Intelligent systems and methods for autonomous movement optimization

A system comprising:

• a computer-readable medium storing instructions;
• and
• a processing device communicatively coupled to the computer-readable medium, wherein, the processing device is configured to execute the instructions and thereby perform operations comprising:
• obtaining (1) a set of requests that involve moving items between a plurality of locations found at a facility (2) a priority for each request of the set of requests;
• obtaining geographical data for the facility, wherein the geographical data comprises at least one of a set of amounts of time or a set of distances involved in moving the items between the plurality of locations;
• determining to evaluate a movement plan for the facility that involves the set of requests to move the items between the plurality of locations;
• and
• responsive to determining to evaluate the movement plan:
• obtaining state data for the facility, wherein the state data comprises current locations of a plurality of resources available to execute the set of requests;
• generating, based at least in part on the priority, a cluster of requests, wherein the cluster of requests comprises the requests from the set of requests with the priority being same or similar;
• processing the cluster to generate the movement plan that comprises a specific resource to execute each request found in the cluster by conducting iterations on the cluster, wherein each iteration involves:
• processing the requests remaining in the cluster that have yet to be assigned the specific resource to identify a highest priority request;
• generating, based at least in part on the geographical data and the state data, at least one of an estimated amount of time or an estimated distance for each resource in the plurality of resources that is eligible to execute the highest priority request, wherein the estimated amount of time or the estimated distance concerns executing the highest priority request to move the item involved in the highest priority request from a first location of the plurality of locations to a second location of the plurality of locations;
• and
• identifying, based at least in part on at least one of the estimated amount of time or the estimated distance for each resource in the plurality of resources that is eligible to execute the highest priority request, the specific resource to execute the highest priority request;
• generating, based at least in part on the movement plan, at least one assignment for having the specific resource identified for at least one request in the set of requests execute the at least one request;
• and
• communicating the at least one assignment to initiate the specific resource executing the at least one request to move the item from the first location to the second location.

A computer-readable medium storing computer-executable instructions that, when executed by computing hardware, configure the computing hardware to perform operations comprising:

• obtaining (1) a set of requests that involve moving items between a plurality of locations found at a facility and (2) a priority for each request of the set of requests;
• obtaining geographical data for the facility, wherein the geographical data comprises at least one of a set of amounts of time or a set of distances involved in moving the items between the plurality of locations and a set of constraints on moving the items between the plurality of locations;
• obtaining state data for the facility, wherein the state data comprises current locations of a plurality of resources available to execute the set of requests;
• processing the set of requests to generate a movement plan that identifies a specific resource to execute each request found in the set of requests by conducting iterations on the set of requests, wherein each iteration involves:
• processing the requests remaining in the set of requests that have yet to be assigned the specific resource to identify a highest priority request;
• generating, based at least in part on the geographical data and the state data, at least one of an estimated amount of time or an estimated distance for each resource in the plurality of resources that is eligible to execute the highest priority request, wherein the estimated amount of time or the estimated distance concerns executing the highest priority request to move the item involved in the highest priority request from a first location of the plurality of locations to a second location of the plurality of locations;
• and
• identifying, based at least in part on at least one of the estimated amount of time or the estimated distance for each resource in the plurality of resources that is eligible to execute the highest priority request, the specific resource to execute the highest priority request;
• generating, based at least in part on the movement plan, at least one assignment for having the specific resource identified for at least one request in the set of requests execute the at least one request;
• and
• communicating the at least one assignment to initiate the specific resource executing the at least one request to move the item from the first location to the second location.