Automated warning safety guards for warehouse drones
AssigneeBrookhurst Garage, Inc.
InventorYoung Joon Kim
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Abstract
A safety alert device that issues an indication when an aerial drone is detected at a particular location of a storage site. The aerial drone autonomously navigates in the storage site to perform inventory management tasks. The safety alert device installed at an entrance of an aisle of the storage site issues a safety indication signifying that the aerial drone is located in the aisle. The safety alert device includes alert indication hardware components such as a buzzer to provide auditory signals and a lamp to provide visual signals. The aerial drone can adjust navigational path according to data indicating a detection of a particular aisle in use.
Claims20
A system comprising:
- an aerial drone configured to navigate autonomously in an inventory warehouse to perform one or more inventory management tasks;
- and
- a plurality of safety alert devices, at least one of the safety alert devices installed at an entrance of an aisle of the inventory warehouse, wherein the at least one of the safety alert devices is configured to:
- responsive to the aerial drone being in the aisle, issue a safety indication signifying that the aerial drone is located in the aisle.
A safety alert device, comprising:
- memory storing executable instructions;
- and
- one or more processors, wherein the executable instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to:
- issue a safety indication from a safety alert device, signifying that a presence of an aerial drone in an aisle of an inventory warehouse, wherein the aerial drone is configured to navigate autonomously within the inventory warehouse to perform one or more inventory management tasks;
- and
- wherein the safety alert device is part of a plurality of safety alert devices, installed at an entrance of an aisle of the inventory warehouse.
A method for inventory management in an inventory warehouse comprising:
- navigating an aerial drone through an aisle of the inventory warehouse;
- detecting a location of the aerial drone within the aisle;
- issuing a first safety indication in response to detecting the aerial drone in the aisle, wherein the first safety indication is issued by a first safety alert device installed at an entrance of the aisle;
- receiving data from a computing system indicating a warehouse issue at a particular location of the inventory warehouse;
- adjusting an operation of the aerial drone based on the received data from the computing system indicating the warehouse issue;
- and
- causing a second safety alert device to issue a second safety indication to signify the warehouse issue at the particular location, the second safety alert device located at the particular location.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.