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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 12, 2025
Filed:
May. 28, 2020
Applicant:
Universal Robots A/s, Odense, DK;
Inventor:
Rune Søe-Knudsen, Årslev, DK;
Assignee:
Universal Robots A/S, Odense, DK;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1633 (2013.01); B25J 13/081 (2013.01); B25J 13/088 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method of detecting change in contact between a contact part of a robot arm and an object as defined by the independent claims, by obtaining a contact force provided at the contact part of the robot arm by sensing a force provided to a part of said robot arm; and by obtaining the part acceleration 5 of the contact part of the robot arm by sensing the acceleration of at least a part of the robot arm and then indicate if a change in contact between the contact part of the robot arm and the object has occurred based on the obtained contact force and the obtained contact part.