METHOD OF SECURING MOVING LINE TO PREVENT HUMAN ACCIDENT WHEN ROBOT MOVES IN LARGE STORE

摘要

The application range of a robot has been rapidly expanded, and the era in which people and robots shop together in a large store will be realized within five years. It is predicted that an accident risk increases and a pathway of the current store will become more crowded at peak times that customers visit, when the pathway is operated autonomously without a certain rule. It is necessary to define a moving method for a moving line for shopping in the store for convenient and safe shopping, while enabling visiting customers and cart robots to move in the crowded off-line stores. For the moving line for movement of people and robots in the store, a moving line at least in both directions is provided. When the moving line has a structure unsuitable for the movement in both directions, a guide is displayed in one direction. When the pathway in the store is wide, a lane is logically separated on the pathway in the store by considering the size of moving robots. Therefore, in order to enable people and robots to move safely, the rule for the method of using the pathway in the store is defined at the level of an internal regulation, the moving line of the robot is defined, and a campaign is performed to customers who visit the store. When moving through the pathway, a cart robot frequently communicates with adjacent cart robots to prevent duplication between the current pathway and a robot position value, so that a safe operation is checked by using mutual real-time communication. The robot, which first sent a pathway occupancy signal, has a priority of a traffic control. According to the present invention, when robots and people shop in the store, moving lines between the robots are secured to enable visitors to enjoy shopping without an accident due to the robots, so that safe autonomous movement between robots are secured.;COPYRIGHT KIPO 2018