Autonomous robots performing concerted operation based on shared sensory access and holistic flow of information

US10678228B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• inVia Robotics, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Randolph Charles Voorhies · Culver City, US
• Lior Elazary · Craydon Court, US
• Daniel Frank Parks, II · Los Angeles, US
• Sagar Pandya · Craydon Court, US
• William Shane Simpson Grant · San Fernando, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Apr 4, 2018
• Grant date: Jun 9, 2020
• Expiry date: Apr 4, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/08
• WIPO field: Handling
• WIPO sector: Mechanical engineering

Abstract

Increased robotic sophistication and more efficient autonomous operation is implemented by providing separate physical autonomous robots shared and remote access to the sensory array and information from the sensory array of one another. Each robot can access a sensor of any other robot, or scans or other information obtained from the sensor of any other robot. The robots leverage the shared sensory access in order to perform batch order fulfillment, dynamic rearrangement of item or tote locations, and opportunistic charging. These coordinated robotic operations based on the shared sensory access increase the efficiency and productivity of the robots without adding resources or hardware to the robots, increasing the speed of the robots, or increasing the number of deployed robots.