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OT-2026-000001091

Controller and method for transporting devices

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Material Handling › Conveying Systems
Inventors
BRETT CHRISTOPHER RICHARD JAMES, CZARNY ANDRZEJ, OLIVER THOMAS, SIRET GARETH, STADIE ROBERT
Assignee
OCADO INNOVATION LTD
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US-12595126-B2, the United States Patent and Trademark Office, 7 April 2026
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Abstract

A controller is provided to control movement of a plurality of transporting devices. In particular, the controller provides improved robot shunting. More specifically, the controller delays the planning of a shunt path for an idle robot until closer to the time the idle robot needs to move out of the way. Advantageously this avoids the computing burden of planning shunts in advance that are never performed because the idle robot is subsequently tasked before the shunt were due to start. In particular, shunt paths can be planned very close to the time at which they need to be executed thereby providing a more efficient solution to robot shunting because very close to the execution time there is a very small probability that the plan will change in a way that the shunt needs to be recalculated.

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OpenTechnical Publication OT-2026-000001091, “Controller and method for transporting devices,” published September 15, 2026 at 19:03:51 UTC, https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000001091.

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