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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 08, 2011
Filed:
Jan. 16, 2009
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Glen Alan Jaquette, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard George Jesionowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mark Delorman Schultz, Ossining, NY (US);
Brian Gerard Goodman, Tucson, AZ (US);
Glen Alan Jaquette, Tucson, AZ (US);
Leonard George Jesionowski, Tucson, AZ (US);
Mark Delorman Schultz, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A computer program product for operating an automated data storage library with storage shelves, data storage drive(s), a bus bar; and a robot accessor with a drive system for moving the robot accessor, an accessor communication interface, a bus bar relay configured to engage and disengage the bus bar; and a robot control configured to operate the drive system to move the robot accessor, to operate a picker, and to operate the bus bar relay to engage the bus bar when the robot accessor is stationary, to provide communication capability with a library communication interface via the bus bar relay and the bus bar when the bus bar relay engages the bus bar. Additionally, a second communication system may be provided between the robot accessor and the automated data storage library, which is operable at least when the robot accessor is moving.