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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 21, 2020
Filed:
Sep. 07, 2017
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Aayush Aggarwal, Medford, MA (US);
Amanda Adkins, Medford, MA (US);
Vishnu Ayyagari, Boxboro, MA (US);
Sidney Yu-Heng Ng, North Andover, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Methods and related systems employ an unmanned fiducial marker application unit to deploy new fiducial markers to a floor of a material handling facility, such as an inventory facility. A system for managing inventory items includes an unmanned fiducial marker application unit, initial fiducial markers distributed in a pattern on a floor of an inventory facility, at least one tangible memory device, and at least one processor configured to receive new fiducial marker data indicative of a location for each of one or more new fiducial markers to be applied to the floor and instruct the unmanned fiducial marker application unit to apply at least one of the one or more new fiducial markers to the floor in accordance with the new fiducial marker data.