18503757. MIDDLEWARE-BASED UAV-UGB LOGISTICS SYSTEM (KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS)
MIDDLEWARE-BASED UAV-UGB LOGISTICS SYSTEM
Organization Name
KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS
Inventor(s)
Farouq Muhammad Aliyu of Dhahran SA
MIDDLEWARE-BASED UAV-UGB LOGISTICS SYSTEM
This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18503757 titled 'MIDDLEWARE-BASED UAV-UGB LOGISTICS SYSTEM
Original Abstract Submitted
The present disclosure describes an autonomous warehouse package delivery system. The system includes a warehouse, a plurality of unmanned ground vehicles (UGV), a plurality of UAVs, and a plurality of servers. The warehouse includes a U-shaped conveyor belt, a plurality of shelving units, a plurality of package stacks, a first plurality of robots, and a second plurality of robots. Each UGV autonomously pick-ups a package from a shelf, navigates to the UAV landing pads, and places the package on the UAV landing pad. The plurality of UAVs travel to the UAV landing pad and pick up a package, autonomously fly to a package delivery address and release the package at the package delivery address. A real-time data distribution middleware network is connected to the U-shaped conveyor belt, the first plurality of robots, the second plurality of robots, the plurality of UGVs, the plurality of UAVs and a plurality of servers.