Automated warehousing using robotic forklifts or other material handling vehicles

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11748700
APP PUB NO 20210056499A1
SERIAL NO

17074376

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Automated inventory management and material (or container) handling removes the requirement to operate fully automatically or all-manual using conventional task dedicated vertical storage and retrieval (S&R) machines. Inventory requests Automated vehicles plan their own movements to execute missions over a container yard, warehouse aisles or roadways, sharing this space with manually driven trucks. Automated units drive to planned speed limits, manage their loads (stability control), stop, go, and merge at intersections according human driving rules, use on-board sensors to identify static and dynamic obstacles, and human traffic, and either avoid them or stop until potential collision risk is removed. They identify, localize, and either pick-up loads (pallets, container, etc.) or drop them at the correctly demined locations. Systems without full automation can also implement partially automated operations (for instance load pick-up and drop), and can assure inherently safe manually operated vehicles (i.e., trucks that do not allow collisions).

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  • CYBERNET SYSTEMS CORP.

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Beach, Glenn J Grass Lake, US 47 2664
Cohen, Charles J Ann Arbor, US 41 4812
Jacobus, Charles J Ann Arbor, US 105 12377
Rowe, Steve Grass Lake, US 17 501

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