Sri International

Lipid Sciences, Inc.

Yamaha Hatsudoki Kabushiki Kaisha

Ingersoll-rand Company

Leland Stanford Junior University

Becton Dickinson and Company Limited

Colin Electronics Co., Ltd.

Perfint Healthcare Private Limited

Thomas P Low

Pablo E Garcia

Ronald E Pelrine

Bryan Chavez

Roy D Kornbluh

Harsha Prahlad

Joseph S Eckerle

David C Bomberger

Ripudaman Malhotra

Eric Hegwer

Alexander Steele Kernbaum

Richard Mahoney

Brian Keith McCoy

Paul Michael Birkmeyer

Katherine Goss Witherspoon

Adam Arnold Edward Ziemba

Jeffrey J Shimon

Chris D Smith

C Bruce Clark

Scott E Stanford

Karen Shakespear Koenig

Thomas D Egan

Seiki Chiba

Annjoe Wong-Foy

Susan Kim

Kenneth C Miller

Timothy Richard Cooper

Gregory Kent Myers

Pablo Eduardo Garcia Kilroy

Dale W Ploeger

James A Herson

Pablo E Garcia Kilroy

Eric J Shrader

Hitoshi Watanabe

Bhaskar S Ramamurthy

Supun Samarasekera

Mircea Stefan Despa

Manish Kothari

Sundeep Kankanala

Andrew Richards

Kevin Andrew Hufford

Regis Vincent

Brian W Foster

Daniel McConnell Aukes

Cregg Cowan

Keiji Nishimura

Arthur Maxwell Crittenden

Sanjeev Dutta

John Peter Marcotullio

Gnanasekar Velusamy

Jonathan D Brookshire

Larry S Gullman

Rudolf Elbrecht

Richard M Mahoney

Usman Ghani

Hirokatsu Muramatsu

Bruce H Knoth

Stephen Morfey

Jose Luis Cordoba Matilla

Huihua Zhao

Hiroyuki Morita

Riley Shear

Seungkook Yun

Philip R Jeuck, Iii

Tobenna Arodiogbu

Brian K Mccoy

Brian Foster

Jonathan Hofius

Victor T Newton, Jr

Steven T Holmes

Giovanni Zangari

Natalia Isaza

Shirou Watanabe

Toshifumi Uchiyama

Akira Satou

Hiroshi Saijou

Leonard Gerard

Thomas De Candia

Roy David Kornbluh

Alexander Streele Kernbaum

Brian Keith Mccoy

Adam Arnold Ziemba

Martin Gaudreault

Multi-segment manipulator arms are provided that exhibit improved performance in space applications, include reduced weight, reduced cost, reduced size, reduced rotational inertia, reduced vibration, improved heat dissipation characteristics, and increased reliability and on-station reparability. These manipulator arms transmit torque from a single motor at the base of the arm to each of the inter-segment joints via serial belts, rotationally linked via pulleys that are coaxial with the inter-segment joints. Brake(s) at each joint allow all but a selected joint to be fixed, allowing motor torque to be transmitted to the un-fixed joint, applying torque and/or rotation to the un-fixed joint. Placing the motor at the base facilitates heat management, reduces overall weight, and reduces total rotational inertia and weight of the arm segments.

Serial manipulator for space applications

A hybrid control system includes a control agent and a control engine. The control engine is configured to install a master plan to the control agent. The master plan includes a plurality of high-level tasks. The control agent is configured to operate according to the master plan to, for each high-level task of the high-level tasks, obtain one or more low-level controls and to perform the one or more low-level controls to realize the high-level task. The control agent is configured to operate according to the master plan to transition between the plurality of high-level tasks thereby causing a seamless transition between operating at least partially autonomously and operating at least partially based on input from the tele-operator, based at least on context for the control agent, to operate at least partially autonomously and at least partially based on input from the tele-operator during execution of the master plan.

Advanced control system with multiple control paradigms

A vehicle includes a main body, a transmission having a plurality of gear stages, a data storage, and an electronic controller. The data storage stores vehicle running condition data that includes at least one of a prescribed vehicle running condition, a sensed vehicle running condition, or a transmitted vehicle running condition. The electronic controller determines a gear shift of the gear stages of the transmission based on a future vehicle speed that has been estimated based on the vehicle running condition data.

Vehicle

A flexible exosuit includes rigid and flexible elements configured to couple forces to a body of a wearer. Further, the flexible exosuit includes flexible linear actuators and clutched compliance elements to apply and/or modulate forces and/or compliances between segments of the body of the wearer. The flexible exosuit further includes electronic controllers, power sources and sensors. The flexible exosuit can be configured to apply forces to the body of the wearer to enable a variety of applications. In some examples, the flexible exosuit can be configured to augment the physical strength or endurance of the wearer. In some examples, the flexible exosuit can be configured to train the wearer to perform certain physical tasks. In some examples, the flexible exosuit can be configured to record physical activities of the wearer.

Electrolaminate clutches for an exosuit system

An example system includes a vehicle, a robot, and a controller. The vehicle may include an accelerator operator and a steering operator. The robot may include as accelerator actuator configured to operate the accelerator operator, and a steering actuator configured to operate-the steering operator. The controller is configured to: in response to an accelerator command, send a first signal to the accelerator actuator to operate the accelerator operator of the vehicle, and in response to a steering command, send a second, signal to the steering actuator to steer the vehicle.

Robot and robot control system

Described herein is a smart dose monitoring device. The dose monitoring device may include electronics such as motion sensors, orientation sensors, and timers related to monitoring the time of and amount of dose administered during an injection event.

Dose capture device for syringes

Twisted string actuators for an exosuit system

A surgical tool includes a tool shaft, and end effector and a wrist that couples the end effector to the tool shaft. The tool includes a drive mechanism configured to effect movement of one or both of the wrist and the end effector in yaw and pitch via independent actuation of four independent cable ends of two or more independent cables that extend between the drive mechanism and the wrist.

Compact robotic wrist

An integrated multiaxial wrist and grasper system for use in a robotic tool can yaw, pitch and grasp via actuation of four independent cable ends of four cables. The tool includes a drive mechanism that effects movement of the multiaxial wrist and grasper via actuation of the cables that extend between the drive mechanism and the wrist.

A robotic manipulator has a body and a stereoscopic video system movably coupled to the body. The stereoscopic vision system produces a stereoscopic video of an environment of the robotic manipulator. The robotic manipulator also includes two independently remotely controlled arms coupled to opposite sides of the body. Each arm moves in proprioceptive alignment with the stereoscopic video produced by the stereoscopic video system in response to commands received from a remote control station based on movements performed by an operator at the remote control station.

Dexterous telemanipulator system

Exosuit system

A multilayer electrolaminate structure includes a first electrolaminate layer and a second electrolaminate layer disposed adjacent the first electrolaminate layer. Each of the first and second electrolaminate layers is rotatable about a common axis independently of the other electrolaminate layer when the multilayer electrolaminate structure is in a first state and clamps to the other electrolaminate layer when the multilayer electrolaminate structure is in a second state.

Multilayer electrolaminate braking system

A twisted string actuator system includes a motor generating rotary motion of a rotor and a twisted string comprised of a pair of cords. One end of the twisted string is attached to the rotor and an opposite end of the twisted string is coupled to a load. The cords are twisted about each other for a first section of the twisted string and untwisted for a second section of the twisted string. A cord guide is fixedly disposed between the cords. The first and second sections of the twisted string are on a first side and second side, respectively, of the cord guide. Rotary motion of the rotor in one direction operates to twist the pair of cords on the first side of the cord guide while pulling a portion of the pair of cords from the second side of the cord guide into the first side.

Twisted string actuator systems

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Thomas P Low