ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,233,551, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"System and method for controlling continuum robot, and continuum robot" was invented by Kiyoshi Takagi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for a continuum robot including at least one curvable unit driven by a wire and configured to be curvable, and a driving unit driving the wire includes: a position control unit performing control so that an error between a target displacement of push-pull driving of the wire by the driving unit and a displacement of a wire holding mechanism holding the wire obtained from a continuum robot is compensated; a force contro...