Automated platform handling solution
AssigneeCHEP Technology Pty Limited
InventorOussama Fayez RAWAS
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Abstract
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide an automated platform handling facility that leverages a robotic transportation device that is mobile and unmanned to individually transport, inspect, and repair a platform. The robotic transportation device may place a platform on its edge and move the platform from station to station based on individual inspections at each station. Each inspection may specify another station within the automated platform handling facility based on the current state of the platform. In this way, a platform may be moved between stations in a non-sequential, modular, and adaptive manner.
Claims20
An automated platform handling method comprising:
- receiving, at a platform inspection facility, a plurality of platforms;
- initiating, using an inspection system of the platform inspection facility, a universal inspection subtask to generate an initial sensor-based compliance score for a platform of the plurality of platforms;
- routing, using a robotic transportation device of the platform inspection facility, the platform to a first modular repair station of a plurality of modular repair stations of the platform inspection facility;
- initiating, using a first modular repair system corresponding to the first modular repair station, a repair subtask for the platform;
- routing, using the robotic transportation device, the platform to a second modular repair station of the plurality of modular repair stations based on the repair subtask;
- and
- verify, using a second modular repair system corresponding to the second modular repair station, a condition of the platform.
A system comprising:
- an inspection system;
- a robotic transportation device;
- a first modular repair system;
- second modular repair system;
- and
- a management system comprising:
- one or more processors;
- and
- one or more memories storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a platform inspection facility, a plurality of platforms;
- initiating, using the inspection system of the platform inspection facility, a universal inspection subtask to generate an initial sensor-based compliance score for a platform of the plurality of platforms;
- routing, using the robotic transportation device of the platform inspection facility, the platform to a first modular repair station of a plurality of modular repair stations of the platform inspection facility;
- initiating, using the first modular repair system corresponding to the first modular repair station, a repair subtask for the platform;
- routing, using the robotic transportation device, the platform to a second modular repair station of the plurality of modular repair stations based on the repair subtask;
- and
- verifying, using the second modular repair system corresponding to the second modular repair station, a condition of the platform.
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing processor-executable instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to perform operations comprising:
- receiving, at a platform inspection facility, a plurality of platforms;
- initiating, using an inspection system of the platform inspection facility, a universal inspection subtask to generate an initial sensor-based compliance score for a platform of the plurality of platforms;
- routing, using a robotic transportation device of the platform inspection facility, the platform to a first modular repair station of a plurality of modular repair stations of the platform inspection facility;
- initiating, using a first modular repair system corresponding to the first modular repair station, a repair subtask for the platform;
- routing, using the robotic transportation device, the platform to a second modular repair station of the plurality of modular repair stations based on the repair subtask;
- and
- verifying, using a second modular repair system corresponding to the second modular repair station, a condition of the platform.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.