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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 08, 2025
Filed:
Jun. 14, 2023
Robert Bosch Gmbh, Stuttgart, DE;
Andras Gabor Kupcsik, Herrenberg, DE;
Christian Graf, Munich, DE;
Miroslav Gabriel, Munich, DE;
Philipp Christian Schillinger, Renningen, DE;
ROBERT BOSCH GMBH, Stuttgart, DE;
Abstract
A method for controlling a robot for manipulating, in particular picking up, an object. The method includes: creating an image which depicts the object; generating a manipulation-quality image from the image, in which, for each pixel which represents a point on the surface of the object, the pixel value of the pixel provides an assessment of how well the object may be manipulated at the point; recording descriptors of points of the object which should be used during the manipulation and/or of points which should be avoided during the manipulation; mapping the image onto a descriptor image; generating a manipulation-preference image by comparing the recorded descriptors of points to the descriptor image; selecting a point for manipulating the object taking into account the pixel values of the manipulation-quality image and the pixel values of the manipulation-preference image; and controlling the robot to manipulate the object at the selected point.