ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,366, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to ABB Schweiz AG (Baden, Switzerland).
"Robot system for lead-through programming" was invented by Arne Wahrburg (Weiterstadt, Germany), Richard Roberts (Gilching, Germany) and Tomas Groth (Vasteras, Sweden).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A robot system comprises a manipulator and a controller therefore, wherein the controller supports impedance-based control of a lead-through operation mode, characterized in that the controller is switchable between impedance-based and admittance-based control of the lead-through mode."
The patent was filed on Aug. 26, 2024, under Application No. 18/814,931.
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