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Maintenance aware robot-based delivery system

Grant US12579498B2 Kind: B2 Mar 17, 2026

Assignee

International Business Machines Corporation

Inventors

Venkata Vara Prasad Karri, Saraswathi Sailaja Perumalla, Sarbajit K Rakshit

Abstract

A method, a computer program product, and a computer system coordinate a robot-based delivery system. The method includes receiving performance information associated with a delivery robot indicative of operational parameters. The method includes determining maintenance tasks and a time required therefor prior to a delivery task assigned to the delivery robot based on the performance information. The method includes determining a location on a delivery arrangement based on the maintenance tasks and the time. The delivery arrangement includes a package conveyor on which the package is placed and moved therealong and a delivery robot conveyor on which the delivery robot is to be placed and moved therealong. The method includes transmitting an instruction to the delivery robot to land on the delivery robot conveyor at the location such that the one or more maintenance tasks being performed is synchronized with the delivery robot being prepared for the delivery task.

CPC Classifications

G06Q 10/0832 G06Q 10/20 B64U 10/13 G07C 5/006 G07C 5/0808 G64U 2201/10 G64U 2101/60

Filing Date

2022-02-24

Application No.

17652304

Claims

19