Patents by Inventor Gabriel Hebert

Gabriel Hebert 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).

  • Patent number: 12379723
    Abstract: A method includes operating an autonomous mobile robot (AMR) in a first physical location according to a first safety protocol of the AMR and based on a location of the AMR relative to a second physical location different from the first physical location and with a second safety protocol different from the first safety protocol, switching the AMR to operate under the second safety protocol rather than the first safety protocol while the AMR is located in the second physical location. The method also includes, in response to detecting that the AMR is exiting the second physical location after the AMR has completed operating in the second physical location, switching the AMR to operate under the first safety protocol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2022
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Hebert, Paul Tomashevskyi, Adam Robert Lehmann, Justin Croyle, Adam Joseph Greenbaum, Christopher John Schuchmann, Erik Edward Steltz, Renen Bassik
  • Patent number: 12254443
    Abstract: Embodiments describe techniques for controlling picking robots to retrieve items on the floor and return them to an appropriate location. In one embodiment, the picking robots wait until a sensor in a monitored area (e.g., a designated robot area or an area around a pick/stow station) detects a dropped item on the floor. A central control system then dispatches the picking robot to the location to retrieve the dropped item. In another embodiment, when not being dispatched, the picking robots patrol the area looking for dropped items.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregory Cartagena, Gabriel Hebert, Caroline Anne Keely, Jonathan Lee Zerez
  • Patent number: 12220813
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for performing a calibration test of an obstacle detection sensor of a drive unit are described. An example system includes a calibration region and at least one drive unit. The calibration region is disposed in an environment and includes a calibration apparatus. The at least one drive unit is operable to autonomously move throughout the environment. The at least one drive unit includes a sensor configured to detect one or more objects within the environment. The at least one drive unit is configured to autonomously transition to the calibration region upon detecting at least one predetermined condition, and perform a calibration test of the first sensor at the calibration region using the calibration apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dincer Bozkaya, Sara Jean Woo, William Joseph Klein, Jing Ma, Gregory Cartagena, Justin Croyle, Gabriel Hebert, Fahrudin Alagic, Stephen A. Caldara
  • Patent number: 12215009
    Abstract: Autonomous mobile robots having vertical height extension systems for augmented visibility may include a drive mechanism, a lift mechanism, and a vertical height extension including an extension mechanism and a vertical indicator. The vertical height extension may be actively or passively actuated between lowered and raised positions. In addition, the vertical height extension may include a breakaway feature to prevent raising or cause lowering of the vertical indicator in the presence of a payload above the robot. Further, the vertical height extension may include various actuators, emitters, or elements to communicate various attributes of the robot to human associates in proximity, thereby promoting safe, collaborative operations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Tim Martin, Dincer Bozkaya, Matthew Anthony Brady, William Clem, Timothy G. Dietz, Gabriel Hebert, Dragan Pajevic
  • Patent number: 11591023
    Abstract: A drive unit of a robotic vehicle including a top surface having a mounting interface to interchangeably couple with multiple different modular payload structures configured to transport items in a facility, workspace or inventory management environment. The mounting interface is configured to securely engage with a mounting portion of the variety of different payload structures to enable a versatile exchange of the payload structure for different conveyance applications. The drive unit includes an electrical interface to communicatively couple with the modular payload structures. The drive unit is configured to use data communicated via the electrical coupling and interface to identify a type of modular payload structure that is mechanically coupled to the mounting interface and implement a motion profile (e.g., speed and acceleration parameters) associated with the identified modular payload structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher Park, Craig Ropi, Gabriel Hebert, Eric Jones
  • Patent number: 11029695
    Abstract: Motion controls for a mobile drive unit adjust linear acceleration for laden mobile drive units to decrease the likelihood of the payload tipping or bouncing off the mobile drive unit and adjust angular acceleration to reduce the risk of the drive wheels slipping while the casters align with the direction of travel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dragan Pajevic, Gabriel Hebert, Oliver Christoph Purwin
  • Patent number: 10902880
    Abstract: A mobile drive unit includes a turntable and a turntable motor that is located outside of the footprint of the turntable. The motor moves up and down with the turntable such that a motor cover moves up and down with the turntable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Dragan Pajevic, Gabriel Hebert
  • Publication number: 20200377153
    Abstract: A drive unit of a robotic vehicle including a top surface having a mounting interface to interchangeably couple with multiple different modular payload structures configured to transport items in a facility, workspace or inventory management environment. The mounting interface is configured to securely engage with a mounting portion of the variety of different payload structures to enable a versatile exchange of the payload structure for different conveyance applications. The drive unit includes an electrical interface to communicatively couple with the modular payload structures. The drive unit is configured to use data communicated via the electrical coupling and interface to identify a type of modular payload structure that is mechanically coupled to the mounting interface and implement a motion profile (e.g., speed and acceleration parameters) associated with the identified modular payload structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Inventors: Christopher Park, Craig Ropi, Gabriel Hebert, Eric Jones
  • Publication number: 20190295591
    Abstract: A mobile drive unit includes a turntable and a turntable motor that is located outside of the footprint of the turntable. The motor moves up and down with the turntable such that a motor cover moves up and down with the turntable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Dragan Pajevic, Gabriel Hebert
  • Publication number: 20190294175
    Abstract: Motion controls for a mobile drive unit adjust linear acceleration for laden mobile drive units to decrease the likelihood of the payload tipping or bouncing off the mobile drive unit and adjust angular acceleration to reduce the risk of the drive wheels slipping while the casters align with the direction of travel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: September 26, 2019
    Inventors: Dragan Pajevic, Gabriel Hebert, Oliver Christoph Purwin
  • Patent number: 10336150
    Abstract: Payload properties may be determined utilizing actuator parameter data. A mobile drive unit may transport a payload around a workspace in accordance with one or more safety. To comply with safety policies, a motion controller of the mobile drive unit may limit acceleration and deceleration to safe maximums for given payload characteristics such as payload mass and payload center of gravity. The motion controller may utilize actuators to cause various motions of the mobile drive unit, including motion across a surface, vertical movements of the payload and motion rotating the payload. To ameliorate worst case assumptions about payload characteristics, in accordance with at least one embodiment of the invention, a payload characterization module may obtain information about payload characteristics based on measurements of operational parameters of the actuators.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Hebert, Erica Aduh, Peter Thomas Colantonio, Parris S. Wellman
  • Patent number: 10209682
    Abstract: Embodiments are directed to an inventory system having one or more drive units that are used, in part, to measure traction of a surface. Traction of the surface may be one of many features that can help with the operation of drive units and may also help avoid collisions between drive units when little room is available between the drive units for navigational errors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Gabriel Hebert, Oliver Christoph Purwin
  • Patent number: D1067952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Clem, Nicholas Van Stolk, Matthew Anthony Brady, Dincer Bozkaya, Gabriel Hebert, Jefferson Lee, Mark Anthony Begley
  • Patent number: D1084077
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2025
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: William Clem, Nicholas Van Stolk, Matthew Anthony Brady, Dincer Bozkaya, Gabriel Hebert, Jefferson Lee, Mark Anthony Begley