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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 15, 2023
Filed:
Feb. 01, 2019
Locus Robotics Corp., Wilmington, MA (US);
Michael Charles Johnson, Ashland, MA (US);
Luis Jaquez, Burlington, MA (US);
Sean Johnson, Danvers, MA (US);
Andrew Alcutt, North Andover, MA (US);
Locus Robotics Corp., Wilmington, MA (US);
Abstract
Systems and methods are provided for robot congestion management including a robot monitoring server configured to track a location of a plurality of robots within a navigational space and a plurality of robots in communication with the robot monitoring server, each robot including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the autonomous robot to determine, from a task list assigned to the robot, a first pose location corresponding to a first task, receive, from the robot monitoring server, congestion information associated with the first pose location, identify a congested state of the first pose location indicated by the congestion information, select, responsive to the identification of the congested state, a second task from the task list, and navigate to a second pose location corresponding to the second task.