An autonomous robot drive assembly includes a plurality of drive units. The plurality of drive units may allow for movement and control of the autonomous robot drive. Each of the plurality of drive units are configured to be oriented independent of the other drive units. Each drive unit may include a plurality of independently operable driven wheels. Each drive unit may further include a drive unit coupling, allowing for the drive unit to rotate independently of other portions of the autonomous robot. The drive unit coupling may not be driven and may be configured to freely rotate.

Disclosed are various embodiments for optimizing robot utilization in autonomous mobile robots by accounting for the battery charge state when assigning missions to be performed by the autonomous mobile robots in a material handling facility. In particular, mission data associated with one or more missions and robot data including a battery charge state associated with one or more robots can be analyzed to determine a robot mission assignment that accounts for battery state charge in order to maximize robot utilization and productivity of material handling tasks.

A self-driving device control system of the present invention includes an entry restricted area, at least one entrance opened and closed by a closing member, a self-driving device, and a control device, and further includes an outside identification device, an inside identification device, and a storage device. When identification information is acquired by the outside identification device, the control device sets the self-driving device to a stopped state. If the storage device is not storing even one piece of entry identification information regarding a worker for which a corresponding piece of exit identification information regarding the same worker is not stored in the storage device, and furthermore all of the entrances are in a passage restricted state, the control device resumes the driving of the self-driving device.

A computing system may be configured as a fleet controller for autonomous mobile robots operating within a physical environment. The system may include a communication interface receiving sensor data from the robots including image data captured by visible light cameras located on the robots, an environment mapper determining a global scene graph representing the environment and identifying navigable regions of the environment, a workflow coordinator determining a workflow including tasks to be performed within the environment by one or more of the robots in cooperation with a human, and a route planner configured to determine routing information for the one or robots including a nominal route from a source location to a destination location. The robots may be configured to autonomously navigate the environment to execute the tasks based on the routing information.

A method is for picking goods assigned to different orders using a picking system with an automated guided vehicle and a goods receiving device rotatably mounted thereon for receiving goods in order-specific goods sectors. The method includes providing the first good to be picked, assigned to a first order, at a first transfer position, picking up the first good at the first transfer position by an order picker, positioning the picking system near the order picker, and rotating the goods receiving device relative to the automated guided vehicle in such a way that a first goods sector of the goods receiving device assigned to the first order faces the order picker.

A moving object operation management device for managing the operation of moving objects that move in a passage provided in an area and perform work at a specific place. When the work of a certain moving object hinders the movement of another moving object in a passage, the exclusive section and the exclusive section for one of the two moving objects are adjacent to each other, and when the movement of the shortest path to the next destination is hindered by the other exclusive section, the first operation instruction for moving one to the next exclusive section and after the exclusive section of the other section is released. And a second operation instruction to move the one moving object to the next destination by the shortest path, by comparing the arrival time to the one of the next destination in accordance with the instructions, configured to selectively emit.

Disclosed are a method for determining a stacking state, a controller, and material handling equipment. The technical solution includes: acquiring target data of a first stacking object and a second stacking object; extracting, from the target data, first target data of the first stacking object and second target data of the second stacking object; extracting a first boundary of the first stacking object based on the first target data, and extracting a second boundary of the second stacking object based on the second target data; and calculating a width of a first gap between the first stacking object and the second stacking object based on the first boundary and the second boundary, and comparing the width of the first gap with a first threshold to determine a first stacking state. The present disclosure may help improve efficiency and accuracy of a determining process of a stacking state.

A driving method of an automated guided vehicle including a guide sensor and moving along a path guide, includes first scanning the path guide, while rotating at a first set angle, determining whether the path guide is detected during the first scanning, and if the path guide is not detected in the first scanning, performing a second scanning of the path guide while rotating at a second set angle.

The present disclosure relates to a method, comprising: determining a state of an autonomous mobile device in response to a command received from a remote control apparatus; causing, in response to determining that the autonomous mobile device is in a first state, the autonomous mobile device to move toward a target to a first location; and causing the autonomous mobile device to move from the first location to a second location so as to release one or more mobile vehicles on the autonomous mobile device.

A mobile carrier includes a controller, the controller executing program instructions to implement operations including moving the mobile carrier to move toward a target, wherein a first mobile vehicle and a second mobile vehicle are stacked on the mobile carrier; lifting the second mobile vehicle away from the first mobile vehicle; and placing the second mobile vehicle down to a predetermined location after the first mobile vehicle moves away from the mobile carrier.