Rapyuta Robotics Co., Ltd.

Arudchelvan Krishnamoorthy

Gajamohan Mohanarajah

Kousuke Yunoki

Bhuvan Chandra Dharanikota Venkata

Storage rack for a warehouse

There is provided an automated storage and retrieval system including: a rack storing a plurality of bins for containing items; a picking station for picking the item from the bin; and a transportation robot for transporting the bin between the rack and the picking station. The picking station defines one or more picking positions at which the transportation robot transporting the bin is arranged to enable picking work of the item from the bin, and one or more retracted positions at which the transportation robot temporarily retracts the bin from the picking position.

Automated storage and retrieval system

There is provided an automated storage and retrieval system including: a rack storing a plurality of bins for containing items; a transportation robot transporting the bin in the rack; and a transportation elevator which moves in the rack and can transport the transportation robot. The rack includes a plurality of floors each of which stores each of the plurality of bins, and allows the transportation robot to run along a surface thereof, and the rack includes a plurality of support column modules forming a passage of the transportation elevator. Each of the support column modules extends between at least mutually neighboring floors, and one support column module is configured to be able to be coupled to the another support column module.

An object is to provide a transportation robot control system for a warehouse system and a control method that can stably control a large number of robots by wireless communication. A transportation robot control systemcontrols transportation robotsin a warehouse system. The transportation robot control systemincludes: a central wireless communication unitconfigured to be able to wirelessly communicate with the transportation robotsin a specific region of the warehouse system; an individual wireless communication unitconfigured to be able to wirelessly communicate with the transportation robots; and individual control unitsthat respectively control the movements of the transportation robots. The individual wireless communication unitincludes information reading unitsthat are respectively provided in the transportation robotsand a plurality of information holding unitsthat are arranged in a rack. Each of the information holding unitsholds position information indicating a position in the rack, at the position, the information holding unitis arranged.

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Tokyo, Japan

Arudchelvan Krishnamoorthy