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    • 专利摘要:
    The storage / retrieval cell (100) for a package processing logistics platform, includes shuttle robots (110) that position and retrieve packages (112) at storage locations (102) which are distributed to form, on the one hand, two rows (130A, 130B) of storage locations facing each other along a longitudinal direction (L) and, on the other hand, four half-rows (132A, 132B, 132C, 132D) storage locations arranged back-to-back in pairs and extending in pairs in the extension of one another in said longitudinal direction between said two rows (130A, 130B), a hopper (150) being open in the floor (105) between two half-rows (132A, 132B) back to back and the other two half-rows (132C, 132D) back to back, this hopper being designed to be traversed by said packages when they are removed from stock.
    公开号:FR3080848A1
    申请号:FR1853870
    申请日:2018-05-04
    公开日:2019-11-08
    发明作者:Emmanuel Miette；Luc Chirol
    申请人:Solystic SAS；
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    专利说明:

    Technical area
    The invention relates to a storage / destocking cell for a logistics platform for processing packages.
    Prior art
    Logistics platforms are already known in which articles or packages to be delivered to the home, for example, are transported in bulk with transport trucks to a quay where these articles or packages are unloaded. The articles or packages are then reorganized so as to be redirected individually to a final recipient.
    A logistics platform can take advantage of several storage floors and use autonomous vehicles controlled by a centralized system to move said articles or packages within it.
    Thus, patent application US 2009/0074545 describes a warehouse in which autonomous vehicles move articles so as to serve storage locations located along a network of traffic lanes extending over several vertical floors, and where each floor has circulation aisles between two rows of storage spaces.
    According to this patent application, the articles to be moved can be transported from one vertical level to the other by vertical conveyors, and autonomous vehicles can transport the articles inside each level, between the storage locations and collection points located away from the rows of storage locations.
    Statement of the invention
    The architecture of multi-level logistics platforms based on the use of shuttle robots to move packages within the same level can still be greatly improved in order to more efficiently use said robot shuttles and optimize operations storage / destocking.
    To this end, the subject of the invention is a storage / destocking cell for a logistics platform for processing packages with a view to their distribution, comprising a high floor and autonomous moving robot shuttles which move incoming packages for position them at storage locations under the remote control of a control-command unit, this unit being further designed to control said robot shuttles so as to destock sequentially said packages from the locations, characterized in that said locations are distributed on said floor so as to form, on the one hand, two rows of storage locations facing each other parallel to one another along a longitudinal direction and, on the other hand, four half -rows of storage locations arranged back-to-back two by two and extending two by two one in the extension of the other in said longitudinal direction between lesd ites two rows of storage locations, said rows and half-rows of locations defining between them circulation aisles for robot shuttles during the storage and destocking of packages, and in that a hopper is open in the floor between two half-rows back to back and the other two half-rows back to back, this hopper being designed to be crossed by said packages when they are unloaded in sequence therein under the control of said unit during destocking.
    This cell arrangement with the hopper used as a collection point contributes to limiting the average distance between it and the storage locations, which reduces the average distance of travel of the robotsnavettes per parcel destocked during the destocking.
    As a result, both the efficiency in the use of robot shuttles and the speed of destocking of articles or packages are increased.
    The storage cell according to the invention can also advantageously have the following features:
    - It can further include nesting carts each attachable to a robot shuttle and each having a tray capable of carrying a package, these nesting carts having different heights and widths so as to be built into each other on the same storage location, and in that it further comprises at the edge of said hopper an automatic unloading device comprising at least one scraper arm capable of scraping the tray of a trolley carrying a package for dropping this package in the hopper under the effect of a relative movement of the carriage and the scraper arm;
    - It can include several floors of floor, the hoppers of said floors being served by the same vertical conveyor;
    - Said vertical conveyor can be a helical conveyor; and
    - Said vertical conveyor can be a gravity conveyor.
    Thus, a storage / destocking cell according to the invention can extend in height so as to increase its capacity without increasing its footprint.
    In addition, such a cell does not require complex infrastructure or requiring significant maintenance for the destocking of packages, which guarantees high availability and low operating cost.
    The invention may extend to a logistics platform for processing packages comprising at least one cell as defined above and on the ground, under said hopper, a package carrier capable of transporting said packages in series from said package. hopper, to a transport vehicle parked on the ground.
    Such a platform advantageously takes advantage of the fact that the transport vehicles on the ground can be brought under a storage / destocking cell, as close as possible to the hopper through which the destocked packages descend, which reduces the need for infrastructure for conveying parcel, simplifies and minimizes the journey to be made by the parcels, and increases the destocking speeds of the cell and the loading of the transport vehicle.
    In addition, by loading the transport vehicles with packages under the storage / destocking cell, the overall footprint of the platform is greatly limited.
    The logistics platform according to the invention can also have the following particularities:
    - It can include several adjacent cells with a common floor and several hoppers in the common floor, and on the ground under said hoppers several package carriers able to serve several transport vehicles parked on the ground; and
    - It can include a parcel supply entry with a means of identifying each parcel to provide postal distribution address information, and said control / command unit can be arranged for, from the address information packages stored in the storage locations of a cell, order said robot shuttles so as to unload into said hopper of the cell said packages according to a certain order of postal delivery of packages which corresponds to an order to load packages in the or transport vehicles.
    In this way, a logistics platform according to the invention can use a limited floor space in an extremely efficient manner, but can also extend very easily both horizontally and vertically to adapt its capacity for processing packages.
    Such a platform is particularly suitable for an urban or peri-urban installation for the distribution of individual parcels to their final recipients, allowing to push the automation of the preparation of delivery rounds, as well as an easy and quick preparation of successive waves. Delivery.
    Brief presentation of the drawings
    The present invention will be better understood and other advantages will appear on reading the detailed description of the embodiment taken by way of nonlimiting example and illustrated by the appended drawings, in which:
    FIG. IA illustrates a top view of a storage / destocking cell according to the invention;
    FIG. 1B illustrates the operation of a logistics platform comprising on a vertical level cells illustrated by FIG. 1A juxtaposed horizontally;
    Figure 2A is a partial schematic view of the logistics platform of Figure IB;
    FIG. 2B is a partial schematic view of the platform of FIG. 2A with a mezzanine level comprising cells juxtaposed as illustrated by FIG. 1B;
    FIG. 3A illustrates a perspective view of a cell according to the invention having at least two vertical levels;
    Figure 3B illustrates nesting carts; and FIGS. 30 and 3D respectively illustrate a top view and a side view of a package unloading device suitable for the nesting carriages of FIG. 3B.
    Description of an embodiment
    A particular embodiment of the invention consists of a logistics package processing platform described by FIGS. IA to 3D, and whose architecture is based on storage / destocking cells for packages located at mezzanine levels above ground on which delivery vehicles such as trucks and vans travel.
    FIG. 1A illustrates a storage / destocking cell 100 according to the invention with a floor 105 in height on which move autonomous robot shuttles 110 on the move and capable of moving incoming parcels 112 in order to position them at storage locations 102 under the remote control of a control-command unit 120, by harnessing nesting carts 114 carrying these packages on a tray 115 and by towing them so as to position them at the storage locations 102.
    These storage locations 102 are distributed on each floor 105 so as to form, on the one hand, two rows 130A and 130B of storage locations 102 facing one another in parallel along a longitudinal direction L, and on the other hand, four half-rows 132A, 132B, 132C and 132D of storage locations 102 arranged back-to-back two by two and extending two by two one in the extension of the other in the longitudinal direction L between the two rows 130A and 130B of storage locations, the half-rows possibly containing substantially the same number of packages.
    Thus, as illustrated by FIG. 1A, on the one hand the half-rows 132A and 132B are back-to-back and the semi-rows 132C and 132D are also back-to-back and, on the other hand, the half-rows 132A and 132C extend in the extension of one another and the half-rows 132B and 132D also extend in the extension of one another in the longitudinal direction L.
    These rows and half-rows of locations define between them four half-aisles 137A, 137B, 137C and 137D each formed respectively in front of one of the four half-rows 132A, 132B, 132C and 132D, the two half-aisles 137A and 137C and the two half-aisles 137B and 137D formed in the extension of one another respectively forming aisles 135AC and 135BD.
    According to the invention, a hopper 150 is open in the floor between the two half-rows 134A and 134B back to back on one side and the other two half-rows 134C and 134D back to back on an opposite side, this hopper 150 being designed to be crossed by said packages 112 when they are unloaded in sequence therein under the control of the control-command unit 120 during a destocking operation of the cell 100.
    During the destocking of the cell, the robot shuttles operate back and forth between the storage locations 102 and the hopper 150, the latter playing the role of a collection and transfer point, allowing packages to be transferred from the cell to a further processing station located at another vertical level, for example a loading area for destocked packages in a delivery vehicle.
    The central arrangement of the hopper in relation to the half-aisles of storage spaces makes it possible to minimize in an extremely effective way the distances of
    displacement of robot shuttles.So, for the destocking, at each half aisle can to be assigned a robot-shuttle which will move exclusively in this half aisle, this which allows
    limit its average displacement per package brought from a storage position to the hopper, as well as accelerate the destocking of the cell while optimizing the use of said robot shuttle.
    The cell according to the invention is therefore advantageous compared to an architecture of a logistics platform where the shuttle robots have to bring each package to be destocked at a collection point located away from the circulation aisles between the storage rows .
    As illustrated in FIG. 3A, the storage / destocking cell according to the invention can comprise several levels 100A and 100B each with a floor stage 105, each floor comprising a hopper 150, the hoppers possibly being in vertical coincidence and being served by a common vertical conveyor 170, for example a helical and / or gravity conveyor.
    In the situation where the hopper is only used to transfer packages in a downward vertical direction, it is possible to use a gravity conveyor, which reduces the installation and operating costs of the cell.
    In this embodiment, the packages 112 are moved in the cell being each carried by a plate 115 of one of the nesting carts 114 towed by a robot-shuttle to which it is coupled.
    The nesting carts can be, for example, those from patent application FR 2 996 788.
    As illustrated in FIG. 3B, in which three configurations A, B and C of nesting trolleys 114 are shown, the nesting trolleys 114 have different heights and widths so as to be built into each other on the same storage location, as in the embedding 116 of stuck trolleys according to the configuration D of FIG. 3B, where three carriages each carrying a package are embedded in each other.
    During the destocking of the cell, the nesting carriages carrying a package to a storage location are recovered by the robot-shuttles then presented, according to a particular sequence determined by the control-command unit, to an automatic unloading device 160 which is located at the edge of the hopper 150 and which drops the packages from the carriages in the latter, on the vertical conveyor 170, as illustrated in FIG. 3C.
    More specifically, the unloading device 160 is arranged so as to scrape the trays of the carriages to cause the packages to fall into the hopper 150 under the effect of a relative movement of the carriage 114 and the scraper arm, taking into account the different platform heights of nesting carts.
    Such an unloading device 160 comprises for example three scraper arms 162, each intended to scrape respectively the plate 115 of a trundle carriage having one of the three configurations A, B and C by rotation R around a support 164 , as illustrated by the top view of FIG. 3C, the unloading device being controlled by the control unit in order to use the arm adapted to the carriage which is presented to it.
    FIGS. 2A and 2B illustrate a partial view of a logistics platform 200 for processing packages integrating a plurality of storage / destocking cells 100 adjacent to each other and sharing a common floor 105 in height above the ground level 205.
    Such a logistics platform comprises at least one storage / destocking cell 100, with on the ground 205, under the hopper 150 of the cell, a parcel transporter 260 capable of transporting the parcels coming from said hopper to a transport vehicle in series. transport 255 parked on the ground 205 on a parking space 250 adjacent to the lower part of the vertical conveyor serving the cell hopper. This conveyor can be a horizontal conveyor belt or roller.
    As illustrated by FIGS. 1B and 2A, when the platform comprises several adjacent cells, these are preferably oriented and juxtaposed so as to align their hoppers 150, their vertical conveyors 160 and the corresponding parking spaces 250 in a direction T transverse to the longitudinal direction L along which the cells extend, this in order to rationalize the use of space and simplify the maneuvers of transport vehicles 255.
    This logistics platform here comprises a feed inlet 208 consisting of conveyors 210 for unloading trucks 235 at unloading parking spaces 230 located at ground level 205 and the conveyor system 220 arranged to convey packages 112 from the trucks 235 up to a high level 204 on the mezzanine level comprising the said storage / destocking cells 100.
    More specifically, the conveyors 210 can be telescopic conveyor belts for example arranged in parallel to convey packages from truck trailers 235 to the conveyor system 220 composed of conveyor sections 220A, 220B, 220C and 220D successively transporting the packages in that order.
    The conveyor section 220A collects the arriving packages unloaded on the conveyors 210.
    The conveyor section 220B passes the parcels through a ginning system 240A to distribute them on the conveyor, a weighing and / or measurement system for the dimensions of the parcels 240B and an identification system 240C to supply the control-command unit 120 of the address information for the postal delivery of parcels, the latter being arranged so as to manage the handling of the parcels, for example in a manner analogous to the method described in patent application FR 2 996 788.
    In response to this address information, the control-command unit determines a storage location 102 suitable for each package 112, so that packages have to be distributed in the same geographical area and / or during the same distribution round are stored for example in the same storage / destocking cell 100.
    The conveying section 220C passes the packages to the high level 204, and can consist of an inclined conveyor passing through a hopper 152 in the floor 105 of the high level 204.
    A single conveyor section 220C is illustrated here, but to each floor level 105 of a cell can correspond an associated conveyor section 220C, the incoming packages being oriented towards the conveyor section 220C corresponding to the storage locations determined by the control unit 120.
    The conveying section 220D moves the packages within the high level 204 and includes a routing system 222 directing the packages to package distribution conveyors 210 which distribute the packages to loading stations 220 arranged so as to load the packages arriving from the conveyors 210 on the nesting carriages 114, on command of the control-command unit.
    During a storage / destocking cell storage operation, the shuttle robots move along several circuits 180 in a loop, using the aisles 135AC and 135BD for circulation of the cells in a single direction, as indicated by the arrows , so as to present non-loaded nesting carts at the loading stations 220 and to arrange them, once loaded, at the storage locations 102.
    The control-command unit 120 is arranged for, during a destocking operation, controlling the robot shuttles on the basis of the postal distribution address information so as to unload the packages 102 according to a certain postal delivery order which corresponds to an order to load the parcels in one or more transport vehicles 255, which parcels being conveyed vertically by the vertical conveyors 170 so
    to bring back the parcels at level of ground or they are presented to said vehicles transport 255 via the carriers 260. This handling East extremely effective, all the
    packages intended for a given geographic area being stored in the same cell and destocked via the same vertical conveyor to present them directly to a transport vehicle serving said geographic area, for example in a reverse sequence to that of delivery to facilitate the loading of vehicle.
    It is understood that the storage / destocking cell according to the invention can be applied to articles other than postal parcels, such as luggage in an airport center.
    Furthermore, the 240C system can be a reader for parcel identification codes, such as a barcode, which by association in a database provides address information from recognition of the identification code of the parcel.
    It goes without saying that the present invention cannot be limited to the embodiment described above, capable of being modified without departing from the scope of the invention.
    权利要求:
    Claims (8)
    [1" id="c-fr-0001]
    1. Cell (100) for storage / destocking for a logistics platform for processing packages with a view to their distribution, comprising a floor (105) in height and autonomous shuttle robots (110) on the move which move incoming packages (112) for positioning them at storage locations (102) under the remote control of a control-command unit (120), this unit being further designed to control said robot shuttles so as to destock sequentially said packages (112 ) locations, characterized in that said storage locations (102) are distributed over said floor (105) so as to form, on the one hand, two rows (130A, 130B) of storage locations (102) being facing parallel to each other along a longitudinal direction (L) and on the other hand, four half-rows (132A, 132B, 132C, 132D) of storage locations arranged back-to-back two two and extending two to two one in the extension of the other in said longitudinal direction between said two rows (130A, 130B) of storage locations, said rows and half-rows of locations defining between them aisles (135AC, 135BD) of circulation for robot shuttles during storage and destocking of the packages, and in that a hopper (150) is open in the floor (105) between two half-rows (132A, 132B) back to back and the other two half-rows (132C, 132D) back to back, this hopper being designed to be crossed by said packages when they are unloaded in sequence therein under the control of said unit during destocking.
    [2" id="c-fr-0002]
    2. The storage / destocking cell according to claim 1, characterized in that it further comprises nesting carts (114) each attachable to a robot shuttle (110) and each having a plate (115) capable of carrying a packages, these nesting carts having different heights and widths so as to be built into each other on the same storage location (102), and in that it further comprises at the edge of said hopper (150) an automatic unloading device (160) comprising at least one scraper arm (162) capable of scraping the plate (115) of a trundle carriage (114) carrying a package (102) to drop this package in the hopper ( 150) under the effect of a relative displacement of the carriage and the scraper arm.
    [3" id="c-fr-0003]
    3. The storage / destocking cell according to claim 1 or 2, characterized in that it comprises several floor stages (105), the hoppers (150) of said floors being served by the same vertical conveyor (170).
    [4" id="c-fr-0004]
    4. The storage / destocking cell according to claim 3, characterized in that said vertical conveyor (170) is a helical conveyor.
    [5" id="c-fr-0005]
    5. The storage / destocking cell according to one of claims 3 or 4, characterized in that said vertical conveyor (170) is a gravity conveyor.
    [6" id="c-fr-0006]
    6. Logistics platform (200) for processing packages, characterized in that it comprises at least one cell (100) according to one of the preceding claims and on the ground (205), under said hopper (150), a transporter (260) of packages (102) capable of transporting said packages in series from said hopper to a transport vehicle (255) parked on the ground (205).
    [7" id="c-fr-0007]
    7. The logistics platform according to claim 6, characterized in that it comprises several adjacent cells (100) with a common floor (105) and several hoppers (150) in the common floor, and on the ground, under said hoppers , several package transporters (260) capable of serving several transport vehicles (155) parked on the ground.
    [8" id="c-fr-0008]
    8. The logistics platform according to claim 6 or 7, characterized in that it comprises a supply inlet (208) in packages (102) with an identification means (140C) of each package to provide information of postal delivery address, and in that said control / command unit (120) is arranged for, on the basis of the address information of the packages (102) stored in the storage locations (102) of a cell (100) , controlling said robot shuttles (110) so as to unload into said hopper (150) from the cell said parcels in accordance with a certain order for postal delivery of the parcels which corresponds to an order for loading the parcels in the transport vehicle or vehicles ( 155).
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