Provided is a package reception management system including a delivery vehicle configured to move in an unmanned operation. The package reception management system is configured to: acquire a reception region in which a package transported by the delivery vehicle is to be passed to a user being a delivery destination; issue authentication information to be input to the delivery vehicle in the reception region by the user being the delivery destination; and to notify the user of the issued authentication information. In the issuing, the package reception management system sets information for restricting later issuing of the issued authentication information for the reception region, and restricts issuing of the same authentication information as at least one piece of authentication information restricted in the issuing for the reception region.

Provided is a package reception management system including a delivery vehicle configured to move in an unmanned operation. The package reception management system is configured to: acquire a reception region in which a package transported by the delivery vehicle is to be passed to a user being a delivery destination; issue authentication information to be input to the delivery vehicle in the reception region by the user being the delivery destination; and to notify the user of the issued authentication information. In the issuing, the package reception management system sets information for restricting later issuing of the issued authentication information for the reception region, and restricts issuing of the same authentication information as at least one piece of authentication information restricted in the issuing for the reception region.

A method in which a probability of the occurrence of a disruption is issued and/or a measure is initiated which reduces the probability of the occurrence of this disruption if the occurrence of a disruption is probable, bases the probability on unit load properties of a conveyed unit load. In this method, the transport of this unit load is classified with regard to whether or not a disruption occurs during the transport of this unit load. The unit load properties are fed into a learning algorithm together with the transport classification. By repeating the steps for a number of unit loads, the probability of the occurrence of a disruption during the transport of the unit loads can be computed. Further, a picking system carries out the method presented.

The present disclosure provides an order processing method, an outbound method, a device, a system, and a storage medium. A server obtains a slot capacity of each workstation and a preset virtual capacity, determines a to-be-processed order of each workstation according to the slot capacity and the virtual capacity, and generates an outbound instruction according to the to-be-processed order. A transfer device transfers goods in the to-be-processed order from the warehouse according to the outbound instruction.

A communications server apparatus, and associated method, for allocating resources to service requests related to a shared economy on demand service or asset provision, the communications server apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, and being configured, under the control of the processor, to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive a plurality of service requests, each service request comprising data representative of a service or asset requested and a delivery time at or by which said service or asset is required; determine, in respect of each said service request, a lead time comprising a time period between a time at which a respective service request is received and the associated delivery time; compare each said lead time with a predetermined threshold, and define each respective lead time as high if it is greater than the predetermined threshold and low if it is less than the predetermined threshold; receive resource data comprising data representative of available resources capable of providing said service or asset; generate cost matrix data, each element of said cost matrix being representative of an available resource-service request pair, said cost matrix data assigning, in respect of each available resource-service request pair, a cost value; wherein assigning cost values comprises calculating, for each available resource-service request pair, a cost value, dependent on whether the lead time associated with the respective service request is high or low; and, for each service request, select, from a respective set of available resource-service request pair cost values, a minimum cost value and assign the available resource associated with the selected cost value to the respective service request.

A communications server apparatus, and associated method, for allocating resources to service requests related to a shared economy on demand service or asset provision, the communications server apparatus comprising a processor and a memory, and being configured, under the control of the processor, to execute instructions stored in the memory to receive a plurality of service requests, each service request comprising data representative of a service or asset requested and a delivery time at or by which said service or asset is required; determine, in respect of each said service request, a lead time comprising a time period between a time at which a respective service request is received and the associated delivery time; compare each said lead time with a predetermined threshold, and define each respective lead time as high if it is greater than the predetermined threshold and low if it is less than the predetermined threshold; receive resource data comprising data representative of available resources capable of providing said service or asset; generate cost matrix data, each element of said cost matrix being representative of an available resource-service request pair, said cost matrix data assigning, in respect of each available resource-service request pair, a cost value; wherein assigning cost values comprises calculating, for each available resource-service request pair, a cost value, dependent on whether the lead time associated with the respective service request is high or low; and, for each service request, select, from a respective set of available resource-service request pair cost values, a minimum cost value and assign the available resource associated with the selected cost value to the respective service request.

In various aspects, a first set of attributes associated with a target location are determined. The target location is a location that one or more items are to be delivered to by an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The first set of attributes are compared with a second set of attributes. The second set of attributes indicate attributes of each UAV of a plurality of UAVs. Based on the comparing, a UAV, of the plurality of UAVs, is recommended to deliver the one or more items to the target location.

A method for supporting delivery using a robot is provided. The method includes the steps of: acquiring delivery information on a delivery item; determining a first location with respect to a building specified from the delivery information and causing a robot to travel to the first location; and causing the robot to travel to a second location in the building specified from the delivery information, with reference to at least one of handover information and takeover information on the delivery item.

Methods, systems, and apparatuses may provide for receiving an indication of a set of sites in a geographical area, wherein the set of sites comprises a plurality of spare distribution sites; receiving an indication of a respective physical routing distance of each site of the geographical area; and determining a centrality value for each respective site of the plurality of candidate distribution sites of the geographic area, wherein the centrality value is based on the respective physical routing distance of each site of the geographical area.

Technologies and techniques for delivering an order to an at least semiautonomous motor vehicle, and a motor vehicle. If an ordering function is activated, provider information is obtained from potential providers that offer delivery of an order by means of a mobile delivery system within a predefined area on a determined route from a current position of the motor vehicle to a destination. Coordinates and a time for a meeting of the motor vehicle with the mobile delivery system are determined for each of the potential providers that have been determined using traffic condition and planning criteria, and a corresponding ordering option that can be activated is provided. As soon as the ordering option is activated, the motor vehicle is at least semiautonomously driven to the determined meeting.