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Systems and methods for distributed autonomous robot interfacing using live image feeds

  • US 10,189,642 B2
  • Filed: 01/26/2018
  • Issued: 01/29/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/30/2017
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An autonomous system including autonomous robot devices, the system comprising:

  • a first computing system including an interactive display configured to transmit a first request for a plurality of physical objects from a facility;

    a plurality of autonomous robot devices including a controller, a drive motor, an articulated arm, a reader, an inertial navigation system and an image capturing device, the plurality of autonomous robot devices configured to navigate autonomously through the facility;

    a database in communication with the plurality of robots, configured to store information associated with the plurality of physical objects;

    a second computing system in communication with the first computing system, the database, and the plurality of autonomous robot devices, the second computing system configured to;

    receive the first request for the plurality of physical objects from the first computing system;

    transmit instructions the at least one of the plurality of autonomous robot devices to retrieve the plurality of physical objects from the facility;

    detect the at least one autonomous robot device has picked up at least one of the plurality of physical objects;

    control the image capturing device of the at least autonomous robot device to capture a live image feed of the at least one physical object picked up by the at least autonomous robot device;

    switch an input feed of the first computing system to display the live image feed on the display of the first computing system;

    receive a second request from first computing system to discard the at least one of the physical objects picked up by the at least one autonomous robot device and to pick up a replacement physical object; and

    transmit instructions to the at least one autonomous device to discard the at least one of the physical objects picked up by the at least one autonomous robot device and to pick up the replacement physical object, the instructions include one or more identifiers for the plurality of physical objects,wherein the at least one of the autonomous robot further devices configured to;

    query the database using the one or more identifiers for the plurality of physical objects to retrieve the locations at which the plurality of physical objects are disposed;

    navigate autonomously through the facility to the locations in response to operation of the drive motor by the controller;

    locate and scan one or more machine readable elements encoded with the one or more identifiers;

    detect, via at least one image captured by the image capture device, that the plurality of physical objects are disposed at the locations;

    pick up a first quantity of each of the plurality of physical objects using the articulated arm.

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