Patent ID: 11941579
Assignee: nan
Field: Control (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G  H  B | IPC B  G  H

Claim 7:
8. An autonomous vehicle configured to move within a storage area and provide updated counts of inventory items within the storage area, the autonomous vehicle comprising:
a beacon configured to facilitate detection of a current position of the autonomous vehicle based on signal triangulation,
at least one sensor configured to detect information indicative of a number of inventory items at the current position of the autonomous vehicle, and
a wireless data link configured to transmit a signal indicative of the number of inventory items to a computing device communicatively coupled to the autonomous vehicle configured to update an inventory of the storage area based on the signal indicative of the number of inventory items,
wherein the at least one sensor of comprises:
a range finding sensor configured to measure a height of a stack of inventory items; and
an altitude finding sensor configured to measure an altitude of the autonomous vehicle relative to a ground, and

wherein the range finding sensor is configured to measure the height of the stack of inventory items by:
measuring a vertical distance between the autonomous vehicle and the stack of inventory items; and
calculate the height of the stack based on the measured vertical distance and the measured altitude of the autonomous vehicle, and

wherein the number of inventory items is determined only based on the measured height of the stack of inventory items and a standardized height of each of the inventory items.