METHOD, SYSTEM AND COMPUTER PROGRAM PRODUCT FOR DETERMINING A ROUTE FOR A CONTAINER HANDLING VEHICLE

Abstract: system, method, and computer program product for determining a route for a container handling vehicle operating on a rail system of an automatic grid-based storage and retrieval system. the method comprising creating a model of the rail system representing the rail system as a finite set of non-overlapping rectangular first zones in a first direction, and a finite set of non-overlapping rectangular second zones in a second direction, wherein the zones are positioned around grid positions that are not accessible by the container handling vehicle, determining overlap information indicative of one or more regions of the rail system in which there is an overlap between a zone of the finite set of first zones and a zone of the finite set of second zones, determining grid position zone information by, for each grid position determining in which of the finite set of first zones and/or the finite set of second zones the grid position is located, receiving a request for a route for at least one container handling vehicle from a first grid position to a second grid position; and determining the route using the model of the rail system.

Inventor(s): Øystein Myrmo, Vegard Syre-Aaker

CPC Classification: G05D1/644 (SYSTEMS FOR CONTROLLING OR REGULATING NON-ELECTRIC VARIABLES)

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