Patent ID: 8892241
Filing Date: 2014-11-18
Classification: B65G,B66F,G05B,Y02P,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A robot-enabled method of picking cases in a storage facility, the method comprising: providing a robotic vehicle having a processor configured to access a memory, and a load platform, the robotic vehicle having access to an electronically stored representation of the storage facility, the representation including locations within the storage facility for storing items arranged as pick faces, wherein each pick face is a location designated for storage of one or more products; generating a pick list from an order, the pick list providing identifications of items to be picked from a plurality of different pick faces to fulfill the order; determining from the pick list the plurality of different pick faces associated with the items; electronically generating a route within the storage facility that includes the plurality of different pick faces; and the robotic vehicle iteratively navigating itself along the route and automatically stopping or slowing at each of the plurality of different pick faces to enable loading of the items from the pick list onto the load platform.