US 11,816,632 B2
Goods pickup method and device
Jixin Zhou, Beijing (CN); Wei Li, Beijing (CN); Hengbin Zhu, Beijing (CN); and Zhikang Liang, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to BEIJING JINDONG ZHENSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/425,236
Filed by BEIJING JINDONG ZHENSHI INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Dec. 27, 2019, PCT No. PCT/CN2019/129232
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 22, 2021,
PCT Pub. No. WO2020/164319, PCT Pub. Date Aug. 20, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 201910111158.9 (CN), filed on Feb. 12, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0092524 A1, Mar. 24, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06316 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A goods-picking method, comprising:
acquiring, by one or more processors, order information to construct a goods-picking task;
associating, by the one or more processors, one or more goods-picking tasks with the same transport vehicle according to an overlapping degree of passages where goods-picking storage sites between the goods-picking tasks are located;
acquiring, by the one or more processors, all goods-picking storage sites of the goods-picking tasks of the transport vehicle, and then calculating a path for the transport vehicle, wherein the path comprises at least one goods-picking parking spot, each of which corresponds to at least one goods-picking storage site;
receiving, by the one or more processors, location information of available goods-picking persons and a goods-picking parking spot where the transport vehicle is currently located, calculating an available goods-picking person matching the transport vehicle, and sending a goods-picking task associated with the transport vehicle to the available goods-picking person for execution; and
after sending a goods-picking task associated with the transport vehicle to the available goods-picking person for execution:
determining execution and completion of the goods-picking task associated with the transport vehicle, and
judging whether the transport vehicle has next goods-picking parking spot according to its path,
if so, controlling the transport vehicle to drive to the next goods-picking parking spot; and
if not, controlling the transport vehicle to drive to a destination location,
wherein calculating an available goods-picking person matching the transport vehicle comprises:
calculating an available goods-picking person closest to the location of the transport vehicle according to the goods-picking parking spot where the transport vehicle is currently located and the location information of the available goods-picking person, so that the available goods-picking person picks goods to the transport vehicle.