Materials-handling system using autonomous transfer and transport vehicles

    公开(公告)号:US12071303B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-08-27

    申请号:US18051715

    申请日:2022-11-01

    申请人: Symbotic LLC

    发明人: John G. Lert, Jr.

    IPC分类号: B65G1/04 B65G1/137

    CPC分类号: B65G1/0492 B65G1/1378

    摘要: Methods and apparatus for selecting and combining items in an outbound container through the use of autonomous vehicles, each of which includes means for automatically loading and unloading a payload, to perform both transfer and transport functions in moving containers of items within a workspace via a network of roadways. Under computer control, said autonomous vehicles transfer and transport case containers of item units between incoming receiving stations, intermediate storage locations, and outgoing order-assembly stations where entire containers or individual item units are combined in the outbound container.

    Automated storage and retrieval system with integral secured personnel access zones and remote rover shutdown

    公开(公告)号:US11989016B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-05-21

    申请号:US17812009

    申请日:2022-07-12

    申请人: Symbotic LLC

    IPC分类号: G05D1/00

    摘要: A transportation system having a transportation space including destinations distributed in the transportation space, multiple independent automated vehicles configured for free roving through the transportation space to and between the destinations so that the vehicles are dynamically distributed through the transportation space, a control system communicably connected via a remote communication link to each of the vehicles and having a system controller that addresses each vehicle to different destinations, and the control system having a vehicle accountant controller separate and distinct from the system controller and configured to independently register a dynamic location of at least one of the vehicles, selected from the multiple vehicles in the transportation space, and command shutdown, via the remote communication link, to only the selected at least one vehicle at the registered location if the registered location corresponds to a predetermined location.

    Automated bot transfer arm drive system

    公开(公告)号:US11952214B2

    公开(公告)日:2024-04-09

    申请号:US17654752

    申请日:2022-03-14

    申请人: Symbotic, LLC

    IPC分类号: B65G1/04

    CPC分类号: B65G1/0492

    摘要: An autonomous transport vehicle including a transfer arm including at least one finger and a movable finger support member, at least one sensor configured to detect movement of the at least one finger, the at least one sensor having a registration member and a detection member where one of the registration member and detection member is mounted to each of the at least one finger so as to be movable with a respective one of the at least one finger and the other one of the registration member and detection member is stationary relative to the at least one finger, and a controller in communication with the at least one sensor, the controller being configured to determine a position of the at least one finger along the second direction based on a proximity of the registration member relative to the detection member.

    MATERIAL HANDLING SYSTEM WITH PALLETIZATION RE-PLANNING

    公开(公告)号:US20240017941A1

    公开(公告)日:2024-01-18

    申请号:US18353551

    申请日:2023-07-17

    申请人: Symbotic LLC

    IPC分类号: B65G57/24 B65G43/08 B65G1/16

    摘要: A material handling system for handling, placing packages onto pallets destined for an order store, the material handling system comprising, a storage array with storage spaces for holding packages therein, an automated package transport system communicably connected to the storage array for storing packages within the storage spaces of the storage array and retrieving packages from the storage spaces of the storage array, an automated palletizer for placing mixed packages onto a pallet to form a pallet load of mixed packages, the automated palletizer is communicably connected to the automated package transport system which provides individual packages from the storage array to the automated palletizer for forming the pallet load of mixed packages, the pallet load of mixed packages including more than one composite layers of mixed packages, a controller operably connected to the automated palletizer, the controller being programmed with a pallet load generator with an initial pallet load.

    STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL SYSTEM
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    发明公开

    公开(公告)号:US20230162150A1

    公开(公告)日:2023-05-25

    申请号:US18158882

    申请日:2023-01-24

    申请人: Symbotic LLC

    IPC分类号: G06Q10/087 B65G1/04 B65G1/06

    摘要: A product order fulfillment system includes multiple decks arrayed at different levels and defining multilevel decks, at least one autonomous transport vehicle on each of the decks, and configured for holding and transporting a pickface on each deck, at least one lift, traversing and connecting more than one level of the decks, and arranged for lifting and lowering the pickface from the decks, and at least one pickface transfer station on each deck interfacing between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift to effect transfer of the pickface between the transport vehicle and the at least one lift, the at least one lift defines a fulfillment stream of mixed case pickfaces outbound from the multilevel decks to a load fill, at least one stream of the fulfillment stream has an ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces wherein the ordered sequence of streaming pickfaces is based on another fulfilment stream.