US 12,459,752 B2
Conveyor system control via predictive feed-forward mapping
Gowrish G. Shenoy, Charlotte, NC (US); Kalirajan Chelliah, Charlotte, NC (US); Sakthivel Raj, Charlotte, NC (US); and Karthikeyan Murugesan, Charlotte, NC (US)
Assigned to INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLC, Mason, OH (US)
Filed by INTELLIGRATED HEADQUARTERS, LLC, Mason, OH (US)
Filed on Nov. 23, 2022, as Appl. No. 18/058,469.
Claims priority of application No. 202111056968 (IN), filed on Dec. 8, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2023/0174316 A1, Jun. 8, 2023
Int. Cl. B65G 43/10 (2006.01); B65G 39/12 (2006.01)
CPC B65G 43/10 (2013.01) [B65G 39/12 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for operating a conveyor system to transport an object disposed thereon, wherein the conveyor system comprises a plurality of motor driven rollers (MDRs) and having defined a sequence of zones, the method comprising:
detecting a presence of the object in a first zone of the conveyor system using a first photo-eye, the first zone having a first MDR rotational speed;
generating a virtual map to describe a real-time location of the object within the conveyor system that is dynamically determined based at least in part on predicting the presence of the object in a given zone at a given timepoint based at least in part on a previously detected and/or predicted presence of the object in one or more preceding zones and a MDR rotational speed of each preceding zone;
in accordance with the predicted presence of the object in the given zone at the given timepoint, configuring a MDR rotational speed of the given zone for at least the given timepoint; and
evaluating an accuracy of the virtual map responsive to detecting the presence of the object in a final zone of the conveyor system using a second photo-eye.