Patent ID: 9656803
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: B65G

Claim:
1. An automated storage and retrieval system comprising: at least one autonomous rover for transferring payload within the automated storage and retrieval system, the at least one autonomous rover including a communicator; a multilevel storage structure, each level of the storage structure being configured to allow traversal of the at least one autonomous rover; at least one registration station disposed at predetermined locations on each level of the multilevel storage structure, the at least one registration station being configured to communicate with the communicator to at least receive rover identification information; and a controller in communication with the at least one registration station, the controller being configured to receive the at least rover identification information from the at least one registration station and one of, based on the rover identification information, register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level of the storage structure corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station upon entry of the at least one autonomous rover to the multilevel storage structure and deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the automated storage and retrieval system, where the controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a predetermined rover space on the level.