MANUAL CONTROL MODES FOR AN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOT

    公开(公告)号:US20190243358A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-08

    申请号:US15888786

    申请日:2018-02-05

    Abstract: A method for performing tasks on items located in a space using a robot, includes receiving an order to perform a task on at least one item and obtaining a pose associated with the at least one item. The pose is in a coordinate system defined by the space and the pose is where the task is to be performed on the at least one item. The method includes navigating the robot toward the pose associated with the at least one item and detecting, when in proximity to the pose, if the pose is obstructed by an object. If the pose is obstructed by an object, halting the robot at a location spaced from the pose and then causing the robot to provide a first signal indicating that the robot is in a holding mode at the location spaced from the pose.

    TOTE RETAINER DEVICE
    22.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20190241313A1

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-08

    申请号:US15888769

    申请日:2018-02-05

    Inventor: Peter Sussman

    CPC classification number: B65D21/0224

    Abstract: A retainer device for removably connecting a first tote to a second tote in a stacked arrangement includes an elongated body member including a top surface, a bottom surface, and a channel disposed in the bottom surface and extending along a length of the elongated body member. There is a leg member affixed to the elongated body member at a first angle with respect to the top surface of the elongated body member and extending at least partially along the length of the elongated body member. There is also at least one foot member having a top surface; the at least one foot member affixed to the leg member at a second angle such that the top surface of at least one foot member faces the bottom surface of the elongated body member to define a region for receiving portions of the first and second totes.

    Robot charging station protective member

    公开(公告)号:US10243379B1

    公开(公告)日:2019-03-26

    申请号:US15712463

    申请日:2017-09-22

    Abstract: An electrical charging station for charging an autonomous robot includes a charging station frame having a frame base with a plurality of interconnected frame elements configured to be secured to a floor. One of the frame elements is a front side frame element. There is a charging station cover mounted on the charging station frame and the charging station cover includes a front side cover having a front surface with a charging member. There is a protective member extending across and having a front surface projecting outwardly from the front surface of the front side cover. The protective member is interconnected to the front side frame element through a plurality of apertures in the front side cover and the front side frame element is located adjacent to a back surface of the front side cover, opposite the front surface.

    Visual Robot Pose Estimation
    25.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20250068165A1

    公开(公告)日:2025-02-27

    申请号:US18454126

    申请日:2023-08-23

    Abstract: A method for estimating a pose of a robot using two co-planar points on an object plane in the environment and two co-planar lines on the object plane, includes capturing with a camera on the robot an image of the object in the environment, including two observed points corresponding to the two co-planar points on the object and two observed lines corresponding to the two co-planar lines on the object; projecting onto the image plane the two co-planar points to obtain two projected points and projecting the two co-planar lines to obtain two projected lines; determining a point projection error by comparing the two projected co-planar points to corresponding observed points; determining a line projection error by comparing the two projected co-planar lines to corresponding observed lines; and estimating a current robot pose if the point projection error and the line projection error are below a predetermined error threshold.

    Robot congestion management
    26.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11724395B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-08-15

    申请号:US16265703

    申请日:2019-02-01

    CPC classification number: B25J9/1666 B25J9/0084 B25J9/1661

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for robot congestion management including a robot monitoring server configured to track a location of a plurality of robots within a navigational space and a plurality of robots in communication with the robot monitoring server, each robot including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the autonomous robot to determine, from a task list assigned to the robot, a first pose location corresponding to a first task, receive, from the robot monitoring server, congestion information associated with the first pose location, identify a congested state of the first pose location indicated by the congestion information, select, responsive to the identification of the congested state, a second task from the task list, and navigate to a second pose location corresponding to the second task.

    Calibration of a Lidar Sensor
    27.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20230034492A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-02

    申请号:US17380136

    申请日:2021-07-20

    Inventor: Changchun Li

    Abstract: A system for determining pose of a lidar sensor in an environment in order to calibrate the lidar sensor. The system includes at least two calibration boards, each having a first edge and a second edge. There is a controller coupled to the lidar sensor to cause the lidar sensor to direct a lidar scan at the calibration boards. The controller causes the lidar sensor to receive a reflection of the lidar scan from the calibration boards and determine locations of a first crossing point on the first edge and a second crossing point on the second edge of the calibration boards. The controller determines a reference plane defined by the first and second crossing points of each of the calibration boards, performs a plane transform of the reference frame to obtain a lidar sensor plane and determine from the lidar sensor plane a pose of the lidar sensor.

    Deep caching in the data access layer of an enterprise portal application

    公开(公告)号:US11334568B2

    公开(公告)日:2022-05-17

    申请号:US15926690

    申请日:2018-03-20

    Inventor: Vijay Mohan

    Abstract: A method and system for data retrieval in an enterprise portal application. The method and system include receiving, in a data access layer, a request for object data from a business logic layer. The method and system further includes validating, by a schema layer in communication with the data access layer, that cache data of a cache and data of one or more databases of the enterprise portal application are synchronized. The cache data may include table data and index data of the one or more databases of the enterprise portal application. The method and system further include retrieving, if the cache is validated, table data from the cache, and returning the object data to the business logic layer, the object data corresponding to the retrieved table data.

    ROBOT NAVIGATION MANAGEMENT BETWEEN ZONES IN AN ENVIRONMENT

    公开(公告)号:US20220083062A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17017801

    申请日:2020-09-11

    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for robot navigation management including a server configured to define a first zone and a second, adjacent zone within an environment, a threshold along a border between the first and second zones, and a waypoint associated with the threshold. One or more autonomous robots in communication with the server are configured to determine a route from the first zone to the second zone crossing the threshold, the route including a waypoint; and navigate the robot along the route from the first zone to the second zone, including traversing the waypoint in conjunction with crossing the threshold.

    PRESORT SYSTEM FOR EXECUTING ROBOT-ASSISTED PUTAWAY TASKS

    公开(公告)号:US20220081216A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17017833

    申请日:2020-09-11

    Abstract: Systems and methods for presorting and executing robot-assisted putaway tasks in a navigational space include assigning each of a plurality of item storage arrays to one of a plurality of zones defined within the navigational space, scanning an item identifier of at least one of a plurality of unsorted items to be stored at locations throughout the warehouse, retrieving, in response to receiving identifying information corresponding to the at least one scanned unsorted item, item data describing a storage location for putaway within the warehouse of each of the at least one scanned items, determining, from the storage location, a corresponding one of the plurality of zones of the warehouse in which the storage location is located, and placing each scanned unsorted item into an interconnected container of one of the item storage arrays assigned to the corresponding one of the zones.

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