Autonomous devices, systems, and methods for queuing folded laundry

A system for autonomously stacking a plurality of folded laundry articles on a packing queue platform, comprising:

• the packing queue platform configured to receive thereon the plurality of folded laundry articles in one or more stacks for loading into a container;
• a conveyor configured to deposit a folded laundry article of the plurality of folded laundry articles along a length of the packing queue platform at least one of on the packing queue platform and atop a previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles of a plurality of laundry articles in a stack;
• a vertically actuated elevator coupled to the packing queue platform, the vertically actuated elevator configured to raise and lower the conveyor affixed to the vertically actuated elevator and configured to transit the conveyor along the length of the packing queue platform;
• one or more sensors disposed adjacent at least one of the packing queue platform and the vertically actuated elevator, the one or more sensors being configured to detect a height of a folded laundry article disposed on the conveyor and a height of the previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles on the packing queue platform;
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• a controller in operable communication with a conveyor drive configured to rotate a surface of the conveyor, an elevator drive of the vertically actuated elevator configured to raise and lower the conveyor vertically, a cantilever drive configured to slide the conveyor forward and backward toward and away from the packing queue platform, a rail drive configured to move the conveyor laterally along the length of the packing queue platform, and the one or more sensors, the controller being configured to
• receive an output signal from the one or more sensors determinative of the height of the folded laundry article disposed on the conveyor and the height of the previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles,
• determine whether the height of the previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles is short enough to receive the folded laundry article from the conveyor in a stack having a final height that does not exceed a threshold height;
• deposit the folded laundry article, upon determining the previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles are short enough to receive the folded laundry article in a stack without the final height exceeding the threshold height, atop the previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles;
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• deposit the folded laundry article atop the previously deposited one or more folded laundry articles and compress the stack to at or below the threshold height for compact loading into the container upon determining the final height of the stack is not short enough to receive the folded laundry article by a buffer height in a range of between about 5 to 15 cm.