Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Abraham Cantwell

Gaurav D Ghare

Andrew Brenden Tinka

Ibolya Horvath

Bin Zhu

Chetan Banthiya

David Prody

Eric D Anderson

Stephane Robin

Thomas Alexandre Moulard

Keith Richardson

A management system for a heterogenous robot fleet provides standard application programmatic interfaces (APIs) for use by inventory management systems in generating complex applications, wherein calls to the API are formatted in a standard format and cause the management system to orchestrate cross-fleet operations that involve multiple different types of robots that are operating in a common facility. Also, the management system for a heterogenous robot fleet provides a unified view of the heterogenous robot fleets of the facility.

Heterogenous robot fleet manager

Within a sortation center, robotic drives may coordinate to sort packages. In some instances, first robotic drives on a third floor may deposit packages into first chutes that transfer the packages to a second floor. Awaiting second robotic drives on the second floor may receive the packages and may deposit the packages into second chutes that transfer the packages to a first floor. At the first floor, the packages may arrive into a container associated with shipping the packages. Depositing the packages in the first chutes may align the packages with a respective container on the first floor in a first direction and depositing the packages in the second chutes may align the packages with their respective container on the second floor in a second direction.

Multi-story robotic drive package sortation

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Abraham Cantwell