warehouse logistics

Technologies for Assisting Manual Order Picking

Technologies for Assisting Manual Order Picking

From conventional pick-by systems to AI-driven manual picking assistance
Md Khalid Siddiqui ORCID Icon, Jonathan Kressel ORCID Icon, Jürgen Grinninger
Manual picking remains common due to the high initial cost of support systems. This paper reviews existing technologies, presents an exploratory vision-based prototype, and examines existing literature that explores how combining object detection with language systems could enhance manual workflows. The findings suggest a promising, low-cost direction for worker support in logistics.
Industry 4.0 Science | Volume 41 | Edition 4 | Pages 6-19 | DOI 10.30844/I4SE.25.4.6
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