Abstract: The system comprises: control servers, transport robots, and workstations, the workstations comprising working areas and waiting areas. The control servers are configured to determine a target container to be transported, a first transport robot and a second transport robot that transport the target container, and a target workstation that operates the target container in response to a system task, plan walking paths for the first transport robot and the second transport robot, and send transport instructions to the first transport robot and the second transport robot. The first transport robot is configured to transport the target container from a storage area to a waiting area of the target workstation according to a planned walking path in response to a transport instruction, place same in the waiting area of the target workstation, and wait to execute other transport instructions.

Abstract: Disclosed are a goods sorting system and method. The system includes a control server, a delivery robot, and a first carrying robot. The control server is configured to determine a delivery port according to a road direction of goods to be delivered, allocate the delivery robot, plan a traveling route for the delivery robot, generate a delivery instruction and send the delivery instruction to the delivery robot. The delivery robot is configured to travel to the delivery port, deliver the goods to be delivered to the delivery port. The control server is further configured to: when the number of goods collected in a target goods collection container below the delivery port is greater than or equal to a preset threshold, allocated the first carrying robot, plan a traveling route for the first carrying robot, generate a carrying instruction and send the carrying instruction to the first carrying robot.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses an order processing method. The method includes: receiving at least one pending order and placing the at least one pending order in an order pool; dividing part or all of pending orders in the order pool into at least one batch of task; for any of the at least one batch of task, allocating the batch of task to a corresponding target workstation, selecting a target inventory container matching an order item for a pending order in the batch of task, and selecting a target robot for carrying the target inventory container for the batch of task; controlling the target robot to carry the target inventory container matching the order item to the target workstation corresponding to the batch of task. The present disclosure further discloses an order processing device, a server, and a storage medium.

Abstract: A shelf management method includes predicting whether there is space in the station queue area of a station; if yes, selecting a shelf from among the shelves allocated to the station and have not yet been transported, and controlling a moving robot to transport the selected shelf; after the moving robot is engaged with the selected shelf, re-predicting whether there is space in the station queue areas of all the stations that need the selected shelf; if yes, controlling the moving robot to transport the selected shelf to the station queue area that has been predicted to have space, and when the moving robot has transported the selected shelf to the pre-set area around the station queue area that has been predicted to have space, determining whether there is newly available space in the station queue area; if yes, controlling the moving robot to enter the station queue area.

Abstract: Disclosed are a method and device for moving an article based on dense storage, a storage medium, and a dense storage system. The method includes: upon detecting that a target shelf is blocked by at least one blocking shelf, instructing a first self-driven robot to remove the blocking shelf and/or a blocking storage box to make the target shelf not blocked by the blocking shelf or make a target storage box on the target self not blocked by the blocking storage box; instructing the first self-driven robot to carry the blocking shelf and/or the blocking storage box and perform a circular movement along a robot travelling passage; and instructing a second self-driven robot to move the target shelf from its current position to a workstation, or instructing the second self-driven robot to remove the target storage box from the target shelf and move the target storage box to the workstation.

Abstract: Disclosed is a robot including a travelling apparatus, a body, a containing apparatus and an item grabbing apparatus. The travelling apparatus is disposed at a bottom of the robot and configured to automatically travel to a preset position based on a travelling path received by the robot. The body is disposed above the travelling apparatus. The containing apparatus is connected to the body and includes multiple containing positions that are interlayers stacked in a vertical direction. One of the interlayers may contain at least one target item.

Abstract: Robot scheduling, robot path control and robot fire control methods and devices, a server and a storage medium are provided. The robot scheduling method includes: receiving a scheduling instruction; determining a working state and a current position of a robot in a working area in response to the scheduling instruction; wherein the working state comprises an idle state and a non-idle state; and when the working state of the robot is idle and the current position is outside a preset target range, scheduling the robot from the current position into the target range.

Abstract: Provided is a relay goods picking system, the system includes: a plurality of carrying robots, a manual picking rack area, auxiliary pickup tools for manual goods picking which store goods for manual picking, a robot picking rack area provided with a plurality of racks used for storing goods and being carried by the plurality of carrying robots, operating positions and a control system capable of communicating with the plurality of carrying robots and manual picking persons. For a mixed order which involves both goods in the manual picking rack area and goods in the robot picking rack area, under control of the control system, a person-to-goods picking mode and a goods-to-person picking mode are used in series to complete the goods picking in a relay manner.

Abstract: A management method applied to the goods-to-person system includes: in response to a task of putting products on shelves, calculating popularity of a product to be put on shelf according to historical sales order data of the product to be put on shelf, and matching the popularity of the product to be put on shelf with popularity of a shelf to determine a shelf area; selecting a goods location with space randomly in the determined shelf area, wherein the goods location is used for storing the product to be put on shelf; and controlling a mobile robot to transport a shelf where the goods location is located to a work station.

Abstract: Method, server and storage medium for robot routing are provided. An operation area of the robot is gridded into a plurality of cells arranged in rows and columns. The method includes: planning, for the robot, a traveling path from a starting point to a destination point, where the traveling path is divided into a plurality of path segments; and reserving, one or more cells corresponding to a first path segment for the robot, where the first path segment is anyone of at least one among the plurality of path segments, in case that there is the deadlock phenomenon, refraining from reserving the cell for the robot, and re-checking whether the deadlock phenomenon is still present in the cell after a preset interval; and in case that there is no deadlock phenomenon, reserving the cell for the robot.

Abstract: A rotatable tray mechanism includes a base, a rotatable tray, and a revolute pair assembly and an actuating unit arranged between the base and the rotatable tray. At least one of the rotatable tray and the base includes a revolving shaft arranged on at least one edge. The revolute pair assembly is arranged on at least one of the base and the rotatable tray and is at a location opposite to the revolving shaft. One revolving shaft mates with at least one revolute pair assembly including a revolute pair and an enable mechanism, wherein the revolute pair has a first state and a second state. The enable mechanism is enabling the revolute pair to switch over between the first state and the second state.

Abstract: Provided is an article sorting system having a security inspection function which relates to intelligent logistics. The system includes: a security inspection machine including a detector, a security inspection driving device and a security inspection channel; and a mobile transport device matched with the security inspection channel in space, which is configured to move a received article to be sorted by using the security inspection driving device so that the article to be sorted passes through the security inspection channel and accepts a security detection performed by the detector in the security inspection channel.

Abstract: An order processing method and device, a server, and a storage medium, includes determining an actual volume of at least one item associated with an order, wherein the actual volume of each item is determined on the basis of a historical maximum storage quantity of a given item in a goods location and the volume of the goods location, or on the basis of a storage quantity of a given item in a transfer box and the volume of the transfer box. On the basis of the actual volume of the at least one item associated with the order, determining a total volume of the at least one item associated with the order; and on the basis of the total volume of the at least one item associated with the order and the volume of the transfer box, allocating transfer boxes for the order.

Abstract: Provided are an adjusting base and a self-driven robot. The flexible base includes: a chassis, a carrying plate and an adjusting mechanism. The bottom of the chassis is provided with at least one second driven wheel and at least two driving wheels. The bottom of the carrying plate is provided with at least a first driven wheel. The adjusting mechanism is configured to connect to the carrying plate and the chassis or connect to the carrying plate and the second driven wheel. When the ground is uneven, the adjusting mechanism is configured to dynamically adjust the second driven wheel in such a manner that the first driven wheel, the second driven wheel and the driving wheels are in contact with the ground.

Abstract: A self-driven robot includes a vehicle body, a driving mechanism, a controlling mechanism and an overturning mechanism. The driving mechanism and the overturning mechanism are disposed on the vehicle body. The driving mechanism is configured to drive the vehicle body to move. And the controlling mechanism is configured to control the overturning mechanism to overturn when the vehicle body moves to a specified position.

Abstract: A self-service operating system and method, and an operation door. The system comprises: a control server, one or more operation doors, at least one robot, and one or more storage containers, wherein the control server is configured to respond to an item operation instruction, determine a target storage container and a target operation door which corresponds to an item to be operated, and send a carrying instruction to the robot; the robot is configured to respond to the carrying instruction to carry the target storage container to the target operation door, and a plurality of box openings on the target storage container respectively correspond to a plurality of box openings on the target operation door on a one-to-one basis; and the control server is further configured to control a box opening door of a target box opening on the target operation door to open.

Abstract: A navigation method based on ground texture images, an electronic device and storage medium. The method includes: performing transform domain based image registration on an acquired image of a current frame and an image of a previous frame, and determining a first pose of the image of the current frame; determining whether the image of the current frame meets a preset condition, and if so, inserting the image of the current frame as the key-frame image into a map, and performing loop closure detection and determining a loop key-frame image; performing transform domain based image registration on the image of the current frame and the loop key-frame image, and determining a second pose of the image of the current frame; and determining an accumulated error according to the first pose and the second pose, and correcting the map according to the accumulated error.