Authors
Kuo-Hsien Hsia, Ming-Guang Wu, Jun-Nong Lin, Hong-Jie Zhong, Zh-Yao Zhuang
Corresponding Author
Kuo-Hsien Hsia
Available Online 31 March 2018.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.2991/jrnal.2018.4.4.17How to use a DOI?
Keywords
Warehouse automation, Stacking truck, Autonomous warehouse truck, RFID.
Abstract
Warehouse automation is a very important issue for the promotion of traditional industries. For the production of larger and stackable products, it is usually necessary to operate a fork-lifter for the stacking and storage of the products by a skilled person. The general autonomous warehouse-truck does not have the ability of stacking objects. In this paper, we develop a prototype of auto-stacking warehouse-truck that can work without direct operation by a skill person. With command made by an RFID card, the stacker truck can take the packaged product to the warehouse on the prior-planned route and store it in a stacking way in the designated storage area, or deliver the product to the shipping area or into the container from the storage area. It can significantly reduce the manpower requirements of the skilled-person of forklift technician and improve the safety of the warehousing area.

Copyright
© 2018, the Authors. Published by ALife Robotics Corp. Ltd.
Open Access
This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).