COLLABORATIVE ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20240004391A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-04

    申请号:US18217991

    申请日:2023-07-03

    Abstract: A “meet me” model of collaboration among autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) and human workers (pickers) to execute picking and putting within a logistics facility. The AMRs include an intelligent platform having an array of indicator elements that illuminate subsets of the indicator elements to indicate tote locations and numbers of items to be received therein. The pickers receive instructions from a central server on a user device that they hold or wear, and the AMRs receive a list of stop locations within the logistics facility. Selection of the picker to provide an item to an AMR as it approaches one of the stop locations may be dynamic as each picker instruction includes a single item type to be delivered to/from an AMR. Moreover, the central server determines timing for sending the instructions to a user device based on a location of the robot designated to collect an item, thus streamlining workflows for each of the AMR and picker.

    BIN RETRIEVAL AND TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND METHODS

    公开(公告)号:US20210395007A1

    公开(公告)日:2021-12-23

    申请号:US17350911

    申请日:2021-06-17

    Abstract: Bin retrieval robots configured to pick or put-away bins within a logistics facility and to transport one or more picked bins. Methods and systems for autonomous picking or put-away of bins within a logistics facility that include the bin retrieval robot(s) are also disclosed. The systems include a remote server and at least one bin retrieval robot, wherein the remote server is configured to communicate with the bin retrieval robot(s) to send and receive picking data, and the bin retrieval robot(s) are configured to autonomously navigate and position within the logistics facility.

    DIRECT DRIVE OUTER ROTOR BRUSHLESS DC MOTOR DRIVE WHEEL

    公开(公告)号:US20220037937A1

    公开(公告)日:2022-02-03

    申请号:US17390275

    申请日:2021-07-30

    Inventor: Vladimir Altman

    Abstract: The presently disclosed invention provides an outer rotor brushless direct current motor that includes a tire integrated as part of the outer rotor, and is thus configured as a direct drive wheel, such as may be used on a mobile robot. The drive wheel includes a cylindrical outer rotor having a plurality of poles positioned on an inner surface, a stationary stator spaced inwardly from the rotor and defining a magnetic clearance gap between the plurality of poles of the rotor and a plurality of electromagnets positioned on an outer circumference of the stator, and a stationary central shaft. The stator is mounted to the central shaft and the rotor is configured for rotation about the stator.

    Bin retrieval and transport systems and methods

    公开(公告)号:US11945649B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-02

    申请号:US17350911

    申请日:2021-06-17

    CPC classification number: B65G1/0421 B65G1/1371 B65G1/1375 B65G1/08

    Abstract: Bin retrieval robots configured to pick or put-away bins within a logistics facility and to transport one or more picked bins. Methods and systems for autonomous picking or put-away of bins within a logistics facility that include the bin retrieval robot(s) are also disclosed. The systems include a remote server and at least one bin retrieval robot, wherein the remote server is configured to communicate with the bin retrieval robot(s) to send and receive picking data, and the bin retrieval robot(s) are configured to autonomously navigate and position within the logistics facility.

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