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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 26, 2019
Filed:
Mar. 29, 2017
Panasonic Intellectual Property Management Co., Ltd., Osaka, JP;
John Cronin, Bonita Springs, FL (US);
Jonathan T. Goguen, Brookline, NH (US);
Michael Glynn D'Andrea, Burlington, VT (US);
Mikio Morioka, Osaka, JP;
Abstract
A waste management system and associated method are used to control routing of an autonomous waste receptacle in a facility. The autonomous waste receptacle includes a cavity for storing trash, a trash level sensor for sensing a level of trash stored therein, and a motor operative to move the waste receptacle. Position trackers sense positions of the autonomous waste receptacle and of patrons in the facility. Additionally, concession consumption concession consumption data indicative of sales performed by concessions in the facility are stored. A processing subsystem controls the waste receptacle to move autonomously in the facility along a route determined according to correlations between concession consumption data, trash levels monitored by the waste receptacle, and patron positions.