US Patent Issued to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY, KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY on Aug. 11 for "Autonomous driving device for work machine" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,703,959, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY (Higashi-Hiroshima, Japan) and KOBELCO CONSTRUCTION MACHINERY Co. LTD. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Autonomous driving device for work machine" was invented by Tomofumi Okada (Hiroshima, Japan), Toru Yamamoto (Hiroshima, Japan), Kazushige Koiwai (Hiroshima, Japan) and Koji Yamashita (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automatic operating device includes: a position estimation part that includes an interaction model, and calculates, as estimative position data, actual position data corresponding to force data which is input; a force computation part that includes a f...