US Patent Issued to Franka Emika on May 27 for "Method for determining a weight and a center of gravity of a robot manipulator load" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,311,538, issued on May 27, was assigned to Franka Emika GmbH (Munich).

"Method for determining a weight and a center of gravity of a robot manipulator load" was invented by Andreas Spenninger (Karlsfeld, Germany) and Fangyi Streitel (Munich).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of determining a weight and a center of gravity of a load for a robot manipulator, the method including: gripping the load using an end effector; moving the load into a number n of distinct static poses; determining an external wrench wrench Fext for each of the n static poses; determining, in a base coordinate system, at least components of each external wrench...