Patent ID: 9147173
Filing Date: 2015-09-29
Classification: G05D,G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. An automated dynamically reconfigurable system for transporting items between changeable source and destination endpoints, comprising: a guidance system for identifying the changeable source and destination endpoints; and at least one autonomous mobile robot interacting with the guidance system for automatically moving items between the source and destination endpoints, said at least one robot being configured to (a) collect an item to be transported at a source endpoint, (b) travel to a destination endpoint utilizing the guidance system to located the destination endpoint, (c) deliver the item to the destination endpoint, and (d) repeat (a) through (c) for a given set of items; wherein the guidance system is dynamically reconfigurable while the at least one autonomous robot is in operation to identify new endpoints by changing the source endpoint at which items are to be collected and/or the destination endpoint to which items collected at the source endpoint are to be delivered, and the at least one autonomous mobile robot is configured to automatically detect and dynamically adapt to the new source and/or destination endpoints while in operation in real time upon changing of the source and/or destination endpoints and without the at least one autonomous robot being previously programmed or reprogrammed by an operator with the new source and/or destination endpoints.