US Patent Issued to Honda Motor on Feb. 17 for "Passivity framework for improving stability in robot-human interactions" (Arizona, California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,552,038, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to Honda Motor Co. Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Passivity framework for improving stability in robot-human interactions" was invented by Fatemeh Zahedi (Tempe, Ariz.) and Rana Soltani Zarrin (Los Gatos, Calif.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Systems and methods for passive robot-mediated physical human-human interaction using hierarchical constraints. The system enforces constraints on both sides of a bilateral physical interaction with different priorities on each side in the presence of time-varying destabilizing factors such as control system limitations, human variability, hard contacts, relaxed user grasps,...