Patent ID: 11966877
Assignee: HAI ROBOTICS CO., LTD.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 6:
7. A warehousing system, comprising: a control device, a console and a robot;
wherein the console is configured to acquire a target order sent by the control device and display the target order to a picker; and
the robot is configured to acquire a picking task sent by the control device according to the target order, and take out goods corresponding to the target order from a warehouse according to the picking task, so that the picker puts the goods into a slot of the console;
wherein the control device is applied in the warehousing system, both the robot and the console are capable of communicating with the control device, and the control device comprises: at least one processor; and a memory communicatively connected to the at least one processor;
wherein the memory stores instructions executable by the at least one processor, and the instructions are executed by the at least one processor to enable the control device to:
acquire a plurality of original orders to be processed; generate a first target order and attribute a first original order in the plurality of original orders to be processed to the first target order; and determine whether a second original order in the plurality of original orders to be processed and the first original order satisfy order-combining constraint;
if the second original order and the first original order satisfy the order-combining constraint, attribute the second original order to the first target order;
if the second original order and the first original order do not satisfy the order-combining constraint, generate a second target order, and attribute the second original order to the second target order;
determine whether other original orders in the plurality of original orders to be processed are attributed to any generated target orders one by one according to whether the order-combining constraint is satisfied, and if the other original orders are not attributed to any generated target orders, generate a new target order(s), until all original orders to be processed are attributed to one or more target orders;
wherein the control device is enabled to: perform, based on a circumstance where a target order constraint is satisfied, order-combining on the original orders to generate one or more target orders;
wherein the control device is enabled to: based on the circumstance where the target order constraint is satisfied, evaluate at least one of a total number of target orders obtained after order-combining and a sum of numbers of goods types of the target orders obtained, to determine one or more target orders finally generated;
wherein the control device is enabled to: determine all possible order-combining schemes, based on the circumstance where the target order constraint is satisfied, wherein the order-combining schemes comprise combining the original orders to obtain one or more target orders; calculate, for any order-combining scheme, at least one of a score corresponding to the total number of the target orders obtained and a score corresponding to the sum of numbers of goods types of the target orders obtained; and determine, according to the score obtained by calculating, an order-combining scheme that is finally selected;
wherein the control device is enabled further to: when there is at least one empty slot in the console, select, for each empty slot, a target order from unsorted target orders, for distribution to the empty slot.