Patent ID: 9733638
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: B65G,G05B,G05D,G06Q

Claim:
1. An automated storage and retrieval system. comprising: a storage space with storage locations defined therein; an automated transport system connected to the storage space and configured to transport store units for storage in the storage locations and retrieval from the storage locations; and a control system disposed for managing throughput performance of the automated storage and retrieval system, the control system being operably coupled to the automated transport system and having more than one separate and distinct control sections each configured to, in response to and distinct from requests to input or output store, units from the storage locations, manage throughput performance with respect to a common group of the storage locations, wherein at least one of the control sections independently manages request response aspects of throughput performance of the common group independent of another of the control sections, the request response aspects of the throughput performance being responsive separately from each of the requests to input or output store units from the storage locations but distinct from each of the requests to input or output store units from the storage locations and a portion, determined by the independently managed aspects, of the throughput performance, with respect to the common group, managed by the at least one of the control sections is decoupled from another portion of the throughput performance, with respect to the common group, managed by the other control section.