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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:
Feb. 28, 2017

Filed:

Jun. 11, 2014
Applicant:

Somatis Sensor Solutions Llc, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Inventor:

Nicholas Wettels, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Assignee:

Somatis Sensor Solutions LLC, Los Angeles, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G01L 1/16 (2006.01); B25J 13/08 (2006.01); B25J 9/16 (2006.01); G01L 5/22 (2006.01); B25J 15/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 13/086 (2013.01); B25J 9/1612 (2013.01); B25J 13/082 (2013.01); B25J 15/00 (2013.01); G01L 5/226 (2013.01); G05B 2219/37002 (2013.01); G05B 2219/39528 (2013.01);
Abstract

Disclosed is a tactile sensing and integrated vision system that surmounts problems of existing systems. The tactile sensing skin can be formed into any shape, size, or form factor, including large areas. Computer-implemented algorithms can detect position-orientation and force-torque at landmark points for a given object set. The result is a modular sensing system that is highly scalable in terms of price, quantity, size and applications. Such skin technology and associated software can comprise a sensing package that integrates tactile and visual data with accompanying software for state estimation, situational awareness, and automatic control of machinery. The addition of tactile data can serve to constrain and/or augment visual pose estimation methods as well as provide pose estimation to visually occluded objects.


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