公开(公告)号：US10399230B2

公开(公告)日：2019-09-03

申请号：US15600556

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Bradley Bogolea ,  Jeffrey Gee ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Luke Fraser

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  B25J11/00 ,  G06Q20/00 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/08 ,  B25J19/02 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20 ,  G06K9/52 ,  G06Q30/02 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06T7/00

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating waypoints for imaging shelves within a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously generating a map of a floor space within the store; accessing an architectural metaspace defining target locations and addresses of the set of shelving structures within the store; distorting the architectural metaspace into alignment with the map to generate a normalized metaspace representing real locations and addresses of the set of shelving structures in the store; defining a set of waypoints distributed longitudinally along and offset laterally from a first shelving structure represented in the normalized metaspace based on a known position of an optical sensor in the robotic system; and dispatching the robotic system to record optical data while occupying the set of waypoints during an imaging routine.

公开(公告)号：US20180005035A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-04

申请号：US15600591

申请日：2017-05-19

Applicant: Simbe Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： Bradley Bogolea ,  Mirza Akbar Shah ,  Jariullah Safi ,  Luke Fraser ,  Lorin Vandegrift ,  Jeffrey Gee

IPC: G06K9/00 ,  G06K9/20 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06T7/00 ,  G06K9/52 ,  G06T5/00 ,  G06Q30/02

CPC classification number: B25J11/008 ,  B25J9/1664 ,  B25J9/1697 ,  B25J13/089 ,  B25J19/023 ,  B64C2201/127 ,  B64C2201/146 ,  G06K9/00671 ,  G06K9/2063 ,  G06K9/52 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06Q30/0201 ,  G06T5/006 ,  G06T7/0008

Abstract: One variation of a method for automatically generating a planogram for a store includes: dispatching a robotic system to autonomously navigate within the store during a mapping routine; accessing a floor map of the floor space generated by the robotic system from map data collected during the mapping routine; identifying a shelving structure within the map of the floor space; defining a first set of waypoints along an aisle facing the shelving structure; dispatching the robotic system to navigate to and to capture optical data at the set of waypoints during an imaging routine; receiving a set of images generated from optical data recorded by the robotic system during the imaging routine; identifying products and positions of products in the set of images; and generating a planogram of the shelving segment based on products and positions of products identified in the set of images.