EP3678960A1 - Förderanlage mit funksystem - Google Patents
Förderanlage mit funksystemInfo
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- EP3678960A1 EP3678960A1 EP18759941.0A EP18759941A EP3678960A1 EP 3678960 A1 EP3678960 A1 EP 3678960A1 EP 18759941 A EP18759941 A EP 18759941A EP 3678960 A1 EP3678960 A1 EP 3678960A1
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- Prior art keywords
- radio
- conveyor
- conveyor system
- processing unit
- transport units
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Definitions
- the present invention relates to a conveyor system with a plurality of transport units and a radio system for the spatial tracking of the transport units, as well as a radio system and a method for the spatial tracking of transport units of a conveyor system.
- the goods to be transported with the help of suitable conveyors such.
- suitable conveyors such as gravity conveyor, chain conveyors or conveyor belts, and typically conveyed by means of transport units, which may include grippers, bags or containers.
- transport units which may include grippers, bags or containers.
- WO2008 / 1 44945 A1 Tracking of transport units with staples in a chain conveyor is shown in WO2008 / 1 44945 A1. Described is a Transportvor ⁇ direction with a plurality of brackets, which are arranged in a row one behind the other along a transport path with the aid of a continuous transport chain and for releasably holding similar products, in particular printed products such as newspapers or the like., Are formed. On the brackets contactless and / or readable tags are arranged.
- a transfer device cooperating with the transport device is provided with at least one read / write device which brings the read / write device by means of the transfer device in the vicinity of the respective clip and over the selected portion of the transport path can be moved with the respective bracket.
- tags are used in the form of RFI Ds, wherein the input / read-out device is embodied and / or moved in such a way that in each case the one or more tags of a clip can be read in or read out undisturbed by the adjacent clips.
- Such crosstalk of multiple clips is prevented by bringing the antenna of the read / write device sufficiently close to the tag of the desired clip and at the same time sufficiently far away from the adjacent clips. For this reason, it is necessary to provide a sufficient number of read / write devices having a particular arrangement in the Have close to the desired brackets or be moved with them in order to obtain a tracking with a sufficient spatial resolution.
- the invention relates to a conveyor system comprising conveyor lines, at least one switch for switching between the conveyor lines and a plurality of Transport units that can be conveyed along the conveyor lines.
- the conveyor system further comprises a radio system for the spatial tracking of the transport units and a control unit for controlling the conveyor system.
- the radio system in each case comprises radio modules assigned to a transport unit and at least one stationary radio device, which are designed to exchange radio signals, and a processing unit.
- the processing unit is designed to process the radio signals and to determine from the radio signals the current position of the transport units along the conveyor lines.
- the radio system offers the advantage of enabling continuous spatial tracking of the transport units by providing coverage by the radio system or the arrangement of the at least one stationary radio device, which advantageously extends over the entire conveyor system or at least a part thereof, e.g. via a conveying device of the conveyor system, extends.
- the radio system does not require local read-out devices which are located close to or must move with the transport units. By avoiding local readout devices, the amount of cabling can be reduced, which can reduce costs and simplify conveyor maintenance.
- the radio system therefore offers the advantage of simplifying the construction of a device for the spatial tracking of the transport units.
- the radio modules are each arranged on the transport units.
- the radio modules to transport goods which be promoted by the transport units, be arranged.
- the radio modules therefore move advantageously with the transport units along the conveyor lines and allow the spatial tracking of the same.
- the radio system can serve for the spatial tracking of the transported goods.
- such a spatial tracking of the transported goods can be provided over the entire supply chain.
- the radio modules are detachably formed. This offers the advantage that the radio modules in a flexible manner at the desired location of a transit) portech and / or attached to the transported goods and can be removed again.
- the radio modules are preferably active radio modules, which offers the advantage of a long range.
- control unit is designed to deposit a profile of the conveyor tracks in the processing unit, and the processing unit is designed to determine the current position of the transport units along the conveyor lines from the radio signals and based on the stored profile.
- the current position of the transport units is determined by means of methods of triangulation, multiangulation, trilateration or multilateration.
- the known course of the conveyor lines offers the advantage that degrees of freedom in the determination of the current position of the transport units, which spatially the conveyor lines are bound, can be eliminated.
- the stationary radio device may be sufficient for the stationary radio device to have a single receiver that receives a radio signal from a radio module of a transport unit.
- the processing unit can then determine the current position of the transport unit on the corresponding section of the conveyor line from this radio signal on the basis of the stored course of the conveyor line.
- the processing unit preferably has a memory, on which the control unit can access and in which data such. B. the course of the conveyor lines or defined Trajekto- rien can be deposited.
- a physical shape such. B. a rail, a conveyor belt, a pipe, a gutter or slide o. ⁇ . Roger that.
- the conveyor system is an indoor system.
- the radio system is advantageously designed to operate in frequency ranges and / or power ranges which are tuned to the indoor area. This offers the advantage that expensive approval procedures and / or adjustments to approval conditions can be avoided.
- control unit is designed to store a defined trajectory dependent on the respective position of the at least one switch in the processing unit, wherein the processing unit is designed, preferably downstream of a switch, the current position of the transport units along the conveying sections with the stored trajectory to defi ned verglei ⁇ chen.
- the defined trajectory at a certain position of a switch should describe the intended path of a transport unit within the course of the conveyor lines.
- the trajectory defined therefore describes in particular the intended Richtu ng, in which a transport unit is to branch off at the switch from ⁇ .
- the Fu nksystem offers the advantage that can be determined by the ra umliche tracking of transport units, whether Tra nsportein beauty, wel ⁇ che passes a crossover, branching off into the intended direction or is diverted. Faulty branches of transport units due to disturbances can thus be determined immediately after the switch.
- the control unit can react to errors immediately and z. B. deflect a corre sponding ⁇ soft switch or interrupt the delivery process. Depending on the position of a switch, the control unit can deposit a new defined trajectory in the processing unit or update an already stored trajectory.
- the processing unit has a processor which can calculate the current position of the transport units from the foot signals and from the course of the conveyor lines stored in the memory.
- the processor can compare the current position of the Transportei units with a stored defined trajectory and at a deviation of the position of a Transportein ⁇ unit of the defined trajectory an error message to a Ausgabevorrich ⁇ device and / or input device, such. B. a GUI, spend.
- the processor can further record input from a system operator via the input device and transfer it to the control unit.
- control unit is designed to control the position of the at least one switch.
- the control unit may comprise a radio control for controlling the radio system.
- control unit may comprise a system controller for controlling the points.
- control unit is integrated into the processing unit, which offers the advantage of a compact construction.
- the radio modules each have a transmitter and the stationary radio device at least one receiver, wherein the processing unit is connected to the stationary radio device.
- the radio modules usually have an antenna, which preferably generates active electromagnetic waves and radiates substantially isotropically.
- An essentially isotropic radiation offers the advantage that the orientation of the transport unit to which the radio module is assigned has no or only a minimal influence on the spatial tracking.
- a single receiver of the stationary radio device may be sufficient to determine the current position of a transport unit along the conveyor line.
- the processing unit can process the radio signals of the radio modules to a distance between transmitter and receiver and determine the current position of the transport unit along the conveyor line based on the stored history of the conveyor line.
- the radio modules are preferably designed to transmit a radio signal with an identification of the respective transport unit.
- the emitted signal of the radio module may contain various information about the radio module, which is modulated onto a carrier signal, wherein the information may in particular include the identification of the transport unit to which the respective radio module is assigned.
- the identification of the respective transport unit offers the advantage that the plurality of transport units can be spatially tracked simultaneously with the radio system. For example, the current positions of the transport units can be displayed simultaneously by means of the identification at an output device, in particular a GU I (Graphic User Interface), which is connected to the processing unit.
- GU I Graphic User Interface
- the radio modules or the transmitters can preferably emit the radio signal in the multiplex method, in particular frequency division multiplexing, time division multiplexing or code division multiplexing.
- information such as the time of signal emission or intensity, which can be used to determine the distance between transmitter and receiver, can be modulated onto the carrier signal.
- the stationary radio device has at least two or at least three receivers.
- An increase in the number of receivers in the stationary radio device offers the advantage that the accuracy of the spatial tracking can be increased.
- several receivers of the stationary radio device can serve to increase the spatial resolution so that it can be determined with increased accuracy which branch the respective transport unit has taken.
- the radio modules each have a receiver, wherein the processing unit is wirelessly connected to the radio modules.
- the radio system can be embodied in particular as a G PS-like system.
- the radio modules can have either transmitter or receiver. But you can also have both sender and receiver simultaneously and act advantageously as a transceiver.
- the radio modules are grouped into zones, the radio modules of each zone each having one or a combination of transmitter and / or receiver.
- control unit is designed to selectively activate and / or deactivate radio modules.
- the control unit is preferably wirelessly connected to the radio modules to control the radio modules.
- the control unit may selectively transmitters and / or activate and / or deactivate the receiver of the radio modules.
- the control unit may selectively activate and / or deactivate one or more radio modules.
- a radio module of a transport unit that is stowed in front of a switch may be activated by the control unit in such a way that this radio module, together with the stationary radio device, can determine the current position of a transport unit which has passed the switch.
- the control unit may activate the receiver of a radio module in front of the switch.
- This receiver can carry out, together with a receiver or receivers of the stationary radio device, a position determination from the radio signal of a transmitter of a radio module which is assigned to a transport unit which has passed the switch.
- the processing unit may be designed to selectively process radio signals from radio modules of the transport units in order to determine the current position of a transport unit.
- the processing unit may, for example, process the radio signal received by a radio module of a transport unit in front of a switch to determine the current position of a transport unit that has passed the switch and emitted the radio signal.
- the radio system therefore offers the advantage of flexible, dynamic spatial tracking of transport units within the conveyor system.
- the stationary radio device has at least one transmitter.
- Information can be modulated on the emitted carrier signal of the transmitter of the stationary radio device.
- the information may include the timing of the emitted radio signal or the intensity.
- the radio modules each comprise an energy store for powering the radio module.
- the energy storage can be rechargeable batteries.
- the radio modules each have a display device for displaying the state of charge of the energy store.
- the display device the state of the energy storage, for. B. in case of a defect.
- the transmitters can be designed to transmit the state of charge of the energy store. If the charge level of an energy storage device of a radio module falls below a certain threshold value, the corresponding transport unit can be discharged and conveyed to a charging device or to a charging path. By means of the charging device or in the charging path, the energy storage device of the radio module can be charged.
- the conveyor system has a discharge station for the active removal of transport units with radio modules with empty or defective energy storage.
- the discharged transport units can be fed to a loading device or a loading route.
- the energy store is inductively loadable and the conveyor system has an inductive charging device.
- the inductive charging device to a buffer section is arranged in which to rest the transport units or to move only a small Geschwin ⁇ speed.
- a plurality of inductive charging devices can be arranged on the conveying path, to which the energy store can be inductively charged.
- the conveyor system has a conveyor device
- the radio modules are designed to adapt the respective radio signal to the conveyor device such that the spatial resolution of the radio system in the region of the conveyor device is modified.
- the same spatial resolution is not required for all areas of the conveyor system.
- a higher spatial resolution may be desired than in a buffer device or in a memory device in which all that needs to be known is that the transport units are in the buffer device or in the storage device.
- the spatial tracking of the transport units is particularly important in the area of turnouts of importance, since usually most errors occur in the turnouts.
- the at least one stationary radio device can therefore be arranged in one embodiment in a range of switches, if a spatial tracking of the transport units in this area of the conveyor system is desired and / or sufficient.
- the radio modules transmit radio signals in the form of burst signals.
- the time between transmitting bursts of the radio modules can be reduced.
- the time between transmission bursts can be increased.
- the control unit can selectively activate radio modules which interact with the stationary radio device and can increase the spatial resolution.
- the control unit can selectively deactivate radio modules in one embodiment. This offers the advantage that energy for operating the radio modules can be saved. Due to the design of the conveyor system with conveyor units bound to transport units, it is therefore advantageously possible to make a flexible adjustment of the spatial resolution without affecting the spatial tracking of the transport units.
- the conveying device may be a filling device, a sorting device, a buffer device, a storage device, a picking device or a removal device.
- the conveyor is a suspended conveyor.
- the transport units each comprise a pocket for receiving transport goods.
- the transport units may also include hooks, containers, trays, grabs, tablets, shovels, trays, transport racks, or the like. include.
- the radio modules are each arranged on the pockets o- received from the pockets. This offers the advantage that the bags even when decoupling the bags from the transport units, z. B. at Kochgabevor ⁇ courses, can be followed up spatially.
- the conveying path comprises a running rail and the transport units each comprise movable carriages movable on the running rail at a variable distance from one another.
- the radio modules are each arranged on the carriage or on a conveyed with the carriage cargo. This offers the advantage of increased reliability in the spatial tracking of the transport units, since the carriages have fewer disturbances due to e.g. Pendulum movements are suspended.
- the conveyor line comprises a conveyor belt.
- the transport units preferably each comprise a container, a pan, a bowl, a tray, a basket, or the like, which can receive transport goods.
- the invention further relates to a radio system for spatial tracking of Trans ⁇ port units of a conveyor system according to the present description, the radio system comprising in each case a transport unit associated with radio modules and at least one stationary radio device which are arranged to exchange radio ⁇ signals, and a processing unit.
- the processing unit is designed to process the radio signals and to determine from the radio signals the current position of the transport units along conveying paths of the conveyor system.
- a course of the conveyor lines can be stored in the processing unit and the processing unit is designed to determine the current position of the transport units along conveying paths of the conveyor system from the radio signals and based on the stored profile.
- the invention further relates to a method for the spatial tracking of transport units of a conveyor system according to the present description, the method comprising: i) providing a radio system each comprising a transport unit associated radio modules and at least one stationary radio ⁇ device, ii) providing a control unit for controlling the conveyor system , iii) exchanging radio signals between the radio modules and the stationary radio device, iv) providing a processing unit, v) processing the radio signals by the processing unit, vi) determining the current position of the transport units along the conveyor paths from the radio signals.
- the method further comprises the steps of: a) depositing a course of the conveyor lines in the processing unit by the control unit, b) determining the current position of the transport units along the conveyor lines from the radio signals and based on the stored history.
- FIG. 1 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of a transport unit and a radio module arranged on the transport unit;
- FIG. 2 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of a transport unit and a radio module arranged on a ware
- Fig. 3 is a schematic representation of an embodiment of a conveyor system
- Fig. 4 is a block diagram showing the processing unit of Fig. 3;
- FIG. 5 shows a side view of an embodiment of a storage device
- FIG. 6 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of a removal device
- 7 is a perspective view of another embodiment of a storage device
- Fig. 8 is a side view of a section of another embodiment ei ⁇ ner conveyor system. DESCRIPTION OF EXEMPLARY PLARIST EXHAUSTFORM ENG
- FIG. 1 shows an embodiment of a transport unit 1 with a carriage 1 1 and a pocket 1 2.
- the carriage 1 1 can be conveyed in a rail 2 of a conveying device.
- a radio module 1 3 is arranged on a wall of the bag 1 2 .
- the radio module 1 3 comprises a transmitter and emits radio signals.
- the radio signals are preferably in the GHz range.
- the transport unit 1 has a single radio module, which is arranged either on the tray 1 2 or on the carriage 11.
- the radio module 1 3 or 1 3 ' has a battery which is rechargeable and which supplies the radio module 1 3 or 1 3' with energy.
- FIG. 2 shows an embodiment of a transport unit 1 'with a carriage 1 1' and a pocket 1 2 '.
- the carriage 1 1 ' is conveyed in a rail 2' of a conveying device.
- a product 4 is shown, to which a radio module 1 3 "is arranged.
- the radio ⁇ module 1 3" of the transport unit 1' is assigned so that 3 ", the transport unit 1 'can be tracked in space by means of the radio module 1.
- the goods 4 can also be spatially tracked before being picked up in the pocket 1 2 'and after removal from the pocket 1 2', so that a spatial tracking of the goods 4 over the entire supply chain is made possible.
- FIG. 3 shows a diagrammatic view of an embodiment of a conveyor system designed as a suspended conveyor system 1 00 with a plurality of transport units 1 1 0, which are connected to conveyor sections designed as rails 11 1 and can be conveyed along the rails 11 1.
- the transport units 1 1 0 include carriages which are movable at a variable distance from each other on the rails 1 1 1, and pockets for receiving transport goods.
- the overhead conveyor system 1 00 comprises a radio system 1 01 for the spatial tracking of the transport units 1 1 0.
- the radio system comprises a stationary radio device 1 01 1 with four antennas 1 01 2, which radio signals from radio modules 1 01 3, which on the transport units 1 1 0 arranged are, received.
- the radio modules 1 0 1 3 have active transmitters which generate and emit radio signals.
- the radio signals emitted by the radio modules 1 01 3 contain an identification which enables a differentiation of the transport units 1 1 0. In FIG. 3, for better clarity, the radio signals are symbolically shown only on a few representative transport units and on the antennas 1101 2.
- the overhead conveyor system 1 00 comprises the following conveyor devices: a Be Heilllvor- direction 1 02, in which the pockets of the transport units 1 1 0 are filled with cargo, a storage device 1 03, a sorting device 1 04, a supply device 1 05, in which pre-sorted supply pre - Is taken, and a removal device 1 06, from which the goods to be shipped are taken.
- the discharged from the removal device 1 06 transport units with empty pockets are stored in a dummy storage device (not shown in Figure 3) before they can be fed back to the filling device 1 02.
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- a job is created and a goods flow computer 1 08 supplied, which calculates the course of conveyed in the overhead conveyor 1 00 transport goods.
- the goods flow computer 1 08 is connected to a processing unit 1 09, which receives and processes radio signals from the antennas 1 01 2.
- the processing unit 1 09 the course of the conveyor lines 1 1 1 is stored.
- the processing unit 1 09 determined from the received radio signals of the antennas 1 01 2 and based on the stored history of the conveyor lines 1 1 1, the current position of the transport units 1 1 0 along the conveyor lines 1 1 1.
- the overhead conveyor system 1 00 has switches 1 1 1 1 for switching between the conveyor lines 1 1 1, wherein a dependent of the respective switch position defined trajectory in the processing unit 1 09 is deposited.
- the processing unit 1 09 compares the current position of a transport unit 1 1 0, which has passed a switch 1 1 1 1, with the defined trajectory and determines whether the transport unit has 1 1 0 provided in the defined trajectory, the switch position corresponding branch at the corresponding switch 1 1 1 1 has taken.
- the four antennas 1 01 2 of the stationary radio device 1 01 1 are arranged peripherally at four corners of the overhead conveyor 1 00 and so a continuous spatial tracking of Transporteinshei ⁇ th 1 1 0 in the overhead conveyor 1 00 enable.
- the processing unit 1 09 is connected to a GU I 1 20, where the current positions of the transport units 1 1 0 can be displayed. A plant operator can monitor the overhead conveyor system 1 00 and the transport units 1 1 0 via the GU I 1 20 and intervene in the event of faults.
- FIG. 4 shows a block diagram with the processing unit 1 09, the ERP system 1 07, the goods flow computer 1 08 and the GUI 1 20 of Figure 3.
- the control unit 1 09 1 includes a radio control 1 09 1 a for controlling the radio system and a system control 1 091 b for controlling the switches.
- the processing unit 1 09 further has a memory 1 092, in which the control unit 1 091 can store the course of the conveyor lines and / or the defined trajectories.
- the processing unit 1 09 further has a processor 1 093, which of the radio signals and based stored in the memory 1092 course of the conveyor lines can calculate the current position of the transport units.
- the processor 1093 compares the current position of the transport units with a stored defined trajectory and outputs an error message to the GUI 120 if the position of a transport unit deviates from the defined trajectory.
- the processor 1093 can receive and also inputs of a plant operator via the GUI 120 to pass the control unit ⁇ 1091st
- Figure 5 shows a side view of an embodiment of a storage device 103 'with transport units 110, 110a, 11 Ob. Shown are four antennas 1012 of a radio system of the overhead conveyor and radio modules 1013, which are arranged on the pockets 1101, 1101a, 1101b of the transport units 110, 110a, 110b and comprise transmitters.
- the antenna 1012 may, as in the Figure 3 shows ge ⁇ be common antennas for the entire suspension conveyor system, or specifically 'arranged and the spatial resolution requirements of the storage device 103' for the storage device 103 may be adapted antennas.
- the transport units 110, 110a, 11bc comprise carriages 1102 which can be conveyed in a running rail 111 'with a variable distance from one another.
- FIG. 5 shows a perspective view of an embodiment of a removal device 106 '.
- Four peripherally arranged antennas 1012 of a stationary radio device are shown schematically.
- Radio modules 1013, which exchange radio signals with the antennas 1012, are arranged on the transport units 110.
- the transport units 110 include pockets 1101 in which transported goods are conveyed, which are taken by persons 3 in the removal device 106 ', for example for shipping.
- FIG. 7 shows a further embodiment of a storage device 103 "of a suspended conveying system
- Transport units 110 with radio modules are conveyed in the storage device 103" in a running rail 111
- the storage device 103" comprises points 1111 "by means of which the transport units 110 branch off as a function of the point position
- the radio system with the antennas 1012 and the radio modules of the transport units 110 determine whether the transport units 110 have each taken the intended branching
- Figure 8 shows a section of a further embodiment of a conveyor system which is designed as a belt conveyor system
- the belt conveyor 200 comprises a conveyor belt 211 on which transport units 210a, 21b, 210c are conveyed
- the transport units 210a, 210b, 210c comprise containers 2101 in which transported goods 2104 are accommodated
- Containers 2101 are each radio modules 2013a, 2013b, 2013c arranged, which include transmitter and receiver.
- the belt conveyor system comprises a radio system 201, which includes the radio modules 2013a, 2013b, 2013c and a stationary radio device 2011 with comprises four antennas 201 2.
- the antennas 201 2 have receivers which receive radio signals from the transmitters of the radio modules 201 3a, 201 3b, 201 3c.
- the belt conveyor 200 has a switch 2 1 1 1, by means of which the Transporteins ⁇ units 2 1 Oa, 2 1 0b, 2 1 0c can be diverted.
- the radio module 20 1 3a of the transport unit 2 1 0a which is located in front of the switch 2 1 1 1, can be used as an additional receiver to together with the receivers of the stationary radio device 201 1, the current position of the transport units. 2 1 0b, 2 1 0c behind the switch to determine with increased accuracy.
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