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Automated storage and retrieval system with integral secured personnel access zones and remote rover shutdown

  • US 10,739,766 B2
  • Filed: 07/23/2019
  • Issued: 08/11/2020
  • Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A transportation system comprising:

  • a transportation space including destinations distributed in the transportation space;

    multiple independent automated vehicles configured for free roving through the transportation space to and between the destinations so that the vehicles are dynamically distributed through the transportation space; and

    a control system communicably connected via a remote communication link to each of the vehicles and having a system controller that addresses each vehicle to different destinations;

    where the control system includes a vehicle accountant controller separate and distinct from the system controller, the vehicle accountant controller being connected via the remote communication link to each of the multiple independent automated vehicles and the vehicle accountant controller is configured toindependently and automatically register a dynamic location of each of the at least one of the multiple independent automated vehicles, selected from the multiple independent automated vehicles in the transportation space,commands stop, via the remote communication link, to only the selected at least one of the multiple independent automated vehicles at the registered location if the registered location corresponds to a predetermined portion of the transportation space, andeffects routing changes of other of the selected at least one of the multiple independent automated vehicles from the portion of the transportation space depending on the commanded stop of the selected at least one of the multiple independent automated vehicles.

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