Generation of a control signal to a conveyor system
AssigneeKone Corporation
InventorsJere Vuorenala, Niko Elomaa
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Abstract
A method for generating a control signal to a conveyor system, the conveyor system configured to serve at least a plurality of robots, includes receiving, in a control entity, a service call for a first robot, the service call being associated with a priority of the first robot; determining, by the control entity, the priority of the first robot; and generating, by the control entity, a control signal to the conveyor system to serve the service call for the first robot in accordance with the determined priority of the first robot. A control entity, a robot and a system are also provided.
Claims12
A method for generating a control signal to a conveyor system, the conveyor system configured to serve at least a plurality of robots, the method comprising:
- obtaining information regarding a status of allocation of service calls to the conveyor system;
- determining a time to generate a first service call to the conveyor system based on a service load caused to the conveyor system based on the information and a task a first robot among the plurality of robots is to complete;
- generating, by the first robot among the plurality of robots, the first service call based on the determined time;
- receiving, in a control entity of the conveyor system, a plurality of service calls, the plurality of service calls including the first service call and at least one passenger having a service call separate from the first service call;
- determining, by the control entity of the conveyor system, a priority of the services calls;
- and
- generating, by the control entity of the conveyor system, a control signal serving the received service calls in accordance with the determined priority.
A robot comprising:
- at least one processor;
- and
- at least one memory including computer program code,
- wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor:
- obtain information regarding a status of allocation of service calls to a conveyor system,
- determine a time to generate a service call to the conveyor system based on a service load caused to the conveyor system based on the information and a task the robot is to complete, and
- cause the robot to aggregate the service call to a control entity of a conveyor system, the service call being associated with a priority of the robot and based on the determined time.
A system comprising:
- a conveyor system comprising a control entity;
- and
- a plurality of robots,
- wherein the system is configured to:
- obtain information regarding a status of allocation of service calls to the conveyor system,
- determine a time to generate a first service call to the conveyor system based on a service load caused to the conveyor system based on the information and a task a first robot among the plurality of robots is to complete, and
- cause the first robot to generate the first service call based on the determined time,
- wherein a plurality of service calls, including the first service call and at least one passenger having a service call separate from the first service call, is received in the control entity of the conveyor system,
- wherein the priority of the plurality of services calls is determined by the control entity, and
- wherein a control signal is generated, by the control entity, to serve the received service calls in accordance with the determined priority.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.