Autonomous vehicle delivery system
AssigneeAutoguide, LLC
InventorsJeremy Rockman, Robert Sullivan, Justin Holwell
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Abstract
An example system includes a computing system having computer memory storing instructions that are executable and one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations that include receiving data from a user device that identifies goods, and generating information representing the goods based on the data. Bins are configured to hold the good represented by the information. The bins are climate-controllable to accommodate the goods. An autonomous vehicle is configured to transport the bins. The autonomous vehicle is configured to navigate from a loading station where at least some of the goods are received in the bins to a pick-up station where the goods are released from the bins.
Claims34
A system comprising:
- a computing system comprised of computer memory storing instructions that are executable and one or more processing devices for executing the instructions to perform operations comprising:
- receiving data from a user device that identifies goods, and generating information representing the goods based on the data;
- bins configured to hold the goods represented by the information, the bins being climate-controllable to accommodate the goods;
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- an autonomous vehicle configured to transport the bins, the autonomous vehicle being configured to navigate from a loading station where at least some of the goods are received in the bins to a pick-up station where the goods are released from the bins;
- wherein the operations further comprise:
- determining volumes of different types of the goods;
- comparing the volumes to volumes of the bins;
- allocating the bins to types of the goods based on the comparing;
- maintaining a record that includes failure of a customer associated with the user device to obtain the goods at a scheduled pick-up time, the record comprising an identifier associated with the customer, wherein the record comprises information associated with the user device;
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- restricting access of the customer associated with the user device to the goods if the record indicates that the customer has failed to obtain the goods at the scheduled pick-up time more than a predefined number of times;
- wherein the loading station is one of multiple loading stations;
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- wherein, prior to navigating to the pick-up station, the autonomous vehicle is controlled to navigate to the multiple loading stations to pick-up goods from the multiple loading stations.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.