The development of effective means of automation of warehouse operations provides the possibility of their wide and successful implementation. One of the promising directions, in our opinion, is the creation of an automated container storage system (ACSS), based on the distribution of the functions of moving and storing containers between its components. The proposed ACSS in which the movement of containers in the vertical plane between several levels of racks is carried out by elevators, and the movement in the horizontal plane (for each level) is provided by a robotic mobile platform (RMP), in contrast to the currently popular systems in which the main operations for moving containers are performed by RMPs equipped with manipulators. This paper presents the control system of the ACSS, which provides control of four elevators and four RMPs (one for each level of racks) in the process of containers moving. Two components of the control system are considered: the technical one, which provides control of the technical means of the ACSS (elevators and RMPs) and the organizational one, which determines the order of placing containers in the cells of the racks and their retrieving.
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