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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 07, 2023
Filed:
Sep. 13, 2019
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
David M. S. Johnson, Cambridge, MA (US);
Syler Wagner, Somerville, MA (US);
Justin Rooney, New York, NY (US);
Steven Lines, Brookline, MA (US);
Anthony Tayoun, Cambridge, MA (US);
Mitchell Hebert, Littleton, CO (US);
The Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);
Abstract
Current technologies allow a robot to acquire a tool only if the tool is in a set known location, such as in a rack. In an embodiment, a method and corresponding system, can determine the previously unknown pose of a tool freely placed in an environment. The method can then calculate a trajectory that allows for a robot to move from its current position to the tool and attach with the tool. In such a way, tools can be located and used by a robot when placed at any location in an environment.