Swisslog Logistics, Inc.

Mike Terrill

Pat R Mitchell

Christopher Brumm

Rodney Tipton

Mohan Ramankutty

A system for positioning a lifting cart in an automated storage facility is described. In one example, the system includes a motorized lifting cart configured to move about a railway of a storage area. An encoder on the cart reads a property of rotation of a rotating element on the cart, and a controller may receive the property of rotation from the encoder and convert it to a rotation count of the rotating element. The rotating element may be an encoder shaft, drive shaft, and like elements. Some systems include a signal emitter or photo sensor to position the lifting cart and to facilitate providing instructions to the cart.

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Lathrop, CA, United States of America

Mike Terrill