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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
May. 25, 2021

Filed:

Nov. 27, 2017
Applicant:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Inventors:

Stephen Charles Paschall, II, Cambridge, MA (US);

Justin Croyle, Hampstead, NH (US);

Shilpi Gupta, Somerville, MA (US);

Anatoly Mitlin, Swampscott, MA (US);

Ashish Shah, Lincoln, MA (US);

Assignee:

Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); G05D 1/00 (2006.01); G08G 1/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1666 (2013.01); G05D 1/0088 (2013.01); G05D 1/024 (2013.01); G05D 1/0214 (2013.01); G05D 1/0274 (2013.01); G08G 1/00 (2013.01); G05D 2201/0216 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a first bounded area based on first sensor data may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot where the first sensor data is used to identify objects in a travel path for the autonomous mobile robot and determine a speed for navigating the facility. A second bounded area of a size less than the first bounded area may be generated around the autonomous mobile robot based on speed information from propulsion components of the autonomous mobile robot. A new travel path and new speed information may be generated based on identifying an object in the travel path, dimensional measurements of a space around the object, and a current size of the second bounded area.


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