US Patent Issued to Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt on Sept. 15 for "Robotic manipulator having a task null space" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,734,691, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to Deutsches Zentrum fur Luft- und Raumfahrt e.V. (Bonn, Germany).

"Robotic manipulator having a task null space" was invented by Maged Iskandar (Wessling, Germany) and Jorn Vogel (Wessling, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A system and method of controlling a robotic manipulator, wherein the method includes: providing information regarding a task to be executed; determining a task null space from the provided information via a computing unit, the task null space being characterized by a set of variations of a kinematic variable of the end effector, with all of which variations the task is...