Robot gamification for improvement of operator performance

    公开(公告)号:US11000953B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-05-11

    申请号:US16252856

    申请日:2019-01-21

    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for improving operator performance by robot gamification, the method including parking a robot at a pose location within a navigational space, identifying, by a sensor in electronic communication with an interactive display device, an operator located within a zone proximate the robot for acquiring an item to be picked, receiving, at the interactive display device, operator performance data associated with the acquiring of the item, and rendering, on the interactive display device in response to the received operator performance data, at least one graphic representation of operator achievement within a gamified performance tracking environment.

    Change management system for data synchronization within an enterprise portal application

    公开(公告)号:US10970306B2

    公开(公告)日:2021-04-06

    申请号:US15926714

    申请日:2018-03-20

    Inventor: Vijay Mohan

    Abstract: A system and method for synchronizing database changes in an enterprise portal application. The system has a cache storing cache data having table data and index data of one or more databases. A schema layer generates schema objects representing the schema of the databases of the cache data. A change management system and a schema layer validates a cache of one or more databases and synchronizes the cache data to the databases by receiving a changeset, comparing the changeset to the schema data, verifying that the changeset is compatible with the cache data and the schema data, and passing the changeset to the cache for updating the cache data or for refreshing the schema data by the schema layer.

    Electrical charging system and method for an autonomous robot

    公开(公告)号:US10401864B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-09-03

    申请号:US15712516

    申请日:2017-09-22

    Abstract: An electrical charging system for charging an autonomous robot powered by a re-chargeable battery and having a first charging member. The charging station includes a second charging member configured to receive the first charging member on the autonomous robot when the autonomous robot is docked with the charging station for charging the re-chargeable battery. There is a power supply configured to charge the re-chargeable battery of the robot and a sensor configured to measure an amount of charge transferred from the power supply to the robot. There is a processor configured to determine from the amount of charge transferred from the power supply to the robot measured by the sensor, a state of charge (SOC) of the autonomous robot. There is also a communications device configured to transmit to the robot the SOC of the robot while docked at the charging station.

    Multi-resolution scan matching with exclusion zones

    公开(公告)号:US10386851B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-08-20

    申请号:US15712222

    申请日:2017-09-22

    Abstract: A method for navigating a robot from a current pose to a goal pose. A map represents obstacles and free space within an area for robot navigation. A matching map pyramid and an exclusion map pyramid are constructed based on the map and decimations from a highest resolution to successively lower resolutions of the map pyramids. Current pose for navigating from a current location to a goal pose along a goal path includes determining a search area and creating a search heap. Scoring of search tasks on the search heap determines a best candidate pose at a highest resolution matching map, or expands the search heap with search tasks at the next higher resolution matching map. Expanding the search heap at the next higher resolution matching map avoids search tasks that would localize the robot in an exclusion zone.

    Robot charger docking localization
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    公开(公告)号:US10365656B2

    公开(公告)日:2019-07-30

    申请号:US15821669

    申请日:2017-11-22

    Abstract: A method, system, and wheeled base for navigating a robot for docking with a charger docking station. The robot receives an initial pose associated with a robot charger docking station and a mating pose associated with the robot charger docking station. The robot first navigates from a location to an initial pose using scan matching to a first map. The robot performs a second navigation from the initial pose to the mating pose using scan matching to a second map, thereby causing an electrical charging port of the robot to mate with an electrical charging assembly of the robot charger docking station. Localization during charger docking may use a higher resolution map than when navigating to the docking station. Localizing against the robot charger docking station may be performed on a higher resolution map of the docking station alone.

    Robot congestion management
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    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.

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