KR20170011630A - Object transporting system using unmanned auto moving vehicle - Google Patents

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KR20170011630A
KR20170011630A KR1020150104546A KR20150104546A KR20170011630A KR 20170011630 A KR20170011630 A KR 20170011630A KR 1020150104546 A KR1020150104546 A KR 1020150104546A KR 20150104546 A KR20150104546 A KR 20150104546A KR 20170011630 A KR20170011630 A KR 20170011630A
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The present invention provides an article transport system using an unmanned transport vehicle which uses an unmanned transport vehicle to transport an article ordered from a customer to the desired destination. According to the present invention, the article transport system using an unmanned transport vehicle comprises: a distribution management server to allow a plurality of customers to order at least one article and manage article information for ordered articles for each customer; an unmanned transport vehicle which has a display unit installed therein to display the article information of the articles received from the distribution management server and a plurality of article boxes installed therein to put the articles displayed on the display unit, and automatically moves to an article storage area where the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display unit are stored; and a vehicle control device to receive the article information of the ordered articles for each customer from the distribution management server to transmit the article information and a moving command of the unmanned transport vehicle to the unmanned transport vehicle. The unmanned transport vehicle assigns article boxes to put the ordered articles for each customer when the article information and the moving command are received from the vehicle control device, displays the received article information of the articles on the display unit corresponding to the assigned article boxes, uses a location of the article storage area where the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display unit are stored to calculate a moving path of the unmanned transport vehicle, and moves along the calculated moving path.

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Technical Field [0001] The present invention relates to an object transport system using an unmanned transport vehicle,

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an article transfer system, and more particularly, to a transfer system for an article using an unmanned transfer vehicle that transfers an article ordered by a customer to a desired destination using an unmanned transfer vehicle.

With the development of information and communication technology, online shopping and the market are gradually expanding. According to this tendency, the supplier providing the goods needs a process of transferring the goods ordered by the customer from the storage room and sorting or packing the products by customer. Generally, a conveyor is used as a facility for transporting an article in an automation equipment line. Recently, various functions such as a function of sorting an article into a predetermined position while transferring the article to such a conveyor have been added.

Conventionally, in the case of sorting articles using a conveyor, even when the number of articles to be classified is small, there is a problem that energy consumption is large because the conveyor must be operated. Also, there are various types of articles to be conveyed through the conveyor Therefore, there is considerable difficulty in accurately classifying the goods by customer.

In recent years, a technique of transferring an article by using an automatically moveable robot has been proposed. This has the advantage of having much less energy consumption than a conveyor since it can carry only the desired article. For example, Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-361467 and Korean Patent No. 10-0841075 disclose an autonomous mobile robot for carrying articles. The autonomous mobile robot has a technique for grasping an article from an acquisition source and transporting the article to a desired position and preventing vibration of the grasping means during transportation.

However, in the prior art including the above-mentioned prior arts, there is not proposed a technique of accurately and efficiently mounting various kinds of articles ordered from a large number of customers to an unmanned transportation vehicle for each customer.

Japanese Patent Application No. 2004-361467 Korean Patent No. 10-0841075

An object of the present invention is to provide an unmanned transfer vehicle which can automatically move an unmanned transfer vehicle to an article storage area in which goods are stored so that goods ordered from a customer through the on- It is an object of the present invention to provide a transport system.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle in which a plurality of articles are ordered by a plurality of customers, .

It is another object of the present invention to provide an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle that allows an operator to display goods information ordered for each customer in each article box so that an operator can store the article on each article box.

An article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a goods distribution server that orders at least one article from a plurality of customers and manages article information about the ordered article for each customer; A display unit for displaying the article information of the article received from the goods management server and a plurality of article boxes for storing the article displayed on the display unit are respectively provided and the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display unit are stored, An unmanned transfer vehicle capable of automatically moving to a storage area; And a vehicle control device for receiving article information of the goods ordered by the customer from the goods management server and transmitting the goods information to the unmanned transportation vehicle together with the movement instruction of the unmanned transportation vehicle, When the article information and the move command are received from the customer, an article box for storing the article ordered by the customer is allocated, the article information of the received article is displayed on the display unit corresponding to the assigned article box, Calculates the movement path of the unmanned transfer vehicle using the position of the article storage area in which the article corresponding to the unmanned transfer vehicle is stored, and moves along the calculated movement path.

In the present invention, the unmanned conveyance vehicle is stopped for a predetermined period of time after moving along the movement path, and then moved.

In the present invention, when the unmanned conveyance vehicle moves after stopping in the article storage area, the article in the article storage area moved after the stop is no longer displayed among the article information displayed on the display unit.

In the present invention, the positions are previously allocated to each of the plurality of article storage areas, and information of the articles stored in the respective article storage areas is stored in advance, and the operation unit reads the article corresponding to the article information received by the communication unit And the travel route of the unmanned transport vehicle is calculated by extracting the position of the stored article storage area.

According to another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle, the article transfer system comprising: a goods distribution server for ordering at least one article from a plurality of customers and managing product information about the ordered goods; A display section for displaying the article information of the article received from the goods management server and a plurality of article boxes for storing the article displayed on the display section are respectively provided and the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display section are stored, An unmanned transfer vehicle capable of automatically moving to a storage area; A first button unit for generating a movement instruction signal for movement of the unmanned transport vehicle; And a vehicle control device for receiving article information of the goods ordered by the customer from the goods management server and transmitting the goods information to the unmanned transportation vehicle together with the movement instruction of the unmanned transportation vehicle, An article box for storing an article ordered by the customer is allocated to the article, and the article information of the article is displayed on the display unit corresponding to the assigned article box and the article information Calculates the movement path of the unmanned conveyance vehicle using the position of the article storage area in which the article corresponding to the article is stored, moves along the calculated movement path, and moves when the movement instruction signal is received from the first button portion .

In the present invention, the goods management server orders goods from the customer's terminal and processes payment for the ordered goods.

In the present invention, the unmanned transport vehicle may allocate the plurality of article boxes to the clients using the article information received from the goods management server, and transmit the ordered goods to the display unit corresponding to the article boxes assigned to the customers And display the article information.

In the present invention, the unmanned conveyance vehicle calculates a movement path for extracting the position of the article storage space in which the article of the article information displayed on the display unit is stored, and moving the extracted article storage space to the position of the extracted article storage space.

In the present invention, when a plurality of locations of the article storage area are extracted, the unmanned transport vehicle sequentially moves all the extracted locations.

In the present invention, the unmanned conveyance vehicle initially moves to a predetermined initial position and waits, and moves along the calculated movement path when the article information and the movement command are received from the vehicle control device.

According to still another aspect of the present invention, there is provided an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle, wherein at least one article is ordered from a plurality of customers, and the article information about the article ordered by each customer, A distribution management server for managing the positions of a plurality of article storage areas; A display section for displaying the article information of the article received from the goods management server and a plurality of article boxes for storing the article displayed on the display section are respectively provided and the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display section are stored, An unmanned transfer vehicle capable of automatically moving to a storage area; And a vehicle control device for receiving the goods information of the goods ordered by the customer and the location of the goods storage area from the goods management server and transmitting the goods information to the unmanned transportation vehicle together with the movement instruction of the unmanned transportation vehicle, When a vehicle receives the article information, the position of the article storage area, and the move command from the vehicle control apparatus, the vehicle allocates an article box for storing the article ordered by the customer and stores the article information of the received article in the assigned article box And calculates the movement route of the unmanned transport vehicle according to the position of the received article storage area and moves along the calculated movement route.

In the present invention, the unmanned conveyance vehicle is stopped for a predetermined period of time after moving along the calculated movement path, and then moved.

The present invention may further comprise a first button unit for generating a movement instruction signal for moving the unmanned transport vehicle, wherein the unmanned transport vehicle moves along the calculated movement path, Moves when a signal is received.

In the present invention, the unmanned transfer vehicle further includes a second button unit for generating an unloading signal for informing the unloading of the article to the article box, and when the unloading signal is generated from the second button unit Transmits it to the vehicle control device and automatically moves to the next position.

According to the present invention, when a customer orders an item through the on-line / off-line market, the unmanned transport vehicle automatically moves to the article storage area in which the ordered product is stored, Conveniently, the article can be transported to a desired location.

In addition, according to the present invention, since a plurality of article boxes mounted on an unmanned transfer vehicle can be allocated to each customer and one customer's articles can be stored in one article box, It can be packaged right away, which can save time and effort in the packaging process.

In addition, according to the present invention, since the article information ordered for each customer is displayed for each article box, the operator can accurately place the article displayed on the display unit in the article box for each article box, so that the goods of other customers are not mixed. A process for separating the articles for each customer is not required.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention;
2 is an external view of an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention,
3 is a structural block diagram of an unmanned conveyance vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention,
Fig. 4 is a layout example of a storage area according to the present invention; Fig.
FIG. 5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an article transport system using an unmanned transport vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 6 is an exemplary view illustrating a process of moving an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 7 is an exemplary view illustrating a process of moving an unmanned transfer vehicle according to another embodiment of the present invention;
FIG. 8 is a flowchart illustrating an article transfer process of an unmanned transfer vehicle according to another embodiment of the present invention. FIG.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to exemplary drawings. It should be noted that, in adding reference numerals to the constituent elements of the drawings, the same constituent elements are denoted by the same reference numerals whenever possible, even if they are shown in different drawings. In the following description of the embodiments of the present invention, a detailed description of known functions and configurations incorporated herein will be omitted when it may make the difference that the embodiments of the present invention are not conclusive.

In describing the components of the embodiment of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are intended to distinguish the constituent elements from other constituent elements, and the terms do not limit the nature, order or order of the constituent elements. When a component is described as being "connected", "coupled", or "connected" to another component, the component may be directly connected or connected to the other component, Quot; may be "connected," "coupled," or "connected. &Quot;

1 is a configuration diagram of an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, in an embodiment of the present invention, an article transfer system 100 using an unmanned transfer vehicle includes a goods management server 110, a vehicle control device 120, and an unmanned transfer vehicle 130.

The logistics management server 110 is a server that integrally manages logistics. The logistics management server 110 integrally manages the processes and history from goods receipt to goods issue in the logistics sensor. In particular, the logistics management server 110 according to the present invention orders an article from a customer through an online or offline market, and generates and manages the article information about the ordered article for each customer. To this end, the logistics management server 110 orders the goods through communication with the customer's terminal and processes payment for the ordered goods. For example, the goods management server 110 may include a conventional online / offline shopping mall server and a payment server. At this time, information on the product is managed for each customer who ordered the product. In the present embodiment, the goods management server 110 manages information on a customer who ordered an article by managing product information for each customer, and delivers the information to the vehicle control device 120 at the rear end.

The vehicle control device 120 manages the automatic unmanned transport vehicle 130 for transporting the goods and controls the operation thereof. Specifically, the vehicle control device 120 receives the article information transmitted from the goods management server 110 and controls the operation of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the received article information. When there are a plurality of unmanned transport vehicles 130 and there are many articles received from the customer, the vehicle controller 120 separately allocates the unmanned transport vehicle 130 to store the goods for each customer. For example, in order to arrange the articles of customers A, B and C in the article box of the first unmanned conveying vehicle and the article of the customers D, E, F in the article box of the second unmanned conveying vehicle, The goods information of the order A, B, and C is transmitted to the customer, and the order information of the customer D, E, F is transmitted to the second unmanned transfer vehicle. At this time, a movement command of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 is also transmitted together with the article information. According to this movement command, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 starts to operate.

The unmanned conveying vehicle 130 is provided with a display unit for displaying the article information received from the vehicle control device 120 and a plurality of article boxes for storing the articles, Automatically move to storage area. Specifically, when the article information and the move command are received from the vehicle control device 120, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 displays the article information on the display unit for each customer, and the article corresponding to the displayed article information is stored in the article storage area And calculates the movement path of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the position and moves along the calculated movement path.

2 is an external view of an unmanned transport vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 of the present invention is a vehicle capable of intelligent unmanned automatic movement. The unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 automatically moves according to a wired / wireless remote control or a move command to transfer the articles to a desired area. In the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the present invention, a plurality of article boxes 131 are mounted. It is preferable that each article box 131 is detachably mounted on the unmanned conveying vehicle 130. The article box 131 can be inserted into the groove 30 formed on the upper surface of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 to be fixed to the movement of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130, for example, as shown in the drawings. As another example, a detachable device (not shown) may be installed in the article box 121 so as to be attachable to and detachable from the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130.

In addition, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 of the present invention includes various devices for automatic movement inside the body 10. For example, various sensors such as a gyro sensor, a position recognition sensor, an obstacle detection sensor, a motor, and a battery, and a microprocessor for controlling the operation of the unmanned transfer vehicle 130 are provided. Since the unmanned transport vehicle 130 is a known vehicle device, detailed description thereof will be omitted.

Meanwhile, in the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the present invention, a plurality of display units 132 are installed. This is for the worker who stores the article in the article box 131 to check it from the outside. In particular, the plurality of display portions 132 are installed so as to correspond one-to-one with a plurality of article boxes 131. The installation position of the display unit 132 may be any place. That is, as long as each display section 132 displays which article is to be placed in which article box 131, the installation position is irrelevant. Thus, the worker can confirm the article information displayed on the display unit 132 corresponding to each article box 131, so that the article can be stored in the article box 131. Although only three article boxes 131 are illustrated in the drawing, the number of article boxes 131 may be changed as needed. Also, although not shown in the drawings, as the number of the article boxes 131 increases, it is also possible to provide a plurality of frames on the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 and to stack the plurality of article boxes 131 for each layer have. In this case, the display unit 132 may be installed at each position corresponding to each article box 131 in the frame.

3 is a block diagram of an unmanned conveyance vehicle according to the present invention.

3, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the embodiment of the present invention includes a display unit 132, a communication unit 133, an operation unit 134, and a control unit 135. Meanwhile, in another embodiment of the present invention, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 may further include at least one of the first button portion 136 and the second button portion 137 selectively.

The communication unit 133 performs communication with the vehicle control device 120. [ And receives article information on at least one article to be transferred through such communication. Such goods information is information on the goods ordered by each customer, and it can know which customer ordered the goods to be transferred, the kind of the goods, the number of items, and the like. Optionally, in another embodiment, the communication unit 133 may receive the article information and the position of the article storage area in accordance with the article information. This allows the vehicle control device 120 to extract the article and the position of the article storage area in which the article is stored, and transmit the same together.

The display unit 132 includes a plurality of display units 132, and is provided to correspond to each of the plurality of article boxes 131 as described above. Particularly, the product information received by the communication unit 133 is displayed on the display unit 132, and the product information for each customer is displayed in order to divide the product box 131 for each customer so that the product can be stored.

The operation unit 134 extracts the position of the article storage area to which the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves by using the article information received from the communication unit 133 and the article information of a plurality of article storage areas in which various articles are stored, And calculates the movement path of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the position of the article storage area. Specifically, it is checked which goods storage area the article of article information received in the communication unit 133 is stored in, and the position of the article storage area in which the article is stored is calculated. For this purpose, information on the articles stored in the article storage areas and their positions are stored in an internal memory (not shown) in advance. Thus, in order to store the article of commodity information received by the communication unit 133 in the article box 131, the position of the article storage area in which the article is stored is extracted from the internal memory, and the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves So as to calculate the movement route. Preferably, it is preferable to calculate an efficient movement and a movement path of the shortest distance.

The control unit 135 controls the display unit 132 to display the article information received from the communication unit 133 and moves the unmanned transport vehicle 130 along the movement path calculated by the operation unit 134. [ Specifically, the control unit 135 uses the product information received from the communication unit 133 to identify the product information for each customer and allocates the product box 131 to each customer. Then, the customer's goods information is displayed on the display unit 132 corresponding to the goods box 131 allocated to each customer. Thus, the article information of the customer is displayed in each article box 131, so that an operator holding the article in the article box 131 confirms the article information displayed on the display section 132 corresponding to each article box 131, So that the article can be contained in the article box 131. This is to allow each article box 131 to contain an article for each customer. The control unit 135 according to the present invention moves the unmanned conveying vehicle 130 to a plurality of article storage areas along a movement path, stops after a predetermined period of time after arriving at the article storage area, . This is to ensure the time for the operator to store the article in the article box 131 in the article storage area. At this time, as the number of articles to be stored in the storage area of the article is larger, the stopping time can be set to be longer. It takes more time to pack a lot of goods.

The first button unit 136 may be selectively installed on the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130. The first button unit 136 generates a movement instruction signal for instructing movement of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130. This is because, as described above, when the operator operates the first button unit 136 to generate the movement instruction signal instead of stopping the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 for a predetermined time and then automatically move to the next position, To move the conveying vehicle 130. Specifically, when the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 is stopped while the worker holds the articles in the article box 131 in the article storage area, and the operator completes the articles, if the first button unit 136 is operated, 135 move the unmanned transport vehicle 130 to the next position. The control unit 135 moves the unmanned transport vehicle 130 to the movement path calculated by the operation unit 134. When the movement instruction signal is received from the first button unit 136, .

In addition, the second button unit 137 may be additionally installed in the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 selectively. The second button unit 137 is for generating an unloading signal for notifying the unloading of the article to the article box 131 when the article displayed on the display unit 132 is not in the article storage space. In this case, when the goods unloading signal is generated from the second button unit 137, the control unit 135 transmits the unloaded goods signal to the vehicle control device 120 through the communication unit 133 and follows the travel path calculated by the operation unit 134 And moves the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 to the position of the next article storage area. Thereby, the control unit 135 and the vehicle control device 120 can grasp in real time which article is loaded in each article box 131

4 is an exemplary layout view of a storage area according to the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4, a plurality of storage spaces 210 to 240 according to the present invention are formed. The articles 211 to 214 are stored in the respective article storage areas 210 to 240, respectively. Further, the respective positions P1 to Pn are set in the respective article storage areas 210 to 240, respectively. When the worker 201 is disposed on all or a part of the article storage areas 210 to 240 and the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves to the article storage areas 210 to 240 and stops, So that the article is stored in the article box 131. The unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves along the movement route 200 calculated by the calculation unit 134 and the movement route is set to pass at least one of the positions P1 to Pn. That is, the articles to be contained in the article box 131 are allowed to pass through the positions P1 to Pn of the article-to-be-custodial sections 210 to 240. For example, when the customer A orders the article 1 and the article n, and the customer B orders the article 2, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 is set to travel to the P1 position, the P2 position, and the Pn position. Thus, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves to the position P1, for example, in accordance with the movement route so that the worker 201 can store the article 1 of the customer A in the article box # 1, 201 to be able to contain the article 2 of the customer B in the article box # 2, and then moves to the Pn position so that the worker 201 can again store the article n of the customer A in the article box # 1.

At this time, when the first button unit 136 is installed, the operator 201 moves the unmanned transport vehicle 130 to the next position by moving the first button unit 136 after moving the article into the corresponding article box. Thus, by operating the first button unit 136 immediately after the article is loaded, the loading time can be shortened and the fast feeding can be performed. When the second button unit 137 is installed, the operator 201 operates the second button unit 137 to automatically move to the next position when there is no article to be loaded. This also reduces the time required for loading.

In the present invention, the first initial position P10 and the last final position P20 are set so that the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 waits at the initial position P10 for the first time, And moves to the final position (P20) if the article is loaded. The final position P20 may be a place where a subsequent process such as a packaging process or a delivery process of an article is performed, for example. Thus, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 can move along the movement path at the initial position P10 and then automatically move to the final position P20, so that the article can be conveniently transported.

5 is a flowchart illustrating an operation of an article transfer system using an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 5, in the article transfer system using the unmanned transfer vehicle according to the present invention, the goods management server 110 receives the goods from the customer through the online or offline market (S101) and processes payment for the goods ). Stores goods information about the goods ordered by the customer, and transmits the goods information to the vehicle control device 120 (S105).

The vehicle control apparatus 120 receives the article information and transmits a move command instructing the movement of the unmanned transport vehicle 130 to the unmanned transport vehicle 130 together with the article information (S107). At this time, when there are many customers included in the product information or the number of the products is large, the vehicle control device 120 may sort the pertinent customer items and transfer them to the customer, thereby allocating the unmanned transfer vehicle 130 to some customers have. This is for distributing the products to a plurality of unmanned transport vehicles 130 for each customer when it is difficult to transfer all the products by only one unmanned transport vehicle 130 when there are many customers who ordered the products.

Next, the unmanned conveying vehicle 130 receives merchandise information for each customer from the vehicle control apparatus 120, and allocates the merchandise box 131 to store the merchandise for each customer (S109). This is to determine which goods box 131 the customer belongs to. The goods information for each customer is displayed on the corresponding display box 132 on the goods box 131 (S111). This is for the worker 201 to visually check the items to be stored for each article box 131 and to store the articles.

Thus, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 extracts the positions of the article storage areas 210 to 240 in which the articles of the article information displayed on the display unit 132 are stored (S113). Each of the article storage areas 210 to 240 has its own position set in advance, and each article storage area 210 to 240 stores predetermined items. This information is stored in an internal memory (not shown). And extracts the positions of the goods storage areas 210 to 240 for each customer by using this.

Subsequently, the movement path of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 is calculated using the positions of the article storage areas 210 to 240 extracted as described above (S115). The unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves along the calculated movement path (S117). That is, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves along the movement path to store the goods ordered by the customer in the article box 121, so that the worker 201 can store the articles in the article box 131.

FIG. 6 is an exemplary view illustrating a process of moving an unmanned transfer vehicle according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 6, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to the embodiment of the present invention is moved to the article storage areas 210 to 240 along the movement path to store the articles in the article box 131 and transfer the articles to a desired place. (S201). When it reaches the position of the article storage areas 210 to 240 on the moving route (S203), it stands by at the position for a preset time (S205). If it is determined that the predetermined time has elapsed (S207), the control unit 135 moves the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 to the next position on the movement route (S209). After moving the unmanned conveying vehicle 130 along the movement path to the article storage areas 210 to 240, the operator 201 waits at that position for the time for storing the article in the article box 131, And automatically move to the next storage area 210-240.

7 is a view illustrating an example of a movement process of an unmanned transfer vehicle according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 7, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to another embodiment of the present invention is moved to the article storage areas 210 to 240 along the movement path in order to store the articles in the article box 131 and transfer the articles to a desired place. (S301). Upon reaching the position of the article storage areas 210 to 240 on the movement route (S303), the process waits at that position (S305).

Thereafter, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 determines whether the movement instruction signal of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 has been input from the first button unit 136 (S307). If the movement instruction signal is not inputted, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 keeps the waiting state, (S309). 6, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 is moved to the article storage areas 210 to 240 along the movement path, and then the operator 201 waits at the position for the time to store the article in the article box 131 When the worker 201 loads the goods and operates the first button unit 136, if the movement instruction signal is generated, the user moves to the next product storage area 210-240.

8 is a view illustrating an example of a movement process of an unmanned transfer vehicle according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 8, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 according to another embodiment of the present invention includes an article storage space 210-240 along the movement path for storing an article in an article box 131 and transferring the article to a desired place. (S401). Upon arrival at the position of the article storage areas 210 to 240 on the movement route (S403), the process waits at that position (S405).

Then, the unmanned conveying vehicle 130 determines whether an unloading signal of the article is input from the second button unit 136 (S407). If the unloading signal is not input, the unmanned conveying vehicle 130 keeps the waiting state, After informing the control unit 120 of the unloading of goods (S409), the control unit 120 moves to the next position on the calculated movement route (S411). 6 and 7, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves to the article storage areas 210 to 240 along the calculated movement path, and then the article storage boxes 210 to 240 are moved to the article box 131 So that the worker 201 can take the action so as to be able to quickly move to the next position when there is no article to be loaded.

FIG. 9 is a flowchart illustrating an article transfer process of an unmanned transfer vehicle according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 9, in another embodiment of the present invention, the unmanned conveying vehicle 130 receives the location of the article storage area 210-240 to be moved according to the customer-specific article information and the article information (S501). Upon receipt of the customer information and the position of the product, the unmanned transportation vehicle 130 allocates an article box 131 to store the product for each customer (S503). This is to determine which goods box 131 the customer belongs to. The customer information for each customer is displayed on the display unit 132 corresponding to the goods box 131 allocated in the step S505. This is for the worker 201 to visually check the items to be stored for each article box 131 and to store the articles.

Subsequently, the movement path of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 is calculated using the positions of the received goods storage areas 210 to 240 (S507). Then, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 100 moves along the calculated movement route (S509). That is, the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 moves along the movement path to store the goods ordered by the customer in the article box 121, so that the worker 201 can store the articles in the article box 131. Thereafter, the movement process of the unmanned conveyance vehicle 130 can be performed as shown in FIG. 6 or FIG.

While the present invention has been described in connection with what is presently considered to be the most practical and preferred embodiment, it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the disclosed embodiments. That is, within the scope of the present invention, all of the components may be selectively coupled to one or more of them. Furthermore, the terms "comprises", "comprising", or "having" described above mean that a component can be implanted unless otherwise specifically stated, But should be construed as including other elements. All terms, including technical and scientific terms, have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs, unless otherwise defined. Commonly used terms, such as predefined terms, should be interpreted to be consistent with the contextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be construed as ideal or overly formal, unless expressly defined to the contrary.

The foregoing description is merely illustrative of the technical idea of the present invention, and various changes and modifications may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the essential characteristics of the present invention. Therefore, the embodiments disclosed in the present invention are intended to illustrate rather than limit the scope of the present invention, and the scope of the technical idea of the present invention is not limited by these embodiments. The scope of protection of the present invention should be construed according to the following claims, and all technical ideas within the scope of equivalents should be construed as falling within the scope of the present invention.

110: Logistics management server 120: Vehicle control device
130: unmanned transfer vehicle 131: article box
132: Display section 133:
134: operation unit 135:
136: first button part 137: second button part
210 ~ 240: Storage area 211 ~ 214: Goods

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A distribution server for receiving at least one article from a plurality of customers and managing the article information about the ordered article for each customer;
A display section for displaying the article information of the article received from the goods management server and a plurality of article boxes for storing the article displayed on the display section are respectively provided and the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display section are stored, An unmanned transfer vehicle capable of automatically moving to a storage area; And
And a vehicle control unit for receiving the article information of the goods ordered by the customer from the goods management server and transmitting the goods information to the unmanned transportation vehicle together with the movement instruction of the unmanned transportation vehicle,
Wherein the unmanned conveying vehicle allocates an article box for storing an ordered article to the customer when the article information and the move command are received from the vehicle control apparatus and supplies the article information of the received article to the display section An unmanned conveying vehicle, which is displayed on the display unit, calculates the moving path of the unmanned conveying vehicle using the position of the article storage area in which the article corresponding to the article information is stored, and moves the unmanned conveying vehicle along the calculated moving path system. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle is stopped for a predetermined time after moving along the movement path and is moved for each predetermined time during the movement of the unmanned transport vehicle. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle no longer displays the article in the article storage area that has been moved after stopping among the article information displayed on the display unit when the unmanned transfer vehicle moves after stopping in the article storage space. The method according to claim 1,
Wherein a position of each article storage area is previously allocated to each of the plurality of article storage areas and information of the articles stored in each article storage area is stored in advance, And calculating a movement route of the unmanned transfer vehicle by extracting the position of the storage zone. A distribution server for receiving at least one article from a plurality of customers and managing the article information about the ordered article for each customer;
A display section for displaying the article information of the article received from the goods management server and a plurality of article boxes for storing the article displayed on the display section are respectively provided and the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display section are stored, An unmanned transfer vehicle capable of automatically moving to a storage area;
A first button unit for generating a movement instruction signal for movement of the unmanned transport vehicle; And
And a vehicle control unit for receiving the article information of the goods ordered by the customer from the goods management server and transmitting the goods information to the unmanned transportation vehicle together with the movement instruction of the unmanned transportation vehicle,
Wherein the unmanned conveying vehicle allocates an article box for storing an ordered article to the customer when the article information and the move command are received from the vehicle control apparatus and supplies the article information of the received article to the display section Calculates the movement path of the unmanned conveyance vehicle using the position of the article storage area in which the article corresponding to the article information displayed on the display unit is stored, and moves along the calculated movement path from the first button unit An article transport system using an unmanned transport vehicle that moves when a movement instruction signal is received. 6. The method according to claim 1 or 5,
Wherein the unmanned transportation vehicle allocates the plurality of article boxes to the customers using the article information received from the goods management server and displays the ordered article information on the display unit corresponding to the article boxes assigned to the customers An article transport system using an unmanned transport vehicle. 6. The method according to claim 1 or 5,
Wherein the unmanned conveyance vehicle calculates a movement path for extracting the position of the article storage space in which the article of the article information stored in the display unit is stored and moving the extracted article storage space to the position of the extracted article storage space. 8. The method of claim 7,
Wherein the unattended transport vehicle sequentially moves all the extracted locations when a plurality of locations of the product storage area are extracted. 6. The method according to claim 1 or 5,
Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle initially moves to a predetermined initial position and then moves in accordance with the calculated movement route when the article information and the move command are received from the vehicle control device. A distribution server for receiving at least one article from a plurality of customers and managing the location of a plurality of article storage areas in which the articles are stored,
A display section for displaying the article information of the article received from the goods management server and a plurality of article boxes for storing the article displayed on the display section are respectively provided and the articles corresponding to the article information displayed on the display section are stored, An unmanned transfer vehicle capable of automatically moving to a storage area;
And a vehicle control device for receiving the article information of the goods ordered by the customer and the position of the article storage area from the goods management server and transmitting the goods information to the unmanned transportation vehicle together with the movement instruction of the unmanned transportation vehicle,
Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle allocates an article box for storing the ordered article to the customer when the article information, the position of the article storage area, and the move command are received from the vehicle control apparatus and stores the article information of the received article in the allocated article Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle is moved along the calculated movement path by calculating the movement route of the unmanned transport vehicle according to the position of the received article storage area. 11. The method of claim 10,
Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle stops moving for a predetermined period of time at each position of the storage area while moving along the calculated movement route. 11. The method of claim 10,
Further comprising a first button portion for generating a movement instruction signal for movement of the unmanned conveyance vehicle, wherein the unmanned conveyance vehicle moves along the calculated movement path, and when a movement instruction signal is received from the first button portion An article transport system using moving unmanned transport vehicle. 11. The method according to any one of claims 1 to 10,
Wherein the unmanned transport vehicle further includes a second button unit for generating an unloading signal for notifying the unloading of the article to the article box, and when the unloading signal is generated from the second button unit, And then automatically moves to the next position.
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