Warehouse inspection system

Abstract

System for inspecting a warehouse 50 comprising: a laser scanner 52 attachable to an industrial truck 1 and adapted to scan in a plane E substantially perpendicular to the industrial truck's main direction of travel G in order to scan an environment of a warehouse on at least one side, preferably both sides, of the industrial truck and to generate scan data based thereon, a computing unit 60 adapted to receive the scan data and data on the absolute position and/or relative position change of the industrial truck, or data from which one or more of these variables can be derived, the computing unit 60 being further adapted to construct three-dimensional data of the environment on the basis of the scan data and data on the absolute position and/or relative position change of the industrial truck.

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