WO2005100917A1 - Verfahren und vorrichtung zum befördern einer vielzahl von physischen objekten - Google Patents
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- the invention relates to a method and a device for transporting a large number of physical objects, the objects being delivered and / or picked up.
- the published patent application DE 197 37 256 A1 describes a vehicle guidance and route guidance system with a navigation system fixed to the vehicle and a higher-level stationary service system for providing navigation information.
- a driver enters a desired destination in the vehicle using an input device.
- the target information as well as information on a current location of the vehicle are transmitted to the service system, a self-location system located on the vehicle providing the information of the current location.
- the service system calculates optimal route guidance, with a route being divided into areas between the location of the vehicle and the place of transportation.
- a section of the route from the location of the vehicle to the end of a first area along the route to the place of transport is transmitted to the navigation system of the vehicle and displayed there to the driver in the form of a graphic.
- the service system takes over a new calculation for route guidance and transmits a further section of the route from the current location of the vehicle to the end of a second area. This procedure is repeated according to the number of areas until the vehicle is at the place of transport.
- the aforementioned system enables the route guidance to be calculated taking current traffic information into account, which is output during the journey from the location to the place of transport.
- the route guidance is calculated in the stationary service system, which has a geographical data record of the calculated route, only sections of the route being transmitted to the navigation system.
- a disadvantage of the aforementioned system is that data has to be transmitted at least temporarily between the service system and the navigation system while driving. It cannot be ruled out that the transmission may be disrupted and errors may occur in route guidance. For example, the transmission by means of electromagnetic waves in metropolitan areas with a high density of buildings is impaired by absorbent house surfaces or house surfaces with a scattering effect. Furthermore, only one transport location per route guidance can be transmitted to the service system by means of the input device.
- the invention has for its object to provide a method and an apparatus for trouble-free and time-optimized transportation of any number of objects.
- the method according to the invention is characterized in that at least one transport address is assigned to the objects, that an order for the transport of the objects is determined, that several objects are put together for a common transport, that the transport addresses are stored in a data memory in accordance with the determined sequence Means of transport are entered so that the data are transmitted to a navigation system of the means of transport in such a way that it is determined at which place of transport the objects are to be subsequently transported and that the navigation system of the means of transport determines a route-optimized route to the place of transport for the subsequent transport.
- the sequence for the transportation of the objects is ascertained for a large number of transportation addresses.
- the aim of determining the sequence is to obtain a route and / or time-optimized sequence of transport addresses which serves as the basis for the subsequent determination of the route-optimized route from a current transport location to a further transport location determined by the sequence for the subsequent transport.
- the method according to the invention for increasing the performance of the time-optimized transport provides for a functional decoupling of the determination of the transport sequence from the determination of the route-optimized route.
- Each of the two aforementioned types of determination is designed in such a way that an optimum determination performance results for the respective area of the transport sequence determination and the route-optimized route determination.
- the method according to the invention makes it possible to use an almost arbitrarily large number of transport addresses for determining the order. Due to the large number of transport addresses taken into account for the determination, a geographical area of great extent as well as a large density of transport locations is optionally taken into account for the determination and thus optimized for the transport.
- the route between the location of the means of transport and the location of the subsequent transportation is regarded according to the invention as a continuous connection of the locations and is not divided into areas.
- the method according to the invention thus enables the sequence to be determined, taking into account further transport addresses which, according to the prior art, are outside an area to be optimized under unfavorable conditions.
- the method according to the invention enables the delivery of objects from a logistics center to the transport locations and / or the collection of objects from transport locations for subsequent transport to the logistics center and / or to further transport locations.
- the order determination thus takes into account the transport addresses of objects that are located at transport locations and not for loading the transport vehicle in the logistics center.
- those objects which are transported from transport locations to the logistics center are also taken into account in the sequence determination, objects optionally being delivered at the transport locations at which objects are picked up.
- the sequence determination and / or optionally the determination of the route-optimized route takes place at least taking into account updated geographic data, the geographic data being provided via defined and adaptable interfaces.
- the investigation is also supported by the delivery of external digital road networks.
- the basis for keeping the geographic data is a system for street digitization, house number recording, traffic routing recording, geocoding of transport addresses as well as for the digital mapping of route-optimized transport routes.
- the geographic data are preferably based on a reference system for measuring individual geographic points within a geographic area determined by the geographic data.
- An exemplary reference system for geographic data is a global geodetic system (World Geodetic System 1984 - WGS 84), the model description of which is based on an earth ellipsoid - also known as a global ellipsoid of revolution - whereby the earth ellipsoid approaches the surface of the earth at sea level.
- Geographical data, which represent geographical areas of Europe, are preferably based on a Bessel ellipsoid.
- the sequence is preferably determined taking into account a Gauß-Krüger coordinate system, which makes it possible to assign any point on earth to a Gauß-Krüger coordinate, the Bessel Ellipsoid is used as the reference ellipsoid for mapping.
- the determined data are transformed from the Gauß-Krüger coordinate system into the WGS 84.
- the sequence determined on the basis of the WGS 84 is used for entries in the data memory of the means of transport.
- An exemplary external data storage system is a storage area network (SAN).
- SAN storage area network
- Storage Area Networks combine all data storage in their own network, which is only designed for this purpose. Access from a computer to the SAN's storage, where the storage can be placed separately from the computer, is technically comparable to access by the computer to a local hard disk.
- ⁇ is in no way to be understood as limiting. It can be any unit suitable for carrying out calculations, for example a workstation, a personal computer, a microcomputer or one for carrying out calculations and / or Compare suitable circuit.
- HBA host bus adapters
- SCSI controllers small computer system interfaces
- geographic data are integrated by means of regular automated comparison processes, the information content of which is above the information content the geographic data of the data storage system.
- a data storage system consisting of several servers, for example up to 100 servers, preferably 5 to 30 servers, is available for data integration.
- the current stored digitized geographic data serve to represent the course of the road in the Federal Republic of Germany with all streets and house numbers with a coverage of 100 percent.
- the available storage capacity of each server can be divided into individual storage systems, each with 250 gigabytes of storage capacity.
- the sequence is determined by a modularly structured interface-compatible data processing unit, whereby a processing syntax specially developed for processing large quantities of data is used for process control.
- the mathematical models on which the sequence determination is based are based, for example, on polygonation or triangulation methods.
- a typical example of a triangulation method is a Delaunay triangulation, which creates a triangular network from a set of points.
- the basis of the triangulation according to Delaunay is a circumferential condition, according to which the circumference of a triangle may not contain any further points of the given point set.
- the Delaunay triangulation maximizes the smallest interior angle over all triangles due to the circumferential condition.
- a server / client concept of modern network architecture is preferably used to determine the sequence.
- the data processing unit consists of several servers, for example.
- the servers are connected to one another and to at least one client via a network, which can be the Internet or a local area network (LAN) or any other network.
- the connection of several servers achieves an optimized investigation performance, whereby interactive and / or long running processes are involved in the determination of the sequence.
- the determination performance of the servers is improved by means of "load balancing" between the individual servers, which leads to a better utilization of the server network.
- load balancing all available system resources are used to increase process-based computing power of the server and are activated in accordance with the underlying complexity of the determination.
- the data storage device of the means of transport according to the invention can optionally be an independent storage unit or a storage unit belonging to the navigation system.
- Exemplary data storage devices are floppy disks, CD-ROMs, fixed memories (RAM), hard disks, digital audio tapes (DAT) or memory sticks.
- the means of transport can be, for example, a passenger car, a truck or a bicycle.
- GPS-based navigation systems have proven to be particularly advantageous.
- a typical satellite-based navigation system is based on the so-called "Global Positioning System (GPS)".
- GPS Global Positioning System
- the goal of GPS-based navigation is an immediate determination of the position and current speed of the means of transport on the earth and equipped with a suitable receiver
- At least four satellites are electronically visible from any point on earth.
- the goal of determining the position of the means of transport is determined using a resection process (satellite trian gulation) using the measured distances to the satellites.
- the satellites are considered stationary for a brief moment, so that the propagation times of signals between the satellites and the receiver are measured.
- a prerequisite for determining the propagation times is a precise time setting of the receiver's clock to the exact GPS time. In this case, only three satellites are needed to determine the latitude, longitude and altitude unknown.
- the GPS receivers are usually equipped with a simple crystal clock and this is only approximately set to the GPS system time, there are slight deviations and the actual distance to the satellite can be shorter or longer than measured. This is offset by the simultaneous use of four satellites.
- the "time error" is determined by the additional satellite.
- the GPS receiver according to the invention offers an accuracy of up to a few meters.
- the decisive factor for the accuracy is the number of satellites received and the geometry relative to the GPS receiver, so that in practical use, accuracies of 10 meters result.
- the current position of the means of transport determined in each case is related to the geographic data.
- the route-optimized route is then determined between the determined position and the next transport location determined by the previously determined sequence.
- To determine the route-optimized route there are, for example, commercially available optimization methods for route calculation, which the person skilled in the art can see from the generally accessible specialist literature.
- the navigation system according to the invention has a modular structure, on the basis of which retrofitting of system components to increase the determination time of the route-optimized route is made possible.
- the route-optimized route to the place of transport is determined for the subsequent transport by means of additional waypoints.
- additional waypoints acts like at least section-by-section route guidance in the area of the additional waypoints, the waypoints acting as additional transport locations in the sense of route determination.
- the route determination without additional waypoints could, for example, lead to the route-optimized route running through a speed restriction zone, which would result in an unnecessary increase in time under the premise of time-efficient transportation of the objects.
- Additional waypoints are therefore preferably used in cases where, based on evaluations of the geographic data, an increase in the transportation time would result without additional waypoints.
- the additional transport locations for determining the route-optimized route are not displayed in or on the means of transport during route guidance to the next transport location.
- the additional transport locations can be displayed as waypoints on the route in or on the means of transport.
- the determination of the order for the transportation of the objects leads to the determination of at least one transportation area, the transportation area determined comprising at least one transportation location.
- This particularly advantageous embodiment enables the determination of transport areas taking into account the transport addresses for each further sequence determination. Accordingly, areas of transportation of a shipment are preferably determined according to the available transportation addresses, a one-off definition of transport areas is thus avoided.
- the transport areas are indefinite before the determination and are only determined as a result of the sequence determination, which is equivalent to a dynamic determination of the transport areas to the respective transport addresses.
- transportation addresses with any location pattern in the geographical area can be used, which leads to the determination of transportation areas that are arbitrarily defined geographically.
- the dynamic determination of the transport areas to the transport addresses on which the determination is based is based on the current transport volume actually available and, as a result, leads to a uniform utilization of all deliverers of the logistics center with simultaneous route and time-optimized route determination, which ultimately also avoids unnecessarily longer Carriage times leads.
- the transport area results of the transport carried out are included in the determination of the transport area.
- This extraordinarily expedient embodiment of the invention makes it possible, in an adaptive manner, to utilize the transport results of previous transportations in a profitable manner for further determinations of transport areas.
- Exemplary transport results that are included in the determination of the transport area are an extended transport time due to an unfavorable geographical form of the transport areas or a changed spatial accessibility of individual transport locations, insofar as these transport results are not automatically taken into account by the update of the geographical data.
- so-called bicycle couriers are used for transport and the means of transport is a bicycle
- objects for the joint transportation are put together in accordance with the determined transportation area.
- This procedure allows claims to be made on logistical processes - such as effective warehouse management and time management - to meet.
- the compilation of the objects of the joint transport expediently results in a more efficient warehouse management, since the objects and deliverables to be supplied are precisely specified at all times.
- the compilation thus enables a faster loading of the means of transport following the compilation, since, for example, suitable loading boxes can be provided in accordance with the quantity and size information.
- suitable loading boxes can be provided in accordance with the quantity and size information.
- the provision of the loading boxes prior to loading makes it possible to deliver more efficiently or to achieve a higher loading quality, since the time saved can optionally be used for more appropriate loading. Examples of proper loading are the use of special loading boxes for loading motion, temperature or pressure sensitive objects.
- the means of transport are assigned to the compiled objects.
- Appropriate means of transport can thus be selected taking into account the geographic sizes of the determined transport areas and the quantity and size of the objects to be delivered.
- Suitable means of transport are those whose loading space sizes are adapted to the quantity and size of the objects to be delivered or whose vehicle dimensions allow problem-free transport in heavily built-up areas. For example, it is advantageous to select means of transport according to the road dimensions in heavily built-up areas, so that roads can be used without having to maneuver repeatedly.
- assignment schemes are generated for a whole fleet of means of transport that are flexibly designed for the design of the determined transport areas.
- the transport addresses are assigned in the case 5 of the delivery of the objects to the transport locations by means of guide codes located on the objects, the guide codes being read in and decoded in a logistics center.
- the guide codes located on the objects which are expediently 2D barcodes, are preferably read in the logistics center via an address reading machine.
- the address reading machine is expediently a barcode reader.
- Guide codes can also be any encoding measures to encrypt 5 information.
- the guide codes include at least details of the transport address of the associated object.
- the validity check includes in particular all processes for processing mail items with address deficiencies for the domestic market, which were previously neither machine-readable, nor could they be sorted manually via video coding.
- Exemplary address deficiencies are a missing, old or incorrect postcode, an incorrectly spelled place or street name, an old place or street name, a missing or wrong post office box number as well as a missing street name and / or missing house number.
- the read transport addresses are assigned to the objects after the validity check, with a serial number optionally being linked in a memory to identify the object with the checked transport address.
- the transport address is preferably linked to further contents of the decoded read guide code, each guide code being unique and thus being able to be uniquely assigned to an object.
- the transport addresses are entered into the data memory of the transport means by means of a chip card.
- the chip cards used are built to be robust and durable and consequently enable practical and reliable entry of the transport addresses.
- the determination of the transport addresses sometimes takes place at a location remote from the place of loading of the means of transport, so that a transport of the low-weight chip card, followed by the entry of the transport addresses, is particularly expedient in terms of feasibility.
- Synchronous and asynchronous chip cards are used.
- Synchronous chip cards preferably consist of a non-encryptable read / write memory, which enables fast data access for reading in and reading out the transport addresses for entering the transport addresses in the data memory. Individual memory cells of the chip card can be accessed sequentially via an interface.
- Asynchronous chip cards have a microprocessor that controls access to the stored transport addresses, the access being protected from outside influence by means of cryptographic methods.
- An exemplary chip card is a SIM card (Subscriber Identification Module card).
- the transport addresses are entered into the data memory of the transport means by means of a Bluetooth interface.
- the Bluetooth interface advantageously enables wireless data transmission between a transmitter and a receiver.
- Technical specifications of Bluetooth technology are familiar to the person skilled in the art and can be found in current specialist literature.
- the transmitters and receivers are equipped with a Bluetooth chip for transmission and reception control.
- the data transfer Transmission takes place in the short-wave radio range with a frequency of approx. 2.45 gigahertz in the globally license-free Industrial-Scientific-Medical (ISM) network, whereby several data transmission channels are available.
- Typical data transmission ranges are around 10 m, but can optionally be increased to up to 100 m using suitable amplification devices.
- a maximum transmission speed is approx. 1 megabit / s.
- the transport addresses are entered into the data memory of the transport means by means of a microdrive card.
- the Microdrive card is a hard disk for magnetic storage of the transport addresses with a storage capacity of either 340 megabytes, 412 megabytes or 1024 megabytes, with storage media rotating at around 3600 revolutions per minute in a card housing of the microdrive card.
- the data transfer from the microdrive card to the data storage device of the means of transport takes place at approximately 4.2 megabytes / s.
- the transport addresses are entered into the data memory of the transport means by a mobile computer.
- a suitable interface to the data processing unit enables the use of a mobile computer.
- the mobile computer is preferably a commercially available device for receiving, storing and transmitting electronic data, as is known in the field of general communication electronics.
- the mobile computer can optionally be a laptop, a notebook, a so-called “personal assistant” or also part of a mobile radio telephone.
- Connections to the data storage device of the means of transport are customary, whereby a universal serial data bus (USB) has proven to be particularly advantageous also a USB stick, an electronic memory chip (static RAM, EEPROM) that connects to a USB Is plugged in, a mobile computer in the sense of the embodiment.
- USB universal serial data bus
- the transport addresses are entered into the data memory of the transport means by means of an INCA terminal.
- the INCA terminal is a highly developed "handheld" with an optical user interface. It is dust-proof, secured against water and falls and is therefore suitable for entering the transport addresses in the data memory of the means of transport.
- the INCA terminal can be connected to the data processing unit in order to temporarily store the determined transport order of the transport addresses in the memory of the INCA terminal.
- the INCA terminal is then connected to the data storage device of the means of transport, whereby the transport addresses are automatically read into the data storage device.
- the INCA terminal can be used to communicate inquiries to the data processing unit via a server of a global telecommunication system (GSM) about a renewed determination of the transport sequence during the transport of the objects via radio.
- GSM global telecommunication system
- the newly determined order of transport is optionally transmitted from the data processing unit to the INCA terminal, with the transport addresses being entered in the data memory of the means of transport following the transmission.
- This extremely expedient procedure enables the order of transportation to be determined again during transportation, if necessary, and thus the transportation order to be adapted to new circumstances, such as may result from the removal of a transportation address.
- the INCA terminal also allows order data to be entered at the place of transport so that this data can be automatically entered into a central order database. This order database is located, for example, in the logistics center.
- the device has a means for reading in and assigning transport addresses and a data processing unit for determining a transport sequence of the objects, the data processing unit being connected to at least one external data storage system and at least one data storage system for keeping and storing geographic data it has a sorting device for sorting the objects and that it also has a loading device for loading a means of transport with the sorted objects, and it also has a means for entering the determined order of transport into a data storage device of the means of transport.
- the above-mentioned advantages are achieved in that after the objects have been received in a warehouse, the warehouse being, for example, the logistics center, the processing, sorting, and transportation as a result of a compact and extremely functional structure of the device in terms of object transportation objects in the means of transport.
- the device according to the invention further enables the sorting of objects taking into account the determined order of transportation, the order of transportation leading to the path and / or time-optimized sequence of the transportation addresses.
- the route and / or time-optimized sequence has, due to the held and stored geographic data, a high degree of updating with regard to road courses, traffic routing detection, geocoding of transport addresses, changes in transport addresses and for the digital mapping of route-optimized transport routes.
- the provision of this updated geographical data, as a basis for determining the order of transportation is made possible by the inventive connection of the data processing unit with at least one external data storage system and with at least one data storage system.
- the means for entering the determined transport sequence into the data memory of the means of transport is a chip card, a Bluetooth interface, a microdrive card, a mobile computer or an INCA terminal.
- the device adapts this particularly expedient flexibility in the selection of the means for inputting the determined order of transportation to different configurations of the means of transport's own navigation system or to the data storage means of the means of transportation.
- This high flexibility in the adaptation is made possible by a modular construction of the device, so that the input means can be adapted to the input requirements of the data memory within a very short time. It has also proven to be particularly advantageous to design an output of data of the determined transport order in such a way that subsequent adjustment of the output to new input means is considerably simplified.
- the external data storage system is a storage area network (SAN), "Host Bus Adapter” (HBA) being used to access the SAN.
- SAN storage area network
- HBA Hypervisor Adapter
- the SAN is free from hard disk administration problems and thus enables almost unlimited, efficient and flexible use of the available storage capacity.
- the SAN consists of a “Fiber Channel Switch”, one or more hard disk subsystems and several servers, the servers being connected to the “Fiber Channel Switch” via the “Host Bus Adapter”.
- Typical bandwidths of the SAN are in the range from 1 gigabit / sec to 4 gigabits / sec, whereby a protocol adapted to the requirement of mass storage is used.
- a server accesses several hard disk subsystems via several “host bus adapters”, it is advantageous to allow data to be transferred between the systems on several data paths, which further increases the transmission rate.
- the data processing unit consists of several servers in order to achieve an optimized determination performance, with long-running processes being involved in determining the order of transportation.
- An upper limit of a number of servers for the formation of the data processing unit is in principle determined by the servers available.
- the data processing unit can consist, among other things, of web servers on the Internet and LAN servers of the local area network, several hundred servers being connected simultaneously.
- the long-running processes can therefore be distributed to several servers for processing and thus for determining the order of transportation.
- Figure 1 shows: A schematic diagram of a preferred embodiment of the invention.
- Figure 1 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the invention using a schematic diagram.
- the physical objects 1 - 5 are assigned to the transport addresses by the reading and assignment means 10.
- the objects are first aligned along a transport route or optionally within a transport device in such a way that the 2D barcodes on the objects can be read directly by the barcode reader and then decoded.
- the validity check of the decoded contents of the 2D barcodes read is carried out on a logical plausibility basis.
- the validity check makes it possible, among other things, to declare counterfeit 2D barcodes as such and to initiate suitable measures for further handling of the objects with counterfeit barcodes.
- the validity check also includes procedures for processing objects with address deficiencies. For this purpose, at least the transport addresses determined from the 2D barcodes as well as determined shipment data are compared with addresses and shipment data already stored, which offers increased security when determining the contents of the 2D barcodes. If the content of a 2D barcode cannot be detected by the barcode reader, a graphic representation of a surface of the object is optionally generated, the surface comprising at least one address field.
- an automated check of information of the graphic image takes place, based on which the transport address can be determined. It has proven to be extremely advantageous to introduce this redundancy in the determination of the transport addresses by optionally checking the graphic information, since the determination of the transport addresses in the case of delivery of the objects is a prerequisite for the assignment of the read transport addresses to the objects.
- the assignment takes place after the validity check, whereby for each object the transport address is linked to the contents of the decoded read guide code.
- the transport addresses of objects which are picked up at transport locations are also included in the determination of the sequence and are fed to the reading and assignment means 10 by a further data memory 11.
- the transport order of the transport addresses is determined by the data processing unit 20 on the basis of the transport addresses and the geographic data of the data storage system 40 and of the data storage system 50.
- the data storage system 40 transmits the geographic data to the data processing unit 20, the geographical data being an update cycle which can be predetermined on the data storage system 40 subject.
- geographic data of the data storage system 50 may be transmitted to the data processing unit 20 insofar as the data of the data storage system 50 is more current than that of the data storage system 40, so that the provision of geographic data with a high degree of update is guaranteed at all times becomes.
- the determined transport order is transmitted to the sorting means 30, so that from the large number of objects those objects are put together for a common transport whose transport address is part of the determined transport order.
- this process of compilation is illustrated purely by way of example using the representation of three selected objects 1 - 3 from the set of objects 1 - 5 entering the logistics center.
- the number of objects put together can be less than or equal to the number of objects received.
- the loading device 90 loads the means of transport with the assembled objects 1 - 3. In the sense of the exemplary embodiment, it is completely irrelevant for the successful loading which structural design the means of transport has, since the loading device 90 can be adapted to the structure.
- the determined transport order is transmitted from the processing unit 20 to the input means 60 and, by means of the input means 60, is entered into the data memory 70 of the transport means.
- the transmission from the processing unit 20 to the input means 60 takes place in the present case with USB connection. Since the input means 60 of the preferred exemplary embodiment is a Bluetooth interface, wireless data transfer takes place between the interface and a receiver of the data memory.
- the transport addresses are successively transmitted to the navigation system using a wired or wireless connection, so that a route-optimized route to the transport location for the subsequent transport is determined from any location of the means of transport, which is ideally a previous transport location can.
- Order sheets are generated before the start of the transport in the letter center and are on the means of transport.
- the takeover is verified directly at the place of transport by reading in data from a barcode located on the object.
- the data read in on the order sheet are compared with the data read in on the barcode on the object.
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