Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous shuffling of pallets of items in a warehouse
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Application No.: US15244525Application Date: 2016-08-23
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Publication No.: US09984339B2Publication Date: 2018-05-29
- Inventor: Christopher Hance , Daniel Shaffer
- Applicant: X Development LLC
- Applicant Address: US CA Mountain View
- Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee: X Development LLC
- Current Assignee Address: US CA Mountain View
- Agency: McDonnell Boehnen Hulbert & Berghoff LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q10/04
- IPC: G06Q10/04 ; G06Q10/08 ; B65G1/04

Abstract:
Examples described may enable rearrangement of pallets of items in a warehouse to an optimal layout. An example method includes receiving real-time item information including pallet locations in a warehouse and real-time inventory of items arranged on the pallets; determining a likelihood of demand for future access to the pallets based on a pallet relocation history and item receiving/shipment expectations; based on the real-time item information and the likelihood of demand, determining an optimal controlled-access dense grid layout in which distances of the pallets from a center of the layout are related to the likelihood of demand; receiving real-time robotics information and using the real-time robotics information to determine an amount of time to rearrange the pallets to the optimal layout; and, based on the amount of time to rearrange the pallets being less than a threshold, causing the robotic devices to rearrange the pallets to the optimal layout.
Public/Granted literature
- US20180060764A1 Autonomous Shuffling Of Pallets Of Items In A Warehouse Public/Granted day:2018-03-01
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