@ARTICLE{Li_Ruipeng_Study_2025,
 author={Li, Ruipeng and Hu, Miaocan and Pan, Shuangying and Lou, Xiang and Yang, Qihua},
 volume={vol. 72},
 number={No 4},
 journal={Archive of Mechanical Engineering},
 pages={685-713},
 howpublished={online},
 year={2025},
 publisher={Polish Academy of Sciences, Committee on Machine Building},
 abstract={The automatic conveying line is the key equipment of material flow system in logistics distribution centers. However, conventional automatic conveying line would take up a relatively large place, yet it could only perform simple tasks such as moving packages along a straight line. It is also difficult and costly to add/change an existing conveying line, which makes the distribution center rigid, inflexible, and unfriendly to maintain. To improve the automatic conveying line, this paper proposed a roller array-based package transport and sorting platform, which can be used for logistics distribution centers for advanced automatic conveying purposes. The roller unit is the key component of the platform. It consists of a swiveling roller and a swiveling motor which give the packages the required direction and velocity. Package detection technique is also integrated in the platform to detect the geometry center of the moving package for transport feedback control. The proposed control algorithm enables the platform to perform package translation, rotation, turning and a normal transport. The experiment results show that the transport velocity error is about 6% and the rotation angular velocity error is 5%. The package could move along the designed ‘S’ shape trajectory. The proposed roller array-based package transport and sorting platform could control the package movement as required.},
 type={Article},
 title={Study on the roller array based package transport and sorting platform},
 URL={http://ochroma.man.poznan.pl/Content/137292/PDF-MASTER/AME_2025_156870v2.pdf},
 doi={10.24425/ame.2025.156870},
}