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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 22, 2024
Filed:
Feb. 27, 2023
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation, Vancouver, CA;
Jeff Kranski, Campbell, CA (US);
Adrian Kaehler, Campbell, CA (US);
Sanctuary Cognitive Systems Corporation, Vancouver, CA;
Abstract
A system includes a robot having contact surfaces and a sensor array having a spatially distributed touch sensors disposed on the contact surfaces. Each touch sensor has an identifier and outputs an analog signal at a set of frequencies associated with the identifier The sensor array outputs a combined analog signal representative of a combination of the analog signals outputted by the touch sensors. The system includes an analog-to-digital converter that generates a digital signal in a time domain based on the combined analog signal. The system includes one or more processing units that transforms the digital signal from the time domain to a frequency domain and detects locations of touch within the sensor array based on frequencies observed the frequency domain and the identifiers of the touch sensors.