US 12,333,486 B2
Sorting system and method
Kai Liu, Beijing (CN)
Assigned to BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., Beijing (CN)
Appl. No. 17/636,660
Filed by BEIJING GEEKPLUS TECHNOLOGY CO. LTD., Beijing (CN)
PCT Filed Mar. 26, 2020, PCT No. PCT/CN2020/081270
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Jul. 26, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/031563, PCT Pub. Date Feb. 25, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 201910765281.2 (CN), filed on Aug. 19, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0366359 A1, Nov. 17, 2022
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06K 7/10 (2006.01)
CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06K 7/10366 (2013.01)] 19 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A sorting system, comprising a first radio frequency tag reader, a control server, at least one sorting robot, at least one feeding table, at least one collection container, at least one handling robot or at least one item conveying facility, an item buffer facility, and a collection table, wherein:
the at least one item handling robot or the at least one item conveying facility is configured to move at least one item to be sorted and buffered in the item buffer facility to the feeding table;
the feeding table is configured to place the at least one item to be sorted; the at least one item to be sorted is provided with a radio frequency tag, and tag information of each radio frequency tag comprises sorting destination information of the corresponding item to be sorted;
the first radio frequency tag reader is configured to read tag information in a radio frequency tag, and send the read tag information to the control server;
the control server is configured to determine a sorting destination of the at least one item to be sorted according to the read tag information comprising the sorting destination information, determine a target collection container corresponding to the at least one item to be sorted from the at least one collection container according to the sorting destination, determine a delivery path of the item to be sorted according to a position of the target collection container, and send a delivery instruction and the delivery path of the item to be sorted to a sorting robot;
the sorting robot is configured to, in response to the delivery instruction received from the control server, deliver the item to be sorted from the feeding table to the target collection container along the delivery path of the item to be sorted, wherein the sorting robot carries at least one delivery mechanism, the at least one delivery mechanism is configured to carry the at least one item to be sorted and deliver the at least one item to be sorted on the sorting robot, each item to be sorted corresponds to a sorting destination, the sorting robot delivers each item to be sorted to the collection container for storage along the delivery path of the item to be sorted according to the sorting destination of the item to be sorted; and
the control server is further configured to instruct the sorting robot to handle the collection container containing items to be sorted to the collection table in the case that all the items to be sorted contained in the collection container meet a sorting condition.