US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on May 26 for "High-accuracy tactile pose estimation for electronic connector assembly" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,636,789, issued on May 26, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"High-accuracy tactile pose estimation for electronic connector assembly" was invented by Radu Ioan Corcodel (Brookline, Mass.), Antonia Bronars (Cambridge, Mass.) and Devesh Jha (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A pose controller is provided for controlling a pose of an object to assemble with a mating object by a gripper of a robot arm. The pose controller includes an interface configured to receive tactile signals from the tactile sensors and transmit a control signal to the actuators, a processor, and a memory, ...