ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,304,078, issued on May 20, was assigned to OMRON Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).
"Robot control system, control program, and control method" was invented by Takafumi Okura (Kyoto, Japan), Masahiko Nakano (Kyoto, Japan) and Kei Yasuda (Kyoto, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot control system includes: a robot on which a camera and a hand for gripping a first workpiece are mounted; a displacement generation mechanism disposed between a tip of the robot and the camera; a first control module configured to provide the robot with a control instruction for causing the first workpiece to approach a second workpiece; a vibration calculation modu...