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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 26, 2022
Filed:
Sep. 09, 2019
Kindred Systems Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Jun Jeong, San Francisco, CA (US);
Bryan Whittington, San Francisco, CA (US);
Petr Lipay, San Mateo, CA (US);
Thomas John Hummel, San Mateo, CA (US);
David Gabriel Hallock, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adrian Martin, San Francisco, CA (US);
Hugo Seize, San Francisco, CA (US);
Kevin George, San Francisco, CA (US);
Sara Wojciechowski, San Francisco, CA (US);
Nicholas Keyes, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Rizkalla, Oakland, CA (US);
Kindred Systems Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
The present disclosure generally relates to a robotic gripping system and method that utilizes vacuum suction and finger grasping, wherein the suction and grasping are actuated based on a dynamic collision model. In an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to generating collision scenes of a surrounding environment which is used to determine possible collisions in a motion path, and which is used to selectively actuate the vacuum suction and/or finger grasping.