CN112101882A

CN112101882A - Unmanned vehicle supply method based on public pallet

Info

Publication number: CN112101882A
Application number: CN202011306684.XA
Authority: CN
Inventors: 斯戈泰
Original assignee: Neolithic Huiyi Zhixing Zhichi Beijing Technology Co ltd
Current assignee: Neolix Technologies Co Ltd
Priority date: 2020-11-20
Filing date: 2020-11-20
Publication date: 2020-12-18
Anticipated expiration: 2040-11-20
Also published as: CN112101882B

Abstract

The application relates to an unmanned vehicle structure, which belongs to the field of artificial intelligence. The utility model provides a method for unmanned vehicle supplies goods through public tray, the trade company can prepare public tray by oneself, deposit the goods in the pallet in advance, through ordering, unmanned plantago receives the goods before, the trade company need not to change the empty pallet in unmanned plantago in order to put into unmanned plantago with the pallet, the dwell time of unmanned plantago in each supply location is decided by the loading duration in public pallet quantity or the demand information that each supply location needs to load, the problem that the goods consumed time on unmanned plantago has been solved to this kind of mode very big degree, also make the trade company load more convenient timely.

Description

Unmanned vehicle supply method based on public pallet

Technical Field

The application relates to the field of unmanned driving, in particular to a low-power-consumption control system of an unmanned vehicle.

Background

An unmanned vehicle, also known as an autonomous vehicle or an autonomous vehicle, is a vehicle capable of sensing its surrounding environment and navigating without manual intervention. The system senses the surrounding environment by using various technologies such as radar, laser, ultrasonic wave, GPS, odometer, computer vision and the like, identifies obstacles and various signboard through an advanced calculation and control system, and plans a proper path to control the vehicle to run.

The unmanned vehicle service is a new service mode in recent years, and various service functions are provided by the unmanned vehicle in a mode of loading containers with different service functions on the unmanned vehicle; the user can use the functions of the unmanned vehicle by operating the screen or the matched App on the vehicle.

For example, unmanned delivery vehicles can deliver takeoffs and couriers in various parks and communities; the unmanned network appointment car replaces a traditional driver to drive a car for operation, and implementation of the products needs to benefit from optimization of an algorithm, improvement of a communication connection technology and performance improvement of various sensors.

For the unmanned delivery vehicle, cargoes are loaded in an EPP thermal insulation box commonly used by takeaway couriers and then are placed in the unmanned vehicle, the EPP thermal insulation box is a thermal insulation box commonly used by takeaway delivery, an inner box body is made of EPP (expanded polypropylene) plastic foaming materials, waterproof thermal insulation cloth is adopted outside, the thermal insulation box has good thermal insulation and anti-seismic performance integrally, and meanwhile, the weight is light and the operation is convenient.

At present, goods (hot meals) are supplied for the unmanned vehicle, and a mode of transporting the truck and an EPP (expanded polypropylene) insulation can is used, a truck driver sends the insulation can to a shop in advance, after the shop loads the goods, the truck driver loads the insulation can, and then the truck driver goes to the next shop to receive the goods and load the goods; after all the trucks are loaded, the truck driver transports the heat insulation boxes to each unmanned truck operation point in sequence and unloads the trucks; an operator at an operation point opens the heat insulation boxes and puts goods into the unmanned vehicle in sequence; finally, the truck driver recovers the insulation can and sends the insulation can to a shop of the next meal; circulating for many times in one day.

The first prior art has the following defects:

operators need to take the meal out of the box and put the meal into the container in sequence, the loading efficiency is low, and long time is needed to complete all the boxing work when facing a plurality of unmanned vehicles, so that time and labor are wasted;

a truck driver needs to repeatedly load, unload and transport the full or empty insulation boxes between different shops and a plurality of operation points, and the transportation volume is limited in the face of continuous food transportation work, the efficiency is not high enough, and the transportation volume and the time are limited;

a plurality of heat preservation boxes occupy a large amount of space in a boxcar and limit the upper limit of the transportation amount; the storage in the carriage or the shop requires a large space, which is inconvenient. .

The application provides a new goods transport tool, namely a public pallet, which is used for replacing an incubator to finish goods transport work; the process from loading to the cargo box of the unmanned vehicle is shortened, and all the goods (in one box) are placed into the cargo box at one time; the residence time of the unmanned vehicle can be set based on the number of common pallets in the order or the appointed time in the order, and meanwhile, the number of times of transporting the tool is reduced, the transportation amount and efficiency are improved, and the space occupancy rate is reduced.

Disclosure of Invention

Therefore, the unmanned vehicle is supplied with goods based on the public pallet, high-efficiency operation is achieved, and the space occupancy rate is reduced.

Some embodiments of the present application provide a method for unmanned vehicle supply based on a common pallet, comprising: the method comprises the following steps:

step one, an unmanned vehicle receives at least one piece of demand information for loading goods, wherein the goods can be loaded in a public tray, and the demand information for loading the goods comprises loading time, loading duration, the number of public pallets to be loaded, a goods supply place, goods content and/or required vehicle types;

step two, the unmanned vehicles arrive at each goods supply place in sequence according to the requirement information, and public pallets are stored in the goods supply places;

wherein the unmanned vehicles upon arrival at each delivery location remain so that at least a portion of the common pallet is unloaded and the common pallet loaded with goods is placed into the containers of the unmanned vehicles;

step three, selling operation is carried out after the unmanned vehicle completes the loading requirement task;

step four, judging whether goods remain in the container or not after the unmanned vehicle finishes the current operation task;

step five, if the goods are judged to be remained, controlling the unmanned vehicle to return to a goods supply place of the remained goods;

and step six, if no goods are left in the unmanned vehicle, continuously receiving new loading demand information.

In another aspect, the common pallet has at least one dimension, and the dimension is compatible with the cargo box of the unmanned vehicle.

On the other hand, in the fourth step, whether goods remain in the container is judged, and specifically, whether the goods remain in the container exceeds a preset threshold value is judged.

On the other hand, in step four, judge whether there is the goods surplus in the packing box, specifically include, based on dress goods demand information and sell the information, judge whether there is the goods surplus in the packing box.

On the other hand, in the fourth step, whether goods remain in the container is judged, and specifically, whether goods remain in the container is judged based on the sensor on the unmanned vehicle.

In another aspect, the common pallet has a tracking identifier mounted thereon.

On the other hand, in the first step, after the unmanned vehicle receives the information of the requirement for loading the goods, the number of the common pallets to be loaded or the number of the remaining loadable common pallets is sent to the client.

On the other hand, in the first step, when the number of the common pallets to be loaded reaches the unmanned vehicle loading upper limit, the process proceeds to the second step.

In the second step, the staying time of the unmanned vehicle at each delivery location is determined by the number of the common pallets to be loaded at each delivery location or the loading time in the demand information.

And on the other hand, in the second step, the unmanned vehicle carries out path planning according to the supply location, the loading time and the loading duration in the requirement information, and sequentially arrives at each supply location based on the path planning.

Additional aspects and advantages of the present application will be set forth in part in the description which follows and, in part, will be obvious from the description, or may be learned by practice of the present application.

Drawings

In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present application, the drawings that are required to be used in the embodiments will be briefly described below, it should be understood that the following drawings only illustrate some embodiments of the present application and therefore should not be considered as limiting the scope, and for those skilled in the art, other related drawings can be obtained from the drawings without inventive effort.

Fig. 1 is a schematic flow chart of unmanned vehicle supply using a common pallet according to an embodiment of the present disclosure.

Detailed Description

In order to make the objects, technical solutions and advantages of the embodiments of the present application clearer, the technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are some embodiments of the present application, but not all embodiments. The components of the embodiments of the present application, generally described and illustrated in the figures herein, can be arranged and designed in a wide variety of different configurations.

Thus, the following detailed description of the embodiments of the present application, presented in the accompanying drawings, is not intended to limit the scope of the claimed application, but is merely representative of selected embodiments of the application. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.

It should be noted that: like reference numbers and letters refer to like items in the following figures, and thus, once an item is defined in one figure, it need not be further defined and explained in subsequent figures.

In the description of the present application, it should be noted that the terms "inside", "outside", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings or orientations or positional relationships that the products of the application usually place when using, and are only used for convenience in describing the present application and simplifying the description, but do not indicate or imply that the devices or elements that are referred to must have a specific orientation, be constructed in a specific orientation, and operate, and thus, should not be construed as limiting the present application. Furthermore, the terms "first," "second," and the like are used merely to distinguish one description from another, and are not to be construed as indicating or implying relative importance.

In the description of the present application, it is also to be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "disposed" and "connected" are to be interpreted broadly, e.g., as being either fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; they may be connected directly or indirectly through intervening media, or they may be interconnected between two elements. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood in a specific case by those of ordinary skill in the art.

Referring to fig. 1, in the method for supplying unmanned vehicles based on common pallets according to the embodiment of the present application, a merchant providing goods can prepare sufficient common pallets by himself, the pallets have uniform sizes, and can be stacked in the unmanned vehicles in a certain number, and the common pallets can be circulated in any merchant.

When a merchant needs to sell goods by using the unmanned vehicle, the goods are loaded in the pallet in advance, the order is placed by using the terminal, the unmanned vehicle is informed of loading the goods in front, the unmanned vehicle receives the demand information of the loaded goods, the loading capacity is counted, and the order receiving is stopped until the number of the pallets to be loaded reaches the upper limit or the current time reaches the preset value.

After receiving the information of the goods loading requirement, the unmanned vehicle sends the number of the common pallets to be loaded or the number of the remaining loadable common pallets to the client, so that a merchant using the terminal can make an ordering decision after seeing the information.

The requirement information of the loaded goods comprises loading time, loading duration, the number of the public pallets to be loaded, a goods supply place, goods content and/or required vehicle types;

then, the unmanned vehicle sequentially arrives at each goods supply place according to the goods supply places in the requirement information, and public pallets are stored in the goods supply places; stopping after reaching a goods supply place, directly unloading the containers from the containers of the unmanned vehicle when the merchant needs to load the containers, and putting the loaded containers into the unmanned vehicle after unloading, and selling and operating after the unmanned vehicle finishes a loading requirement task; since the loading action is only the unloading of empty common pallets and the loading of loaded common pallets from the cargo box, the time for placing the goods one by one into the cargo box of the unmanned vehicle is greatly saved.

The residence time of the unmanned vehicle at each delivery location is determined by the number of common pallets that need to be loaded at each delivery location or the length of time that the pallets are loaded in the demand information. For example, if one of the demand information indicates that 10 pallets need to be loaded and the other information indicates that 1 pallet needs to be loaded, the stay time of the former is significantly longer than that of the latter;

or, the requirement information clearly indicates the time length (namely loading time length) that the unmanned vehicle needs to stay, and then the unmanned vehicle loads goods according to the stay time length; the longer the stay period in the demand information is, the later the unmanned vehicles may arrive in order, and the order of the unmanned vehicles to the various delivery locations depends on the stay period, traffic conditions and/or distance.

After the unmanned vehicle finishes the goods loading of all goods supply places, tour selling service is carried out, and after a selling task is finished, for example, the goods are sold completely or the time for finishing the task is reached, whether the goods are left in the container is judged;

if the goods are judged to be remained, controlling the unmanned vehicle to return to a goods supply place of the remained goods; and if no goods are left in the unmanned vehicle, continuously receiving new loading demand information.

On the other hand, judging whether the goods are left in the container specifically comprises judging whether the goods left in the container exceeds a preset threshold value. If the goods remaining quantity is smaller than the threshold value, the goods remaining quantity is considered to be absent, and in addition, the judgment mode can be that whether goods remaining quantity exists in the container is judged based on the goods loading requirement information and the selling information. For example, the sales amount is subtracted from the loading amount, i.e., the remaining cargo amount. Whether goods are left in the container can be judged based on a sensor on the unmanned vehicle, and the goods left can be detected by a camera or an infrared sensor.

The public pallet may also be fitted with tracking tags. So as to count the number of the common pallets reserved by the merchants and conveniently supplement the common pallets to the merchants at a later stage.

After receiving the information of the requirement for loading the goods, the unmanned vehicle transmits the number of the common pallets to be loaded or the number of the remaining loadable common pallets to the client.

On the other hand, the unmanned vehicle can plan a path according to the supply location, the loading time and the loading duration in the demand information, and sequentially arrives at each supply location based on the path planning.

It should be noted that the features of the embodiments in the present application may be combined with each other without conflict.

The above description is only a preferred embodiment of the present application and is not intended to limit the present application, and various modifications and changes may be made by those skilled in the art. Any modification, equivalent replacement, improvement and the like made within the spirit and principle of the present application shall be included in the protection scope of the present application.

Claims

1. An unmanned vehicle supply method based on a public pallet is characterized by comprising the following steps:

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the common pallet has at least one dimension and the dimension is compatible with a cargo box of the unmanned vehicle.

3. The method of common pallet based unmanned vehicle supply of claim 2, wherein: and in the fourth step, judging whether the goods remain in the container, specifically judging whether the goods remain in the container exceeds a preset threshold value.

4. The method of common pallet based unmanned vehicle supply of claim 3, wherein: in step four, judge whether there is the goods surplus in the packing box, specifically include, based on dress goods demand information and sell the information, judge whether there is the goods surplus in the packing box.

5. The method of common pallet based unmanned vehicle supply of claim 4, wherein: and in the fourth step, judging whether the goods are left in the container, specifically, judging whether the goods are left in the container based on a sensor on the unmanned vehicle.

6. The method of common pallet based unmanned aerial vehicle supply of any one of claims 1-5, wherein: the public pallet is provided with a tracking identifier.

7. The method of common pallet based unmanned vehicle supply of claim 2, wherein: in the first step, after the unmanned vehicle receives the information of the requirement for loading the goods, the number of the common pallets to be loaded or the number of the remaining loadable common pallets is sent to the client.

8. The method of common pallet based unmanned vehicle supply of claim 7, wherein: in the first step, when the number of the common pallets to be loaded reaches the upper loading limit of the unmanned vehicle, the second step is performed.

9. Method for the unmanned vehicle supply on a common pallet basis according to any of claims 1-5,7-8, characterized in that: in the second step, the staying time of the unmanned vehicle at each supply location is determined by the number of the common pallets to be loaded at each supply location or the loading duration in the demand information.

10. The method of common pallet based unmanned vehicle supply of claim 9, wherein: and in the second step, the unmanned vehicle carries out path planning according to the supply location, the loading time and the loading duration in the demand information, and sequentially arrives at each supply location based on the path planning.