US Patent:
20200078939, Mar 12, 2020
Inventors:
- San Francisco CA, US
Bryan Whittington - San Francisco CA, US
Petr Lipay - San Mateo CA, US
Thomas John Hummel - San Mateo CA, US
David Gabriel Hallock - San Francisco CA, US
Adrian Martin - San Francisco CA, US
Hugo Seize - San Francisco CA, US
Kevin George - San Francisco CA, US
Sara Wojciechowski - San Francisco CA, US
Nicholas Keyes - San Francisco CA, US
Adam Rizkalla - Oakland CA, US
International Classification:
B25J 9/16
B25J 15/06
B25J 15/00
B25J 15/08
B25J 19/04
Abstract:
The present disclosure generally relates to a robotic gripping system and method that utilizes vacuum suction and finger grasping, wherein the suction and grasping are actuated based on a dynamic collision model. In an exemplary embodiment, the present disclosure is directed to generating collision scenes of a surrounding environment which is used to determine possible collisions in a motion path, and which is used to selectively actuate the vacuum suction and/or finger grasping.