Method for storing or retrieving storage aids

A method of storing or retrieving storage aids with a shuttle in a rack of an automated storage system, wherein the rack comprises several rack supports placed on a ground and several storage levels arranged vertically one above the other and comprising storage spaces arranged between the rack supports, and wherein adjacent rack supports of the rack which limit a width of a storage space have a clear width on the ground that is smaller than a length of the shuttle in a longitudinal axis of the shuttle and larger than the width of the shuttle in a transverse axis of the shuttle, and wherein the following steps are performed in the method:

• moving underneath the rack with the shuttle on the ground;
• coupling the shuttle to adjacent rack supports;
• a vertical ascent of the shuttle on these adjacent rack supports up to a height of the storage level of the storage space into which the storage aid is to be stored or from which the storage aid is to be retrieved;
• storing the storage aid from the shuttle into the storage space or retrieving the storage aid from the storage space onto the shuttle;
• a vertical descent of the shuttle on the adjacent rack supports down to the ground;
• characterized in that the method comprises the following further steps:
• moving out of the rack and/or moving in under the rack on the ground by the shuttle with a direction of travel along the longitudinal axis of the shuttle;
• rotating the shuttle by 90 degrees outside of the rack;
• coupling the shuttle by approaching only two of the adjacent rack supports, with the longitudinal axis of the shuttle being positioned essentially in parallel to a rack front of the rack.