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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.

Date of Patent:
Feb. 07, 2023

Filed:

Dec. 21, 2018
Applicant:

Magna International Inc., Aurora, CA;

Inventors:

Rajeev Verma, Troy, MI (US);

Alexander Zak, Troy, MI (US);

Rahul Meka, Rochester Hills, MI (US);

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B60W 60/00 (2020.01); B60W 30/09 (2012.01); B60W 30/095 (2012.01); G05D 1/02 (2020.01); F16P 3/14 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1676 (2013.01); B60W 30/09 (2013.01); B60W 30/095 (2013.01); B60W 60/0011 (2020.02); F16P 3/14 (2013.01); G05D 1/0214 (2013.01); F16P 3/141 (2013.01);
Abstract

A robot assembly for safe operation in a manufacturing setting with humans including a sensor for detecting a human location and human movement is provided. A safety control module providing a boundary of a safety zone area that is associated with the human in a task oriented state that includes a largest possible area in which the human or an associated work object can extend when the human is standing in one location and performing the work task. The human movement and safety zone area location being used to develop a capture set area that includes at least one predictive future safety zone area location. Using the at least one predicted future safety zone area, establishing a travel path for moving the robot between locations without overlapping the capture set area.


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