Symbotic LLC

Ecrm Incorporated

Symbolic LLC

Todd E Kepple

Michael Cyrulik

Scott D Collins

Jason Steven Sirois

Robert P Sullivan

Forrest Buzan

Russell G Barbour

Gregory Thronson

Akram Zahdeh

Jared Ploss

Christopher Kiley

William Johnson

John F Keating

Thomas G Perry

Edward A MacDonald

Robert T Sullivan

Michael J Kapust

Edward Macdonald

Predrag Puskarevic

John Matthews

Lawrence A Margagliano

Jason S Sirois

Robert Sullivan

Scott Collins

Mélanie Ziegler

Thomas Perry

Lawrence Margagliano

An autonomous transport robot for transporting a payload, autonomous transport robot including, frame with integral payload support that has a payload seat surface defining a payload datum position that determines predetermined payload position relative to autonomous transport robot, transfer arm connected to the frame and configured for autonomous transfer of payload to and from the frame, one caster wheel mounted to frame, drive section with a pair of traction drive wheels astride the drive section, drive section being connected to the frame, wherein the one caster wheel and one traction drive wheel of the pair of traction drive wheels roll, on a rolling surface effecting autonomous transport robot traversal over the rolling surface, each having a fully independent suspension, and are disposed on the frame astride the integral payload support so that the payload seat surface at the payload datum position is disposed at minimum distance above the rolling surface.

Autonomous transport vehicle with synergistic vehicle dynamic response

An autonomous transport vehicle includes a frame forming a payload section configured to hold one or more pickfaces, a transfer arm movably mounted to the frame, a drive section connected to the frame, and a controller connected to the drive section, the controller being configured to effect an on-the-fly sortation of pickfaces carried by the autonomous transport vehicle according to a predetermined case out order sequence where the controller commands the drive section so that two or more pickfaces are picked from one or more first case unit holding locations and placed at one or more different second case unit holding locations according to the predetermined case out order sequence.

Storage and retrieval system transport vehicle

An autonomous transport vehicle includes a frame forming a transport payload area of the vehicle. The payload area includes a payload contact support surface that defines a payload support plane that supports the payload. The payload area further includes an articulated underpick end effector that engages and underpicks the payload with respect to the support plane, and extends and retracts with respect to the payload area effecting payload transfer. Payload registration facets are mounted to the frame to engage the payload. The registration facets are disposed to provide, upon engagement with the payload, at least two degrees of registration capturing and securing the payload in a predetermined position in the payload area, and are configured to effect payload engagement with the at least two degrees of registration registering the payload substantially coincident with seating of the payload on the payload support plane of the payload area.

Autonomous transport vehicle

An autonomous transport robot vehicle for transporting a payload, includes a chassis that is a space frame formed of longitudinal hollow section beams, arrayed to form longitudinally extended sides of the space frame, and respective front and rear lateral beams closing opposite ends of the space frame. A payload support is connected to the chassis. Ride wheels depend from the chassis. The ride wheels and chassis in combination form a low profile height from the traverse surface to atop the chassis, where chassis height and ride wheel height are overlapped at least in part and the payload support is nested within the ride wheels. The space frame has predetermined modular coupling interfaces, each disposed for removably coupling, as a module unit, a corresponding predetermined electronic or mechanical component module of the autonomous transport robot vehicle to the chassis.

An autonomous transport robot for transporting a payload is provided and includes a frame with an integral payload support, a transfer arm connected to the frame for autonomous transfer of payload to and from the frame, and a drive section with at least a pair of traction drive wheels astride the drive section, the drive section being connected to the frame. The at least the pair of traction drive wheels have a fully independent suspension coupling each traction drive wheel of the at least the pair of traction drive wheels to the frame, with at least one intervening pivot link between at least one traction drive wheel and the frame configured to maintain a substantially steady state traction contact patch between the at least one traction drive wheel and a rolling surface over rolling surface transients throughout traverse of the at least one traction drive wheel over the rolling surface.

An automated storage and retrieval system includes a storage array of storage locations for case units. An in-out case conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting case units to and from the storage array, and an in-out loaded pallet conveyor is capable of bi-directionally transporting loaded pallets towards and away from the storage array. A palletizer-depalletizer cell includes a bi-directional pallet transport system with more than one independently driven pallet transports, each with a different pallet holder independently movable relative to a cell frame. Placement of case units commissioning a pallet layer loading a pallet, and removal of case units decommissioning a pallet layer unloading another pallet are both effected at the common pallet layer interface at a predetermined level of the cell frame. The pallet transports independently index a first and a second of the different pallet holders, each independently holding the pallet loading at the common pallet layer interface.

Palletizer-depalletizer system for distribution facilities

Automated guided vehicle

An automated storage and retrieval system includes an autonomous rover and a multilevel rack structure. The multilevel rack structure includes columns connected by rail beams transversely spanning between the columns. The rail beams define storage and transport levels and provide riding surfaces for the autonomous rover. The rail beams include integral fatigue resistant rover location apertures.

Automated storage and retrieval system structure

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Todd E Kepple