US Patent Issued to Intrinsic Innovation on Aug. 12 for "Learning to acquire and adapt contact-rich manipulation skills with motion primitives" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,384,039, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Intrinsic Innovation LLC (Mountain View, Calif.).

"Learning to acquire and adapt contact-rich manipulation skills with motion primitives" was invented by Wenzhao Lian (Fremont, Calif.), Stefan Schaal (Mountain View, Calif.) and Zheng Wu (Albany, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented method comprising, receiving data representing a successful trajectory for an insertion task using a robot to insert a connector into a receptacle, performing a parameter optimization process for the robot to perform the insertion task. This parameter optimization includes defining an objectiv...