US 12,441,544 B2
Warehouse picking system and warehouse picking method
Li-Yi Liu, Taipei (TW); Po-Yu Huang, Yunlin County (TW); and Wei-Kang Liang, Kaohsiung (TW)
Assigned to Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed by Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu (TW)
Filed on Jan. 25, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/583,223.
Claims priority of application No. 111100045 (TW), filed on Jan. 3, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0211952 A1, Jul. 6, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 1/137 (2006.01); G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G06Q 10/0875 (2023.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01)
CPC B65G 1/1373 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0297 (2013.01); G06Q 10/0875 (2013.01); G06Q 50/40 (2024.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A warehouse picking system, comprising:
a plurality of cargo management stations, wherein each of the cargo management stations comprises:
a plurality of cargo picking boxes, wherein each of the cargo picking boxes stores at least one cargo;
a plurality of pieces of cargo picking equipment, picking the cargo in the cargo picking box;
a plurality of pieces of cargo transportation equipment, transporting the cargo picked by the cargo picking equipment; and
a management device, comprising a processor and a communication device for communicating with each of the cargo management stations, wherein the processor is configured to:
receive a plurality of orders, wherein each of the orders comprises the at least one cargo;
calculate an order score of each of the orders by using an order score function, and select at least one of the orders as a target order according to the order score to determine a target cargo management station adapted for processing the target order from the cargo management stations;
select at least one cargo picking box storing the at least one cargo in the target order from the cargo picking box of the target cargo management station as candidate cargo picking boxes; and
determine at least one target cargo picking box adapted for picking the cargo of the target order according to a workload of the cargo picking equipment for picking the cargo in the cargo picking box, a workload of the cargo transportation equipment for transporting the cargo, and a disposition of each of the candidate cargo picking boxes.