Automated order fulfillment system and method

An automated order fulfillment system and automated method for fulfilling orders includes a donor-handling system having at least two donor buffers and a recipient-handling system having at least one recipient buffer. An item-handling system includes a vision system and an item manipulator. The visi...

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Hauptverfasser:	Berghorn, David M, O'Brien, Mark D
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	CALCULATING COMPUTING CONTROL OR REGULATING SYSTEMS IN GENERAL CONTROLLING CONVEYING COUNTING DATA PROCESSING SYSTEMS OR METHODS, SPECIALLY ADAPTED FORADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORYOR FORECASTING PURPOSES ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING FUNCTIONAL ELEMENTS OF SUCH SYSTEMS HANDLING THIN OR FILAMENTARY MATERIAL MONITORING OR TESTING ARRANGEMENTS FOR SUCH SYSTEMS ORELEMENTS PACKING PERFORMING OPERATIONS PHYSICS PNEUMATIC TUBE CONVEYORS REGULATING SHOP CONVEYOR SYSTEMS STORING SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE,COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL, SUPERVISORY OR FORECASTINGPURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR TRANSPORT OR STORAGE DEVICES, e.g. CONVEYORS FOR LOADING ORTIPPING TRANSPORTING
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Zusammenfassung:	An automated order fulfillment system and automated method for fulfilling orders includes a donor-handling system having at least two donor buffers and a recipient-handling system having at least one recipient buffer. An item-handling system includes a vision system and an item manipulator. The vision system has a field of view encompassing the at least two donor receptacle buffers. A control causes the vision system to scan items in a donor receptacle at one of the donor buffers to obtain a pick list of location data of items in the scanned donor receptacle. The control causes the manipulator to pick an item from a donor receptacle at the other of the donor buffers under guidance of the vision system and place the picked item to a recipient receptacle at the at least one recipient buffer using the location data of items in that donor receptacle.