US Patent Issued to Kawasaki Jukogyo on April 8 for "Curved surface following control method for robot" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,269,175, issued on April 8, was assigned to Kawasaki Jukogyo K.K. (Kobe, Japan).

"Curved surface following control method for robot" was invented by Masanori Ito (Kobe, Japan) and Hiroki Suemoto (Kobe, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface following control method for a robot is used for controlling the robot including a hand part, an arm part, and a controller. In this surface following control method for the robot, processes including a normal direction identification process and a work tool posture control process are performed. In the normal direction identification process, a normal direction of a virtual shape at a virtual...