Medical robotic system having entry guide controller with instrument tip velocity limiting

N Diolaiti - US Patent 8,414,469, 2013 - Google Patents
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manipulator providing controllable four degrees-of freedom movement of the entry guide …

Control of robots from human motion descriptors

B Dariush, B Jian - US Patent 8,924,021, 2014 - Google Patents
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Method and system for training a robot using human-assisted task demonstration

LG Barajas, E Martinson, DW Payton… - US Patent …, 2014 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for training a robot to execute a robotic task in a work
environment includes moving the robot across its con figuration space through multiple …

Controlled human pose estimation from depth image streams

B Dariush, Y Zhu, K Fujimura - US Patent 9,098,766, 2015 - Google Patents
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Robots with collision avoidance functionality

H Sugiura, H Janssen, M Gienger - US Patent 8,311,731, 2012 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A robot is provided with a motion control unit that avoids collision between
segments of the robot or between segments of the robot and other objects. The motion …

Real-time self collision and obstacle avoidance using weighting matrix

B Dariush - US Patent 8,396,595, 2013 - Google Patents
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Analysis of parallel manipulators

AJL Harrison, A Nikonovas - US Patent 8,296,094, 2012 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method of determining the positions and orientations of the base (8) and
platform (10) of a parallel manipulator using an iterative calculation in which Successive …

Robots with occlusion avoidance functionality

H Sugiura - US Patent 8,160,745, 2012 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for controlling a robot having at least one visual sensor. A target
for a motion of the robot is defined. A motion control signal adapted for the robot reaching …

Natural machine interface system

C Benaim, M Reiner - US Patent 9,753,453, 2017 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A method for defining a robotic machine task. The method comprises a
collecting a sequence of a plurality of images showing at least one demonstrator performing …

Reconstruction, retargetting, tracking, and estimation of pose of articulated systems

B Dariush - US Patent 8,467,904, 2013 - Google Patents
(57) ABSTRACT A control system and method generate joint variables for motion or posing
of a target system in response to observa tions of a source system. Constraints and balance …