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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 15, 2026
Filed:
Nov. 18, 2024
Rolls-royce Plc, London, GB;
ROLLS-ROYCE plc, London, GB;
Abstract
A method of determining the position and shape of a flexible arm robot having at least one distributed Bragg reflector integrated, the method comprising: moving the flexible arm robot through a series of movements; tracking the movements of the flexible arm robot and recording positional data of at least a section of the flexible arm robot as a ground truth and interrogating the distributed Bragg reflector during these movements; inputting the data from the interrogation of the distributed Bragg reflector and the camera into a machine learning algorithm; using the output of the machine learning algorithm to determine a calibration function for the position of the distributed Bragg reflector within the flexible arm robot; and applying the calibration function to software used to control the movement of the flexible arm robot.