US Patent Issued to Siemens on Sept. 16 for "Synthesizing machine learning-based controllers for underactuated robotic manipulators" (New Jersey, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,415,267, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to Siemens AG (Munich).

"Synthesizing machine learning-based controllers for underactuated robotic manipulators" was invented by Yingnan Cui (Princeton, N.J.), Yaofeng Zhong (West Windsor, N.J.), Georgia Olympia Brikis (Plainsboro, N.J.), Amit Chakraborty (East Windsor, N.J.) and Biswadip Dey (Bothell, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A computer-implemented system and method for synthesizing a controller for an under actuated robotic manipulator includes a machine learning based model having a plurality of neural network modules. Each module is configured to approximate a function related to...