Autonomous devices, systems, and methods for sorting and packing folded household laundry

A system for autonomously placing and rearranging a plurality of folded laundry articles in a queue for sequential packing comprising:

• a plurality of tiered platforms configured to receive thereon the plurality of folded laundry articles at a plurality of spaced apart positions, the plurality of tiered platforms comprising at least one placer conveyor configured to load the plurality of folded laundry articles in a sequential order into a refillable cartridge;
• at least two bi-directional conveyors disposed adjacent opposite longest sides of the plurality of tiered platforms configured to at least one of place a folded laundry article of the plurality of folded laundry articles on the plurality of tiered platforms, retrieve a folded laundry article of the plurality of folded laundry articles from the plurality of tiered platforms, and stack a folded laundry article of the plurality of folded laundry articles atop another one of the plurality of folded laundry articles disposed on at least one of the plurality of tiered platforms;
• at least two driven support towers slidably engaged with upper and lower support rails disposed along the opposite longest sides of the plurality of tiered platforms, each one of the at least two driven support towers having movably engaged thereon a carriage of the at least two bi-directional conveyors;
• at least two carriage drive motors configured to transit the carriage of each one of the at least two bi-directional conveyors longitudinally and vertically to reach each one of the plurality of spaced apart positions and to reach the at least one placer conveyor for placing a retrieved folded laundry article in the ordered queue;
• one or more sensors disposed at least one of on and adjacent at least one of the plurality of tiered platforms, the at least two bi-directional conveyors, and the at least two driven support towers, the one or more sensors being configured to output a signal indicative of at least one of one or more occupied spaced apart positions of the plurality of spaced apart positions, one or more characteristics of one or more folded laundry articles at each occupied spaced apart position, a height of a stacked one or more folded laundry articles disposed on the at least one placer conveyor, and a presence of a folded laundry article disposed on one or more of the at least two bi-directional conveyors;
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• at least one controller in operable communication with the at least two carriage drive motors, at least two support tower drives, the one or more sensors, a belt drive of each of the at least two bi-directional conveyors, a memory, and a communication network, the at least one controller being configured to
• instruct at least one drive of the at least two driven support towers to transit along the opposite longest sides of the plurality of tiered platforms to one of the plurality of spaced apart positions, and
• instruct at least one of an elevator drive and a cantilever drive of the at least two carriage drive motors to move at least one of the at least two bi-directional conveyors at least one of vertically and longitudinally to cantilever over and retract from one of the plurality of tiered platforms to at least one of deposit and retrieve at least one of the plurality of folded laundry articles at the one of the plurality of spaced apart positions.