When the UV for performing mobile sales of a mobile sales item is located in a sales area, the movement control system S identifies an operation situation on the user terminal 3 of the user in the sales area, the operation situation being an operation situation of the user with respect to the mobile sales item, and performs movement control of the unmanned vehicle on the basis of the identified operation situation.

An automated storage and retrieval system including a storage structure with storage racks having a seating surface configured to support case units where a position of each case unit is non-deterministic for each storage location on the storage racks, each case unit has a predetermined storage position and a controller is configured to determine the predetermined storage position, a picking aisle configured to provide access to the case units within the storage structure, and a seismic disturbance restorative system including seismic disturbance motions sensors disposed on the storage racks, a seismic disturbance control module in communication with the seismic disturbance sensors and configured to identify a seismic disturbance, and an automated case mapper configured to traverse the picking aisle, the automated case mapper being in communication with and initialized by the seismic disturbance control module to identify a seated position of at least one case unit within the storage structure.

An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator, a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station and configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.

The disclosure relates to a forestry system (1). The forestry system comprises a harvester (10) comprising an electrical energy generator, and a plurality of self-driving shuttles (20a-f) for transporting logs harvested by the harvester. Each shuttle comprises an electrical energy storage and at least one electrical motor powered by the electrical energy storage. The electrical energy storage of said shuttle is configured to be coupled to the electrical energy generator and charged thereby. The harvester is configured to load a harvested log onto a coupled shuttle and charge the electrical energy storage of said coupled shuttle using electrical energy from the electrical energy generator.

A system for loading and transporting parcels includes: a sorter including a plurality of chutes for offloading parcels from the sorter; a plurality of totes; a plurality of self-driving vehicles (SDVs) configured to transport the plurality of totes between a loading area, an unloading area, and a queue area; and a control subsystem. The loading area includes a plurality of zones, with each zone corresponding to one or more chutes of the sorter. The control subsystem includes a controller, which is operably connected to the SDVs, and which selectively communicates instructions to dispatch SDVs to transport and replace totes in the loading area as they become filled to the predetermined capacity. A method for loading and transporting parcels in a sorting facility including a loading area, an unloading area, and a queue area is also disclosed.

A system for intralogistics comprising a self-propelled load bearing cart and a remote controlled or autonomous self-propelled guide unit. The self-propelled load bearing cart comprises a drive unit comprising at least one drive wheel for propelling the self-propelled load bearing cart, a mechanical connection, and a computing unit connected to the drive unit. The computing unit comprises a transceiving unit for communicating with the remote controlled or autonomous self-propelled guide unit, and the remote controlled or autonomous self-propelled guide unit comprises a mechanical connection configured to connect to the mechanical connection of the self-propelled load bearing cart, such that a mechanical interconnection can be created between the remote controlled or autonomous self-propelled guide unit and the self-propelled load bearing cart.

Systems and methods for vehicle localization are provided for a robotic vehicle, such as an autonomous mobile robot. The vehicle can be configured with multiple localization modes used for localization and/or pose estimation of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the vehicle comprises a first set of exteroceptive sensors and a second set of exteroceptive sensors, each being used for a different localization modality. The vehicle is able to disregard at least one localization modality for a number of different reasons, e.g., the disregarded location modality is adversely affected by the environment, to use less than the full complement of localization modalities to continue to stably localize the vehicle within an electronic map. In some embodiments, a localization modality may be disregarded for pre-planned reasons.

A vehicle for an automated storage and retrieval system is configured to follow a route relative to tracks of the automated storage and retrieval system. The route includes one or more track crossings. The vehicle includes a first set of wheels capable of moving the vehicle in a first direction; a second set of wheels capable of moving the vehicle in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; and one or more sensors attached to the vehicle and configured to detect the one or more track crossings while the vehicle is moving in the first direction or the second direction.

A method of managing a departure of an automated guided vehicle includes generating a work order for transporting an article stored on shelves immediately next to a first port from the first port to a second port and setting a priority of the work order, generating a movement order for moving the automated guided vehicle from a current point of the automated guided vehicle to the first port based on the work order and the priority of the work order, determining a queue value of the first port which is a number of the shelves storing the article included in the first port, and setting a port priority based on the queue value of the first port and resetting the priority of the work order based on the port priority.

A mobile drive unit for an inventory system includes a base suspended from a frame by a pivot assembly, such as a first link and a second link. The base supports a platform configured to engage an inventory holder of the inventory system. Movement of the base causes the platform to tip, such as away from a direction of a reaction force acting on the base due to acceleration or deceleration of the mobile drive unit.