Patent ID: 11897148
Assignee: SIMBE ROBOTICS, INC.
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC B  G | IPC B  G

Claim 0:
1. A method for deploying a mobile robotic system to scan inventory within a store, the method comprising:
dispatching the mobile robotic system to navigate along a set of inventory structures within the store during a mapping cycle;
at the mobile robotic system, while navigating along the set of inventory structures during the mapping cycle, capturing a set of wireless connectivity metrics representing connectivity to a first wireless network;
assembling the set of wireless connectivity metrics into a wireless connectivity map of the store;
for a first inventory structure in the set of inventory structures:
estimating a first traversal duration for the mobile robotic system to traverse the first inventory structure and capture a first set of images that depict product units occupying the first inventory structure within a target resolution range;
estimating a first data size of the first set of images; and
estimating a first upload duration for the mobile robotic system to upload the first set of images to a remote computer system via the first wireless network based on the first data size and the wireless connectivity map;

for a second inventory structure in the set of inventory structures:
estimating a second traversal duration for the mobile robotic system to traverse the second inventory structure and capture a second set of images that depict product units occupying the second inventory structure within the target resolution range;
estimating a second data size of the second set of images; and
estimating a second upload duration for the mobile robotic system to upload the second set of images to the remote computer system via the first wireless network based on the second data size and the wireless connectivity map;

dispatching the mobile robotic system to autonomously capture images of the set of inventory structures within the store during a scan cycle succeeding the mapping cycle; and
in response to the first upload duration exceeding the first traversal duration and in response to the second traversal duration exceeding the second upload duration, scheduling upload of a subset of the first set of images from the mobile robotic system to the remote computer system during traversal of the second inventory structure by the mobile robotic system during the scan cycle.