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公开(公告)号：US11263579B1
公开(公告)日：2022-03-01
申请号：US15369536
申请日：2016-12-05
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Hilliard Bruce Siegel , Pragyana K. Mishra , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Tye Michael Brady
Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a network of autonomous vehicles, such as autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) that deliver items to and/or from a destination location and/or perform a service. For example, a community (e.g., neighborhood, apartment complex) may include a plurality of autonomous vehicles that deliver payloads to different locations (e.g., homes, apartments) within the community for use or consumption. Some of the payloads are community items (e.g., microwave, stove top, cooking utensils) that are shared by members of the community and transferred between locations within the community by autonomous vehicles.
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公开(公告)号：US10241516B1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-26
申请号：US15280479
申请日：2016-09-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
Abstract: Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) may be deployed from facilities (e.g., materials handling facilities, etc.) to deliver items to specified locations (e.g., user residences). In various implementations, AGVs may utilize various techniques for long-range travel between materials handling facilities and delivery locations (e.g., solar charging, strategically placed charging stations, energy efficient travel paths, etc.). In various implementations, AGV facilities (e.g., smaller types of materials handling facilities) may be sized to be more easily located in compressed urban areas (e.g., to be closer to various delivery locations, etc.) and may function as home base locations where AGVs are stationed and/or where items are received (e.g., from transportation vehicles) for delivery to local delivery locations.
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公开(公告)号：US10222798B1
公开(公告)日：2019-03-05
申请号：US15280492
申请日：2016-09-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
Abstract: Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) are utilized to transport ordered items and may congregate in meeting areas (e.g., to receive items from common sources, utilize common resources, communicate, etc.) and the positions of the AGVs in an area may be coordinated. For example, AGVs waiting to receive ordered items from a transportation vehicle (e.g., a delivery truck) may be lined up according to delivery addresses, or according to an order of items in the transportation vehicle, etc. As another example, AGVs that are in a pickup area (e.g., where users may retrieve ordered items from the AGVs), may be arranged in a configuration that is relatively compact but which provides easy access for the users to retrieve the ordered items, etc. The AGVs may be repositioned based on various events (e.g., an AGV leaving the configuration, an improved arrangement being dynamically determined, etc.).
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公开(公告)号：US10901418B2
公开(公告)日：2021-01-26
申请号：US16277158
申请日：2019-02-15
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Ethan Zane Evans
Abstract: Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) receive items from transportation vehicles (e.g., delivery trucks) for delivery to specified locations. After the items are received, the AGVs may navigate along travel paths to delivery locations (e.g., at user residences) to deliver the items. The AGVs may include navigation systems and sensors (e.g., imaging sensors, distance detection sensors, etc.) to assist with the navigation, and may include locking mechanisms that lock the storage compartments of the AGVs while travelling.
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公开(公告)号：US20190179313A1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-13
申请号：US16277158
申请日：2019-02-15
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Ethan Zane Evans
Abstract: Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) receive items from transportation vehicles (e.g., delivery trucks) for delivery to specified locations. After the items are received, the AGVs may navigate along travel paths to delivery locations (e.g., at user residences) to deliver the items. The AGVs may include navigation systems and sensors (e.g., imaging sensors, distance detection sensors, etc.) to assist with the navigation, and may include locking mechanisms that lock the storage compartments of the AGVs while travelling.
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公开(公告)号：US10303171B1
公开(公告)日：2019-05-28
申请号：US15280470
申请日：2016-09-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
Abstract: Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) containing ordered items travel (e.g., from materials handling facilities, etc.) to pickup areas (e.g., on a street, in a parking lot, inside a store, etc.) where users may retrieve the ordered items from the AGVs. In various configurations, an AGV may have a single storage compartment or may have multiple storage compartments, and multiple AGVs may congregate at a pickup area which may include various facilities/services for the AGVs (e.g., a charging station, a common control station for the AGVs, etc.). Multiple AGVs at a pickup area may be arranged in a particular configuration (e.g., according to a particular order, stacked, etc.), and the configuration may be changed (e.g., when a new AGV arrives and/or when an AGV departs, such as after an ordered item is retrieved from an AGV which then leaves the pickup area to return to a materials handling facility, etc.).
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公开(公告)号：US10216188B2
公开(公告)日：2019-02-26
申请号：US15218943
申请日：2016-07-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Ethan Zane Evans
Abstract: Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) are utilized to retrieve items from transportation vehicles (e.g., delivery trucks) for delivery to specified locations (e.g., user residences, etc.). In various implementations, the AGVs may be owned by individual users and/or may service a group of users in a given area (e.g., in an apartment building, neighborhood, etc.). The AGVs may travel out (e.g., from a user's residence, apartment building, etc.) to meet a transportation vehicle (e.g., a delivery truck on the street) to receive items, and may be joined by other AGVs that have traveled out to meet the transportation vehicle, and may line up in a particular order (e.g., according to delivery addresses, etc.). After the items are received, the AGVs may travel back (e.g., to the user residences) to deliver the items, and may be equipped to open and close access barriers (e.g., front doors, garage doors, etc.).
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公开(公告)号：US10147249B1
公开(公告)日：2018-12-04
申请号：US15466750
申请日：2017-03-22
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Pragyana K. Mishra
IPC: G07C9/00
Abstract: An intermediary device may be configured to allow an authorized visitor to access a secure facility (such as a home) on behalf of an owner. The intermediary device may generate an authenticator and provide the authenticator to a service provider, who may then present the authenticator to the intermediary device upon arriving at the facility. The intermediary device may unlock or open, or lock and close, any doors within the facility as necessary in order to grant access to a specific portion of the facility and restrict access to other portions of the facility. The intermediary device may also capture, or cause the capture of, images or other data regarding actions taken by the service provider, and establish a communications channel with the owner for the exchange of information or data regarding such actions, or any events or conditions of the facility.
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公开(公告)号：US10023434B2
公开(公告)日：2018-07-17
申请号：US15268775
申请日：2016-09-19
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , James R. Allard , Thomas Culliton
Abstract: Robotic enabled lift concepts are described. In one embodiment, a vertical lift includes a vertically directed track assembly and linear actuator that extend between first and second levels. The lift further includes a lift platform having a continuous contact roller such as a continuous belt, for example, a platform guide assembly for engagement with the track assembly, and a motion translation mechanism mechanically coupled between the continuous contact roller and the linear actuator. A robotic drive unit can drive upon and dock with the lift platform. In that docked position, the robotic drive unit can rotate its drive wheels to raise or lower itself between the first and second levels based on the translation of the motive forces of the drive wheels through the motion translation mechanism and to the vertically directed linear actuator. Other embodiments include a lift arm, an inclined track assembly, and a lift carriage.
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公开(公告)号：US10573106B1
公开(公告)日：2020-02-25
申请号：US15466723
申请日：2017-03-22
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Pragyana K. Mishra
IPC: G07C9/00 , G06Q10/08 , G05B19/048 , G06K9/00 , G10L17/22 , G10L17/00 , B25J19/02 , H04W4/14 , H04W84/12 , H04W4/80
Abstract: An intermediary device may be configured to allow an authorized visitor to access a secure facility (such as a home) on behalf of an owner. The intermediary device may generate an authenticator and provide the authenticator to a service provider, who may then present the authenticator to the intermediary device upon arriving at the facility. The intermediary device may unlock or open, or lock and close, any doors within the facility as necessary in order to grant access to a specific portion of the facility and restrict access to other portions of the facility. The intermediary device may also capture, or cause the capture of, images or other data regarding actions taken by the service provider, and establish a communications channel with the owner for the exchange of information or data regarding such actions, or any events or conditions of the facility.
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