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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 13, 2016
Filed:
Feb. 09, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Michael Cordell Mountz, Lexington, MA (US);
Oleksandr Glazkov, Boston, MA (US);
Timothy Aaron Bragg, Woburn, MA (US);
Matthew David Verminski, North Andover, MA (US);
Jeremiah David Brazeau, Hudson, NH (US);
Peter R. Wurman, Acton, MA (US);
John W. Cullen, Boston, MA (US);
Michael T. Barbehenn, North Reading, MA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
In an infrastructure that uses a mobile order fulfillment system, robotic drive units may be dispatched and instructed to bring inventory holders to a workstation where at least one of the inventory holders is packed and prepared for shipment. The robotic drive units are then instructed to move the prepared inventory holder to a transport vehicle such as a truck. Fiducial marks may be removably placed within the transport vehicle to aid navigation of the robotic drive units. At a destination facility, additional robotic drive units may be instructed to move the inventory holders from the truck and place the inventory holders at appropriate storage locations.