| 摘要 |
The invention relates to an automated system for handling palletized merchandise. Said system makes it possible to fully automate handling operations of palletized merchandise in factories and distribution centers. Said system uses a fleet of automatically guided vehicles, a plurality of devices for dclivering/receiving palletized merchandise to/from automatically guided vehicles and a plurality of loading/unloading docks with the aid of processing means pertaining to a Central Control Unit and Management and Control Units of said devices that generate and exchange digital messages so that the fleet of automatically guided vehicles and the loading docks carry out the merchandise handling operations indicated by commands for execution of operations as a result of signals generated by detector means indicating the capability of said devices to execute said operations. All changes regarding physical location of the pallets during the above-mentioned operations are recorded in a secondary memory of the Central Control Unit. <IMAGE> |
