US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Nov. 18 for "Task-specific and environment-specific adaptive control of legged robot" (Massachusetts, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,474,705, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"Task-specific and environment-specific adaptive control of legged robot" was invented by Marcel Menner (Arlington, Mass.), Stefano Di Cairano (Newton, Mass.) and Alexander Schperberg (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A control system for controlling a legged robot comprises a processor and a memory. The control system initializes, in response to receiving a task, a probabilistic filter with parameters associated with a state of a reference trajectory of the legged robot, wherein the parameters are predetermined for th...