Safety-rated multi-cell workspace mapping and monitoring

US11097422B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• VEO ROBOTICS, INC. · US

Inventors

• Scott Denenberg · Boston, US
• Patrick Sobalvarro · Palo Alto, US
• Clara Vu · Cambridge, US
• Alberto Moel · Cambridge, US
• Richard Kelsey · Belmont, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 25, 2020
• Grant date: Aug 24, 2021
• Expiry date: Apr 14, 2040

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/49
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.