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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023
Filed:
Aug. 28, 2020
X Development Llc, Mountain View, CA (US);
Jeffrey Bingham, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Taylor Alexander, Mountain View, CA (US);
Bianca Homberg, Mountain View, CA (US);
Joseph DelPreto, Los Altos, CA (US);
Google LLC, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method is provided that includes controlling a robotic gripping device to cause a plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device to move towards each other in an attempt to grasp an object. The method also includes receiving, from at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, first sensor data indicative of a region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device. The method further includes receiving, from the at least one non-contact sensor on the robotic gripping device, second sensor data indicative of the region between the plurality of digits of the robotic gripping device, where the second sensor data is based on a different sensing modality than the first sensor data. The method additionally includes determining, using an object-in-hand classifier that takes as input the first sensor data and the second sensor data, a result of the attempt to grasp the object.