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    A facility for the handling of parcels (2), with autonomous motorized shuttles (3) and a control / command central unit (9) able to remotely control said shuttles free guided traffic from data indicative of the position The instantaneous spacecraft of each shuttle, further comprises at least one portable electronic equipment (7) able to enter information (8) affixed to a package and to transmit this information to said central unit. The central unit is arranged to raise the spatial positions of the portable equipment and shuttles to associate in memory this information with a certain shuttle.
    公开号:FR3027140A1
    申请号:FR1459806
    申请日:2014-10-13
    公开日:2016-04-15
    发明作者:Emmanuel Miette；Luc Chirol
    申请人:Solystic SAS；
    IPC主号:
    专利说明:

    [0001] TECHNICAL FIELD The invention relates to an installation for the handling of packages, comprising autonomous motorized shuttles adapted to each transport a package and a central control / command unit able to remotely control said shuttles freely guided by data indicative of the instantaneous spatial position of each shuttle.
    [0002] PRIOR ART Such an installation for the handling and sorting of parcels, in particular postal parcels, is already known from patent WO2014 / 057182. In this known installation, the shuttles are adapted to dock nesting carts on which packages are placed manually by an operator. Each carriage coupled to a shuttle and carrying a package is moved by the shuttle to an information entry area affixed to the package.
    [0003] Seizure of package information can be done at the time of loading each package on a cart, for example using a portable scanner. But this seizure of information at the time of loading the package on a cart can be a fairly complex procedure that slows the rate of loading packages on the trolleys. Seizure of package information can be done by passing under a gantry for example the carts loaded with packages. Such an arrangement has the disadvantage of reducing the flexibility of the organization of the navigation of the shuttles.
    [0004] SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The object of the invention is to remedy these drawbacks. The basic idea of the invention is to enter the information affixed to the packages using portable portable electronic equipment geolocatable by the central unit and then to detect a concordance between the spatial position of the equipment at the time of entering information on a package and the spatial position of a shuttle that transports this package so as to associate in memory of the central unit this information, for example identification of the package, with a other data representative of the shuttle that transports this package.
    [0005] More particularly, the subject of the invention is a facility for the handling of parcels, comprising autonomous motorized shuttles adapted to each transport a package and a central control / control unit capable of controlling these shuttles in free circulation, in a controlled manner, at a distance. from data indicative of the instantaneous spatial position of each shuttle, characterized in that it further comprises at least one portable electronic equipment capable of grasping information affixed to a package when it is placed near the package and to transmitting this information to said central unit, in that said central unit is arranged to raise an instantaneous spatial position of said portable equipment in response to the input of said portable equipment, and that said central unit is further arranged for, from said data indicative of the instantaneous spatial position e shuttles and 3027140 3 said instantaneous spatial position of the portable equipment, detect a match between the instantaneous spatial position of a certain shuttle and the instantaneous spatial position of the portable equipment and 5 in response to this detection of concordance, mapping said information associated with said package with data associated with said certain shuttle. With such an arrangement, an Operator who has portable equipment in hand can make information entries on the fly on packages nomadically by moving along the shuttle traffic routes. Such an arrangement has the advantage of not affecting the loading time of parcels on the 15 shuttles. The seizure of information on the packages is not a seizure at fixed station and therefore it does not constrain the organization of the navigation of the shuttles in the logistics facility.
    [0006] There can be several portable equipment at the same time in the installation for a large flow of packages at the entrance of the installation. The installation according to the invention may advantageously have the following particulars: this portable equipment may be a barcode reader; said portable equipment may be a camera capable of forming a digital image of the package comprising said information; - parcels may be postal parcels; - each package can be placed on a cart coupled to a shuttle; said information may be a unique identification information of a package; said portable equipment may be equipped with a spatial positioning beacon; - The installation can be adapted to perform a sorting routing / distribution of postal parcels.
    [0007] The present invention will be better understood and other advantages will become more apparent upon reading the detailed description which follows and is illustrated in the drawings. Figure 1 shows very schematically a facility with shuttles carrying here postal packages and portable equipment to enter an identification information on the postal packages.
    [0008] FIG. 2 illustrates portable equipment near a parcel to enter on the fly parcel identification information. DESCRIPTION OF AN EMBODIMENT FIG. 1 partially illustrates a logistics facility 1 for handling parcels, here for example postal parcels such as 2, using autonomous motorized 3 shuttles. and remotely guided by a central control / control unit (not shown in FIG. 1). The shuttles circulate on a platform 4, which can be provided with drop-off and loading points of the 5 packages 2 accessible by means of transport, such as for example trucks intended to bring and win parcels 2. As visible on the 1, the platform 4 comprises a storage area 5 intended to receive packages 3 loaded on carts 6. The carriages 6 are here nesting trolleys that can fit into each other in the storage area as shown in Figure 1 so that in the storage area 5 the packages can be arranged in superposition. Each carriage 6 has a shelf for carrying a package 2 at a time. It is designed to be hitched to a shuttle. The operating principle of the logistics facility is here to load on the carts parcels arriving at a drop point of the platform. Empty trolleys are brought by the shuttles. Once loaded with a package, the carriage is transported by the shuttle to which it is coupled to the storage area for example where it is placed for example in an orderly manner to achieve a postal sorting packages. Once the cart with its package is placed in the storage area, the shuttle is released from the cart and can return to the loading point.
    [0009] FIG. 2 illustrates portable electronic equipment 7 which is placed near a package 2 to enter information placed on package 3027140 6 and transmit it to a central control / control unit 9 of the installation. Thus, this information can be entered by a nomadic Operator on the fly by passing along the circulation paths of the shuttles which transport the parcels to the storage area. In the example, the information 8 affixed to the package 2 is a unique identification bar code of the package.
    [0010] The equipment 7 is here a barcode scanner which is wirelessly connected to the central processing unit 9. Alternatively, the information 8 could be a mail delivery address of the package and the equipment 7 could be a camera capable of forming a digital image of the parcel containing the postal address of delivery. In FIG. 2, the carriage 6 which carries the package 2 is coupled to a shuttle 3 by means of retractable hitching means illustrated by 10 so that the carriage can be coupled or detached from the shuttle automatically and the same. Shuttle can pick up another cart to continue its logistics processing process. The central unit 9 is able to individually control each guided shuttle 3 freely circulated via a wireless communication network between the central unit 9 and each shuttle. According to the invention, the central unit 9 keeps in memory the instantaneous spatial positions of the shuttles 3 so as to be able to guide them on the platform. These instantaneous space positions of the shuttles can for example be produced by a geolocation system with tags placed respectively on each shuttle. FIG. 2 shows a 3-dimensional spatial reference represented by the three xyz axes. As the carriages 6 are nesting carts having different heights, when a shuttle docked a carriage, it can be adapted to retrieve from the carriage an indication of the height level of the carriage. This height indication combined with the instantaneous spatial position of the shuttle on the corresponding platform determines an estimated instantaneous spatial position of the package, placed on the carriage, in the 3 axes of the reference frame.
    [0011] According to the invention, the central unit 9 is furthermore arranged to raise the instantaneous spatial position of the portable equipment 7 in response to the input of a barcode 8 by the equipment onto a package 2. In particular, the portable equipment 7 can be provided with a geolocation beacon 11 enabling the central unit 9 to know the instantaneous spatial position of the equipment 7 in the 3 axes of the marker. It is understood that the capture of the information 8 using the portable equipment 7 is carried out during the transport of the package on the platform between a loading point of the package on a motorized carriage by a shuttle and a point package storage, ie a point where the carriage is unhitched from the shuttle. The time of receipt of a barcode from a portable equipment 7 (with an equipment identification code 7) may be a good approximation of the time of entry of the bar code. Following the receipt of a barcode by the equipment 7, the central unit 9 scans in memory the data indicative of the instantaneous spatial positions of the shuttles to detect a match between the instantaneous spatial position of a certain shuttle in the three axes of the reference system (taking into account the level of the carriage coupled to the shuttle) and the instantaneous spatial position of the portable equipment 7 in the same reference system. In response to this detection, the central unit 9 can then establish in memory a correspondence between the physical identification bar code of the package and said shuttle which then allows for individual processing on the package. In practice, in the central unit 9, the packages which are first loaded onto the carriages are each identified by a logic code. Each time a barcode is entered on the fly on a package 2 and a detection of concordance is established, the central unit 9 may for example replace in memory the logic code of the package by the identification code. physical package. Alternatively, the instantaneous space positions of the shuttles and the instantaneous spatial positions of the portable equipment (s) can be generated cyclically by the geolocation system and with different frequencies. In this case, it may be provided that the portable equipment 7 associates an entry date with the information 8 so as to limit the match search field 30 in the memory of the central unit 9. It goes without saying that the The present invention can not be limited to the foregoing description of one of its embodiments, which may undergo some modifications without departing from the scope of the invention. The invention could also extend to other items than packages. 5
    权利要求:
    Claims (1)
    [0001]
    CLAIMS1 / Installation (1) for the handling of packages (2), comprising autonomous motorized shuttles (3) adapted to each transport a package and a central unit (9) control / command able to remotely control individual shuttles in circulation guided free from data indicative of the instantaneous spatial position of each shuttle, characterized in that it further comprises at least one portable electronic equipment (7) able to capture information (8) affixed to a package when it is placed near the package and transmitting this information to said central unit, in that said central unit is arranged to raise an instantaneous spatial position of said portable equipment in response to the input of said information by said portable equipment, and in that said CPU is further arranged for, from said data indicative of the instantaneous spatial position of s shuttles and said instantaneous spatial position of the portable equipment, detecting a match between the instantaneous spatial position of a certain shuttle and the instantaneous spatial position of the portable equipment and in response to this matching detection, matching said information associated with said package with data associated with said certain shuttle. 2 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that said portable equipment (7) is a barcode reader. 3 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that said portable equipment (7) is a camera capable of forming a digital image of the package comprising said information. 4 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that the packages are postal packages. 5 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that each package is placed on a carriage (6) coupled to a shuttle (4). 6 / Apparatus according to claim 1, characterized in that said information (8) is unique identification information of a package. 7 / Installation characterized in this is equipped with a 20 spatial. 8 / Installation according to said beacon claim 1, portable equipment (7) (1) of positioning according to claim 4, characterized in that it adapted to perform sorting routing / distribution of postal packages.
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