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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Dec. 11, 2015
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Andrew Stubbs, Waltham, MA (US);
Andrew D. Marchese, Concord, MA (US);
John Gregory Longtine, Sudbury, MA (US);
Sarath Krishnaswamy, Dunstable, MA (US);
Moses Theodore Ort, Lakewood, NJ (US);
Russell Charles Toris, San Jose, CA (US);
Jacob Taylor Wachlin, Arlington Heights, IL (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
A grasp management system and corresponding methods are described. In some examples, information about a grasp by which an end of arm tool of a robotic manipulator successfully grasped an item is accessed. The grasp may be associated with contact points on the item. Other contact points may be simulated based on the contact points in order to define a set of grasping surfaces that include at least a portion of the other contact points. Information about the grasping surfaces may be accessed to determine a primitive shape that represents a feature of the item. The primitive shape may be used determine other features on the item or other features on other items that may also be graspable by the end of arm tool or other end of arm tools.