid; under the condition that a docking response message which is reported by the delivery robot according to the scheduling instruction and indicates successful docking is received, a delivery instruction is sent to a target delivery station; the docking response message indicating successful docking indicates that the dispensing robot has successfully arrived at the docking port of the target grid port indicated by the scheduling instruction, and the object transmission instruction is used for triggering the target dispensing station to open the bin gate of the docking port of the target grid port and sending a door opening instruction to the dispensing robot; the door opening instruction is used for triggering the distribution robot to open a bin door of a storage bin of the distribution robot so as to receive the articles in the target bin.

According to the distribution method for the intelligent distribution station shown in fig. 8, the intelligent distribution service system controls the intelligent distribution station to be matched with the intelligent robot, and the intelligent robot sends the articles from the intelligent distribution station to the intelligent robot so as to realize the distribution of the articles for the customer by the intelligent robot, thereby improving the experience of the customer.

< method example IV >

Fig. 9 is a schematic diagram of an interactive flow of a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to some embodiments, and the delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to this embodiment is described below with the intelligent delivery station of fig. 1 as an execution subject.

As shown in fig. 9, the delivery method for the intelligent delivery station may include steps S910 to S930:

step S910, receiving a cabinet opening instruction corresponding to a target grid port of a target delivery station, which is sent by an intelligent delivery service system; the intelligent delivery service system is used for distributing the cabinet request to the target delivery station, wherein the cabinet request is distributed by the intelligent delivery service system according to the cabinet request sent by the client, the cabinet request is related to cabinet identification of the target delivery station, and delivery information input by a delivery user through the client comprises delivery mode information and room number information of a customer, the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by the delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for the intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or the customer corresponding to the room number is used for the target delivery station to automatically extract the delivery according to the room number information.

And step S920, responding to the cabinet opening instruction, and controlling the cabinet door of the target grid to be opened for storing the delivery user.

Step S930, under the condition that the cabinet opening is successful or the articles are stored in the target grid, corresponding confirmation information is sent to the intelligent distribution service system to correlate the grid number of the target grid with distribution interaction information, and piece taking information is obtained; the picking-up information is used for dispatching the delivery robot to deliver the articles in the target grid port to a room indicated by the room number information, or is used for automatically picking up the picking-up information from a customer corresponding to the room number to the target delivery station according to the room number information.

According to the distribution method for the intelligent distribution station shown in fig. 9, the intelligent distribution station can be controlled to be matched with the intelligent robot according to the instruction output by the intelligent distribution service system, and the intelligent distribution station can also be directly matched with the intelligent robot, so that objects are sent into the intelligent robot from the intelligent distribution station, and therefore the intelligent robot can distribute objects for customers, and experience of the customers is improved.

< device example one >

Fig. 10 is a functional block diagram of a client according to one embodiment. As shown in fig. 4, the client 10 may include an instruction receiving module 11, a page display module 12, an information obtaining module 13, a request transmitting module 14, and an information display module 15.

The instruction receiving module 11 is used for receiving an instruction of using a target delivery station, which is input by a delivery user; the target delivery station supports the delivery robot to take the article from the target delivery station and deliver the article to the target position.

The page display module 12 is configured to display a delivery page in response to an instruction to use a target delivery station.

The information acquisition module 13 is used for acquiring delivery information input by a delivery user through a delivery page; the delivery information comprises room number information of a customer and piece taking mode information indicating whether the piece is taken by the delivery robot or not, wherein the room number information is used for an intelligent delivery service system to dispatch the delivery robot to a room according to the room number, or is used for the customer corresponding to the room number to a target delivery station to automatically extract the piece according to the room number information.

The request sending module 14 is used for sending a cabinet request indicating delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; wherein triggering the intelligent distribution service system with the cabinet request allocates a target grid port in the target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identification, wherein the grid port number of the allocated target grid port is associated with at least one of room number information or piece taking mode information in the distribution delivery information.

The information display module 15 is configured to receive the format information of the target format returned by the intelligent delivery service system according to the request of the cabinet, and display the format information to indicate the delivery user to deposit the file.

The client 10 may be the subscriber's terminal device 4000 in fig. 1.

As shown in fig. 11, the client 10 may include a memory 1120 and a processor 1110, the memory 1120 storing a computer program, and the processor 1110 being configured to execute a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to any method embodiment under the control of the computer program.

< device example two >

Fig. 12 is a functional block diagram of an intelligent distribution service system according to one embodiment. As shown in fig. 12, the intelligent distribution service system 20 may include a request receiving module 21, an information transmitting module 22, a request transmitting module 23, an information receiving module 24, and a dispatch taking module 25.

The request receiving module 21 is configured to receive a cabinet request sent by a client; the intelligent delivery service system comprises a cabinet request association cabinet identification and delivery information input by a delivery user through a client, wherein the delivery information comprises delivery mode information and room number information of a customer, the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by a delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for an intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or the customer corresponding to the room number is used for extracting a delivery from a target delivery station according to the room number information.

The information sending module 22 is configured to allocate a target port in the target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identifier, and send the port information of the allocated target port to the client for display.

The instruction sending module 23 is configured to receive a cabinet opening request sent by a client for a target port, and send a cabinet opening instruction corresponding to the target port to a target distribution station according to the cabinet opening request; the cabinet opening instruction triggers the target distribution station to open a cabinet door of the target grid port so as to store the delivery user.

The information association module 24 is configured to associate the number of the target bin and the delivery interaction information as the pickup information when receiving the information indicating that the cabinet opening is successful or the information indicating that the article has been stored in the target bin, which is sent by the target delivery station.

The pick-up processing module 25 is configured to perform pick-up processing according to the pick-up information.

Optionally, the pick-up processing module 25 is further configured to, when the pick-up mode information in the pick-up information indicates that the pick-up mode information is delivered by the delivery robot, schedule, according to the pick-up information, the delivery robot around the cabinet address of the target delivery station to move to the opposite interface of the target port, so that the target delivery station conveys the delivered object to the storage bin of the delivery robot, and instruct the delivery robot to deliver to the floor position indicated by the room number; wherein, the distribution robot around the cabinet address of the target distribution station is a robot located in the service range of the cabinet address.

Optionally, the pick-up processing module 25 is further configured to send, to the distribution robot around the cabinet address of the target distribution station, a scheduling instruction for moving the distribution robot to the docking port of the target dock according to the pick-up information; the dispatching instruction is used for triggering the dispatching robot to move to the butt joint of the target grid; under the condition that a docking response message which is reported by the delivery robot according to the scheduling instruction and indicates successful docking is received, a delivery instruction is sent to a target delivery station; the docking response message indicating successful docking indicates that the dispensing robot has successfully arrived at the docking port of the target grid port indicated by the scheduling instruction, and the object transmission instruction is used for triggering the target dispensing station to open the bin gate of the docking port of the target grid port and sending a door opening instruction to the dispensing robot; the door opening instruction is used for triggering the distribution robot to open a bin door of a storage bin of the distribution robot so as to receive the articles in the target bin.

The intelligent distribution service system 20 may be the server 1000 of fig. 1.

As shown in fig. 13, the intelligent distribution service system 20 may include a memory 1320 and a processor 1310, the memory 1320 storing a computer program, the processor 1310 for executing a distribution method for an intelligent distribution station according to any method embodiment under the control of the computer program.

< device example three >

Fig. 14 is a functional block diagram of an intelligent distribution station according to one embodiment. As shown in fig. 4, the intelligent distribution station 30 may include an instruction receiving module 31, a cabinet door control module 32, and an information obtaining module 33.

The instruction receiving module 31 is configured to receive a cabinet opening instruction sent by the intelligent distribution service system and corresponding to a target grid port of a target distribution station; the intelligent delivery service system is used for distributing the cabinet request to the target delivery station, wherein the cabinet request is distributed by the intelligent delivery service system according to the cabinet request sent by the client, the cabinet request is related to cabinet identification of the target delivery station, and delivery information input by a delivery user through the client comprises delivery mode information and room number information of a customer, the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by the delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for the intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or the customer corresponding to the room number is used for the target delivery station to automatically extract the delivery according to the room number information.

The cabinet door control module 32 is configured to control the opening of the cabinet door of the target compartment for storage by the dispensing user in response to the cabinet opening command.

The information obtaining module 33 is configured to send corresponding confirmation information to the intelligent delivery service system to correlate the port number of the target port with delivery interaction information to obtain delivery information when the successful delivery of the article or the article has been stored in the target port is confirmed; the picking-up information is used for dispatching the delivery robot to deliver the articles in the target grid port to a room indicated by the room number information, or is used for automatically picking up the picking-up information from a customer corresponding to the room number to the target delivery station according to the room number information.

Optionally, the intelligent delivery station 30 further includes an article delivery module, where the article delivery module is configured to receive a delivery instruction sent by the intelligent delivery service system and corresponding to the target dock; the intelligent delivery service system sends a delivery instruction according to a docking response message reported by the intelligent robot, wherein the docking response message indicates that the intelligent robot has reached a docking position of an intelligent delivery station indicated by a scheduling instruction sent by the intelligent delivery service system, and the delivery instruction indicates a target grid where an order item corresponding to a delivery order is located; and transmitting the ordered articles in the target lattice to a storage bin of the intelligent robot according to the article instruction.

Optionally, the article transmission module is further used for opening a bin gate at the connection port according to the article instruction and sending a door opening instruction to the intelligent robot; the door opening instruction is used for triggering the intelligent robot to open a bin door of the storage bin body so as to receive the conveyed articles in the target bin.

Optionally, the intelligent distribution station 30 further includes a carrier transmission module, where the carrier transmission module is configured to receive a door opening response message returned by the intelligent robot in response to the door opening instruction, where the door opening response message indicates that the door is successfully opened; according to the door opening response message, retrieving an empty grid carrier in the storage bin of the intelligent robot; after the empty lattice carriers are retrieved, the lattice carriers with articles in the target lattice indicated by the article transmission instruction are transmitted to the storage bin of the distribution robot, so that the distribution robot completes distribution of the articles according to the distribution information; wherein the delivery information includes the floor and room numbers delivered.

Optionally, the intelligent distribution station 30 further includes a message reporting module, where the message reporting module is configured to receive a receiving response message sent by the intelligent robot and indicating that the order article is successfully received; the intelligent robot sends the receiving response message under the condition that the intelligent robot senses that the storage bin body receives the grid carrier carrying the ordered article; reporting a material transfer completion message to the intelligent distribution service system according to the received response message; the delivery completion message is used for triggering the intelligent delivery service system to send a delivery instruction to the intelligent robot, and the delivery instruction triggers the intelligent robot to deliver the ordered article according to the delivery information sent by the intelligent delivery service system.

The dispensing station 30 may be the intelligent dispensing station 2000 of fig. 1.

As shown in fig. 15, the delivery station 30 may include a memory 1520 and a processor 1510, the memory 1520 storing a computer program, the processor 1510 being configured to execute a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to any method embodiment under control of the computer program.

The present disclosure also provides an embodiment of a computer storage medium having stored thereon a computer program which, when executed by a processor, implements a delivery method for an intelligent delivery station according to any embodiment of the present disclosure.

The present invention may be a system, method, and/or computer program product. The computer program product may include a computer readable storage medium having computer readable program instructions embodied thereon for causing a processor to implement aspects of the present invention.

The computer readable storage medium may be a tangible device that can hold and store instructions for use by an instruction execution device. The computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic storage device, a magnetic storage device, an optical storage device, an electromagnetic storage device, a semiconductor storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer-readable storage medium would include the following: portable computer disks, hard disks, random Access Memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or flash memory), static Random Access Memory (SRAM), portable compact disk read-only memory (CD-ROM), digital Versatile Disks (DVD), memory sticks, floppy disks, mechanical coding devices, punch cards or in-groove structures such as punch cards or grooves having instructions stored thereon, and any suitable combination of the foregoing. Computer-readable storage media, as used herein, are not to be construed as transitory signals per se, such as radio waves or other freely propagating electromagnetic waves, electromagnetic waves propagating through waveguides or other transmission media (e.g., optical pulses through fiber optic cables), or electrical signals transmitted through wires.

The computer readable program instructions described herein may be downloaded from a computer readable storage medium to a respective computing/processing device or to an external computer or external storage device over a network, such as the internet, a local area network, a wide area network, and/or a wireless network. The network may include copper transmission cables, fiber optic transmissions, wireless transmissions, routers, firewalls, switches, gateway computers and/or edge servers. The network interface card or network interface in each computing/processing device receives computer readable program instructions from the network and forwards the computer readable program instructions for storage in a computer readable storage medium in the respective computing/processing device.

Computer program instructions for carrying out operations of the present invention may be assembly instructions, instruction Set Architecture (ISA) instructions, machine-related instructions, microcode, firmware instructions, state setting data, or source or object code written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object oriented programming language such as Smalltalk, c++ or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the "C" programming language or similar programming languages. The computer readable program instructions may be executed entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the case of a remote computer, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any kind of network, including a Local Area Network (LAN) or a Wide Area Network (WAN), or may be connected to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet service provider). In some embodiments, aspects of the present invention are implemented by personalizing electronic circuitry, such as programmable logic circuitry, field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs), or Programmable Logic Arrays (PLAs), with state information for computer readable program instructions, which can execute the computer readable program instructions.

Various aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer-readable program instructions.

These computer readable program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks. These computer readable program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable storage medium that can direct a computer, programmable data processing apparatus, and/or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the computer readable medium having the instructions stored therein includes an article of manufacture including instructions which implement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The computer readable program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other devices to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other devices to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other devices implement the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.

The flowcharts and block diagrams in the figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of instructions, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). In some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems which perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions. It is well known to those skilled in the art that implementation by hardware, implementation by software, and implementation by a combination of software and hardware are all equivalent.

The foregoing description of embodiments of the invention has been presented for purposes of illustration and description, and is not intended to be exhaustive or limited to the embodiments disclosed. Many modifications and variations will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art without departing from the scope and spirit of the various embodiments described. The terminology used herein was chosen in order to best explain the principles of the embodiments, the practical application, or the technical improvements in the marketplace, or to enable others of ordinary skill in the art to understand the embodiments disclosed herein. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims.

Claims

1. A delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, comprising:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein after the intelligent distribution service system associates the port number of the target port and the distribution interaction information as the pickup information, the method further comprises:

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the intelligent delivery service system, according to the pick-up information, dispatches the delivery robot around the target delivery station to move to the docking port of the target dock so that the target delivery station transfers the delivered items to the storage bin of the delivery robot, comprising:

4. A delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, adapted for use with a client, the method comprising:

sending a cabinet request indicating the delivery information to the intelligent delivery service system; the intelligent distribution service system is triggered by the cabinet request to distribute target grid openings in the target distribution station, and the grid number of the distributed target grid openings is associated with at least one of room number information or piece taking mode information in the distribution delivery information;

5. The method of claim 4, wherein in the event of a determination to be dispensed by a dispensing robot, the intelligent dispensing service system dispatches the dispensing robot surrounding the target dispensing station to move to the docking port of the target dock to cause the target dispensing station to transfer the dispensed item to the storage bin of the dispensing robot and instruct the dispensing robot to dispense to the floor location indicated by the room number.

6. The method of claim 4, wherein in the event that the delivery by the delivery robot is determined and the target delivery station has a portion of the location slots supporting interactive docking with the delivery robot, receiving the slot information of the target slots allocated by the intelligent delivery service system according to the slots in the target delivery station capable of interactive docking with the delivery robot.

7. A delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, adapted for use in an intelligent delivery service system, the method comprising:

receiving a cabinet request sent by a client; the intelligent delivery service system comprises a cabinet request association cabinet identification and delivery information input by a delivery user through the client, wherein the delivery information comprises delivery mode information and room number information of a customer, the delivery mode information indicates whether delivery by a delivery robot is selected, the room number information is used for the intelligent delivery service system to schedule the delivery robot to deliver to a room according to the room number, or the customer corresponding to the room number is used for extracting a delivery from a target delivery station according to the room number information;

distributing target grid openings in a target distribution station indicated by the cabinet identification, and sending grid opening information of the distributed target grid openings to a client for display;

and carrying out the picking processing according to the picking information.

8. A delivery method for an intelligent delivery station, adapted for use in an intelligent delivery station, the method comprising:

9. A client comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implements the delivery method for an intelligent delivery station as claimed in any of claims 4-6.

10. An intelligent distribution station comprising a processor and a memory storing a program or instructions executable on the processor, which when executed by the processor, implements the distribution method for the intelligent distribution station of claim 8.