AN AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE, AND AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE FOR TRANSFERRING LOAD UNITS FOR SAID AUTOMATED WAREHOUSE

摘要

An automated warehouse (100) has a plurality of storage levels set on top of one another and each divided into access aisles (24) and into accumulation aisles (25). The warehouse (100), in at least one of the storage levels, has at least one autonomous vehicle (200), which picks up, transfers and deposits load units (10) under the control of a central control and driving unit and is provided with two movement systems so as to be able to move in two mutually orthogonal directions in the accumulation aisles (25) and in the access aisles (24), respectively, and can be configured so as to be able to advance underneath the load units (10) stored in the accumulation aisles (25) when it is empty.