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公开(公告)号：US10769581B1
公开(公告)日：2020-09-08
申请号：US15279358
申请日：2016-09-28
IPC分类号： G06Q10/08
摘要： Embodiments are directed to an inventory system that comprises sensors and a management module to automatically determine an inventory item and its location without requiring hand-scanners. The system may determine that the object being handled is an inventory item at the location of the obstruction based at least on the inventory holder information and the location of the obstruction, and update a relative location of the inventory item based at least in part on the handling of the inventory item.
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公开(公告)号：US10364099B1
公开(公告)日：2019-07-30
申请号：US15474990
申请日：2017-03-30
摘要： Disclosed inventory systems, methods, and devices can be used to retrieve and transport resources from one location to another. Specifically, a vertically mobile drive unit including a vertical element retention mechanism can be controlled by a management component to retrieve a resource, transport the resource from one floor to a different floor in an inventory system, and deposit the resource at a destination. The vertically mobile drive unit can transit vertically along a vertically disposed element in an inventory system, such as a structural pole or column. The vertically mobile drive unit can ascend to or descend from an upper level by passing through an opening made by a movable panel.
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公开(公告)号：US10112772B1
公开(公告)日：2018-10-30
申请号：US15847863
申请日：2017-12-19
摘要： An inventory system includes an inventory holder that may be moved by a mobile drive unit. The inventory holder may hold inventory items. The mobile drive unit may move in a manner for facilitating a shift of position of at least one inventory item relative to the inventory holder. Such movement may be accomplished, for example, by accelerating, decelerating, turning while driving, spinning, dropping the inventory holder, or by causing at least one of the mobile drive unit or the inventory holder to at least one of interact with or engage an obstacle such as a bump over which the mobile drive unit drives, a bar positioned above a floor on which the mobile drive unit drives, a wall, another mobile drive unit, or another inventory holder.
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公开(公告)号：US09758302B1
公开(公告)日：2017-09-12
申请号：US15483709
申请日：2017-04-10
摘要： An item may be outfitted with a cartridge for varying a net density of the item and deposited in a body of liquid for storage. The cartridge may cause a net density of the item to exceed a density of the liquid, or to fall below the density of the liquid, and to descend or ascend within the liquid, as desired. The cartridge may also cause a net density of the item to equal the density of the liquid, and thus remain at a constant depth. The cartridge may be configured to receive acoustic signals or other forms of instructions for varying a net density of the item, and may send acoustic signals or other messages identifying a depth or position of the item. The cartridge may thus enable an item to be stored at any depth within the liquid, and be retrieved upon demand.
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公开(公告)号：US09694976B1
公开(公告)日：2017-07-04
申请号：US15385766
申请日：2016-12-20
发明人： Peter R. Wurman , Jeremiah David Brazeau , Pardeep Singh Farwaha , Ryan Alexander Holt , Joseph W. Durham , John Joseph Enright , Alex Glazkov , Jared Brian Holcomb
CPC分类号： B65G1/137 , B65G1/0492 , B65G1/10 , G05B13/026 , G05D1/0287 , G05D2201/0216 , G06Q10/087
摘要： Inventory holders in an inventory system can be moved among differing storage positions. The moves can be performed by mobile drive units not otherwise transporting inventory holders directly to or from inventory stations. A free mobile drive unit can move an inventory holder not likely to be useful soon at any nearby station from a storage position near the station to a position farther away from the station. A mobile drive unit can move an inventory holder likely to be useful soon from a storage position farther away from one or more stations to a storage position nearby one or more stations.
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公开(公告)号：US20170088360A1
公开(公告)日：2017-03-30
申请号：US14869450
申请日：2015-09-29
发明人： Jeremiah David Brazeau , Andrew M. Sweeney , Henry David Garcia , Fred Chen , Brian Michael Lusignan
CPC分类号： B65G31/00 , B25J9/12 , B25J9/1664 , B65G1/1375 , G05B19/41895 , G05D2201/0216 , G06Q10/087 , Y10S901/02
摘要： Robotic arms or manipulators can be used to toss inventory items within an inventory system. Tossing strategies for the robotic arms may include information about how a grasped item is to be moved and released by a robotic arm to achieve a trajectory for moving the item to a receiving location. A tossing strategy may also use a trajectory that avoids time and/or space reserved for a trajectory of another tossed item. The receiving location can include surfaces and/or other features that can be manipulated for receiving the item based on one or more characteristics of the tossed item and/or a trajectory of the tossed item.
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公开(公告)号：US09469477B1
公开(公告)日：2016-10-18
申请号：US15008378
申请日：2016-01-27
CPC分类号： B65G1/137 , G05B15/02 , G05D1/00 , G05D1/021 , G05D1/0214 , G05D1/0297 , G05D2201/0216 , G06Q10/08
摘要： An inventory system includes an inventory holder and a mobile drive unit. The mobile drive unit includes sensors for detecting one or more load characteristics of the inventory holder and/or includes magnets and/or magnetic surfaces for securing the inventory holder to the mobile drive unit during lifting and/or moving.
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公开(公告)号：US09452883B1
公开(公告)日：2016-09-27
申请号：US14499047
申请日：2014-09-26
发明人： Peter R. Wurman , Jeremiah David Brazeau , Pardeep Singh Farwaha , Ryan Alexander Holt , Joseph W. Durham , John Joseph Enright , Alex Glazkov , Jared Brian Holcomb
CPC分类号： B65G1/137 , B65G1/0492 , B65G1/10 , G05B13/026 , G05D1/0287 , G05D2201/0216 , G06Q10/087
摘要： Inventory holders in an inventory system can be moved among differing storage positions. The moves can be performed by mobile drive units not otherwise transporting inventory holders directly to or from inventory stations. A free mobile drive unit can move an inventory holder not likely to be useful soon at any nearby station from a storage position near the station to a position farther away from the station. A mobile drive unit can move an inventory holder likely to be useful soon from a storage position farther away from one or more stations to a storage position nearby one or more stations.
摘要翻译： 库存系统中的库存持有人可以在不同的仓库位置之间移动。 这些移动可以由移动驱动单元执行，而不是直接向库存站点运送库存持有者。 一个免费的移动驱动单元可以将一个库存持有人不久以后在任何附近的车站从车站附近的仓库位置移动到远离车站的位置。 移动驱动单元可以将可能有用的库存持有人从远离一个或多个站的存储位置移动到一个或多个站附近的存储位置。
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公开(公告)号：US10528061B2
公开(公告)日：2020-01-07
申请号：US15333636
申请日：2016-10-25
摘要： Described herein is system in which separate networks are operated on behalf of system components associated within an inventory system. Mobile drive units may receive initial instructions from a central authority and may identify a number of system components relevant to the provided instructions. The mobile drive unit may be configured to traverse to locations associated with the identified system components. As the mobile drive unit traverses the inventory floor, it may connect to the separate networks that it comes into contact with. Upon connecting to a network associated with a system component relevant to its set of instructions, the mobile drive unit may provide instructions to the system component to cause it to execute an action. In some embodiments, the mobile drive unit may connect to a system component in order to perform a route guidance algorithm and/or collision avoidance algorithm.
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公开(公告)号：US09926138B1
公开(公告)日：2018-03-27
申请号：US14869566
申请日：2015-09-29
发明人： Jeremiah David Brazeau , Andrew M. Sweeney , Henry David Garcia , Fred Chen , Brian Michael Lusignan
CPC分类号： B65G1/1376 , B25J5/007 , B25J9/0093 , B25J19/021 , B65G47/256 , G05D1/021
摘要： An item that is moving along a moving surface of an inventory conveyance system may be identified. An orientation of the item with respect to the moving surface may be determined based on sensing information that describes the item and a portion of the moving surface surrounding the item. A removal strategy for operating a robotic arm to remove the item from the moving surface may be determined based at least in part on the item and the orientation. The removal strategy may include a trajectory for the robotic arm to follow as part of removing the item from the moving surface.
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