Robot congestion management
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    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US12083681B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-09-10

    申请号:US18179605

    申请日:2023-03-07

    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.

    DYNAMIC ITEM PUTAWAY MANAGEMENT USING MOBILE ROBOTS

    公开(公告)号:US20220081215A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-03-17

    申请号:US17017766

    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.

    TOTE INDUCTION IN WAREHOUSE ORDER FULFILLMENT OPERATIONS

    公开(公告)号:US20200239232A1

    公开(公告)日:2020-07-30

    申请号:US16262315

    申请日:2019-01-30

    Abstract: A method for assigning orders to a plurality of robots fulfilling orders in a warehouse with the assistance of a plurality of operators. The method includes providing a first robot of the plurality of robots to a be assigned an order set, including one or more orders to be fulfilled and assessing the locations of at least one of the plurality of robots or at least one of the plurality of operators in the warehouse. The method also includes selecting an anchor location in the warehouse and generating an order set for the first robot correlated to the anchor location in the warehouse. The method also includes assigning the order set to the first robot for fulfillment.

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