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Robotic grasping of items in inventory system

  • US 10,272,566 B2
  • Filed: 01/08/2018
  • Issued: 04/30/2019
  • Est. Priority Date: 12/16/2014
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An inventory management system comprising:

  • a robotic manipulator configured for grasping inventory items at a station;

    a sensor set configured to detect one or more attributes of inventory items at the station; and

    a management module configured to;

    receive an order corresponding to a particular product code;

    instruct accessing, at the station, of a first inventory item matching the particular product code;

    access a record associated with the first inventory item and including a set of stored characteristics;

    receive, from the sensor set, information about a detected set of characteristics of the first inventory item;

    determine that the first inventory item is damaged based at least in part on differences between the set of stored characteristics and the detected set of characteristics; and

    select a grasping strategy for causing the robotic manipulator to grasp, at the station, a second inventory item also matching the particular product code for fulfilling the order instead of the first inventory item based at least in part on the determination that the first inventory item is damaged.

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