公开(公告)号：US20230100112A1

公开(公告)日：2023-03-30

申请号：US17931944

申请日：2022-09-14

Applicant: Roche Diagnostics Operations, Inc.

Inventor： Edwin Oosterbroek ,  Nicolas Sillitoe

IPC: G01N35/10 ,  G01C21/34 ,  G01N35/00 ,  G01C21/36

Abstract: A distribution system is disclosed. The distribution system comprises a transport plan comprising logical positions, carriers for transporting objects, a drive system to move the carriers on the transport plan between logical positions, a control system configured for controlling the carriers to move on a planned route from a start position to a final destination position on the transport plane via logical positions, wherein the control system comprises a routing system configured for calculating routes for at least two carriers on the transport plane by modeling the transport plane with graphs of nodes, wherein the routing system is configured for calculating the planned routes considering balancing of surface usage of the transport plane, and wherein the routing system is configured for considering temporal blocking of logical positions and/or a considering variable move length and/or considering a variable reservation length.