System and method for a robotic manipulator system
AssigneeKurion, 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, 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 at 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 offset from the one or more surfaces defining the operating space based at least in part upon the signals;
- 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, and
- limit movement of the robotic arm based at least in part upon the virtual barrier.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.