Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Autonomous ground vehicles congregating in meeting areas
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Application No.: US15280492Application Date: 2016-09-29
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Publication No.: US10222798B1Publication Date: 2019-03-05
- Inventor: Tye Michael Brady , Darren Ernest Canavor , Ethan Zane Evans , Pragyana K. Mishra , Hilliard Bruce Siegel
- Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US WA Seattle
- Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US WA Seattle
- Agency: Athorus, PLLC
- Main IPC: G05D1/00
- IPC: G05D1/00 ; G05D1/02 ; G06Q10/08

Abstract:
Autonomous ground vehicles (“AGVs”) are utilized to transport ordered items and may congregate in meeting areas (e.g., to receive items from common sources, utilize common resources, communicate, etc.) and the positions of the AGVs in an area may be coordinated. For example, AGVs waiting to receive ordered items from a transportation vehicle (e.g., a delivery truck) may be lined up according to delivery addresses, or according to an order of items in the transportation vehicle, etc. As another example, AGVs that are in a pickup area (e.g., where users may retrieve ordered items from the AGVs), may be arranged in a configuration that is relatively compact but which provides easy access for the users to retrieve the ordered items, etc. The AGVs may be repositioned based on various events (e.g., an AGV leaving the configuration, an improved arrangement being dynamically determined, etc.).
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