公开(公告)号：US10243379B1

公开(公告)日：2019-03-26

申请号：US15712463

申请日：2017-09-22

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Hian Kai Kwa ,  Christina Nicole Fong

IPC: H02J7/00 ,  B60L11/18 ,  B25J19/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US20250068165A1

公开(公告)日：2025-02-27

申请号：US18454126

申请日：2023-08-23

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Changchun Li ,  Stephen V. Williams

IPC: G05D1/02

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.

公开(公告)号：US11724395B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US16265703

申请日：2019-02-01

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Michael Charles Johnson ,  Luis Jaquez ,  Sean Johnson ,  Andrew Alcutt

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J9/00

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.

公开(公告)号：US20230034492A1

公开(公告)日：2023-02-02

申请号：US17380136

申请日：2021-07-20

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Changchun Li

IPC: G01S7/497 ,  G01S17/931

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.

公开(公告)号：US11334568B2

公开(公告)日：2022-05-17

申请号：US15926690

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Vijay Mohan

IPC: G06F16/27 ,  G06F16/2455 ,  G06F16/22

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220083062A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17017801

申请日：2020-09-11

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Luis Jaquez ,  Sean Johnson ,  Michael Charles Johnson ,  Andrew Alcutt

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B65G1/137

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.

公开(公告)号：US20220081216A1

公开(公告)日：2022-03-17

申请号：US17017833

申请日：2020-09-11

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Sean Johnson ,  Luis Jaquez ,  Michael Charles Johnson

IPC: B65G1/137 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J9/00 ,  B25J13/08

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.

公开(公告)号：US11000953B2

公开(公告)日：2021-05-11

申请号：US16252856

申请日：2019-01-21

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Michael Charles Johnson ,  Sean Johnson ,  Luis Jaquez ,  Bruce Welty ,  Karen Leavitt

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06K9/00 ,  H04W4/80

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.

公开(公告)号：US10970306B2

公开(公告)日：2021-04-06

申请号：US15926714

申请日：2018-03-20

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Vijay Mohan

IPC: G06F16/27 ,  G06F16/21 ,  G06F16/23 ,  G06F16/2455

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.

公开(公告)号：US20200089237A1

公开(公告)日：2020-03-19

申请号：US16135329

申请日：2018-09-19

Applicant: Locus Robotics Corp.

Inventor： Matthew Whitaker ,  Bradley Powers ,  Michael Charles Johnson ,  Sean Johnson ,  Thomas Moore

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00 ,  G01C21/20

Abstract: Systems and methods for contextually mapping zones within a space for regulating robotic navigation within the space include defining, by at least one fiducial marker positioned within the space, a zone within the space, associating a rule with the zone, the rule at least partially dictating operation of one or more robots within the zone, and operating the one or more robots within the zone consistent with the rule.