CN114913880B - Optical disc library and control method thereof - Google Patents
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Abstract
The invention provides an optical disc library and a control method. The optical disc library comprises a shell, a plurality of disc bin frames, a manipulator and a manipulator, wherein the width dimension of the shell is the sum of the width dimensions of at least two standard cabinets, the depth dimension of the shell is the depth dimension of one standard cabinet, the height dimension of the shell is the height dimension of one standard cabinet, the disc bin frames are arranged in the shell along the width direction of the shell and are controlled to move along the width direction of the shell, so that an effective space can be reserved between every two adjacent disc bin frames arranged face to form the manipulator corridor, and the manipulator is controlled to move along the width direction, the depth direction and the height direction to allow the manipulator to move to a designated position of any manipulator corridor. Compared with the optical disc library in the prior art, the optical disc library can be provided with more disc warehouse frames, and the number of the effective optical discs of the unit cabinet is increased.
Description
Technical Field
The invention relates to the technical field of data storage, in particular to an optical disc library and a control method thereof.
Background
Large optical disc libraries are typically designed in a modular configuration, which is convenient to maintain and use. To accommodate standardized deployment of data centers, the cabinet outer dimensions of large optical disc libraries should generally conform to the requirements of 19 inch standard cabinets.
As shown in fig. 1, the optical disc library is composed of three major parts, namely a medium storage section, a robot arm 1 and an optical disc. The manipulator is used for loading the optical disc medium into the optical disc drive in the optical disc set and unloading and replacing the optical disc after the read-write operation is completed. In the optical disc library, as shown in fig. 2, the medium storing part is composed of an optical disc cartridge, an optical disc cartridge compartment, and a shelf for accommodating the optical disc cartridge compartment. The optical disc cartridge is referred to as a disc cartridge 2, and can accommodate a plurality of optical discs therein. The optical disc cartridge Jian Chenpan is used for accommodating multiple layers and columns of optical disc cartridges. The cartridge 2 can be inserted into the compartment of the magazine 3 and locked, and can be unlocked and removed from the magazine 3 when required. The rack accommodating a plurality of vertically aligned cartridges is referred to as a cartridge rack 4, and the cartridges 3 can be pushed into the cartridge rack 4 from the front end and locked, and can be unlocked and withdrawn from the cartridge rack 4 when necessary. Under the size constraint of a standard cabinet, the most effective placement mode is that two tray bin frames are arranged on two sides of the cabinet face to face, and a space for the horizontal back and forth movement of a manipulator is reserved in the middle, which is called a manipulator corridor.
A standard rack can hold two rows of disc warehouse racks and a manipulator corridor between the two rows of disc warehouse racks at most, the width of the two rows of disc warehouse racks plus the width of the manipulator corridor occupy most of the effective width of the whole rack, and the left space on two sides is insufficient for further placing the disc warehouse racks, so that only waste is generated, the placing efficiency is maximized, and the essential improvement cannot be performed.
Disclosure of Invention
An object of the present invention is to provide an optical disc library capable of placing more disc cartridges on the premise that a plurality of cabinets are arranged in a row.
Another object of the present invention is to further increase the number of optical discs available in a unit cabinet.
In particular, the present invention provides an optical disc library comprising:
The size of the shell in the width direction is the sum of the width sizes of at least two standard cabinets, the size of the shell in the depth direction is the depth size of one standard cabinet, and the size of the shell in the height direction is the height size of one standard cabinet;
A plurality of tray bins arranged in the housing in the width direction of the housing, the tray bins being controllably movable in the width direction of the housing such that an effective space is reserved between each two adjacent tray bins arranged face-to-face to form a robot corridor;
And a manipulator arranged to controllably move in the width direction, the depth direction, and the height direction to allow the manipulator to move to a designated position in any one of the manipulator aisles.
Optionally, each tray deck is provided with a plurality of trays stacked in a height direction thereof, a plurality of rows of stacked trays are arranged in each tray deck, and a tray of each tray is operatively drawn out by the robot in a front opening direction of the tray deck.
Optionally, the first tray bin frame and the 2N tray bin frame which are positioned at two ends of the width direction of the shell are fixed at two ends of the shell, and the front opening directions of the tray bins in the first tray bin frame and the 2N tray bin frame face towards the center of the shell, wherein N is more than or equal to 1 and is a positive integer.
Optionally, a front opening of a tray in a second tray rack adjacent to the first tray rack faces the first tray rack, so that the first tray rack and the second tray rack form a face-to-face arrangement structure;
the front opening of the tray bin in the 2N-1 tray bin rack adjacent to the 2N tray bin rack faces the 2N tray bin rack, so that the 2N tray bin rack and the 2N-1 tray bin rack form a face-to-face arrangement structure.
Optionally, the cartridge rack includes the first cartridge rack, the second cartridge rack, a third cartridge rack, a fourth cartridge rack, a 2N-3 th cartridge rack, a 2N-2 nd cartridge rack, the 2N-1 th cartridge rack, and the 2N-th cartridge rack sequentially arranged in the width direction of the housing;
The first tray bin frame and the second tray bin frame form a first surface tray bin frame group, the third and fourth tray deck constitute a second facing tray deck group, & gt, the 2N-3 th and 2N-2 nd tray deck constitute an N-1 th facing tray deck group, the 2N-1 th and 2N-th tray deck constitute an N-th facing tray deck group;
a face-to-face arrangement is formed between the two cartridge holders of each set of face-to-face cartridge sets.
Optionally, the second and third cartridge racks form a back-to-back arrangement that is snug and inseparable from each other and is operable to move in the width direction of the housing to allow for an effective space between the first and second cartridge racks to form the robot corridor.
Optionally, the second and third tray racks form a first back-to-back tray rack set, the fourth and fifth tray racks form a second back-to-back tray rack set, the 2N-2 tray rack and the 2N-1 tray rack form an N-1 back-to-back tray rack set;
A back-to-back arrangement is formed between two tray deck of each back-to-back tray deck set, and any one of the back-to-back tray deck sets is arranged to be operatively movable in the width direction of the housing;
When the ith back-to-back tray bin frame group moves along the width direction of the shell, an effective space is dynamically reserved between two tray bin frames in the ith surface tray bin frame group, so that the manipulator corridor is formed, wherein i is more than or equal to 1;
Optionally, when the ith back-to-back tray deck group moves along the width direction of the housing towards a direction approaching to the first tray deck, an effective space is dynamically reserved between two tray deck in the ith+1th facing tray deck group, so as to form the manipulator corridor, wherein i is more than or equal to 1;
alternatively, only one robot corridor is formed at a time.
Optionally, the manipulator includes:
a lateral guide rail allowing the robot to move in the width direction of the housing;
a longitudinal guide allowing the robot to move in the depth direction of the housing;
and the lifting guide rail allows the manipulator to move along the height direction of the shell.
Optionally, a predetermined space is reserved between the top of the housing in the height direction, the end of the tray deck in the depth direction and the back of the housing to allow the robot to controllably move to the top in the height direction and to the designated position in the depth direction, and then to move in the width direction, so as to realize the crossing of the robot from one robot corridor to another robot corridor.
In particular, the invention also provides a control method of the optical disc library, which sequentially comprises the following steps:
controlling a manipulator of the optical disc library to move and rise to the top of the optical disc library along the height direction of a shell of the optical disc library and move to the back of the optical disc library along the depth direction of the shell;
Controlling a plurality of back-to-back tray bin frame groups to move along the width direction of the shell, enabling two face-to-face tray bin frames of an original manipulator corridor to be close, and enabling two designated another group of face-to-face tray bin frames to be separated to form another manipulator corridor;
controlling the manipulator to move to a newly formed manipulator corridor position along the width direction of the shell;
and controlling the manipulator to move to a designated disc box position in a designated disc bin along the depth direction and the height direction of the shell.
Compared with the scheme that one standard cabinet can only accommodate two rows of cabinet racks and a mechanical arm corridor between the two rows of cabinet racks, the application can dynamically move the mechanical arm corridor, so that the cabinet racks of the optical disc library with a plurality of standard cabinet widths can share one mechanical arm corridor, and the more the number of cabinet racks arranged into one row, the more the effective optical disc number of the unit cabinet width of the optical disc library can be improved. Where the unit cabinet width represents the width of one standard cabinet.
Further, by moving the back-to-back tray deck groups, an effective space is created between two tray deck frames in the facing panel tray deck groups, forming a robot corridor. In addition, in the application, only one manipulator corridor is formed at the same time, when the manipulator corridor is formed, two tray bins in one group of facing tray bin frames are necessarily gathered together, and the two tray bins in the other group of facing tray bin frames are separated or opened at the same time, that is, the plurality of tray bins share one manipulator, and one manipulator corridor can be dynamically formed at the same time, so that more effective space can be generated for accommodating more tray bins. That is, the two kinds of relations are formed between the disc bin frames, and the disc bin frames are gathered to other disc frames to give effective space, or are opened to form a mechanical hand corridor.
The above, as well as additional objectives, advantages, and features of the present invention will become apparent to those skilled in the art from the following detailed description of a specific embodiment of the present invention when read in conjunction with the accompanying drawings.
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Some specific embodiments of the invention will be described in detail hereinafter by way of example and not by way of limitation with reference to the accompanying drawings. The same reference numbers will be used throughout the drawings to refer to the same or like parts or portions. It will be appreciated by those skilled in the art that the drawings are not necessarily drawn to scale. In the accompanying drawings:
Fig. 1 shows a schematic top view of a prior art optical disc library;
FIG. 2 shows a schematic block diagram of a prior art optical disc library (with a portion of the housing and a portion of the disc cartridge hidden);
FIG. 3 shows a schematic block diagram of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 4 shows a schematic top view of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 5 shows another schematic top view of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 6 shows yet another schematic top view of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention;
fig. 7 shows still another schematic top view of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention;
Fig. 8 is a schematic flowchart of a control method of an optical disc library according to an embodiment of the present invention;
In the figure, 1-manipulator, 11-transverse guide rail, 12-longitudinal guide rail, 13-lifting guide rail, 2-tray box, 3-tray bin, 4-tray bin frame, 41-first tray bin frame, 42-second tray bin frame, 43-third tray bin frame, 44-fourth tray bin frame, 45-fifth tray bin frame, 46-sixth tray bin frame, 5-manipulator corridor, 6-shell,
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In the prior art, one standard cabinet can accommodate two cartridge racks 4 and one robot corridor 5, wherein the required width of the robot corridor 5 is larger than the width of one cartridge rack 4 and smaller than the width of two cartridge racks 4. However, in the conventional standard cabinet, there is still an excessive space in the width direction, but this excessive space cannot be used for placing one more cartridge rack 4, and therefore, there is a certain space waste. In this case, the present application proposes the following scheme:
Embodiment one:
Fig. 3 shows a schematic block diagram of an optical disc library according to an embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 4 shows a schematic top view of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention. As shown in fig. 3 and 4, the optical disc library includes a housing 6, a plurality of cartridge holders, and a robot 1. The width dimension of the housing 6 is the sum of the width dimensions of two standard cabinets, the depth dimension of the housing 6 is the depth dimension of one standard cabinet, and the height dimension of the housing 6 is the height dimension of one standard cabinet. The plurality of disc cartridge frames 4 are arranged in the housing 6 along the width direction of the housing 6, and the disc cartridge frames 4 are arranged to be dynamically movable along the width direction of the housing 6, so that an effective space can be reserved between every two disc cartridge frames 4 arranged adjacently face to form a manipulator corridor 5. The robot 1 is arranged to controllably move in the width direction, depth direction and height direction to allow the robot 1 to move to a designated position in any one of the robot aisles 5.
Fig. 3 shows a schematic perspective view of an optical disc library according to one embodiment of the present invention. In the embodiment shown in fig. 3, the optical disc library has a width of two standard cabinets, which can accommodate six cartridge holders 4 and one robot corridor 5, and obviously, compared with the prior art that two standard cabinets can accommodate only four cartridge holders 4, the number of optical discs that can be accommodated by the optical disc library is significantly larger than that of two cartridge holders 4.
Referring to fig. 2, the cartridge frame 4 is identical to the prior art cartridge frame 4 in structure, each cartridge frame 4 is provided with a plurality of cartridges 3 stacked in the height direction thereof, a plurality of columns of cartridges stacked in layers are arranged in each cartridge 3, and the tray of each cartridge is operatively withdrawn by the robot arm 1 in the direction of the front opening of the cartridge.
Referring to fig. 3, the robot 1 includes a lateral rail 11, a longitudinal rail 12, and a lifting rail 13. The lateral guide 11 allows the robot arm 1 to move in the width direction of the housing 6. The longitudinal rail 12 allows the robot arm 1 to move in the depth direction of the housing 6. The elevation guide 13 allows the robot 1 to move in the height direction of the housing 6. Defining the height direction of the cartridge frame 4 to have a top and a bottom, the depth direction of the cartridge frame 4 to have a front and a back, and the width direction of the cartridge frame 4 to have a left and a right. The same definition applies to the top, bottom, front, back, left side and right side of the housing 6.
The height of the cartridge frame 4 is lower than the height of the housing 6 to allow a space allowing the robot 1 to move between the top of the cartridge frame 4 and the top of the housing 6, and a predetermined space allowing the robot 1 to move is left between the back of the cartridge frame 4 and the back of the housing 6, wherein the back of the cartridge frame 4 is the end of the cartridge frame 4 in the depth direction. The robot 1 can be controllably moved in the height direction to a space between the top of the cartridge rack 4 and the top of the housing 6, then in the depth direction to a predetermined space, and finally in the width direction to a target position corresponding to a specified optical disc, thereby realizing the crossing of the robot 1 from one robot corridor 5 to another robot corridor 5.
Referring to fig. 4 to 7, the optical disc library includes six cartridge racks 4, a first cartridge rack 41, a second cartridge rack 42, a third cartridge rack 43, a fourth cartridge rack 44, a fifth cartridge rack 45, and a sixth cartridge rack 46 in this order from the left side to the right side. The first cartridge frame 41 is fixed to the left side of the housing 6 in the drawing, and the sixth cartridge frame 46 is fixed to the right side of the housing 6. The front opening directions of the cartridges in the first cartridge holder 41 and the sixth cartridge holder 46 are each directed toward the center of the housing 6. The front opening of the second cartridge holder 42 is directed toward the first cartridge holder 41, such that the first cartridge holder 41 and the second cartridge holder 42 form a face-to-face arrangement. The front opening of the third cartridge holder 43 is directed toward the fourth cartridge holder 44, and the front opening of the fourth cartridge holder 44 is directed toward the third cartridge holder 43, such that the third cartridge holder 43 and the fourth cartridge holder 44 form a face-to-face arrangement. The front opening of the fifth cartridge bay 45 is directed toward the sixth cartridge bay 46 such that the fifth cartridge bay 45 and the sixth cartridge bay 46 form a face-to-face arrangement. I.e. in a face-to-face arrangement, the front openings of the two cartridge holders face each other. Thus, the six cartridge racks constitute three sets of facing cartridge groups, a first facing cartridge group constituted by the first cartridge rack 41 and the second cartridge rack 42 together, a second facing cartridge group constituted by the third cartridge rack 43 and the fourth cartridge rack 44 together, and a third facing cartridge group constituted by the fifth cartridge rack 45 and the sixth cartridge rack 46 together, respectively.
Wherein the second and third cartridge frames 42 and 43 form a back-to-back arrangement that is snug and inseparable from each other, and the fourth and fifth cartridge frames 44 and 45 form a back-to-back arrangement that is snug and inseparable from each other. Thus, the six tray carriers form two back-to-back tray carrier sets, a first back-to-back tray carrier set comprising the second tray carrier 42 and the third tray carrier 43 together, and a second back-to-back tray carrier set comprising the fourth tray carrier 44 and the fifth tray carrier 45. Any one of the back-to-back tray deck sets is arranged to be operable to move in the width direction of the housing 6.
When the first back-to-back tray deck group moves to the right in the figure in the width direction, that is, moves toward the direction approaching the sixth tray deck 46, an effective space can be dynamically made between the two tray deck groups in the first facing tray deck group, thereby forming the robot corridor 5. When the first back-to-back tray deck group moves to the left in the figure in the width direction, i.e. towards the direction approaching the first tray deck 41, an effective space can be dynamically made between the two tray deck in the second facing tray deck group, thereby forming the robot corridor 5.
When the second back-to-back tray deck group moves to the right in the figure in the width direction, an effective space can be dynamically made between the two tray deck in the second facing tray deck group, thereby forming the robot corridor 5. When the second back-to-back tray deck group moves to the left in the figure in the width direction, an effective space can be dynamically made between the two tray deck in the third face-to-face tray deck group, thereby forming the robot corridor 5.
Wherein only one robot corridor 5 is formed at the same time.
The robot 1 can span from any one of the robot hand corridors 5 to any other one of the robot hand corridors 5, as shown in fig. 4 to 7, showing the robot hand 1 spanning from the robot hand corridors 5 between the first tray deck 41 and the second tray deck 42 to the robot hand corridors 5 between the third tray deck 43 and the fourth tray deck 44, the robot hand 1 first moves from the robot hand corridors 5 between the first tray deck 41 and the second tray deck 42 in the height direction to the space between the top of the tray deck and the top of the housing 6, then moves in the depth direction to the predetermined space between the back of the tray deck and the back of the housing 6, and finally moves in the width direction to the target position corresponding to the specified optical disc, thereby completing the spanning from one robot hand corridors 5 to the other robot hand corridors 5. The purpose of crossing any one manipulator corridor 5 to any other manipulator corridor 5 can be achieved according to actual needs.
When the robot 1 receives a control command to cross from one robot corridor 5 to another robot corridor 5, the robot 1 can move back to leave the other robot corridor 5 by moving the back-to-back tray bin rack set after leaving the original robot corridor 5, and after leaving the other robot corridor 5, the robot 1 continues to move until moving to the other robot corridor 5. That is, the back-to-back tray deck groups are movable.
Compared with the scheme that one standard cabinet can only accommodate two rows of cabinet frames and a mechanical arm corridor 5 positioned between the two rows of cabinet frames in the prior art, the application can dynamically move the mechanical arm corridor 5, so that the cabinet frames of the optical disc library with a plurality of standard cabinet widths can share one mechanical arm corridor 5, and the more the number of the cabinet frames arranged into one row, the more the effective optical disc number of the unit cabinet width of the optical disc library can be improved. Where the unit cabinet width represents the width of one standard cabinet.
Further, by moving the back-to-back tray deck groups, an effective space is made between two tray deck in the facing tray deck groups, forming a robot corridor 5. In addition, in the present application, only one manipulator corridor 5 is formed at the same time, when the manipulator corridor 5 is formed, there is necessarily a group of two facing bin frames in the facing bin frame group which are combined together, and at the same time, the other group of two facing bin frames in the facing bin frame group are separated or opened, that is, a plurality of facing bin frames share one manipulator 1, and one manipulator corridor 5 can be dynamically formed at the same time, so that more effective space can be generated for accommodating more facing bin frames. That is, the two kinds of relations are formed between the disc cartridge frames, and the disc cartridge frames are gathered to other disc frames to give effective space, or are opened to form a mechanical arm corridor 5.
Thus, in embodiments of the present invention, by closing the robot corridor 5 where there is temporarily no operational requirement, more tray racks can be placed under a given enclosure width constraint. By moving the respective cartridge racks, a robot corridor 5 required for the operation of the robot 1 can be dynamically created.
Correspondingly, as shown in fig. 8, the present invention further provides a control method of the foregoing optical disc library, which sequentially includes:
Step S100, controlling a manipulator of the optical disc library to move up to the top of the optical disc library along the height direction of a shell of the optical disc library and move to the back of the optical disc library along the depth direction of the shell;
step S200, controlling a plurality of back-to-back tray bin frame groups to move along the width direction of a shell, enabling two face-to-face tray bin frames of an original manipulator corridor to be close, and enabling two designated another group of face-to-face tray bin frames to be separated to form another manipulator corridor;
step S300, controlling the manipulator to move to the newly formed manipulator corridor position along the width direction of the shell;
Step S400, controlling the manipulator to move to a designated disc box position in a designated disc bin along the depth direction and the height direction of the shell;
And S500, the control method is used for controlling the movement of the manipulator and the disc cartridge frame so as to achieve the purpose that any one manipulator corridor spans to any other manipulator corridor formed dynamically.
Embodiment two:
the difference between the second embodiment and the first embodiment is that the dimension of the optical disc library in the width direction is the sum of the width dimensions of the three standard cabinets. At this time, the optical disc library can accommodate eight disc cartridge frames, which is obviously larger than the number of optical discs which can be accommodated by two disc cartridge frames compared with the case that three standard cabinets can only accommodate six disc cartridge frames in the prior art.
Correspondingly, the optical disc library comprises eight disc warehouse frames, wherein a first disc warehouse frame, a second disc warehouse frame, a third disc warehouse frame, a 2N-3 disc warehouse frame, a 2N-2 disc warehouse frame, a 2N-1 disc warehouse frame and a 2N disc warehouse frame are sequentially arranged from the left side to the right side. Where n=4.
The first and second tray racks form a first facing tray rack set, the third and fourth tray racks form a second facing tray rack set, the 2N-3 tray rack and the 2N-2 tray rack form an N-1 facing tray rack set, and the 2N-1 tray rack and the 2N tray rack form an N facing tray rack set. A face-to-face arrangement is formed between the two cartridge holders of each set of face-to-face cartridge sets.
The second and third tray racks form a first back-to-back tray rack set, the fourth and fifth tray racks form a second back-to-back tray rack set, and the 2N-2 and 2N-1 tray racks form an N-1 back-to-back tray rack set. The two tray racks in each set of back-to-back tray rack sets form a back-to-back arrangement that is snug and inseparable from each other and is operable to move in the width direction of the housing.
When the ith back-to-back tray bin frame group moves along the width direction of the shell towards the direction close to the 2N tray bin frame, an effective space is dynamically reserved between two tray bin frames in the ith surface tray bin frame group, so that a manipulator corridor is formed, wherein i is more than or equal to 1;
When the ith back-to-back tray bin frame group moves along the width direction of the shell towards the direction close to the first tray bin frame, an effective space is dynamically reserved between the two tray bin frames in the ith+1th face tray bin frame group, so that a manipulator corridor is formed, wherein i is more than or equal to 1.
In other embodiments, the width-wise dimension of the optical disc library is the sum of the width dimensions of three, four or more standard cabinets, and N may be 5, 6 or other larger positive integer values.
By now it should be appreciated by those skilled in the art that while a number of exemplary embodiments of the invention have been shown and described herein in detail, many other variations or modifications of the invention consistent with the principles of the invention may be directly ascertained or inferred from the present disclosure without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. Accordingly, the scope of the present invention should be understood and deemed to cover all such other variations or modifications.
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1. An optical disc library, comprising:
The size of the shell in the width direction is the sum of the width sizes of at least two standard cabinets, the size of the shell in the depth direction is the depth size of one standard cabinet, and the size of the shell in the height direction is the height size of one standard cabinet;
A plurality of tray bins arranged in the housing in the width direction of the housing, the tray bins being controllably movable in the width direction of the housing such that an effective space is reserved between each two adjacent tray bins arranged face-to-face to form a robot corridor;
a manipulator arranged to controllably move in the width direction, the depth direction, and the height direction to allow the manipulator to move to a designated position in any one of the manipulator aisles;
the first tray bin frames and the 2N tray bin frames positioned at two ends of the width direction of the shell are fixed at two ends of the shell, and the front opening directions of the tray bins in the first tray bin frames and the 2N tray bin frames face to the center of the shell, wherein N is more than or equal to 1 and is a positive integer;
the front opening of a disc bin in a second disc bin frame adjacent to the first disc bin frame faces the first disc bin frame, so that the first disc bin frame and the second disc bin frame form a face-to-face arrangement structure;
the front opening of the tray bin in the 2N-1 tray bin rack adjacent to the 2N tray bin rack faces the 2N tray bin rack, so that the 2N tray bin rack and the 2N-1 tray bin rack form a face-to-face arrangement structure.
2. The disc library according to claim 1, wherein each of the cartridges is erected with a plurality of cartridges stacked in a height direction thereof, a plurality of rows of cartridges stacked in layers are arranged in each of the cartridges, and a tray of each of the cartridges is operatively withdrawn by the robot in a direction of a front opening of the cartridge.
3. The optical disc library according to claim 1, wherein the cartridge rack comprises the first cartridge rack, the second cartridge rack, a third cartridge rack, a fourth cartridge rack, a2 nd N-3 cartridge rack, a2 nd N-2 cartridge rack, the 2 nd N-1 cartridge rack, and the 2 nd N cartridge rack, which are sequentially arranged in the width direction of the housing;
The first tray bin frame and the second tray bin frame form a first surface tray bin frame group, the third and fourth tray deck constitute a second facing tray deck group, & gt, the 2N-3 th and 2N-2 nd tray deck constitute an N-1 th facing tray deck group, the 2N-1 th and 2N-th tray deck constitute an N-th facing tray deck group;
a face-to-face arrangement is formed between the two cartridge holders of each set of face-to-face cartridge sets.
4. The optical disc library of claim 3, wherein the second and third cartridge frames form a back-to-back arrangement that is snug and inseparable from each other and is operable to move in the width direction of the housing to allow for an effective space between the first and second cartridge frames to form the robotic corridor.
5. The optical disc library of claim 4, wherein the second tray deck and the third tray deck form a first back-to-back tray deck group, the fourth tray deck and fifth tray deck form a second back-to-back tray deck group, the 2N-2 tray deck and the 2N-1 tray deck form an N-1 back-to-back tray deck group;
A back-to-back arrangement is formed between two tray deck of each back-to-back tray deck set, and any one of the back-to-back tray deck sets is arranged to be operatively movable in the width direction of the housing;
when the ith back-to-back disc bin frame group moves along the width direction of the shell towards the direction close to the 2N disc bin frame, an effective space is dynamically reserved between two disc bin frames in the ith surface-facing disc bin frame group, so that the manipulator corridor is formed, wherein i is more than or equal to 1.
6. The disc library of claim 5, wherein,
When the ith back-to-back tray bin frame group moves along the width direction of the shell towards the direction close to the first tray bin frame, an effective space is dynamically reserved between two tray bin frames in the ith+1th face tray bin frame group, so that the manipulator corridor is formed, wherein i is more than or equal to 1.
7. The disc library of claim 6, wherein,
Only one robot corridor is formed at a time.
8. The optical disc library of claim 1, wherein the manipulator comprises:
a lateral guide rail allowing the robot to move in the width direction of the housing;
a longitudinal guide allowing the robot to move in the depth direction of the housing;
and the lifting guide rail allows the manipulator to move along the height direction of the shell.
9. The optical disc library according to claim 8, wherein a predetermined space is reserved between the top of the housing in the height direction, the end of the cartridge frame in the depth direction, and the back of the housing to allow the robot to controllably move to the top in the height direction, to move to the predetermined space in the depth direction, and to move in the width direction, thereby realizing the crossing of the robot from one robot corridor to another.
10. A method of controlling an optical disc library according to any one of claims 1 to 9, comprising the steps of, in order:
controlling a manipulator of the optical disc library to move and rise to the top of the optical disc library along the height direction of a shell of the optical disc library and move to the back of the optical disc library along the depth direction of the shell;
Controlling a plurality of back-to-back tray bin frame groups to move along the width direction of the shell, enabling two face-to-face tray bin frames of an original manipulator corridor to be close, and enabling two designated another group of face-to-face tray bin frames to be separated to form another manipulator corridor;
controlling the manipulator to move to a newly formed manipulator corridor position along the width direction of the shell;
and controlling the manipulator to move to a designated disc box position in a designated disc bin along the depth direction and the height direction of the shell.
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