ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,629,816, issued on May 19, was assigned to CANON K.K. (Tokyo).
"Control system for continuum robot and control method for same" was invented by Kiyoshi Takagi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The control system includes: a kinematics computing unit that calculates a drive amount of a wire; a low back-drivability drive control unit that controls the drive amount of the wire based on a result of the kinematics computation; a high back-drivability drive control unit with which the drive unit is more easily driven in a reverse direction than in a case of drive control performed by the drive control unit when the curvable portion is subje...