Multidirectional movement of materials

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-12204337-B2
Application number	US-202217736326-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	May 4, 2022
Priority date	May 4, 2022
Publication date	Jan 21, 2025
Grant date	Jan 21, 2025

Abstract

An approach for moving materials from one location to another is disclosed. The approach includes a mobility platform comprising of a lower construct comprising of mechanism for locomotion, a platform dispose on top of and adjacent to the lower construct and an upper construct dispose and adjacent to the platform, wherein the upper construct comprising of a mechanism for securing materials. Furthermore, the approach includes loading one or more materials onto the mobility platform from a first location, moving the mobility platform from the first location to a second location and unloading the one or more materials from the mobility platform at the second location.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system for moving materials from one location to another, the system comprising:
a mobility platform, wherein the mobility platform is a modular and expandable platform equipped with segmented rollers that allows multi-directional for moving materials from one location to another;
one or more computer processors;
one or more computer readable storage media; and
program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
program instructions to review tasks and workflows to be performed, wherein the workflows are associated with what materials and when the materials are needed for assembly in a manufacturing environment;
program instructions to analyze environmental conditions to calculate an initial optimal route;
program instructions to analyze material attributes;
program instructions to adjust the mobility platform based on analysis of the material attributes;
program instructions to load materials on to the mobility platform;
program instructions to move the mobility platform to a target destination;
program instructions to receive sensor data from IoT devices on board the mobility platform;
program instructions to calculate a dynamic path from the initial optimal route based on, at least, location of obstacles;
program instructions to move the mobility platform along the dynamic path towards the target destination wherein the target destination includes at least, assembly machine;
program instructions to reposition the assembly machines used to assemble the materials for easy access by the mobility platform; and
program instructions to unload the materials from the mobility platform.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the program instructions to review tasks and workflows to be performed, is performed by an artificial intelligence component and factors relating to the workflows includes, timing of material movement, distance associated with the material movement and sequency.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein program instructions to review the tasks is based on based on a historic knowledge corpus.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein environmental conditions further comprises, weather conditions and floor condition, slippery or pitted.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein program instructions to analyze environmental conditions is based on distance of material movement, source and target locations of material.

6. The system of claim 1 , wherein material attributes further comprises of size, weight, pieces.

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Mene Atul
• Agrawal Tushar
• Fox Jeremy R
• Rakshit Sarbajit K

Classifications

• G05D1/617

  Safety or protection, e.g. defining protection zones around obstacles or avoiding hazards (arrangements for controlling the position or course of two or more vehicles for avoiding collisions therebetween G05D1/693; arrangements for reacting to or preventing system or operator failure G05D1/80) · CPC title

• G05D1/644

  Optimisation of travel parameters, e.g. of energy consumption, journey time or distance · CPC title

• B66F9/063

  Automatically guided · CPC title

• B60B19/003

  Multidirectional wheels · CPC title

• G05D1/0214

  in accordance with safety or protection criteria, e.g. avoiding hazardous areas (monitoring the location of vehicles within a certain area, e.g. forbidden or allowed areas, in traffic control systems for road vehicles G08G1/13) · CPC title