Autonomous shuffling of pallets of items in a warehouse

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 9984339
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15244525

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Examples described may enable rearrangement of pallets of items in a warehouse to an optimal layout. An example method includes receiving real-time item information including pallet locations in a warehouse and real-time inventory of items arranged on the pallets; determining a likelihood of demand for future access to the pallets based on a pallet relocation history and item receiving/shipment expectations; based on the real-time item information and the likelihood of demand, determining an optimal controlled-access dense grid layout in which distances of the pallets from a center of the layout are related to the likelihood of demand; receiving real-time robotics information and using the real-time robotics information to determine an amount of time to rearrange the pallets to the optimal layout; and, based on the amount of time to rearrange the pallets being less than a threshold, causing the robotic devices to rearrange the pallets to the optimal layout.

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BOSTON DYNAMICS INC251 LITTLE FALLS DRIVE WILMINGTON DE 19808

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Hance, Christopher Mountain View, US 17 615
Shaffer, Daniel Mountain View, US 44 1149

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