INTERCHANGEABLE AUTOMATED MOBILE ROBOTS WITH A PLURALITY OF OPERATING MODES CONFIGURING A PLURALITY OF DIFFERENT ROBOT TASK CAPABILITIES

    公开(公告)号:US20180194556A1

    公开(公告)日:2018-07-12

    申请号:US15867373

    申请日:2018-01-10

    CPC classification number: B65G1/1378 B65G1/0492 G06Q10/087

    Abstract: A system and method for managing a plurality of automated mobile robots within automated mobile robot storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The same mobile robot is enabled to move horizontally and vertically in a multi-level storage structure, operate in an order fulfillment mode retrieving order totes from an automated fulfillment section and delivering the order totes to the delivery section, operate in a replenishment mode receiving eaches of goods and depositing the eaches of goods in designated storage totes, and operate in a delivery mode receiving delivery bundles and transporting the delivery bundles to designated locations at the transfer station.

    AUTOMATED SYSTEM FOR TRANSPORTING PAYLOADS

    公开(公告)号:US20170369243A1

    公开(公告)日:2017-12-28

    申请号:US15699700

    申请日:2017-09-08

    Inventor: John Lert, JR.

    CPC classification number: B65G1/1378 B65G1/0492 B65G1/065 B65G1/1373

    Abstract: An automated warehouse storage system including a multilevel storage array is provided. Each aisle has a set of storage levels and each level has storage locations distributed along the aisle. The guideway network extending through the multilevel storage array is configured for autonomous vehicles to move along the guideway network within the multilevel storage array. The guideway network including an inter-aisle guideway spanning at least two of the multiple aisles and a set of guideway levels extending in an aisle of the multiple aisles and disposed so that each guideway level is at a different one of the storage levels and the vehicles on the guideway level can access the storage locations distributed along the aisle. Each set of guideway levels is connected to the inter-aisle guideway forming a common guideway path so that a vehicle can move between inter-aisle guideway and each guideway level along the common guideway path.

    System having robotic workstation
    65.
    发明授权

    公开(公告)号:US11623826B2

    公开(公告)日:2023-04-11

    申请号:US16676732

    申请日:2019-11-07

    Abstract: An apparatus is disclosed including a robotic system having a robotic picking workstation, tote storage and retrieval and transit decks. The system has bots that autonomously transport totes from the storage and retrieval system to the robotic picking workstation via the transit decks. The robotic picking workstation may have a picking lane where a robotic handler transports eaches from totes on the bots to order totes in the workstation. The robotic picking workstation further has a queuing buffer where bots are cued for the picking lane.

    CONTAINER TO TOTE DISPENSE INTEGRATED WITH AUTOMATED STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM

    公开(公告)号:US20230053089A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-16

    申请号:US17884345

    申请日:2022-08-09

    Abstract: An automated storage and retrieval facility includes a container dispenser which transfers one or more containers into a tote. Once loaded into a tote, the one or more containers may receive goods to fulfill an order. Once filled with goods, the containers may be accessed by customers for transport away from the facility. The container dispenser may include a table configured to move over an opening of a tote to dispense more than one container at different positions within the tote. The container dispenser may be integrated within a storage area of the automated storage and retrieval facility. Alternatively, the container dispenser may be part of workstation positioned away from the storage area.

    PACKING BY DESTINATION FOR AUTOMATED FULFILLED GOODS

    公开(公告)号:US20230042788A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-02-09

    申请号:US17971406

    申请日:2022-10-21

    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed relating to an automated store or system including an automated fulfillment section having a storage structure for storing fungible and/or non-fungible goods. The fungible and/or non-fungible goods may be retrieved from storage in response to a customer order. The system and method of the present technology allows retrieved fungible and/or non-fungible goods to be sorted and packed in accordance with stored customer preferences.

    STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
    68.
    发明申请

    公开(公告)号:US20220315333A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-10-06

    申请号:US17843124

    申请日:2022-06-17

    Abstract: A system and method for storage and retrieval are provided. The system includes a multi-level storage structure, and mobile robots configured to pick, transport and place one or more tote, container, or object. This system and method can be used in order-fulfillment applications in which one or more workstations accommodate a picker that transports one or more eaches from a tote on one of the autonomous mobile robots to a put location, and an input/output interface induct material into the system and discharge fulfilled orders from the system. The mobile robots are further configured to move from level to level in the multi-level storage structure via inclined or vertical tracks without requiring a vertical lift or vertical conveyor.

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