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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:
Sep. 12, 2023

Filed:

Feb. 09, 2021
Applicant:

Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);

Inventors:

Smruti Panigrahi, Farmington Hills, MI (US);

Pavithra Madhavan, Windsor, CA;

Justin Miller, Berkley, MI (US);

Timothy Feldkamp, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Sanghyun Hong, Ann Arbor, MI (US);

Kevin Hwang, Northville, MI (US);

Kurt Lundeen, Wixom, MI (US);

Jianbo Lu, Northville, MI (US);

Assignee:

Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);

Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 9/08 (2006.01); B60S 5/04 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B25J 11/00 (2006.01); B25J 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1679 (2013.01); B25J 9/08 (2013.01); B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); B25J 11/0085 (2013.01); B25J 13/006 (2013.01); B25J 13/088 (2013.01); B60S 5/04 (2013.01);
Abstract

Systems and methods for fleet inspection and maintenance using a robot are provided. The robot may detect a maintenance issue of a vehicle of a fleet of vehicles via one or more sensors, generate a navigation route to a position proximal to the maintenance issue of the vehicle, traverse along the navigation route to the position, and execute a maintenance to rectify the maintenance issue of the vehicle. The robot may include a mobile base removably coupled to a modular platform for performing a maintenance task.


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