Patents by Inventor Anatoly Mitlin
Anatoly Mitlin has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 11762390Abstract: An autonomous robot system to enable flexible, safe, efficient, and automated movement of goods and materials in a dynamic environment including one or more dynamic objects (e.g., humans). The autonomous robot system includes a modular autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) including a vehicle management system having a safety management system. The safety management system includes one or more safety management controllers to perform safety functions to enable the modular AGV to operate safely and efficiently alongside humans in a dynamic environment (e.g., a warehouse or fulfillment facility).Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: September 19, 2023Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Fahrudin Alagic, Stephen Charles Paschall, Anatoly Mitlin
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Patent number: 11498587Abstract: An autonomous robot system to enable automated movement of goods and materials in a dynamic environment including one or more dynamic objects. The autonomous robot system includes an autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) including a vehicle management system. The vehicle management system provides real time resource planning and path optimization to enable the AGV to operate safely and efficiently alongside humans in a dynamic environment. The vehicle management system includes one or more processing devices to execute a moving object trajectory prediction module to predict a trajectory of a dynamic or moving object in a shared environment.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 15, 2022Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Anatoly Mitlin, Samer Nashed
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Patent number: 11130630Abstract: Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a safety zone of a first size may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot based at least in part on first data from a first set of sensors associated with the autonomous mobile robot that are configured to identify an object within the safety zone. Information indicating a current speed of the autonomous mobile robot from associated propulsion components may be received and utilized to update the first size and a shape of the safety zone. Instructions to cease propulsion of the autonomous mobile robot may be transmitted to the propulsion components based on first data identifying the object within the updated first size of the safety zone.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: September 28, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Charles Paschall, II, Justin Croyle, Shilpi Gupta, Anatoly Mitlin, Ashish Shah
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Publication number: 20210260764Abstract: Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a first bounded area based on first sensor data may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot where the first sensor data is used to identify objects in a travel path for the autonomous mobile robot and determine a speed for navigating the facility. A second bounded area of a size less than the first bounded area may be generated around the autonomous mobile robot based on speed information from propulsion components of the autonomous mobile robot. A new travel path and new speed information may be generated based on identifying an object in the travel path, dimensional measurements of a space around the object, and a current size of the second bounded area.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Inventors: Stephen Charles Paschall, II, Justin Croyle, Shilpi Gupta, Anatoly Mitlin, Ashish Shah
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Patent number: 11014238Abstract: Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a first bounded area based on first sensor data may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot where the first sensor data is used to identify objects in a travel path for the autonomous mobile robot and determine a speed for navigating the facility. A second bounded area of a size less than the first bounded area may be generated around the autonomous mobile robot based on speed information from propulsion components of the autonomous mobile robot. A new travel path and new speed information may be generated based on identifying an object in the travel path, dimensional measurements of a space around the object, and a current size of the second bounded area.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Stephen Charles Paschall, II, Justin Croyle, Shilpi Gupta, Anatoly Mitlin, Ashish Shah
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Patent number: 10788818Abstract: A system for configuring generic maintenance activity scheduling is provided. For example, user input may help define a maintenance process for a plurality of mobile drive units of the physical workspace. The maintenance process may be defined through a configuration of activity templates and input templates. Input may be received to configure maintenance activities and the system may automatically correlate failure rules with the activity template. The system may generate the configurable electronic instructions for the mobile drive units and transmit them with the failure rules, if generated, to one or more mobile drive units of the physical workspace. When the one or more mobile device units receive the configurable electronic instruction, the mobile drive units may operate in accordance with the configurable electronic instruction.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Anatoly Mitlin, Aayush Aggarwal, Sarfraz Banglawala, Usha Kamat, Charles C. Linton, Sean Edward Murray, John D. Pacheco, James Plumley, Yuhao Qian
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Patent number: 10591931Abstract: Techniques for controlling movement of a mobile drive unit within a workspace are described. In an example, a system may access a map of the workspace. The map defines a policy for the movement of the mobile drive unit within the workspace based on a volume of the workspace associated with a fire shutter. The fire shutter is located within the workspace and is operable to manage a spread of a fire within the workspace. The system may generate at least a portion of a movement path for the mobile drive unit within the workspace based on the map and on an event for transporting material from a location in the workspace. The portion of the movement path is in compliance with the policy defined in the map. The system provides at least the portion of the movement path to the mobile drive unit over a data network.Type: GrantFiled: October 19, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.Inventors: Aayush Aggarwal, Ryan Clarke, Anatoly Mitlin, James Plumley, Gregory Edward Tierney, Steven Augustine Wilson
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Publication number: 20190160675Abstract: Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a first bounded area based on first sensor data may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot where the first sensor data is used to identify objects in a travel path for the autonomous mobile robot and determine a speed for navigating the facility. A second bounded area of a size less than the first bounded area may be generated around the autonomous mobile robot based on speed information from propulsion components of the autonomous mobile robot. A new travel path and new speed information may be generated based on identifying an object in the travel path, dimensional measurements of a space around the object, and a current size of the second bounded area.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Stephen Charles Paschall II, Justin Croyle, Shilpi Gupta, Anatoly Mitlin, Ashish Shah
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Publication number: 20190161274Abstract: Disclosed autonomous mobile robot systems can be used to safely and efficiently navigate through a facility while avoiding objects in the path of the autonomous mobile robot during completion of a task. Specifically, a safety zone of a first size may be generated around an autonomous mobile robot based at least in part on first data from a first set of sensors associated with the autonomous mobile robot that are configured to identify an object within the safety zone. Information indicating a current speed of the autonomous mobile robot from associated propulsion components may be received and utilized to update the first size and a shape of the safety zone. Instructions to cease propulsion of the autonomous mobile robot may be transmitted to the propulsion components based on first data identifying the object within the updated first size of the safety zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Stephen Charles Paschall, II, Justin Croyle, Shilpi Gupta, Anatoly Mitlin, Ashish Shah