ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,290,928, issued on May 6, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"Systems and methods for flexible robotic manipulation by fast online load estimation" was invented by Yebin Wang (Cambridge, Mass.), Xiaoming Duan (Boston), Toshiaki Koike-Akino (Cambridge, Mass.) and Philip Orlik (Cambridge, Mass.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided herein is a method for controlling a manipulator, comprising accepting an initial pose of a load and a task for moving the load and retrieving using a mapping function, an identification trajectory corresponding to the initial pose of the load and controlling a p...