Patents Assigned to MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/S
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Patent number: 12001219Abstract: An example autonomous device is configured to detect objects within a vicinity of the autonomous device. The autonomous device is configured to move along a surface. The autonomous device includes a body, at least one long-range sensor on the body configured for detection in a first field, and at least one short-range sensor on the body. Each short-range sensor is configured for detection in a second field directed towards the surface. The second field is smaller than the first field. Each short-range sensor is configured to output signals based on detection of an object within the second field. A control system is configured to control movement of the autonomous device based, at least in part, on the signals.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2021Date of Patent: June 4, 2024Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventor: Niels Jul Jacobsen
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Patent number: 11845415Abstract: There is provided an automatically guided vehicle (AGV), which is configured to detect if a payload mass differs significantly from a preset payload mass towed and/or carried by the vehicle, and if a payload mass different from the preset payload is detected, the control system of the vehicle is automatically updated to adjust either: i) the speed of the vehicle based on preset safety brake distance information associated with the detected different payload mass; or ii) increase the safety zone or switch to a safer safety zone in order to avoid collision with any obstacles.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: December 19, 2023Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventors: Niels Jul Jacobsen, Soeren Nielsen
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Patent number: 11835949Abstract: An example system includes a positioning surveillance system (PSS) to identify locations of objects that are movable throughout a space. The PSS is configured to identify the locations without requiring a line-of-sight between the objects. A control system is configured to determine distances based on the locations of the objects in the space and to communicate information to the objects that is based on the distances. The information is usable by the objects for collision avoidance.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2020Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventor: Søren E. Nielsen
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Patent number: 11656625Abstract: There is provided a system and method for evacuating one or more mobile robots from a confined area. The system and method involve one or more mobile robots equipped with sensors or receivers for receiving evacuation commands directing the one or more mobile robots to leave the evacuation area and enter a location outside the evacuation area.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventor: Niels Jul Jacobsen
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Patent number: 11592299Abstract: An example system includes a sensor for obtaining information about an object in an environment and one or more processing devices configured to use the information in generating or updating a map of the environment. The map includes the object and boundaries or landmarks in the environment. The map includes a static score associated with the object. The static score represents a likelihood that the object will remain immobile within the environment. The likelihood may be between certain immobility and certain mobility.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2020Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventor: Elias Ingemann Thrane Sørensen
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Patent number: 11287824Abstract: An example autonomous device is configured to move within a space. The autonomous device includes a first system to detect a first location of the autonomous device within the space, with the first location being based on a first fixed reference; a second system to detect a second location of the autonomous device within the space, with the second location being based on a second fixed reference; and a third system to detect a third location of the autonomous device within the space based on relative movements of the autonomous device. One or more processing devices are configured to select one of the first location or the second location based on reliability of at least one of the first location or the second location, and to control movement of the autonomous device using an estimated location that is based on the third location and the selected one of the first location or the second location.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2018Date of Patent: March 29, 2022Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventors: Niels Jul Jacobsen, Søren Eriksen Nielsen
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Patent number: 10809734Abstract: An example system includes a computing system configured to identify an event in an area between a first location and a second location and to adjust, based on the event, content of a cost map containing a representation of one or more routes between the first location and the second location. The system also includes an autonomous device configured to move between the first location and the second location based on the cost map.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Mobile Industrial Robots A/SInventor: Lourenço Barbosa De Castro
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Patent number: 10668617Abstract: There is provided a robotic cart pulling vehicle for automated docking and pulling a cart, such as a wheeled hospital cart for e.g. linen. In particular the vehicle is provided with a unique gripping means for holding the cart. Furthermore, the robotic vehicle implements a positioning system for safely driving on hospital corridors and further comprises one or more sensors to indicate the position of the robot relative to the surroundings for avoiding unnecessary impacts.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2016Date of Patent: June 2, 2020Assignee: MOBILE INDUSTRIAL ROBOTS A/SInventor: Niels Jul Jacobsen
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Patent number: D907677Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Mobile Industrial Robots A/SInventors: Lars Mork, Niels Jul Jacobsen
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Patent number: D929478Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2018Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Mobile Industrial Robots A/SInventors: Lars Mork, Niels Jul Jacobsen