US Patent Issued to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories on Sept. 22 for "System and method suitable for controlling a robot using a hierarchical optimization framework" (Massachusetts Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,377, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories Inc. (Cambridge, Mass.).

"System and method suitable for controlling a robot using a hierarchical optimization framework" was invented by Yuki Shirai (Cambridge, Mass.), Arvind Raghunathan (Cambridge, Mass.) and Devesh Jha (Cambridge, Mass.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling a robot to execute a manipulation task of manipulating an object. The method includes determining, based on an initial pose and a target pose of the object, a kinematically feasible trajectory of pose of the object ...