Amazon Technologies, Inc.

Marshall Friend Tappen

James Christopher Curlander

Jules Cook Graybill

Barry James O'Brien

Erik Resch Parker

Darren Ernest Canavor

Udit Madan

Allan Scott Bathurst

Michael Ellsworth Bundy

David Daniel Glick

Michael Donoser

Pradeep Krishna Yarlagadda

Cédric Philippe Charles Jean Ghislain Archambeau

Ralf Herbrich

Hilliard Bruce Siegel

Maren Marie Costa

Jonathan Blair Norwood

Katherine M Ryan

Hakan Boyraz

Baoyuan Liu

Kristina Lisa Klinkner

Pragyana K Mishra

Wesley Scott Lauka

Ryan Scott Russell

Christopher David Brown

Avinash Aghoram Ravichandran

Xiaohan Nie

Sheng Chen

Robert Wadia Moses

Gregory J Bartlett

Disclosed are various embodiments for implementing passenger profiles for autonomous vehicles. A passenger of the autonomous vehicle is identified. A passenger profile corresponding to the passenger and comprising a passenger preference is identified. The passenger preference is identified. A configuration setting of the autonomous vehicle corresponding to autonomous operation of the autonomous vehicle is then adjusted based at least in part on the passenger preference.

Passenger profiles for autonomous vehicles

Systems and methods to improve video conferencing may include various improvements and modifications to image and audio data to simulate mutual presence among users. For example, automated positioning and presentation of image data of users via presentation devices may present users at a position, size, and scale to simulate mutual presence of users within a same physical space. In addition, rendering image data of users from virtual camera positions via presentation devices may simulate mutual eye gaze and mutual presence of users. Further, blending a background, or accentuating a user, within image data that is presented via presentation devices may match visual characteristics of the environment or the user to simulate mutual presence of users. Moreover, dynamic steering of individual audio transducers of an audio transducer array, and simulating audio point sources using a combination of speakers, may simulate direct communication and mutual presence of users.

Image and audio data processing to create mutual presence in a video conference

This disclosure describes a device and system for verifying the content of items in a bin within a materials handling facility. In some implementations, a bin content verification apparatus may pass by one or more bins and capture images of those bins. The images may be processed to determine whether the content included in the bins has changed since the last time images of the bins were captured. A determination may also be made as to whether a change to the bin content was expected and, if so, if the determined change corresponds with the expected change.

Bin content verification

An autonomous delivery robot system to enable delivery of a product to a customer is described. One autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) includes a processing device that receives a delivery request comprising a route divided into multiple navigation segments and computes a navigable space from perception data stored in a perception map. The perception map is a robot-centered local map that stores the perception data indicative of the surroundings of the AGV. The processing device computes a cost inflation from the perception data stored in the perception map, determines a sub-goal that is on the navigable space and reachable by the AGV using the navigable space and the cost inflation, and determines a path to achieve the sub-goal using the using the navigable space and the cost inflation. The processing device controls one or more actuators to move along the path.

Navigation directly from perception data without pre-mapping

Inventory imaging apparatus

Described are techniques for storing and retrieving items using a robotic device for moving items. Any combinations of image data depicting a manipulator interacting with an item, sensor data from sensors instrumenting the manipulator or item, item data regarding characteristics of the item, and constraint data relating to characteristics of the robotic device may be used to generate one or more configurations for the robotic device. The configurations may include points of contact and force vectors for contacting the item using the robotic device.

System for configuring a robotic device for moving items

Disclosed are various embodiments for obtaining environmental data and operational data from autonomous vehicles in a roadway. A vehicle state of the autonomous vehicles can be updated using data that is obtained from nearby vehicles or other vehicles that are on the roadway. The roadway management system can also generate updates to the vehicle state based upon data obtained from sources external to autonomous vehicles.

Generating state information for autonomous vehicles

Disclosed are various embodiments for non-mechanical assistance for autonomous vehicles. An unknown environmental condition may be detected that affects a navigation of the autonomous vehicle. A passenger and/or other source may be presented an inquiry requesting identification of the unknown environmental condition. A response to the inquiry may be used as an input by the vehicle control system in determining appropriate navigation of the autonomous vehicle.

Environmental condition identification assistance for autonomous vehicles

Imaging data regarding an interior portion of a storage vessel may be obtained from an imaging device (e.g., a digital camera or depth sensor) and interpreted in order to identify an available volume within the storage vessel. Where the imaging data includes an image of an interior of the storage vessel, an area of one or more contiguous spaces of a rear face of the storage vessel may be identified from the image and multiplied by a depth of the storage vessel in order to estimate the available volume. Where the imaging data includes a depth profile of the interior, the depth profile may be processed in order to estimate the available volume. Once an available volume has been estimated, the capacity of the available volume to accommodate one or more additional items may be determined, and information regarding the capacity may be provided to a user.

Selecting items for placement into available volumes using imaging data

Bin content verification apparatus

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Marshall Friend Tappen