Patents by Inventor Huixiang Li

Huixiang Li 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).

  • Publication number: 20240118711
    Abstract: This application provides an obstacle avoidance method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The obstacle avoidance method is applicable to a robot. The robot is configured to move along a track in a rack area, and the method includes: detecting whether a suspected obstacle exists in a traveling direction, where the suspected obstacle protrudes beyond an edge of a rack; determining a relative position relationship between the suspected obstacle and a target position that the robot is required to reach along a current traveling direction when the suspected obstacle exists in the traveling direction; determining that the suspected obstacle is an obstacle when the suspected obstacle is located between a current position of the robot and the target position; and replanning a traveling route to avoid the obstacle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jiawei HE, Huixiang LI
  • Publication number: 20230348249
    Abstract: This application provides a fork collision processing method and apparatus, a robot, a device, a medium, and a product. The method includes: determining a collision type when it is detected that a fork of a robot encounters a collision; determining a fork collision processing strategy according to the collision type; and processing the fork collision according to the fork collision processing strategy. In this application, when it is detected that the fork of the robot encounters a collision, the collision type of the fork collision is first determined, then the fork collision processing strategy is determined according to the determined collision type, and finally the fork collision event is processed according to the determined fork collision processing strategy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2023
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Jui-chun CHENG, Jiawei HE
  • Publication number: 20230286750
    Abstract: Provided in this embodiment of the present disclosure are a method and device for storing goods, a robot, a warehousing system and a storage medium. The method for storing goods includes: moving to a target position according to a storage instruction for goods to be stored; detecting a storage space corresponding to the storage instruction, where the storage space for the goods to be stored is determined according to size information of the goods to be stored and a dynamic goods storage space on a rack corresponding to the goods to be stored; determining, according to the detection result, whether the storage space corresponding to the storage instruction includes continuous vacant spaces of preset size; and storing the goods to be stored in the vacant spaces of the preset size of the storage space in response to determining that the storage space corresponding to the storage instruction includes the continuous vacant spaces of the preset size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Jui-chun CHENG
  • Publication number: 20230145619
    Abstract: A goods picking apparatus includes a goods picking assembly, a sensor, and a depth determining module; the sensor is provided on the goods picking assembly and configured to collect a measurement signal when the goods picking assembly extends; the depth determining module is configured to determine a depth of a goods container according to the measurement signal; and the goods picking assembly is configured to pick or place the goods container according to the depth of the goods container, where the depth is a length of the goods container in an extension direction of the goods picking assembly during goods picking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2023
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Ying ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230114588
    Abstract: An embodiment of the disclosure provides a warehouse robot control method and apparatus, a robot, and a warehouse system. The method includes: obtaining a container scheduling instruction of a first target container, where the container scheduling instruction includes a container type of the first target container; determining a container pose recognition algorithm according to the container type of the first target container, and recognizing pose information of the first target container based on the container pose recognition algorithm; and controlling the warehouse robot to pick up the first target container according to the pose information. For different types of containers, using corresponding pose recognition algorithms to determine pose information thereof and automatically picking up different types of the containers based on the pose information improve application range and efficiency of automatic pickup of the warehouse robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Jui-chun CHENG, Ying ZHAO
  • Publication number: 20230108073
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure provide a box retrieval method and apparatus, a system, a robot, and a storage medium. The method is applied to a warehouse robot, and includes: acquiring a detection image, where the detection image includes an image of a target box and neighboring objects; determining a box spacing between the target box and each neighboring object according to the detection image; and if the box spacing satisfies retrieval conditions for a warehouse robot, retrieving the target box. Automatic detection of the box spacing is achieved with low detection cost and high detection accuracy, and goods is retrieved only when the spacing satisfies conditions, such that goods retrieval safety is increased, and the probability of goods damage and falling down of shelves during a retrieval process is greatly lowered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Ying ZHAO, Jui-chun CHENG
  • Publication number: 20230106134
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a warehouse robot control method and apparatus, a device and a readable storage medium. According to the method of the present disclosure, before a carrying task is executed, image data of a target storage location is acquired through an image acquisition apparatus, whether an execution condition of a carrying task is satisfied is determined according to the image data of the target storage location, and in a case that the execution condition of the carrying task is satisfied, that is, no danger may happen during execution of the carrying task by a carrying apparatus, the carrying apparatus is controlled to execute the carrying task. The occurrence of danger is avoided and the safety of warehouse robots is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2022
    Publication date: April 6, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Jui-chun CHENG, Yuqi CHEN
  • Publication number: 20230075332
    Abstract: This application relates to a navigation method and a navigation apparatus. The navigation method is executed by a mobile carrier and includes: moving along a preset guide trajectory body according to obtained target location information; and determining whether a current state of the mobile carrier is out-of-position, and in response to determining that the current state of the mobile carrier is out-of-position, obtaining current initialization location information of the mobile carrier after moving to a preset initialization tag. According to embodiments of the disclosure, reliable operation of the mobile carrier is ensured by re-initializing the mobile carrier in a case that an error occurs in the mobile carrier along the preset guide trajectory body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Huixiang LI, Jui-chun CHENG, Shengdong XU
  • Publication number: 20060166249
    Abstract: Methods and kits are provided for detecting the presence or absence of target nucleic acid sequences in a sample. The methods and kits involve the use of negatively charged nanoparticles and the electrostatic interactions between the metal nanoparticles and nucleic acid molecules. The methods rely upon the differential interaction of ss-nucleic acids and ds-nucleic acids with the negatively charged nanoparticles that differentiate between tagged oligonucleotide probes that hybridize with a target and those that do not. Improvements in sensitivity for a fluorescent variation of the method have been obtained by including a step of separating the ds-nucleic acids in solution from the negatively charged nanoparticles to which ss-nucleic acids have been bound, and then detecting for the presence of the ds-target nucleic acids in the solution. The same separation protocols can be used to make the detection approach viable with electrochemical or radioactive tags.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2006
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: University of Rochester
    Inventors: Lewis Rothberg, Huixiang Li
  • Publication number: 20050059042
    Abstract: Methods and kits are provided for detecting the presence or absence of target nucleic acid sequences in a sample. The methods and kits involve the use of metal nanoparticles and the electrostatic interactions between the metal nanoparticles and nucleic acid molecules. The methods rely upon the differential interaction of ss-nucleic acids and ds-nucleic acids with the metal nanoparticles. A colorimetric detection approach utilizes the ability of ss-nucleic acids electrostatically associated with metal nanoparticles in a colloidal suspension to stabilize them against aggregation. A fluorescent approach involving tagged ss-oligonucleotide probes translates the differential adsorption of ss-nucleic acids on metal nanoparticles to differential quenching of a fluorescent tag on probes that have not hybridized with targets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Publication date: March 17, 2005
    Inventors: Lewis Rothberg, Huixiang Li