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公开(公告)号：US10532885B1
公开(公告)日：2020-01-14
申请号：US16430296
申请日：2019-06-03
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles may be deployed to areas where an item is in demand, and configured to fulfill orders for the item received from the areas. The autonomous vehicles are loaded with the item and dispatched to the area under their own power or in a carrier. When an order for the item is received, an autonomous vehicle delivers the item to a location in the area. Autonomous vehicles may also be equipped with a 3D printer or other equipment and loaded with materials for manufacturing the item. When an order for the item is received, the autonomous vehicle manufactures the item from such materials, and delivers the item. Autonomous vehicles may be configured for collaboration, such as to deliver or manufacture items in multiple stages and to transfer the items between vehicles. Autonomous vehicles may also be configured to automatically access locations in the area, e.g., using wireless access codes.
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12.发明授权公开(公告)号：US10310499B1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-04
申请号：US15389963
申请日：2016-12-23
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
IPC: G05D1/00 , G05B19/042 , G05D1/02
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles may be deployed to areas where an item is in demand, and configured to fulfill orders for the item received from the areas. The autonomous vehicles are loaded with the item and dispatched to the area under their own power or in a carrier. When an order for the item is received, an autonomous vehicle delivers the item to a location in the area. Autonomous vehicles may also be equipped with a 3D printer or other equipment and loaded with materials for manufacturing the item. When an order for the item is received, the autonomous vehicle manufactures the item from such materials, and delivers the item. Autonomous vehicles may be configured for collaboration, such as to deliver or manufacture items in multiple stages and to transfer the items between vehicles. Autonomous vehicles may also be configured to automatically access locations in the area, e.g., using wireless access codes.
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公开(公告)号：US10245993B1
公开(公告)日：2019-04-02
申请号：US15280504
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 items to delivery locations and may be modular in that a storage compartment portion (e.g., which may hold an ordered item) may be removable (i.e., separable) from a propulsion portion. In various implementations, the storage compartment portion may be securely attached to the propulsion portion during transport (e.g., requiring an access code to remove and/or open), and the storage compartment portion may similarly be securely attached to the delivery location (e.g., at a docking station) when delivered. In various implementations, the storage compartment portion may be refrigerated, heated, etc., and may include various sensors on the inside and outside of the storage compartment portion (e.g., temperature sensors, motion sensors, image sensors to determine the presence and condition of items and/or to assist with navigation and other operations of the propulsion portion, etc.).
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公开(公告)号：US20180024554A1
公开(公告)日：2018-01-25
申请号：US15218943
申请日：2016-07-25
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Ethan Zane Evans
CPC classification number: G05D1/0088 , G05D1/0276 , G05D2201/02 , G06Q10/08 , G06Q10/0833 , G06Q10/0837 , G06Q50/28 , G06T7/20
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：US20170278052A1
公开(公告)日：2017-09-28
申请号：US15083107
申请日：2016-03-28
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady
CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 , G06K7/10009 , G06K7/10891
Abstract: Inventory management systems and related methods employ radio frequency based tracking of a worker's hands to monitor performance of inventory tasks. An inventory management system includes inventory bins, a user-wearable unit configured to be worn in proximity to a user's hand, fixed RF antennas configured to transmit at least one RF interrogation signal and receive at least one RF response signal, a RF transceiver operatively coupled with the fixed RF antennas, and a management module operatively coupled with the RF transceiver. The user-wearable unit includes an RF transceiver configured to transmit RF response signals in response to reception of the at least one RF interrogation signal. The management module is configured to process signals generated by the RF transceiver to track locations of the user-wearable unit and identify an inventory bin based on proximity of the user-wearable unit to the identified inventory bin to monitor performance of an inventory system task.
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公开(公告)号：US11200531B1
公开(公告)日：2021-12-14
申请号：US15978762
申请日：2018-05-14
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , John Gregory Longtine , Timothy Stallman
Abstract: Features are disclosed for an overpackage that can contain an object and provide for automated identification and handling of the object by a robotic retrieval system. The automated identification and handling are enabled through self-identifying marks on the overpackage that indicate the identity of the overpackage as well as the relative location of the mark on the overpackage. Using the location information, a robot or other autonomous actor of the robotic retrieval system can identify a path to a pick point and detect whether the proper pick point is engaged through additional identifiers on the overpackage or a pick point.
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公开(公告)号：US10894664B1
公开(公告)日：2021-01-19
申请号：US16023686
申请日：2018-06-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Joseph Quinlivan
Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots include transfer systems that may receive multiple items for delivery to one or more destinations. The transfer systems may be specifically configured to detect and identify items that are placed on loading surfaces, and to independently discharge specific items at selected destinations or to selected recipients. The transfer systems feature loading surfaces that may be defined by a plurality of independently operable conveyors to receive or discharge items, by independently operable floors that allow items to pass therethrough, or by independently operable diverters for detecting and expelling items therefrom. The transfer systems may receive items from, or discharge items to, one or more humans, other robots, or other systems such as conveyors, chutes, robotic arms or other mechanical implements or effectors, and be aligned at any angle or provided at any height, as desired.
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公开(公告)号：US10308430B1
公开(公告)日：2019-06-04
申请号：US15389920
申请日：2016-12-23
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
Abstract: Autonomous vehicles may be deployed to areas where an item is in demand, and configured to fulfill orders for the item received from the areas. The autonomous vehicles are loaded with the item and dispatched to the area under their own power or in a carrier. When an order for the item is received, an autonomous vehicle delivers the item to a location in the area. Autonomous vehicles may also be equipped with a 3D printer or other equipment and loaded with materials for manufacturing the item. When an order for the item is received, the autonomous vehicle manufactures the item from such materials, and delivers the item. Autonomous vehicles may be configured for collaboration, such as to deliver or manufacture items in multiple stages and to transfer the items between vehicles. Autonomous vehicles may also be configured to automatically access locations in the area, e.g., using wireless access codes.
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公开(公告)号：US10217074B1
公开(公告)日：2019-02-26
申请号：US15690051
申请日：2017-08-29
Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Inventor： Timothy Stallman , Tye Michael Brady , Michael Robert Bocamazo , Mafalda Ghira Borges , Harris Scott Davidson , Anders Richard Johnson , Abigail Phyllis Rodrigues , Mindy Tieu
Abstract: A modular sorting station includes a frame defining an inbound bay and an outbound bay, each of the inbound and outbound bays being sized to receive an inventory holder containing inventory thereon. A robotic grasper is mounted to the frame and positioned above one of the inbound and outbound bays and operable to transfer inventory items from the inbound bay to the outbound bay, and a sensor mounted to one of the frame or robotic grasper and operable to identify inventory at the inbound bay when the inventory holder is present in the inbound bay. The frame is sized and arranged to align with a material handling grid and permit drive units to transport inventory holders into and out of the inbound bay and/or outbound bays while moving along the material handling grid; and the frame is portable such that the modular sorting station can be moved as a modular unit for rapid deployment.
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公开(公告)号：US20180079626A1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-22
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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