Patent ID: 11921127
Assignee: HIGHRES BIOSOLUTIONS, INC.
Field: Measurement (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  B | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A laboratory system comprising:
a plurality of lab workstations distributed in a lab, the plurality of lab workstations including: at least one human operated workstation and at least one robot automated workstation, each of which is configured to run jobs of a work process;
at least one auto-navigating robot processing vehicle including a processing section configured for holding a sample holder, wherein the at least one auto-navigating robot process vehicle is arranged to transport the sample holder to and from different lab workstations of the plurality of lab workstations; and
a controller communicably connected to the plurality of lab workstations and the at least one auto-navigating robot processing vehicle, wherein the controller is configured to:
receive operational job data characterizing each of a number of different jobs that define the work process, each job being run on at least one of the at least one human operated station and the at least one robot automated workstation,
receive system data from, and describing a state of, one or more of: the at least one human operated workstation, the at least one robot automated workstation, and the at least one auto-navigating robot processing vehicle, and
based on the operational job data and the system data, schedule and coordinate each of the number of different jobs that define the work process with respect to the at least one human operated workstation, the at least one robot automated workstation, and the at least one auto-navigating robot processing vehicle, so as to perform each job in coordination at different workstations of the one or more of the at least one human operated station and the at least one robot automated workstation and effect the work process defined by the different jobs;

wherein:
the controller is further configured to command auto-navigating robot processing vehicle moves to the different of the one or more of the at least one human operated station and the at least one robot automated workstation so that the auto-navigating robot processing vehicle moves are sequenced, according to the coordinated number of different jobs, wherein the sequenced moves describe a process flow of the defined work process; and
the controller has a resolver configured to: monitor the coordination of the different jobs at the different workstations and a corresponding sequence of the auto-navigating robot processing vehicle moves of the process flow to the different workstations, and change the auto-navigating robot processing vehicle moves and the different workstations so as to effect optimization from a first process flow that includes a first sequence of auto-navigating robot processing vehicle moves, to a second process flow that includes a second sequence of auto-navigating robot processing vehicle moves that are different from the first sequence.