Patent №
US 8,538,692
Granted
2013-09-17
Filed 2006
Owner
KIVA SYSTEMS, INC.
Lab
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AI components
1
planning
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11425057
A method of transporting inventory items includes receiving a route request from a mobile drive unit. The route request identifies a destination location within a workspace. The workspace includes at least one cell associated with a first cell attribute and at least one cell that is not associated with the first cell attribute. The method includes determining a state of the mobile drive unit. The method also includes generating a path to the destination location for the mobile drive unit that traverses cells associated with the first cell attribute, in response to determining that the mobile drive unit is associated with a first state. The method includes generating a path to the destination location for the mobile drive unit that does not traverse cells associated with the first cell attribute, in response to determining the mobile drive unit is not associated with the first state. The method further includes transmitting the path to the mobile drive unit.
AI classification
Ownership
KIVA SYSTEMS, INC.
assignment · 181930548
Assignors
WURMAN, PETER R., D'ANDREA, RAFAELLO, BARBEHENN, MICHAEL T., HOFFMAN, ANDREW E., MOUNTZ, MICHAEL C.
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.