Method for controlling a plurality of mobile driverless manipulator systems

US11117260B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KUKA Deutschland GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Rainer Kümmerte · Munich, DE
• Patrick Pfaff · Augsburg, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 19, 2017
• Grant date: Sep 14, 2021
• Expiry date: Oct 3, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/50393
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

The invention relates to a method for controlling a plurality of mobile driverless manipulator systems (10, 20), in particular driverless transport vehicles in a logistics environment (40) for manipulating objects (30). In the method, ambient information is provided by a central control device (50), and in one step, an object to be moved (30) in the surroundings is detected. The position and the pose of the detected object are used for updating the ambient information and are taken into account in the path planning of the mobile driverless manipulator systems (10, 20) in that, prior to a movement of the detected object (30), a first mobile driverless manipulator system (10) is used to check whether the detected object (30) is needed for the orientation of a second mobile driverless manipulator system (20).