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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 31, 2021
Filed:
Oct. 17, 2019
Applicant:
Honda Motor Co., Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Inventor:
Soshi Iba, Mountain View, CA (US);
Assignee:
HONDA MOTOR CO., LTD., Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G06K 9/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1666 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01); G06K 9/00664 (2013.01);
Abstract
Aspects of the present disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and computer readable media of traversing an obstacle including receiving optical data associated with an area near the robot, identifying the obstacle in the area based on the optical data, deflating, in response to identifying the obstacle, a ball of the robot, and applying a downward force through the deflated ball to propel the robot over the obstacle.