ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,803, issued on June 23, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).
"System and method for controlling operation of robotic manipulator with soft robotic touch" was invented by Scott Bortoff (Brookline, Mass.), Mruganka Kashyap (Boston) and Ankit Bhatia (Pittsburgh).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Feedback control for controlling a robotic manipulator includes receiving measurement signals from one or more tactile sensors and filtering the measurement signals to align them with the directions of motion of the end effector to produce an impedance-shaping signal. The feedback control determines one ...