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 Andrea, Raffaello


Coordinating Hundreds of Cooperative, Autonomous Vehicles in Warehouses

AI Magazine

The Kiva warehouse-management system creates a new paradigm for pick-pack-and-ship warehouses that significantly improves worker productivity. The Kiva system uses movable storage shelves that can be lifted by small, autonomous robots. By bringing the product to the worker, productivity is increased by a factor of two or more, while simultaneously improving accountability and flexibility. A Kiva installation for a large distribution center may require 500 or more vehicles. As such, the Kiva system represents the first commercially available, large-scale autonomous robot system. The first permanent installation of a Kiva system was deployed in the summer of 2006.


Cornell Big Red: Small-Size-League Winner

AI Magazine

The global vision system runs at a speed of 35 hertz with a resolution of 320 240. The basic algorithm used is blob to students to prepare them for designing, analysis (Gonzalez and Woods 1992). To determine integrating, and maintaining highly complex the identity of each robot and its orientation, systems. Another objective of the project is to the robots have color patches on top as explore the interplay between AI, dynamics, well as the team color marker (blue or yellow and control theory. This article describes the Ping-Pong ball).