Brevet US Patent 12,454,051 B2, Stanford University 28 octobre 2025

Systems and methods for tactile gesture interpretation

Elizabeth Bianchini, Prateek Verma, J. Kenneth Salisbury Jr., Etienne Chassaing
TL;DRUn robot qui tend un objet à une personne sonde la fermeté de sa prise, et ne lâche l’objet que lorsque la prise est assez rigide.

Résumé

A method for controlling a robot to hand an object to a receiver. The robot presents the object, applies small probing motions to estimate the stiffness of the receiver’s grip from the measured response of the object, and decides whether to release the object based on that stiffness. Application US18/061,341, filed 2022-12-02 (priority 2021-12-02), published as US20230173669A1 and granted as US12454051B2.
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