公开(公告)号：US11727349B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US17074320

申请日：2020-10-19

Applicant: Cybernet Systems Corp.

Inventor： Charles J. Jacobus ,  Glenn J. Beach ,  Steve Rowe ,  Charles J. Cohen

IPC: G06F7/00 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  B66F9/075 ,  G06K19/077 ,  G05D1/02 ,  B66F9/06 ,  G06K19/06

CPC classification number: G06Q10/087 ,  B66F9/063 ,  B66F9/0755 ,  G05D1/0234 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G06K19/06037 ,  G06K19/07758 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: Automated inventory management and material (or container) handling removes the requirement to operate fully automatically or all-manual using conventional task dedicated vertical storage and retrieval (S&R) machines. Inventory requests Automated vehicles plan their own movements to execute missions over a container yard, warehouse aisles or roadways, sharing this space with manually driven trucks. Automated units drive to planned speed limits, manage their loads (stability control), stop, go, and merge at intersections according human driving rules, use on-board sensors to identify static and dynamic obstacles, and human traffic, and either avoid them or stop until potential collision risk is removed. They identify, localize, and either pick-up loads (pallets, container, etc.) or drop them at the correctly demined locations. Systems without full automation can also implement partially automated operations (for instance load pick-up and drop), and can assure inherently safe manually operated vehicles (i.e., trucks that do not allow collisions).

公开(公告)号：US11726491B2

公开(公告)日：2023-08-15

申请号：US16280871

申请日：2019-02-20

Applicant: THE RAYMOND CORPORATION

Inventor： John Bryant Kirk ,  Erric Heitmann ,  Steven Medwin ,  James Wilcox ,  Jonathan William Hamlin

IPC: H04W84/10 ,  G05D1/02 ,  H04W84/12

CPC classification number: G05D1/0265 ,  G05D1/0219 ,  G05D1/0234 ,  G05D1/0246 ,  G05D1/0276 ,  G05D1/0297 ,  G05D2201/0216 ,  H04W84/12

Abstract: A material handling vehicle guidance system comprises a first conductive member, a second conductive member, and an electrical current source. The second conductive member is electrically coupled to the first conductive member and extends parallel to the first conductive member to define a loop. The first conductive member and second conductive member are coupled to a shielded cable connector. The electrical current source supplies current to the first conductive member in a first direction and supplies current to the second conductive member in a second direction opposite the first direction to produce a narrowcast radio frequency signal detectable between the first conductive member and the second member.

公开(公告)号：US20230249912A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-10

申请号：US18137215

申请日：2023-04-20

Applicant: Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc.

Inventor： Thomas WAGNER ,  Kevin AHEARN ,  John Richard AMEND ,  Benjamin COHEN ,  Michael DAWSON_HAGGERTY ,  William Hartman FORT ,  Christopher GEYER ,  Jennifer Eileen KING ,  Thomas KOLETSCHKA ,  Michael Cap KOVAL ,  Kyle MARONEY ,  Matthew T' MASON ,  William chu-Hyon MCMAHAN ,  Gene Temple PRICE ,  Joseph ROMANO ,  Daniel SMITH ,  Siddhartha SRINIVASA ,  Prasanna VELAGAPUDI ,  Thomas ALLEN

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G67/02 ,  B65G1/06

CPC classification number: B65G1/0471 ,  B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/1375 ,  B65G67/02 ,  B65G1/065 ,  B65G1/0478 ,  G05D2201/0216 ,  B25J9/106

Abstract: An object processing system is disclosed that includes a plurality of track sections, and a plurality of remotely actuatable carriers for controlled movement along at least portions of the plurality of track sections, wherein each of the remotely controllable carriers is adapted to support and transport an object processing bin.

公开(公告)号：US20230249911A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-10

申请号：US18134456

申请日：2023-04-13

Applicant: Berkshire Grey Operating Company, Inc.

Inventor： Thomas Wagner ,  Kevin Ahearn ,  John Richard Amend, JR. ,  Benjamin Cohen ,  Michael Dawson-Haggerty ,  William Hartman Fort ,  Christopher Geyer ,  Jennifer Eileen King ,  Thomas Koletschka ,  Michael Cap Koval ,  Kyle Maroney ,  Matthew T. Mason ,  William Chu-Hyon McMahan ,  Gene Temple Price ,  Joseph Romano ,  Daniel Smith ,  Siddhartha Srinivasa ,  Prasanna Velagapudi ,  Thomas Allen

IPC: B65G1/04 ,  B65G1/137 ,  B65G67/02 ,  B65G1/06

CPC classification number: B65G1/0471 ,  B65G1/0492 ,  B65G1/1375 ,  B65G67/02 ,  B65G1/065 ,  B65G1/0478 ,  G05D2201/0216 ,  B25J9/106

Abstract: A maintenance system is disclosed for assisting in maintaining an automated carrier system for moving objects to be processed. The maintenance system includes a plurality of automated carriers that are adapted to move on an array of discontinuous standard track sections, each said automated carrier including a carrier body that is no larger in either a length or width direction that a standard track section, and an automated maintenance carrier that is adapted to move on the array of discontinuous track sections, said automated maintenance system including a maintenance body that is larger in at least one of a length or width direction than the standard track section.

公开(公告)号：US11720122B1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-08

申请号：US18050283

申请日：2022-10-27

Applicant: Tompkins Robotics, Inc.

Inventor： James M. Serstad ,  Michael C. Futch ,  Shenghong Zhang

IPC: G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0289 ,  G05D1/0214 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: System is configured to receive article information corresponding to articles to be transported by computer-controlled vehicles, the articles comprising a first article and a second article, each having a maximum article dimension. System is also configured to assign travel routes about a grid comprising grid cells for the vehicles to travel thereon. The travel route of a first vehicle carrying the first article includes a turning maneuver at a first grid cell. System is configured to control the turning maneuver of the first vehicle in the first grid cell such that there is no contact between the first article carried on the first vehicle with a second article carried on a second vehicle present in a second grid cell that is adjacent to the first grid cell when the first vehicle is undertaking the turning maneuver.

公开(公告)号：US20230243666A1

公开(公告)日：2023-08-03

申请号：US18002965

申请日：2020-06-30

Applicant: Simon GEIGER

Inventor： Simon GEIGER

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

CPC classification number: G01C21/3852 ,  G01C21/3807 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: When an autonomous vehicle plans a new drive mission in a confined area, a first set of environmental information, and after a time interval, a second set of environmental information, are obtained by a device flying above a confined area including the departure point and the destination point of the vehicle, each set of environmental information including locations and geometries of objects in the confined area. Then, an object that is present at the same location in the first set of environmental information and in the second set of environmental information is classified as a semi-static object, and an object that is present at different locations in the first set of environmental information and in the second set of environmental information is classified as a dynamic object. A map including location and geometry of each object classified as a semi-static object is then created.

公开(公告)号：US11693403B2

公开(公告)日：2023-07-04

申请号：US16892549

申请日：2020-06-04

Applicant: Seegrid Corporation

Inventor： Brennan Sellner

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G01C21/20 ,  B66F9/075

CPC classification number: G05D1/0027 ,  B66F9/07581 ,  G01C21/206 ,  G05D1/0016 ,  G05D1/0212 ,  G05D1/0287 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: Dynamic allocation and coordination of auto-navigating vehicles uses robotic vehicles and centrally dispatched roaming order selectors to create a significantly more efficient, yet flexible, approach to picking goods within a warehouse. Robotic vehicles are configured to be loaded with goods from pick faces to fill orders. Each robotic vehicle follows a route that includes appropriate pick face locations. The robotic vehicles navigate from pick face to pick face where particular goods are located. Order selectors are dynamically and independently dispatched to meet the robotic vehicles at their pick face locations to load goods. Movement of the order selectors is orchestrated to increase efficiency in the order filling process within the warehouse.

公开(公告)号：US20230195124A1

公开(公告)日：2023-06-22

申请号：US18068817

申请日：2022-12-20

Applicant: MITSUBISHI HEAVY INDUSTRIES, LTD.

Inventor： Hirotaka Okazaki ,  Kenji Takao

IPC: G05D1/02 ,  G05D1/00

CPC classification number: G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/0223 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: A management method for a mobile object includes acquiring movement conditions for the mobile object that automatically moves, and setting a safety region as a region on a traveling direction side of the mobile object in which an object should not be positioned based on the movement conditions. The setting of the safety region includes setting the safety region so that the safety region is widened in a lateral direction intersecting with the traveling direction as a speed of the mobile object increases.

公开(公告)号：US11679494B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-20

申请号：US17332397

申请日：2021-05-27

Applicant: FEDEX CORPORATE SERVICES, INC.

Inventor： Ole-Petter Skaaksrud ,  Frank Mayfield ,  Daniel Gates

IPC: B25J19/02 ,  B25J9/08 ,  G06Q10/083 ,  B25J5/00 ,  G05D1/02 ,  G08G1/00 ,  G05D1/00 ,  B60Q5/00 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/09 ,  G06Q10/0833 ,  H04B1/3822 ,  G06Q10/0836 ,  B25J9/16 ,  B65G1/137 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06Q10/0875 ,  G06Q30/0601 ,  B60P3/00 ,  B65G67/24 ,  H02J9/00 ,  B65D88/52 ,  B65D90/02 ,  B65D90/08 ,  B65D90/18 ,  G06Q10/0837 ,  B60G17/015 ,  G06Q10/0832 ,  G01C21/34 ,  H04W52/32 ,  B60C5/00 ,  G07C9/37 ,  G07C9/00 ,  G07C9/27 ,  G06Q50/28 ,  H04W84/20

CPC classification number: B25J9/08 ,  B25J5/007 ,  B25J9/162 ,  B25J9/163 ,  B25J9/1666 ,  B25J9/1679 ,  B25J19/02 ,  B60C5/005 ,  B60G17/0152 ,  B60P3/007 ,  B60Q5/005 ,  B60W10/04 ,  B60W10/20 ,  B60W30/09 ,  B65D88/524 ,  B65D90/023 ,  B65D90/08 ,  B65D90/18 ,  B65G1/1373 ,  B65G67/24 ,  G01C21/3438 ,  G05D1/0011 ,  G05D1/0022 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D1/021 ,  G05D1/027 ,  G05D1/0214 ,  G05D1/0223 ,  G05D1/0225 ,  G05D1/0274 ,  G05D1/0276 ,  G05D1/0287 ,  G05D1/0295 ,  G06F21/32 ,  G06Q10/083 ,  G06Q10/0832 ,  G06Q10/0833 ,  G06Q10/0836 ,  G06Q10/0837 ,  G06Q10/0838 ,  G06Q10/0875 ,  G06Q30/0633 ,  G07C9/00182 ,  G07C9/00563 ,  G07C9/00571 ,  G07C9/00857 ,  G07C9/27 ,  G07C9/37 ,  G08G1/202 ,  H02J9/00 ,  H04B1/3822 ,  H04W52/322 ,  B60W2554/00 ,  G05B2219/39172 ,  G05B2219/50391 ,  G05D2201/0206 ,  G05D2201/0216 ,  G06Q50/28 ,  G07C2009/0092 ,  H04W84/20

Abstract: A modular multiple mobility base assembly apparatus is described for transporting an item being shipped having a base adapter plate and two cooperating and coordinating modular mobility bases that are each coupled to the bottom of the base adapter plate and collectively support the base adapter plate. One of the modular mobility bases operations a master autonomous mobile vehicle, while the other operates as a slave autonomous mobile vehicle that receives propulsion and steering control signals from the master while providing feedback sensor data to the master for use in coordinated and cooperative movement of the assembly apparatus. Each of the modular mobility bases also including respective wireless transceivers through which at least the control signals and sensor data are provided between mobility base units.

公开(公告)号：US11675350B2

公开(公告)日：2023-06-13

申请号：US17039817

申请日：2020-09-30

Applicant: Dexterity, Inc.

Inventor： Samir Menon ,  Zhouwen Sun ,  Gerald Brantner

IPC: G05D1/00 ,  B25J9/16

CPC classification number: G05D1/0061 ,  B25J9/1689 ,  G05D1/0027 ,  G05D1/0088 ,  G05D2201/0216

Abstract: An autonomous robot with on demand human intervention is disclosed. In various embodiments, a robot operates in an autonomous mode of operation in which the robot performs one or more tasks autonomously without human intervention. The robot determines that a strategy is not available to perform a next task autonomously. In response to the determination, the robot enters a human intervention mode of operation.