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Warehouse Inventory Detection with Airship Drones

Warehouse Inventory Detection with Airship Drones

(Semi-)autonomous aircraft for inventory and quality inspection of pallets in block storage facilities
Dmitrij Boger, Michael Freitag ORCID Icon, Britta Hilt, Michael Lütjen ORCID Icon, Benjamin Staar ORCID Icon
The complex dynamics of block warehouses pose major challenges to the manual stocktaking process. Frequent relocation of pallets, crates or pallet cages without fixed storage locations leads to a time-consuming and error-prone inventory process, wherein goods often have to be searched for and damages due to improper storage can occur. The use of (semi-)autonomous drones offers a promising solution to enable automated stocktaking, especially if these are appropriately equipped for optical goods detection.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 40 | 2024 | Edition 2 | Pages 56-63
Perspectives of Autonomous Stocktaking

Perspectives of Autonomous Stocktaking

Transparent Warehouse Processes using Autonomous Systems
Torsten Hildebrandt, Lutz Frommberger, Diedrich Wolter, Christian Zabel, Bernd Scholz-Reiter ORCID Icon, Christian Freksa
So-called chaotic storages get increasingly important in commercial use. Their high dynamics and resulting uncertainty about storage levels result in high requirements on logistic processes. The project presented in this paper combines methods to meet these requirements by the use of an autonomous stocktaking robot. It uses approaches from the field of cognitive inspired Artificial Intelligence, enabling the robot to act purposefully in an unknown environment. Even if the environment is constantly changing, the robot is able to acquire robust information about the current state of e.g., storage areas, their position and goods stored in them. The information gathered is of coarse granularity but is still be a valuable basis for the analysis and optimisation of intra-logistic pro-cesses.
Industrie Management | Volume 26 | 2010 | Edition 1 | Pages 61-65