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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:
Oct. 01, 2024

Filed:

Nov. 24, 2020
Applicant:

Autodesk, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);

Inventors:

Evan Patrick Atherton, San Carlos, CA (US);

David Thomasson, Fairfax, CA (US);

Maurice Ugo Conti, Muir Beach, CA (US);

Heather Kerrick, Oakland, CA (US);

Nicholas Cote, San Francisco, CA (US);

Assignee:

AUTODESK, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/23 (2020.01); B23K 9/10 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G05B 19/4068 (2006.01); G06F 30/17 (2020.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 30/17 (2020.01); B25J 9/1682 (2013.01); B25J 9/1687 (2013.01); G06F 30/23 (2020.01); B23K 9/1037 (2013.01); G05B 19/4068 (2013.01); G05B 2219/35117 (2013.01); G05B 2219/37205 (2013.01); G05B 2219/39132 (2013.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01);
Abstract

A robotic assembly cell is configured to generate a physical mesh of physical polygons based on a simulated mesh of simulated triangles. A control application configured to operate the assembly cell selects a simulated polygon in the simulated mesh and then causes a positioning robot in the cell to obtain a physical polygon that is similar to the simulated polygon. The positioning robot positions the polygon on the physical mesh, and a welding robot in the cell then welds the polygon to the mesh. The control application captures data that reflects how the physical polygon is actually positioned on the physical mesh, and then updates the simulated mesh to be geometrically consistent with the physical mesh. In doing so, the control application may execute a multi-objective solver to generate an updated simulated mesh that meets specific design criteria.


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