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Demand-responsive robot fleet management for value chain networks

A robot fleet platform for preparing a job request includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions. The instructions include a job request ingestion system configured to receive job content relating to at least one of picking, packing, moving, storing, warehousing, transporting or delivering of items in a supply chain. The job content includes an electronic job request and related data. The instructions include a job content parsing system configured to apply filters to the received job content to identify candidate portions thereof for robot automation. The instructions include a fleet intelligence layer that activates a set of intelligence services to process terms in the candidate portions of the job content and receive therefrom at least one recommended robot task and associated contextual information. The instructions include a demand intelligence layer that provides real time information relating to a parameter of demand for the items in the supply chain.

Method for configuring a coating process

A computer implemented method for configuring a coating process to deposit a targeted mono- or multi-layered coating on a substrate, the method providing as output a series of ordered tasks executed on the coating process, and includes (a) providing a dataset including a data related to parameters of the coating process; (b) providing a set of algorithms which takes, as input, data from the dataset of (a) and provides, as output, series of at least one tasks associated to each algorithm; selecting two algorithms from the set of algorithms depending on current states of the coating process as provided as input data, and (d) selecting an order in which the algorithms selected at (c) has to be carried out so that the tasks provided by the algorithms are organized as a series of ordered tasks which are executed contextually onto the coating process at corresponding stages in the coating process.

Digital-twin-enabled robot fleet management

A digital twin system includes a library of different types of robot operating unit digital twins stored in a storage system. The digital twin system includes one or more interfaces through which information associated with a physical robot operating unit corresponding to an instance of the robot operating unit digital twins is communicated. The digital twin system includes a set of processors that execute a set of computer-readable instructions to collectively operate one or more execution environments for executing instances of a portion of the different types of robot operating unit digital twins. The digital twin system also generates digital twin instances for individual robot operating units, a team of robot operating units, or a fleet of robot operating units. The digital twin system simulates operation of a physical robot by executing an instance of a digital twin generated for the physical robot based on information communicated through the interfaces.

Machine-learned robot fleet management for value chain networks

A system includes a fleet resources data store that maintains a fleet resource inventory indicating fleet resources that can be assigned to perform tasks. For each fleet resource, the inventory indicates features of each fleet resource and a respective status. A set of task definitions is accessible to an intelligence layer to facilitate improving task definition based on feedback from task-specific outcomes. The system receives a job request for a robotic fleet to perform a job and determines a job definition data structure indicating a set of tasks to be performed for the job. The system applies an outcome of performing a task by a resource assigned to perform the task to a machine learning system of the intelligence layer that facilitates improving, based on the outcome, the set of task definitions. The system updates the set of task definitions based on a result of applying the machine learning system.

Robot fleet management with workflow simulation for value chain networks

A robot fleet management platform includes one or more processors configured to execute instructions. The instructions include receiving a job request comprising information descriptive of job deliverable and request-specific constraints for delivering the job deliverable. The instructions include applying content and structural filters to content received in association with a job request to identify portions thereof suitable for robot automation. The instructions include establishing a set of robot tasks, each defining at least a type of robot and a task objective, based on the portions of the job request that are suitable for robot automation and meet a first fleet objective. The instructions include applying fleet configuration services to the job content and the set of robot tasks to produce a fleet resource configuration data structure for the job request that associates at least one robot operating unit with each task in the set of tasks and robot adaptation instructions.