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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2018
Filed:
Feb. 24, 2016
Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Mark D. O'Brien, Kentwood, MI (US);
David M. Berghorn, Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Dematic Corp., Grand Rapids, MI (US);
Abstract
An automated order fulfillment system and automated method for fulfilling orders includes a donor-handling system having at least two donor buffers and a recipient-handling system having at least one recipient buffer. An item-handling system includes a vision system and an item manipulator. The vision system has a field of view encompassing the at least two donor receptacle buffers. A control causes the vision system to scan items in a donor receptacle at one of the donor buffers to obtain a pick list of location data of items in the scanned donor receptacle. The control causes the manipulator to pick an item from a donor receptacle at the other of the donor buffers under guidance of the vision system and place the picked item to a recipient receptacle at the at least one recipient buffer using the location data of items in that donor receptacle.