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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 01, 2026
Filed:
Mar. 09, 2023
Realtime Robotics, Inc., Boston, MA (US);
Sean Murray, Victor, MT (US);
Peter Englert, Berlin, DE;
Xianchao Long, Waltham, MA (US);
Arne Sieverling, Berlin, DE;
Ty Tremblay, Melrose, MA (US);
REALTIME ROBOTICS, INC., Boston, MA (US);
Abstract
The structures and algorithms described herein employ staging poses to facilitate the operation robots operating in a shared workspace or workcell, preventing or at least reducing the risk of collision while efficiently moving robots to one or more goals to perform respective tasks. Motion planning can be performed during runtime, and includes identifying one or more staging poses for a robot to advantageously position or configure a robot whose path is blocked or is expected to be blocked by one or more other robots, monitoring the other robots and moving the robot toward a goal in response to the path becoming unblocked or cleared. The staging pose can be identified using various heuristics to efficiently position or configure the robot to complete its task one its path becomes unblocked or cleared.