公开(公告)号：US12008496B1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-11

申请号：US17001283

申请日：2020-08-24

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Jai Vasanth ,  Todd Greenwalt ,  Olia Kerzhner ,  Sarfraz Banglawala ,  James Plumley ,  Anatoly Mitlin ,  Matthew Paul Bell

IPC: G06Q10/0631 ,  G01C21/20 ,  G05B19/406 ,  G06Q10/0639 ,  G06Q10/08

CPC classification number: G06Q10/06312 ,  G01C21/206 ,  G05B19/406 ,  G06Q10/063112 ,  G06Q10/063114 ,  G06Q10/06316 ,  G06Q10/06398 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G05B2219/40361

Abstract: A fleet management system may create and manage tasks within an environment associated with fulfilling, sorting, inducting, and/or distributing packages, such as a warehouse, packaging facility, sortation center, or distribution center. The fleet management system may assign the tasks to agents within the environment. Each of the agents may have capabilities or tasks that the agents are configured to perform and the fleet management system may use these capabilities to assign the tasks to the agents. Additionally, tasks may be assigned based on a location of the agents within the environment. As tasks are generated, the fleet management system may determine a suitable agent to perform the task and may transmit instructions to the agent for carrying out the task. The fleet management system may provide a centralized platform to manage agents, optimize the assignment of tasks, and increase productivity within the environments.

公开(公告)号：US10788818B1

公开(公告)日：2020-09-29

申请号：US15799916

申请日：2017-10-31

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Anatoly Mitlin ,  Aayush Aggarwal ,  Sarfraz Banglawala ,  Usha Kamat ,  Charles C. Linton ,  Sean Edward Murray ,  John D. Pacheco ,  James Plumley ,  Yuhao Qian

IPC: G05B19/418 ,  G06Q10/06 ,  G06F11/07 ,  G06Q10/00 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: A system for configuring generic maintenance activity scheduling is provided. For example, user input may help define a maintenance process for a plurality of mobile drive units of the physical workspace. The maintenance process may be defined through a configuration of activity templates and input templates. Input may be received to configure maintenance activities and the system may automatically correlate failure rules with the activity template. The system may generate the configurable electronic instructions for the mobile drive units and transmit them with the failure rules, if generated, to one or more mobile drive units of the physical workspace. When the one or more mobile device units receive the configurable electronic instruction, the mobile drive units may operate in accordance with the configurable electronic instruction.

公开(公告)号：US10755227B1

公开(公告)日：2020-08-25

申请号：US15691316

申请日：2017-08-30

Applicant: Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Inventor： Aayush Aggarwal ,  Vishnu Ayyagari ,  Matthew Paul Bell ,  Sarfraz Banglawala ,  James Plumley

IPC: G06Q10/08 ,  G05D1/02

Abstract: Systems and methods described herein pertain to maintaining a virtual representation of a workspace in a material handling system and updating the virtual representation. Methods described include maintaining the virtual representation of a material handling grid, maintaining one or more clients operable to direct movement of the plurality of drive units in the workspace; receiving an instruction to update the virtual representation of the drive-unit navigable grid including an updated virtual representation of the workspace; and querying a subset of the one or more clients to determine whether the update to the virtual representation would cause one conflicts within the workspace. Potential conflicts include, but are not limited to, “stranded” resources which are no longer positioned on the material handling grid, and/or workstations that have not yet been suspended prior to the update. Methods further include, upon determining that the updated virtual representation would not cause a conflict, deploying the updated virtual representation to replace an existing virtual representation of the workspace.