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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 10, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 12, 2018
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Allison Thackston, San Jose, CA (US);
Sam Zapolsky, San Francisco, CA (US);
Katarina Bouma, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Laura Stelzner, Mountain View, CA (US);
Ron Goldman, Los Altos, CA (US);
Toyota Research Institute, Inc., Los Altos, CA (US);
Abstract
A method includes providing a virtual representation of an environment of a robot, the virtual representation including an object representation of an object in the environment. The method further includes receiving manipulation input from a user to teleoperate the robot for manipulation of the object. The method also includes alerting the user to an alignment dimension based upon the manipulation input, receiving confirmation input from the user to engage the alignment dimension, and constraining at least one dimension of movement of the object according to the alignment dimension.