Odetics, Inc.

Charles A Lindquist

Jesse P Lerma

Timothy L Crabtree

Robert G Fairchild

A robotic materials handling system for storing and handling box-like articles such as videocassettes includes a storage area containing a plurality of columns of storage bins, a vertical support shaft located adjacent the storage area and a manipulator assembly carried on the shaft. The manipulator assembly includes a plurality of gripper mechanisms which may be positioned adjacent desired storage bins. The system includes computer control circuitry for controlling the operation of the manipulator assembly and gripper mechanism to transport articles between desired locations.

Robotic materials handling system

In a system wherein transitions occur in a data signal encoded with a known format and transition displacements occur as a result of bandwidth limitations, noise, and the like, there is disclosed a method and means for measuring the probability density function associated with such transition displacements. Furthermore, the present system permits the measurement of conditional probability such that the probability density function associated with certain selected transitions can be separately evaluated. The probability density function associated with transition displacements is measured by measuring the average frequency of occurrence of transitions of the data within a narrow, first time interval, varying the first time interval over a larger, second time interval during which transitions of the data are expected to occur, and plotting the average frequency of occurrence of data transitions determined at each first interval.

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Whittier, CA, United States of America

Charles A Lindquist