EP2190595A1 - Procédé et dispositif de transport de plusieurs objets - Google Patents

Procédé et dispositif de transport de plusieurs objets

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EP2190595A1
EP2190595A1 EP08804335A EP08804335A EP2190595A1 EP 2190595 A1 EP2190595 A1 EP 2190595A1 EP 08804335 A EP08804335 A EP 08804335A EP 08804335 A EP08804335 A EP 08804335A EP 2190595 A1 EP2190595 A1 EP 2190595A1
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Gisbert Berger
Jürgen HOHLWEGLER
Jörg-Andreas ILLMAIER
Wolf-Stephan Wilke
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    • B—PERFORMING OPERATIONS; TRANSPORTING
    • B07—SEPARATING SOLIDS FROM SOLIDS; SORTING
    • B07C—POSTAL SORTING; SORTING INDIVIDUAL ARTICLES, OR BULK MATERIAL FIT TO BE SORTED PIECE-MEAL, e.g. BY PICKING
    • B07C3/00—Sorting according to destination

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  • the invention relates to a method and a device for transporting a plurality of objects, in particular postal items.
  • a mail item typically passes through a sorting system at least twice and is then transported to the respectively predetermined destination address. On the first pass, the destination address of the mailpiece is read. On the second pass, the read target address is determined again.
  • a method having the features of the preamble of claim 1 and a device having the features of the preamble of claim 9 are known from EP 1222037 Bl.
  • a data record is generated and stored in a central database.
  • This record includes the read delivery address.
  • it is stored which postal item is transported in which container. This approach requires that it is known exactly which mail item is being transported in which bin. Sometimes this can not be determined with sufficient certainty in reality.
  • the invention has for its object to provide a method having the features of the preamble of claim 1 and an apparatus having the features of the preamble of claim 9, in which a search space restriction is performed and it is still not necessary to determine exactly which objects actually in one
  • Transport are located and transported together by a transport process to a cache.
  • each of these items is provided with at least one predetermined measurable transport attribute. Furthermore, at least one measurable feature is given. For each given transport attribute, it is measured what value this attribute assumes for that item. For each given feature, the value that the feature takes on that item is measured. A value, which is a specified feature, is measured. It is possible that the values of several features are measured and thereby a feature vector is generated.
  • This record includes
  • each transport operation at least one of the objects is in each case conveyed into an intermediate store and transported by means of a transport from the intermediate store to a respective continuation point.
  • each of the items is transported by one of the transport operations to a continuation point. It is possible that several objects are transported together in a means of transport to the same continuation point and different objects are transported to different continuation points.
  • At least one transport process here is a search space restriction is made. Also in this transport process, at least one item is transported from a buffer to a continuation point. A sequence of the following steps is performed for this transport operation:
  • An initial signal is generated. - Any item that has been transported to the buffer before generation of the initial signal is taken from the buffer.
  • An end signal is generated after the transfer of the articles into the means of transport is completed.
  • the transport process is carried out.
  • the objects transported in the transport means are removed from the means of transport.
  • a search space restriction is performed when determining the data set stored for this item.
  • the search space constraint consists in that the stored data set is searched only under certain data sets, namely only among those data records which have been generated for those objects which are transported between the generation of the start signal and the generation of the end signal in the buffer were.
  • the article's item record determined for an item comprises the measured value of the transport attribute. Further transport of the item is triggered. This onward transport depends on the transport attribute value measured for the item and stored in the determined data set.
  • the method according to the invention ensures that all items which are transported in the at least one transport operation by means of the transport from the buffer to the continuation point, between the generation of the initial signal and the generation of the end signal in this Caches were transported. It is possible that additional items were transported between these two times in the cache, but not transported in this transport process.
  • the invention eliminates the need to establish an exact association between the data sets for the items that are carried together in a means of transport and the means of transport. Deviations from a target process during loading can result in the assignment not being in accordance with reality and an incorrect data record being assigned to an object during further transport. Therefore, an exact assignment can sometimes not be guaranteed.
  • the inventive method provides information about a superset of those items that are actually transported in the transport. Every actual transported item is contained in this superset, other items may be included in the superset.
  • the transport attribute is for example an identification of a destination address to which the object is to be transported and with which the object is provided. In this case, a further transport to the destination address contained in the determined data record is triggered.
  • the transport attribute may also be a dimension or the weight of the item.
  • the transport attribute may also be the result of an evaluation of a transportation charge with which the item is provided.
  • the process is z. B. for transporting mail or luggage of travelers use.
  • the procedure can also be used for the transport of production objects between different production facilities of a production plant z. B. for cars.
  • the article is provided with information to which each predetermined target point this object is to be transported.
  • the article is a mail item or a freight consignment.
  • the item is a luggage of a traveler and is provided with information about the owner. This baggage item is to be transported to a destination address, which depends on the identity of the traveler.
  • Fig. 1 shows the situation at the first sorting plant at the moment in which the second signal Ql is generated
  • Figure 2 shows the situation at the first sorting plant after mail has been transferred from the output tray to the first bin
  • FIG. 3 shows the situation at the second sorting plant after the first container from FIG. 1 has been transported to the feeding device of the second sorting installation and unloaded there;
  • the items to be transported are mail items.
  • Each mail item is provided with an identification of the delivery address at which this mail item is to be transported.
  • the delivery address functions as the destination of the item of mail.
  • the marking has generally been applied to the mail item before the beginning of transporting. But it is also possible that it is attached only during transport.
  • Each mail item goes through a sorting system at least twice. It is possible for a mail item to pass through the same sorting system several times or to pass through a sorting system three times.
  • the sorting plant used in the first pass is referred to as the first sorting plant, and the sorting plant used in the second pass is called the second sorting plant.
  • At the first pass at least the delivery address is determined. It is possible that further features are measured, for. B. the weight of the mail or with which franking the mail item is provided.
  • a reading device of the first sorting system first attempts to automatically determine the delivery address automatically by means of "Optical Character Recognition” (OCR). If this fails, a person reads the delivery address and gives at least part of the read delivery address, eg the The first sorting address discharges the mailpiece into one of several output bins, depending on the recognized delivery address.
  • OCR Optical Character Recognition
  • the mail items pass through the first sorting system in a stream of successive objects. These discharge individual items of mail from the stream by the sorting system directing them into one of the output compartments.
  • the container into which mail is being delivered from the output tray is provided with a label.
  • this label determines to which location the container with the mail items is to be transported.
  • intermediate point because it is an intermediate point on the way of the mail in the container to the respective delivery address.
  • the intermediate point is a feed device to a second sorting plant, for example a "feeder" of this second sorting plant.
  • the container with the mail items is transported to this intermediate point and emptied there.
  • the mail items from the container are fed to the second sorting system.
  • This further sorting system determines the delivery address of each mail item that has read the first sorting system.
  • the second sorting system in turn discharges the mail item into one of the output compartments depending on the delivery address. The transport of the mail item to this delivery address is triggered.
  • Each possible delivery address is assigned to a delivery area. All mail items to the same delivery area are ejected into the same output bin each time they pass. It is possible that a mail item passes through the same sorting system several times, for example because the number of output pockets is less than the number of predetermined delivery areas. In this case, an "n-pass sequencing" is preferably carried out Such a method is known from EP 948416 Bl
  • Mail sent by the sorting system to an output bin is placed in a container.
  • the container becomes the feeder of the second sorting machine transported, and the mail items are fed to the sorting system for the second pass.
  • the mail items from the output tray Af-I.1 are fed to the feeder ZE-I and again pass through the unit AnI-I.
  • One reason for this may be that n-pass sequencing is being performed, as just described, It is also possible that individual mailings pass through the sorting system AnI-I several times because an "off-line video coding" is performed.
  • a digital image of the mailpiece is generated. It is not possible to automatically detect the address in this image, so that the image is transmitted to a video coding station. There, the address is entered manually. After this has taken place, the mail item again passes through the sorting system and is ejected into an output compartment depending on the entered address.
  • a mail item can therefore also pass through the first sorting system AnI-I because it is sent within a location or delivery area and the first sorting system AnI-I performs both the inbound sorting and the outbound sorting.
  • a container with mail items which have passed through a sorting plant for the first time, be transported to another location and there fed to the second sorting system. It is also possible that some mail items are transported from an output tray of the second sorting system in a container to a feeding device of a third sorting system and these mail items are fed to the third sorting system.
  • various features of a mail item are predefined, which can be measured from the outside, while the mail item passes through a sorting system. Examples of such features are
  • each sorting system is connected to the same central database. As soon as a mail item passes through the first sorting system, a data record for this mail item is generated and stored in the central database. This record includes
  • the identifier distinguishes the mail item from all other mail items that pass through one of the sorting systems within a certain period of time.
  • the period is z. For ten days.
  • the identifier can be printed on the mail piece or used exclusively internally in the database.
  • the first sorting system measures for each mail item that passes through the first sorting system, and for each given feature the respective value that this feature for this
  • the first sorting system generates a feature vector (more precisely: feature value vector) for the mailpiece.
  • this feature vector consists of N feature values.
  • the data record for the mail item includes not only the delivery address but also the feature vector.
  • the second and each further sorting system which passes through the mailing, measures again for each feature the respective value that the feature assumes for this mailing. As a result, the second sorting system also generates one
  • Feature vector for the mailpiece consisting of N feature values.
  • This second feature vector is compared with the feature vectors of data records stored in the central database. As a result, that data record is found which was generated during the passage of the mailpiece by the first sorting system and originates from the same mail item.
  • the second sorting system uses the delivery address of this data set as the delivery address to which this item of mail is to be transported.
  • Fig. 1 shows schematically a first sorting system AnI-I with an output tray Af. Mail items which the first sorting system AnI-I has discharged into the output compartment Af are transferred to a first container Beh-1.
  • the output tray is empty.
  • the first sorting installation AnI-I begins to discharge mail items into the output compartment Af.
  • the mailpieces are in an order produced by the first sorting system AnI-I in the output tray Af.
  • the sorting system AnI-I preferably supplements each record for a mail item with an identifier of the output bin into which it has rejected the mail item. This order is denoted by R in the figures.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I additionally stores for each output tray the respective order in which it ejects the mailpieces into the output tray.
  • the sorting system supplements the data record for a mail item by an identifier of the output tray and an encoding of the time of the discharge.
  • the sorting system AnI-I can also be a coding of a period, for. One day, and a lukewarm save the fende number. The sequential number is assigned only once for the period and indicates how many postal items of the period this item of mail has been discharged into this output compartment.
  • a plant operator places the first container Beh-1 on a first support device near the output tray Af. This process triggers the generation of a first signal QO. It is possible that the output tray is still empty when the first signal QO is generated. It is also possible that there are already mail items in the output tray at the time of production. In the example of FIG. 1, the mail items designated RO are located in the output tray Af as the first signal QO is generated.
  • the first container is provided with a machine-readable identifier Ke-I.
  • This identifier Ke-I is printed, for example, in the form of a bar code or matrix code on the first container or stored in an RFID chip which is firmly connected to the first container Beh-1 -I reads the container identifier Ke-I and stores it.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I labels a label with an identification of the intermediate point ZE to which this container is to be transported.
  • the label is at least temporarily connected to the first container Beh-1.
  • the marking can be read by a system operator and is used to transport the container Beh-1.
  • the label additionally has a label identifier that is machine-readable.
  • the label identifier Ke-I is used as the container identifier.
  • This configuration eliminates the need to bring a reader near the container Beh-1. Rather, the label identifier is read, which is also possible if the label is not connected to the container Beh-1.
  • the label is generated only when needed. For example, an operator gives a signal, which triggers the generation. Or the container is placed on or removed from a support, the support being provided with a sensor. The sensor measures the placement or removal of the container Beh-1, and this measurement triggers the creation of the label.
  • This modification eliminates the need to bring a reader near the container Beh-1 or the label. Rather, the label identifier is assigned during the production and assigned to the container Beh-1 and the postal items stored therein.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I discharges further mail items into the output compartment Af. Subsequently, mail items are removed from the output tray Af and spent in the first container.
  • the removal process can be triggered by the level in the output compartment Af having reached or exceeded a predetermined barrier. It is also possible that the removal process is triggered time-controlled. It is not necessary for the first sorting system to determine which items of mail have been sent to the first container. This determination is often not possible in practice, at least not if not every mailpiece is provided with a unique machine-readable label.
  • the first container Beh-1 is transported to the intermediate point specified by the label. After mail has been removed from the output tray Af and placed in the first container Beh-1, the first sorting system discharges further mail items into the output tray.
  • the first container Beh-1 is transported to a feeder ZE of the second sorting system Anl-2 and placed there on a second support means.
  • the machine-readable identifier Ke-I of the first container Beh-1 is read.
  • the Mail items are taken from the first container Beh-1 and fed to the feeder ZW. The mail items then pass through the second sorting system Anl-2.
  • the second sorting system Anl-2 again measures the mail item and generates a feature vector. This current feature vector is compared with the feature vectors of records stored in the central database.
  • a search space restriction is made here.
  • the current feature vector is compared exclusively with those feature vectors which originate from mailpieces which are discharged between the generation of the start signal Start and that of a second signal Ql.
  • the second sorting system Anl-2 uses the read identifier Ke-I of the first container Beh-1 and the information II that all mail items in the first container Beh-1 between the start signal Start and the generation of the second signal Ql in the output tray Af were discharged.
  • the second signal Q1 is generated after mail has been transferred to the first container Beh-1. It is possible that the output tray Af is still empty when the second signal Ql is generated. It is also possible that at the time of production again mail items are in the output tray Af.
  • the first sorting system AnI-1 interrupts the rejection of mail items in the output tray Af after the second signal Ql has been generated.
  • the second signal Q1 is generated after the first sorting system AnI-I has discharged the mail items designated Rl into the delivery compartment Af.
  • a plant operator places a second container Beh-2 on a support device near the output tray Af.
  • this process triggers the generation of a second signal Ql.
  • the second signal Ql is already triggered by the first container Beh-1 is removed from the support device.
  • the generation of the second signal Q1 is triggered by triggering the generation of a label for the second container Beh-2.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I stores which mailpieces were ejected between the generation of the first signal QO and the generation of the second signal Ql in the output tray Af, and stores this information.
  • the sorting system stores the following information:
  • An identifier for the first signal QO an encoding for the time at which the first signal QO was generated
  • the first sorting installation AnI-I has previously stored the information as to which items of mail it has discharged into the output compartment Af between the generation of the start signal Start and the generation of the first signal QO.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I stores, which mail item was ejected as the last before the generation of the first signal QO and which was discharged as the first after the generation of the second signal Ql.
  • the order of discharge is additionally stored. Therefore, it is possible to reconstruct which mailpieces the first sorting installation AnI-I has diverted between the generation of the first signal QO and that of the second signal Ql.
  • Fig. 1 illustrates the situation at the first sorting system AnI-I at the moment when the second signal Q1 generates becomes.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I first discharges the mail items marked RO into the delivery compartment Af, then the slices designated by Sl and then those designated Rl.
  • the order in which the first sorting system AnI-I discharges the mailpieces is denoted by R in FIG. It is indicated which mail items the first sorting system AnI-I has discharged after the generation of the start signal Start and before the generation of QO and which it has diverted between the generation of QO and the generation of Ql.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I additionally discharges the mail items marked Sl and those designated Rl into the delivery compartment Af.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I stores the information that, between the generation of the first signal QO and that of the second signal Ql, all those mail items have been ejected into the output compartment Af, which are denoted by Sl or Rl in FIG. In addition, it stores the information that before the first signal QO was generated, all mail items which are denoted RO in FIG. 1 have been rejected.
  • a first transport process is carried out with the aid of the first container Beh-1.
  • This first transport process acts as the transport process in the sense of the claims.
  • the container Beh-1 has the machine-readable identifier Ke-I.
  • the first sorting system AnI-I reads the identifier Ke-I and stores the information that all the mailpieces in the container Beh-1 between the generation of the start signal Start and the generation of the second signal Ql were discharged into the output tray Af.
  • the first stores Sorting system AnI-I a link between the container identifier Ke-I and the two signals start signal and Ql from.
  • FIG. 1 indicates which items of mail are to be brought into the first container Beh-1 and which items of mail initially remain in the output compartment Af. In the moment in which the second signal Ql is generated, only the mail items designated Rl in the output tray Af. Which mail items are actually sent to the first container Beh-1 need not be determined because this information is not needed.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates the situation at the first sorting system AnI-I after mail items have just been transferred from the delivery compartment Af to the first container Beh-1 and the second signal Q1 has been generated.
  • the output tray Af those mail items remain, which are designated in Fig. 2 with Rl.
  • the information Il is stored in the database between the generation of the start signal
  • FIG. 3 illustrates the situation at the second sorting system Anl-2 after the first container Beh-1 from FIG. 1 has been transported from the first support device to the feed device ZE of the second sorting system Anl-2 and unloaded there.
  • the feeder ZE are those mail items, which are designated in Fig. 3 with Sl or RO.
  • a second transport process is performed. This second transport process acts as the further transport process in the sense of the claims.
  • the second container Beh-2 is used. This has a machine-readable identifier Ke-2.
  • Further mail items from the output tray Af are placed in the second container Beh-2.
  • all those mail items are spent in the second container Beh-2, which were discharged before the generation of Ql in the output tray, and preferably other mail items, which were then discharged.
  • the second container is removed after filling.
  • a third signal Q2 is generated.
  • the generation of Q2 is triggered by taking the second container Beh-2 off the support surface Af.
  • the first sorting system records which mailpieces it has discharged between the generation of Q1 and that of Q2 in the output tray Af. This does it in one of the ways described above for the first signal Q0 and the second signal Q1.
  • Fig. 4 illustrates the situation at the first sorting plant at the moment when the third signal Q2 is generated.
  • Beh-2 those mail items are transported in the second container, which are denoted by Rl or S2.
  • FIG. 5 shows the situation at the first sorting installation after mailpieces have been transferred from the delivery compartment Af into the second container Beh-2.
  • Mail items from the output tray Af were placed in the second container Beh-2, and the third signal Q2 was generated.
  • the output tray Af those mail items remain, which are designated in Fig. 5 with R2.
  • the information 12 is stored in the database that the mail items R2 and S2 have been discharged between the generation of Q1 and that of Q2.
  • FIG. 6 illustrates the situation at the second sorting installation after the second container Beh-2 from FIG. 4 has been transported to the feeder ZE of the second sorting installation Anl-2 and unloaded there. In the feeder ZE are now those mail items that are designated in Fig. 5 with S2 or Rl. Further transport operations are performed, with further signals being generated.

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L'invention concerne un procédé et un dispositif de transport de plusieurs objets, notamment d'envois postaux. Au moins un processus de transport est réalisé d'un stock intermédiaire (Af) vers un point de poursuite. Un signal de début (Start) est produit. Chaque objet ayant été transporté dans le stock intermédiaire (Af) avant production du signal de début (Start), est prélevé du stock intermédiaire (Af). Les objets (R0, S1) transportés au cours de ce processus de transport sont amenés du stock intermédiaire (Af) vers l'élément de transport (Beh-1) employé pour ce processus de transport. Après amenée des objets (R0, S1) dans l'élément de transport (Beh-1), un signal de fin est produit. Les objets (R0, S1, R1) ayant été transportés dans le stock intermédiaire (Af) entre la production du signal de début (Start) et la production du signal de fin (Q1) sont enregistrés. Le processus de transport est réalisé. Les objets (R0, S1) transportés dans l'élément de transport (Beh-1) sont prélevés de l'élément de transport (Beh-1). Pour chaque objet (R0, S1) transporté au cours de ce processus de transport, un ensemble de données est déterminé, celui-ci étant enregistré pour l'objet (R0, S1) concerné. L'ensemble de données enregistré est déterminé exclusivement au moyen d'ensembles de données produits pour les objets (R0, S1) correspondants, transportés dans le stock intermédiaire (Af) entre la production du signal de début (Start) et la production du signal de fin (Q1).
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