公开(公告)号：US11175664B1

公开(公告)日：2021-11-16

申请号：US16248516

申请日：2019-01-15

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Hakan Boyraz ,  Marshall Tappen ,  Baoyuan Liu ,  Xiaohan Nie ,  Sheng Chen ,  Christopher Brown

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G06F16/29 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  B60P3/00 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G01C21/34

Abstract: An autonomous delivery robot system to enable delivery of a product to a customer is described. One autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) includes a processing device that receives a delivery request comprising a route divided into multiple navigation segments and computes a navigable space from perception data stored in a perception map. The perception map is a robot-centered local map that stores the perception data indicative of the surroundings of the AGV. The processing device computes a cost inflation from the perception data stored in the perception map, determines a sub-goal that is on the navigable space and reachable by the AGV using the navigable space and the cost inflation, and determines a path to achieve the sub-goal using the using the navigable space and the cost inflation. The processing device controls one or more actuators to move along the path.

公开(公告)号：US20200007587A1

公开(公告)日：2020-01-02

申请号：US16460989

申请日：2019-07-02

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Quinton R. Hoole ,  Roland Paterson-Jones ,  Christopher C. Pinkham ,  Benjamin Tobler ,  Willem R. van Biljon ,  Gabriel Smit ,  Christopher Brown

IPC: H04L29/06 ,  H04L12/24 ,  H04L12/14 ,  H04L29/08 ,  G06F9/455

Abstract: Techniques are described for managing communications between multiple intercommunicating computing nodes, such as multiple virtual machine nodes hosted on one or more physical computing machines or systems. In some situations, users may specify groups of computing nodes and optionally associated access policies for use in the managing of the communications for those groups, such as by specifying which source nodes are allowed to transmit data to particular destinations nodes. In addition, determinations of whether initiated data transmissions from source nodes to destination nodes are authorized may be dynamically negotiated for and recorded for later use in automatically authorizing future such data transmissions without negotiation. This abstract is provided to comply with rules requiring an abstract, and it is submitted with the intention that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.