OPENTECHNICAL PUBLICATION
OT-2026-000002041

Storage and retrieval system rover interface

Published: 2026-09-15T19:10:23.669009Z
Permanent URL: https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002041
Categories: Material Handling > Conveying Systems

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ABSTRACT

An automated storage and retrieval system including at least one autonomous
rover for transferring payload within the system and including a communicator,
a multilevel storage structure, each level allowing traversal of the at least
one autonomous rover, at least one registration station disposed at
predetermined locations on each level and being configured to communicate with
the communicator to at least receive rover identification information, and a
controller in communication with the at least one registration station and
configured to receive the at least rover identification information and at
least one of register the at least one autonomous rover as being on a level
corresponding to a respective one of the at least one registration station or
deregister the at least one autonomous rover from the system, where the
controller effects induction of the at least one autonomous rover into a
predetermined rover space on the level.

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OpenTechnical publication OT-2026-000002041
Published 2026-09-15T19:10:23.669009Z
https://opentechnical.org/p/OT-2026-000002041