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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 16, 2021
Filed:
Jan. 10, 2018
Alert Innovation Inc., North Billerica, MA (US);
John G. Lert, Jr., Wakefield, MA (US);
William J. Fosnight, Windham, NH (US);
Matthew W. Coady, Hollis, NH (US);
Alert Innovation Inc., North Billerica, MA (US);
Abstract
A system and method for managing a plurality of automated mobile robots within automated mobile robot storage and retrieval system is provided, which repurposes one or more automated mobile robots operating within the automated inventory management system to perform a plurality of tasks across multiple different areas of an automated store. The same mobile robot is enabled to move horizontally and vertically in a multi-level storage structure, operate in an order fulfillment mode retrieving order totes from an automated fulfillment section and delivering the order totes to the delivery section, operate in a replenishment mode receiving eaches of goods and depositing the eaches of goods in designated storage totes, and operate in a delivery mode receiving delivery bundles and transporting the delivery bundles to designated locations at the transfer station.