US 12,280,996 B2
Material handling method and device, server, and handling robot
Xin Ai, Shenzhen (CN); Yeguang Chen, Shenzhen (CN); and Shaokai Zhou, Shenzhen (CN)
Assigned to HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed by HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD., Shenzhen (CN)
Filed on Jul. 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/381,133.
Claims priority of application No. 202010724223.8 (CN), filed on Jul. 24, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2022/0024737 A1, Jan. 27, 2022
Int. Cl. B66F 9/06 (2006.01); B65G 1/137 (2006.01); B66F 9/075 (2006.01); G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC B66F 9/063 (2013.01) [B65G 1/1373 (2013.01); B66F 9/0755 (2013.01); G06Q 10/06316 (2013.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A material handling method, comprising:
acquiring position information and idle storage unit information of a robot, by a processor; and
allocating a second handling task to the robot according to the position information, the idle storage unit information and a position of a first target comprised in a first handling task, by the processor; wherein the first handling task is a material fetching task, and the second handling task is a returning task;
when a return position in the second handling task is a position of an idle storage site, the allocating the second handling task to the robot comprises:
generating a material fetching path according to the position information and a position of the first target comprised in the first handling task, by the processor; and determining positions corresponding to U idle storage sites whose distances from the material fetching path are within a first preset range as return positions of a second target, by the processor; wherein U is a natural number greater than 0; and/or
determining, according to the position information, positions corresponding to U idle storage sites whose distances from the robot are within a second preset range as return positions of the second target; wherein U is a natural number greater than 0, by the processor.