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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 25, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 26, 2010
Applicant:
Prasad P. Nair, Oakland, CA (US);
Inventor:
Prasad P. Nair, Oakland, CA (US);
Assignee:
Agilent Technologies, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A method of automatically controlling an extendable robot arm to avoid collisions while returning to a first position from a second position includes periodically storing locations of the robot arm as the robot arm moves along a forward path from the first position to the second position; applying heuristic algorithms to the stored locations to determine a return path to the first position, the return path including at least a portion of a retrace path retracing the stored locations of the forward path; and controlling the robot arm to return to the first position using the determined return path.