Control device, transportation machine, control method, and transportation system
AssigneeRakuten Group, Inc.
InventorToshiaki Tazume
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Abstract
The UGV 1 is configured to move the article stored in the storing chamber B1 to the storing chamber B2 and perform the temperature control for the storing chamber B2 in a case where it is determined that the predetermined condition regarding the article stored in the storing chamber B1 among the plurality of storing chambers B is satisfied.
Claims16
A control device configured to control a transportation machine including a plurality of compartments each capable of storing an article, the control device comprising:
- at least one memory configured to store program code;
- and
- at least one processor configured to access the program code and operate as instructed by the program code, the program code including:
- determination code configured to cause the at least one processor to determine whether a predetermined condition regarding an article stored in a first compartment among the plurality of compartments is satisfied in accordance with temperature management information associated with the article, wherein the temperature management information specifies a predetermined time period for maintaining a quality of the article in the first compartment in which a temperature of the first compartment is not controlled,
- article movement control code configured to cause the at least one processor to move, based on determining the predetermined condition is satisfied, the article from the first compartment to a second compartment among the plurality of compartments, the second compartment having a temperature that is controllable;
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- temperature control code configured to cause the at least one processor to perform temperature control for the second compartment.
A transportation machine configured to include a plurality of compartments each capable of storing an article, the transportation machine comprising:
- an actuator configured to move, in response to a control command output based on determining that a predetermined condition is satisfied, a door such that an article stored in a first compartment among the plurality of compartments moves to a second compartment among the plurality compartments,
- wherein a temperature of the second compartment is controllable,
- wherein a temperature of the first compartment is not controlled,
- wherein whether the predetermined condition is satisfied is in accordance with temperature management information associated with the article, and
- wherein the temperature management information specifies a predetermined time period for maintaining a quality of the article in the first compartment.
A control method executed by a computer that controls a transportation machine including a plurality of compartments each capable of storing an article, the control method including:
- determining whether a predetermined condition regarding an article stored in a first compartment among the plurality of compartments is satisfied in accordance with temperature management information associated with the article, wherein the temperature management information specifies a predetermined time period for maintaining a quality of the article in the first compartment in which a temperature of the first compartment is not controlled,
- moving, based on determining the predetermined condition is satisfied, the article from the first compartment to a second compartment among the plurality of compartments, the second compartment having a temperature that is controllable;
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- performing temperature control for the second compartment.
A transportation system comprising:
- a transportation machine including a plurality of compartments each capable of storing an article;
- an actuator configured to move, in response to a control command output based on determining that a predetermined condition is satisfied, a door such that an article stored in a first compartment among the plurality of compartments moves to a second compartment among the plurality of compartments;
- and
- a temperature control unit configured to perform temperature control for the second compartment,
- wherein a temperature of the first compartment is not controlled,
- wherein whether the predetermined condition is satisfied is in accordance with temperature management information associated with the article, and
- wherein the temperature management information specifies a predetermined time period for maintaining a quality of the article in the first compartment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.