Storage and retrieval system rover interface

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11001444
APP PUB NO 20190193938A1
SERIAL NO

16293309

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An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

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SYMBOTIC LLC200 RESEARCH DRIVE WILMINGTON MA 01887

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Apgar, Taylor A Boston, US 11 110
Barbour, Russell G Natick, US 22 1136
Buzan, Forrest Dunstable, US 22 338
MacDonald, Edward A Somerville, US 21 168
Schaefer, Thomas A Groveland, US 16 264
Ziegler, Melanie Andover, US 11 49

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