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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. 14, 2025

Filed:

Dec. 23, 2022
Applicant:

Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc., Cambridge, MA (US);

Inventors:

Devesh Jha, Cambridge, MA (US);

Yuki Shirai, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Arvind Raghunathan, Medford, MA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); B25J 13/084 (2013.01);
Abstract

The present disclosure discloses a system and a method for controlling an operation of a robotic arm holding a tool for manipulating object. The method comprises collecting measurements of tactile sensors associated with the robotic arm, estimating, based on the collected measurements and constraints enforced by a Model Predictive Controller (MPC), a feedback signal indicative of a pose of the object, and executing the MPC configured to produce, based on the pose of the object, control commands for actuators of the robotic arm by optimizing a cost function minimizing a deviation of the pose of the object from a target pose of the object. The optimization of the cost function is subject to the constraints that constrain one or more forces acting on the object at one or more point of contacts to be within corresponding friction regions. The method further comprises controlling the actuators according to the control commands.


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