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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.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
May. 10, 2016
Filed:
May. 10, 2013
Applicant:
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Inventors:
Andrea Bajo, Hermitage, TN (US);
Nabil Simaan, Nashville, TN (US);
Assignee:
Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); A61B 19/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/163 (2013.01); A61B 19/2203 (2013.01); A61B 2019/2219 (2013.01); A61B 2019/2238 (2013.01); A61B 2019/465 (2013.01);
Abstract
A robotic system and methods for manipulation of multi-segment continuum robots. The methods relate to contact detection and estimation of contact location along a multi-segment continuum robot.