阅读说明：本技术 一种基于时窗技术虚拟跟踪的行李辅助分拣系统及方法 (Luggage auxiliary sorting system and method based on time window technology virtual tracking ) 是由 缪彦昆 唐嘉 刘林海 杨少华 王崇杰 段见宝 孙永胜 于 2019-12-16 设计创作，主要内容包括：本发明公开了一种基于时窗技术虚拟跟踪的行李辅助分拣系统及方法。该系统包括行李分拣装置,计算机监控系统以及机场数据交互平台,所述计算机监控系统与机场数据交互平台连接,所述行李分拣装置上设有行李标签读取装置、图像采集装置和显示装置,所述计算机监控系统通过交换机与行李标签读取装置、图像采集装置、显示装置电连接,所述行李标签读取装置的安装位置作为新增时窗的起始点,不断的增加时窗,并以行李导入口为终点划分时窗。本发明将行李信息、行李抓怕照片、航班信息、旅客信息绑定,为机场遗失物品自助跟踪查询等提供基础数据,为行李查找、追溯提供依据,减少机场分拣人员的劳动强度同时,有效提高了行李的分拣效率和准确性。(The invention discloses a luggage auxiliary sorting system and method based on time window technology virtual tracking. The system comprises a luggage sorting device, a computer monitoring system and an airport data interaction platform, wherein the computer monitoring system is connected with the airport data interaction platform, a luggage tag reading device, an image acquisition device and a display device are arranged on the luggage sorting device, the computer monitoring system is electrically connected with the luggage tag reading device, the image acquisition device and the display device through a switch, the installation position of the luggage tag reading device is used as the starting point of a newly-increased time window, the time window is continuously increased, and the time window is divided by taking a luggage introducing port as the terminal point. The invention binds the baggage information, the baggage fearing photo, the flight information and the passenger information, provides basic data for self-service tracking inquiry and the like of articles lost in the airport, provides basis for baggage searching and tracing, reduces the labor intensity of airport sorting personnel and effectively improves the baggage sorting efficiency and accuracy.)

1. The utility model provides a supplementary letter sorting system of luggage based on virtual tracking of time window technique which characterized in that: the luggage sorting device comprises a luggage sorting device for conveying and sorting luggage, a computer monitoring system for performing time window auxiliary sorting, and an airport data interaction platform for the computer monitoring system to acquire flight and passenger information and feed back luggage binding information, wherein the computer monitoring system is connected with the airport data interaction platform, a luggage tag reading device, an image acquisition device and a display device are arranged on the luggage sorting device, the computer monitoring system is electrically connected with the luggage tag reading device, the image acquisition device and the display device through a switch, the installation position of the luggage tag reading device is used as the starting point of a new time-increasing window, the time window is continuously increased on the luggage sorting device, and a luggage introducing port is used as a terminal point to divide the time window.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system comprises: the luggage sorting device is one of an annular turntable, a belt conveyor and a roller conveyor.

3. The time-window technology virtual tracking based baggage auxiliary sorting system according to claim 1, wherein: at least one luggage tag reading device and at least one image acquisition device are arranged above the luggage sorting device according to the luggage conveying direction.

4. The time-window technology virtual tracking based baggage auxiliary sorting system according to claim 1, wherein: the display device comprises a display terminal and a host, at least one display device is arranged above the baggage sorting device, one or more baggage sorting openings are formed through virtualization of the display terminal, and the sorting openings are linked according to the distance relation of 0 or more time windows.

5. A sorting method using the time-window technology virtual tracking based baggage sorting aid system according to claim 1, wherein: the computer monitoring system is used to control the baggage sorting device to pass a point at a predetermined speed for a length of time in accordance with the maximum length of the baggage plus a certain gap, the luggage tag reading device is used for dividing a starting point serving as a newly added time window into a plurality of virtual time windows, under the normal condition, only one piece of luggage or no luggage can be arranged in one time window, abnormal processing is performed when a plurality of pieces of luggage appear in one time window, the luggage tag reading device reads luggage tag information and the luggage image is collected by the image collecting device, then the computer monitoring system binds the time window and the luggage information in the time window through the airport data interaction platform, along with the conveying operation of the luggage sorting device, the time window moves to different virtual sorting ports to provide corresponding display information for the display device of the virtual sorting port, sorting personnel can identify whether the luggage is at the current sorting port, and pick or put the current luggage.

6. The time-window technology virtual tracking-based baggage auxiliary sorting method according to claim 5, wherein: the image acquisition device records and takes a candid photograph of the luggage image in a multi-vision mode, and the image is bound with the information of the luggage tag read by the luggage tag reading device.

7. The time-window technology virtual tracking-based baggage auxiliary sorting method according to claim 5, wherein: the display device divides one or more time window links to form a corresponding virtual sorting port according to actual conditions, and the display content configuration of the display device comprises the flight number corresponding to the luggage, the captured luggage binding picture, the luggage sorting graph and color mark, the luggage consignment sum of the flights corresponding to the luggage and the accumulated sorting sum.

Technical Field

The invention belongs to the technical field of baggage sorting, and particularly relates to a baggage auxiliary sorting system and method based on time window technology virtual tracking.

Background

Taking the plane is the best choice that people's life and work rhythm are faster and faster today, and along with the drastic increase of aviation passenger's quantity, the sorting efficiency of passenger's consignment luggage becomes for the airport improves the key index that the passenger experienced to airport service: the higher the sorting efficiency of the luggage leaving the port is, the shorter the time for the passengers to handle the check-in advance is, and the better the passenger experience is; the higher the sorting efficiency of the luggage arriving at port, the shorter the waiting time for the passengers to pick up the luggage, and the better the service experience of the passengers. Because each flight needs to occupy a large amount of space and equipment resources when the luggage is directly sorted to, at the end of the luggage sorting in the airport with highest automation, a mode that a plurality of flights share one sorting turntable or sorting belt in the same time period is adopted, the final sorting needs to be carried out manually, and particularly, in the peak time period, the flight sharing degree of the luggage end sorting equipment is higher. Traditional airport baggage sorting relies heavily on manual sorting. Traditional manual sorting of airport luggage requires that a worker repeatedly bends down to check flight information on luggage labels in a luggage sorting device (a tray, a belt conveyor or a roller conveyor), so that the luggage sorted by the worker is picked, and otherwise, the luggage is put through. Causing high labor intensity of the workers and simultaneously causing low luggage sorting efficiency, easy error and the like. Therefore, a sorting method which can reduce the labor intensity of workers, improve the sorting efficiency and reduce the error rate in the manual sorting process is needed.

Disclosure of Invention

The invention aims to overcome the defects of the prior art and provides an auxiliary sorting system and method for displaying information in real time and tracking luggage virtually based on a time window technology.

In order to achieve the purpose, the technical scheme adopted by the invention is as follows:

the computer monitoring system is connected with the airport data interaction platform, a luggage tag reading device, an image acquisition device and a display device are arranged on the luggage sorting device, the computer monitoring system is electrically connected with the luggage tag reading device, the image acquisition device and the display device through a switch, the installation position of the luggage tag reading device is used as the starting point of a new time-increasing window, the time window is continuously increased on the luggage sorting device, and a luggage introducing port is used as a terminal point to divide the time window.

Further, it is preferable that the baggage sorting device is one of an annular turntable, a belt conveyor, and a roller conveyor.

Further, it is preferable that the baggage tag reading device and the image pickup device are installed at least one in a baggage conveying direction above the baggage sorting device.

Further, it is preferable that the display device includes a display terminal and a host computer, the display device is installed at least one above the baggage sorting device, one or more baggage sorting openings are virtualized through the display terminal, and the sorting openings are linked in a distance relationship of 0 or more time windows.

The invention also provides a sorting method of the luggage auxiliary sorting system based on the time window technology virtual tracking, a computer monitoring system divides a luggage sorting device into a plurality of virtual time windows according to the maximum length of the luggage and the time length that a certain gap passes through a certain point at a preset speed, the luggage tag reading device is taken as the starting point of a newly added time window, only one piece of luggage or no luggage is in one time window under normal conditions, the abnormal processing is carried out when a plurality of pieces of luggage appear in one time window, the computer monitoring system binds the time window with the luggage information in the time window through an airport data interaction platform after the luggage tag reading device reads the luggage tag information and the image acquisition device acquires the luggage image, along with the conveying operation of the luggage sorting device, the time window moves to different virtual sorting ports to provide corresponding display information for the display device of the virtual sorting ports, and (4) enabling the sorting personnel to identify whether the current luggage at the sorting port exists or not and picking or putting the current luggage.

Further, preferably, the image acquisition device records and multi-visually captures an image of the baggage, and the image is bound with the information of the baggage tag read by the baggage tag reading device.

Further, preferably, the display device divides one or more time window links to form a corresponding virtual sorting port according to actual conditions, and the display content configuration of the display device includes a flight number corresponding to baggage, a captured baggage binding picture, a baggage sorting graph and color mark, a baggage consignment total number of flights corresponding to baggage, and an accumulated sorting total number.

Compared with the prior art, the invention has the beneficial effects that:

1. the computer monitoring system binds the time window with the luggage information in the time window through the airport data interaction platform after the luggage tag information is read by the luggage tag reading device and the luggage image is collected by the image collecting device, and the image is bound with the luggage tag information to form binding of the luggage information, the luggage fear photo, the flight information and the passenger information, so that basic data are provided for self-service tracking and inquiry of articles lost in the airport and the like, and a basis is provided for finding and tracing the luggage.

2. The circulation times of the luggage in the luggage sorting device, the vacancy rate of the time windows, the real-time reaction of the efficiency of manual sorting, the manual work intensity, the equipment efficiency and the like can provide important data resources for the intelligent airport, the display device divides one or more time windows to be linked to form a corresponding virtual sorting port according to the actual situation, the display content configuration rule is flexible, the information is rich, and the real-time reminding is realized in the form of graphics and characters, so that the labor intensity of sorting personnel in the airport is reduced, and the sorting efficiency and the sorting accuracy of the luggage are effectively improved.

Drawings

Fig. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of a baggage sorting aid system based on time window technology virtual tracking according to the present invention;

fig. 2 is a flowchart of the operation of the baggage sorting method based on time window technology virtual tracking according to the embodiment of the present invention.

Detailed Description

The present invention will be described in further detail with reference to examples.

It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the following examples are illustrative of the invention only and should not be taken as limiting the scope of the invention. The examples do not specify particular techniques or conditions, and are performed according to the techniques or conditions described in the literature in the art or according to the product specifications. The materials or equipment used are not indicated by manufacturers, and all are conventional products available by purchase.

As used herein, the singular forms "a", "an", "the" and "the" are intended to include the plural forms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It will be further understood that the terms "comprises" and/or "comprising," when used in this specification, specify the presence of stated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/or components, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components, and/or groups thereof. It will be understood that when an element is referred to as being "connected" to another element, it can be directly connected to the other element or intervening elements may also be present.

In the description of the present invention, "a plurality" means two or more unless otherwise specified. The terms "inner," "upper," "lower," and the like, refer to an orientation or a state relationship based on that shown in the drawings, which is for convenience in describing and simplifying the description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus should not be construed as limiting the invention.

In the description of the present invention, it should be noted that, unless otherwise explicitly specified or limited, the terms "mounted," "connected," and "provided" are to be construed broadly, e.g., as being fixedly connected, detachably connected, or integrally connected; can be mechanically or electrically connected; may be directly connected or indirectly connected through an intermediate. To those of ordinary skill in the art, the specific meanings of the above terms in the present invention are understood according to specific situations.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that, unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used herein have the same meaning as commonly understood by one of ordinary skill in the art to which this invention belongs. It will be further understood that terms, such as those defined in commonly used dictionaries, should be interpreted as having a meaning that is consistent with their meaning in the context of the prior art and will not be interpreted in an idealized or overly formal sense unless expressly so defined herein.

As shown in fig. 1, a luggage sorting system based on time window technology virtual tracking comprises a luggage sorting device 1 for conveying and sorting luggage, a computer monitoring system 7 for performing time window sorting, and an airport data interaction platform 8 for the computer monitoring system to obtain flight, passenger information and feedback luggage binding information, wherein the computer monitoring system 7 is connected with the airport data interaction platform 8, the luggage sorting device 1 is provided with a luggage tag reading device 2, an image collecting device 3 and a display device 4, the computer monitoring system 7 is electrically connected with the luggage tag reading device 2, the image collecting device 3 and the display device 4 through a switch 6, the installation position of the luggage tag reading device 2 is used as a starting point of a new time window, the time window 5 is continuously added on the luggage sorting device 1, and the time window 5 is divided by using the luggage introduction port as the end point.

The luggage sorting device 1 is one of an annular turntable, a belt conveyor and a roller conveyor.

At least one baggage tag reading device 2 and one image acquisition device 3 are arranged above the baggage sorting device 1 according to the baggage conveying direction; the display device 4 comprises a display terminal and a host, at least one display device 4 is arranged above the luggage sorting device 1, one or more luggage sorting openings are virtualized through the display terminal, and the sorting openings are linked according to the distance relation of 0 or more time windows 5.

As shown in figure 2, a luggage sorting method based on time window technology virtual tracking, a computer monitoring system divides a luggage sorting device into a plurality of virtual time windows according to the maximum length of the luggage plus a certain gap and a certain time length of passing a certain point at a preset speed, the start point of a luggage tag reading device as a newly added time window is divided into a plurality of virtual time windows, under normal conditions, only one piece of luggage or no luggage is in one time window, abnormal processing is carried out when a plurality of pieces of luggage appear in one time window, the computer monitoring system binds the time windows and the luggage information in the time windows through an airport data interaction platform after the luggage tag reading device reads luggage tag information and an image acquisition device acquires luggage images, and along with the conveying operation of the luggage sorting device, the time windows move to different virtual sorting ports to provide corresponding display information for the display devices of the virtual sorting ports, and (4) enabling the sorting personnel to identify whether the current luggage at the sorting port exists or not and picking or putting the current luggage.

The image acquisition device records and takes a candid photograph of the luggage image in a multi-vision mode, and the image is bound with the information of the luggage tag read by the luggage tag reading device.

The display device divides one or more time window links to form a corresponding virtual sorting port according to actual conditions, and the display content configuration of the display device comprises flight numbers corresponding to the luggage, captured luggage binding pictures, luggage sorting graphs and color marks, luggage consignment total number of flights corresponding to the luggage, accumulated sorting total number and the like.

The virtual sorting port (display terminal) has the following distribution method:

the method comprises the following steps: after the sorting personnel stop the luggage board vehicle, the most convenient virtual sorting port (the display terminal corresponding to the virtual sorting port) is selected, and the display terminal is set through an on-site computer or a mobile APP to display one or more flight numbers.

The method 2 comprises the following steps: the system automatically identifies rules for distribution according to preset rules (such as maximum interval or minimum interval of adjacent flight sorting openings according to time, adjacent or maximum interval of flight sorting openings of the same airline company and the like), and sorting personnel place luggage trolleys according to the distribution rules, wherein the relevant rules include but are not limited to: by airline, by sorting personnel, or not, etc.

The display content of the display terminal is divided into:

1. current virtual sorting gate (display terminal): if the virtual sorting port (display terminal) is distributed according to the distribution method 1, displaying the set flight number and flight information; and if the virtual sorting port (display terminal) distribution method 2 is adopted, displaying the corresponding flight information according to the distribution rule, and if the virtual sorting port (display terminal) distribution method is not adopted, displaying the flight number and the flight information passing through the current sorting port. Flight numbers are marked with different colors to remind.

2. Whether the current time window baggage is the baggage of the current virtual sorting opening or not is displayed in a manner including but not limited to:

a. indicated by colors and graphs, red down-arrows indicate that the current sorting opening should pick up baggage, green right or left (left or right depending on the baggage conveying direction) other virtual sorting openings baggage, yellow "X" indicating baggage or abnormal baggage not of the present baggage sorting device.

b. Automatically identifying whether the baggage is at the current sorting port according to the distribution method of the virtual sorting port (display terminal), if so, displaying the image and flight information of the baggage by the display terminal, wherein the color of the flight information of the baggage is consistent with the color of the labeled flight; otherwise, not displaying;

3. the baggage to be sorted is displayed in a relevant manner including, but not limited to:

a. the colored and graphic representation is adopted, wherein red arrows in an oblique downward direction represent time window luggage of the virtual sorting port, green luggage to the right or left (left and right depend on the moving direction of the turntable) represent other virtual sorting ports, and yellow 'X' represents luggage of the non-virtual luggage sorting device or abnormal luggage.

b. Dynamically displaying the next upcoming time window baggage track meeting the allocation rule n seconds ahead (n configurable): and dynamically displaying the baggage conveying track from the first n seconds to the current sorting port by adopting characters, icons, thumbnails and the like and a color matching mode, wherein the information color of the baggage flight is consistent with the color of the labeled flight.

4. Displaying the current number of flights of the flight attendant, the number of pieces of baggage that have entered the baggage sorting device, and the number of non-picked pieces of baggage from the baggage tag reading device to the current virtual sorting gate.

If the baggage sorting device is a closed turntable, the unsorted baggage enters the tag reading device again along the baggage sorting device and enters the next sorting process; if the baggage sorting device is a belt-shaped non-closed conveying device, the display terminal displays information when the baggage is about to reach the terminal.

The working principle is as follows: the luggage is conveyed to a luggage tag reading device 2 through a luggage leading-in port, a time window is divided by taking the current tag reading device 2 as a starting point and the luggage leading-in port as an end point, tag information read by the luggage tag reading device 2 is related with corresponding flight and passenger information through a computer monitoring system, the luggage is subjected to image acquisition of the current luggage through an image acquisition device 3 and is bound and stored with the acquired related information, the system calculates the virtual luggage path and the display terminal position of the time window, the luggage image and the flight information which pass through the current display device are displayed according to the rule configured by the display terminal (the display terminal position can be moved according to actual requirements, one or more time windows are automatically divided by the system to form a corresponding virtual sorting port for sorting personnel to use), and the unsorted luggage enters the next display terminal (when a plurality of display terminals) or reenters the tag reading device, and entering the next sorting process.

The computer monitoring system binds the time window with the luggage information in the time window through the airport data interaction platform after the luggage tag information is read by the luggage tag reading device and the luggage image is collected by the image collecting device, and the image is bound with the luggage tag information to form binding of the luggage information, the luggage fear photo, the flight information and the passenger information, so that basic data are provided for self-service tracking inquiry and the like of articles lost in an airport, and a basis is provided for finding and tracing the luggage; luggage is at luggage sorting device's cycle number, the vacancy rate of time window, the efficiency of real-time reaction manual sorting, artifical working strength, equipment efficiency etc. can provide the data resource of important value for the wisdom airport, display device divides one or more time window links to form a virtual letter sorting mouth that corresponds according to actual conditions, it is nimble to show content configuration rule, information is abundant, and remind in real time with the graphic characters form, when reducing airport letter sorting personnel's intensity of labour, the letter sorting efficiency and the accuracy of luggage have effectively been improved.

In the description of the present invention, it is to be understood that the terms "coaxial", "bottom", "one end", "top", "middle", "other end", "upper", "one side", "top", "inner", "front", "center", "both ends", and the like, indicate orientations or positional relationships based on those shown in the drawings, and are only for convenience of description and simplicity of description, and do not indicate or imply that the referenced device or element must have a particular orientation, be constructed and operated in a particular orientation, and thus, are not to be construed as limiting the present invention.

The foregoing shows and describes the general principles, essential features, and advantages of the invention. It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the present invention is not limited to the embodiments described above, which are described in the specification and illustrated only to illustrate the principle of the present invention, but that various changes and modifications may be made therein without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention, which fall within the scope of the invention as claimed. The scope of the invention is defined by the appended claims and equivalents thereof.