Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Real-time formed robotic swarm for material handling
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Application No.: US16124329Application Date: 2018-09-07
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Publication No.: US10579071B1Publication Date: 2020-03-03
- Inventor: Jinglin Li , Xiang Zhao
- Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Applicant Address: US MI Detroit
- Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US MI Detroit
- Agency: Reising Ethington P.C.
- Agent Bonnie Shaw
- Main IPC: G05D1/02
- IPC: G05D1/02 ; G05D1/00

Abstract:
Example methods and systems may transport an object with a plurality of transport vehicles. An example transport vehicle may be autonomous, and may have one or more wheels extending from a body for engaging a ground surface. Example methods may include providing a destination for the object to the plurality of transport vehicles, wherein the plurality of transport vehicles determines a route to the destination, dividing the route into one or more route segments for the plurality of transport vehicles, encountering an obstacle with a first one of the transport vehicles while traveling along one of the route segments, and sending a location of the obstacle from the first transport vehicles to at least a second one of the transport vehicles. A second one of the transport vehicles may modify at least one of the route segments to avoid the obstacle based upon the provided location.
Public/Granted literature
- US20200081455A1 REAL-TIME FORMED ROBOTIC SWARM FOR MATERIAL HANDLING Public/Granted day:2020-03-12
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