Method for automatically generating planograms of shelving structures within a store

A method for automatically generating a planogram assigning products to shelving structures within a store, the method comprising:

• dispatching a robotic system to autonomously collect map data of a floor space within the store during a first mapping routine;
• initializing the planogram of the store, the planogram representing locations of a set of shelving structures within the store based on map data recorded by the robotic system;
• dispatching the robotic system to record optical data at a first waypoint proximal a first shelving structure, in the set of shelving structures, during a first imaging routine;
• accessing a first image comprising optical data recorded by the robotic system while occupying the first waypoint;
• detecting a first shelf at a first vertical position in the first image;
• detecting a first object in a first lateral position over the first shelf in the first image;
• identifying the first object as a unit of a first product based on features extracted from a first region of the first image representing the first object;
• projecting the first vertical position of the first shelf and the first lateral position of the first object onto a representation of the first shelving structure in the planogram to define a first slot;
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• writing an assignment for the first product to the first slot in response to identifying the first object as the unit of a first product.