Inventory management method and system
AssigneeBeijing Geekplus Technology Co., Ltd.
InventorKai LIU
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Abstract
An inventory management method and system. The method includes: scheduling, according to task information, a first autonomous mobile robot and a second autonomous mobile robot to travel to a target workstation (103) to execute tasks; controlling the first autonomous mobile robot to fetch and transport a first inventory container to a first working point in the target workstation according to an instruction; and controlling the second autonomous mobile robot to fetch and transport a second inventory container to a second work point in the target workstation according to an instruction. The first working point (1031) and the second working point (1032) are two adjacent working points in the target workstation.
Claims20
An inventory management system, comprising one or more inventory areas, multiple autonomous mobile robots, one or more workstations, and one or more control systems, each of the one or more workstations comprising at least two work points, and the multiple autonomous mobile robots at least comprising a first autonomous mobile robot and a second autonomous mobile robot, wherein:
- each of the one or more control systems is configured to schedule the first autonomous mobile robot and the second autonomous mobile robot to travel to a target workstation to perform tasks according to task information;
- the first autonomous mobile robot is configured to take a first inventory container and transport the first inventory container to a first work point in the target workstation according to an instruction;
- the second autonomous mobile robot is configured to take a second inventory container and transport the second inventory container to a second work point in the target workstation according to an instruction;
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- the first work point and the second work point are two adjacent work points in the target workstation.
An inventory management method, applied in a control system of an inventory management system, the inventory management system comprising one or more inventory areas, a plurality of autonomous mobile robots and one or more workstations, and the plurality of autonomous mobile robots at least comprising a first autonomous mobile robot and a second autonomous mobile robot, the inventory management method comprising:
- scheduling the first autonomous mobile robot and the second autonomous mobile robot to travel to a target workstation to perform tasks according to task information;
- controlling the first autonomous mobile robot to take a first inventory container and transport the first inventory container to a first work point in the target workstation;
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- controlling the second autonomous mobile robot to take a second inventory container and transport the second inventory container to a second work point in the target workstation according to an instruction;
- wherein the first work point and the second work point are two adjacent work points in the target workstation.
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