Savoye

Université De Technologie De Compiègne

Antoine Jouglet

Blandine Vacher

Dritan Nace

Jean-Michel Collin

Stephane Pietrowicz

Stéphane Pietrowicz

Method for merging, within a logistical warehouse, k incoming flows of payloads, transported respectively by k FIFO conveyor lanes &#x3b1;with i&#x2208;{1, . . . , k} into one outgoing flow of payloads transported by a collector conveyor. The k lanes are distributed along the collector and numbered ato a. &#x394;is a time-related distance between the lanes aand a. A control system obtains a set L having n payloads distributed on the k lanes and having to be injected into the collector to form an exit sequence; computes a date tat which the first payload &#x3c3;of the exit sequence &#x3c3; passes in front of the lane a; and computes n dates of injection of the n payloads into the collector, as a function of t; and commands the collector and the k alleys, for an injection of the n payloads into the collector in compliance with the injection dates.

Method for merging, within a logistical warehouse, k incoming flows of payloads into one outgoing flow

A method for sequencing loads in an automated load-distribution system having k sources with k&#x2265;2; at least one destination; k FIFO-type source buffer devices, each receiving loads from one of the k sources; a collector collecting the loads from the k source buffer devices and transporting them to the at least one destination. The collector includes k successive nodes each configured to collect the loads from one of the source buffer devices. The control system processes customer orders listing loads for a given destination and being each associated with a sequential order number of destination. The control system: builds a collection list containing n loads to be collected and reducing a disorder of the n loads relative to a rising order of the sequential order numbers of destination; and controls the collector and the source buffer devices to collect loads compliant with the collection list.

Method for sequencing loads in an automated distribution system, with reduction of disorder during a collection of loads on a collector

A method for sequencing loads in an automated load-distribution system having k sources with k&#x2265;2; at least one destination; k FIFO-type source buffer devices, each receiving loads from one of the k sources; a collector collecting the loads coming from the k source buffer devices and transporting them to the at least one destination. The collector has k successive nodes each collecting the loads coming from one of the source buffer devices. The control system processes customer orders listing loads for a given destination and being associated with a sequential order number of destination. The control system: builds a collection list containing n loads to be collected and reducing a disorder of the n loads relative to a rising order of the sequential order numbers of destination; and controlling the collector and the source buffer devices to collect loads on the collector in compliance with the collection list.

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