US 12,436,537 B2
Movable platform for taking inventory and/or performing other actions on objects
Ramir De Porrata-Doria I Yaguee, Barcelona (ES); Ausias Vives Prat, Barcelona (ES); Rafael Pous Andrés, Barcelona (ES); Victor Casamayor Pujol, Barcelona (ES); and Bernat Gastón Braso, Barcelona (ES)
Assigned to KEONN TECHNOLOGIES S.L., Barcelona (ES); and UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Barcelona (ES)
Appl. No. 18/003,294
Filed by KEONN TECHNOLOGIES S.L., Barcelona (ES); and UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA, Barcelona (ES)
PCT Filed May 11, 2021, PCT No. PCT/EP2021/062427
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Dec. 23, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2021/259550, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 30, 2021.
Claims priority of application No. 20382563 (EP), filed on Jun. 26, 2020.
Prior Publication US 2023/0266770 A1, Aug. 24, 2023
Int. Cl. G05D 1/00 (2024.01); G05D 1/224 (2024.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01)
CPC G05D 1/0246 (2013.01) [G05D 1/0214 (2013.01); G05D 1/2246 (2024.01); G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G05D 1/0287 (2013.01)] 13 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A movable platform for taking inventory and/or performing other actions on objects, the movable platform comprising:
a traction system for moving the movable platform through an area,
a sensor system for identifying objects in the area based on a characteristic, and for creating information indicative of the identified objects and the position of the identified objects relative to the movable platform and in absolute space coordinates, and
a control system, wherein the control system is adapted to:
receive the information created by the sensor system,
determine a direction of movement or a partial path or a movement target for the movable platform based on the received information and without using a previously created map of the area, and
control the traction system depending on the determined direction of movement or partial path so that the movable platform moves in the determined direction or along the partial path or towards the movement target, wherein the control system is adapted to obtain, from the information received from the sensor system and a list of already identified objects stored in a repository of the control system, a set of newly identified objects in space, wherein the control system is adapted to control, depending on a measure derived from the set, the movement of the movable platform, and wherein the control system is adapted to control the movement of the movable platform depending on the measure derived from the set, wherein the measure is a gradient of a density of newly identified objects.