System and method for a robotic manipulator system
AssigneeVeolia Nuclear Solutions, Inc.
InventorsScott Martin, Paul Linnebur, Marc Rood, Matt Denver Cole
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Abstract
A robotic arm control system including a robotic arm configured to deploy one or more tools in an operating space, one or more sensors, and a control system operably configured to: scan the operating space with the one or more sensors, identify a surface of the operating space based at least in part upon information sensed by the one or more sensors, establish a virtual barrier offset from the surface, and limit movement of the robotic arm based at least in part upon the virtual barrier.
Claims20
A robotic arm control system, comprising:
- a robotic arm configured to deploy one or more tools in an operating space;
- one or more sensors;
- and
- a control system operably configured to:
- identify one or more surfaces defining the operating space with the one or more sensors,
- generate a three-dimensional map of the operating space based at least in part on the one or more surfaces defining the operating space,
- establish an impermeable virtual barrier offset from one or more surfaces in the operating space, wherein the impermeable virtual barrier offset is at least one of variable or uniform, and
- establish a permeable virtual barrier offset from the impermeable virtual barrier.
A method of controlling a robotic arm, the method comprising:
- providing a robotic arm configured to deploy one or more tools in an operating space;
- identifying one or more surfaces defining the operating space with one or more sensors;
- receiving signals from the one or more sensors indicative of geometry of the operating space;
- establishing an impermeable virtual barrier based at least in part upon the signals offset from the one or more surfaces defining the operating space, wherein the impermeable virtual barrier offset is at least one of variable or uniform;
- and
- establishing a permeable virtual barrier offset from the impermeable virtual barrier.
A robotic arm control system, comprising:
- a robotic arm configured to deploy one or more tools in an operating space;
- one or more sensors;
- and
- a control system operably configured to:
- identify a surface defining the operating space based at least in part upon information sensed by the one or more sensors,
- establish a virtual barrier offset from the surface, wherein the offset is at least one of variable or uniform, and
- limit movement of the robotic arm based at least in part upon the virtual barrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.