Patents Assigned to HDT Robotics, Inc.
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Publication number: 20170183157Abstract: A warehouse robotic system includes a picker robot, including a mobile base, an environment sensing system, a communications system and at least one manipulator. The picker robot can also include an object sensing system. The robotic system also includes a control system, including a communications system and a robot controller which communicates with the picker robot and is connected to an associated warehouse inventory system. The picker robot is adapted to maneuver to a first location, retrieve at least one associated object from the first location, transport the at least one associated object to a second location and place the at least one associated object at the second location. The system can also include a carrier robot and a storage container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: June 29, 2017Applicant: HDT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventor: Kent Massey
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Publication number: 20150360865Abstract: A warehouse robotic system includes a picker robot, including a mobile base, an environment sensing system, a communications system and at least one manipulator. The picker robot can also include an object sensing system. The robotic system also includes a control system, including a communications system and a robot controller which communicates with the picker robot and is connected to an associated warehouse inventory system. The picker robot is adapted to maneuver to a first location, retrieve at least one associated object from the first location, transport the at least one associated object to a second location and place the at least one associated object at the second location. The system can also include a carrier robot and a storage container.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2014Publication date: December 17, 2015Applicant: HDT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventor: Kent Massey
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Patent number: 8881616Abstract: A control actuator apparatus is presented having an actuator assembly providing three linear motion degrees of freedom relative to a base and three rotational degrees of freedom, and one or more additional actuators providing at least one additional degree of freedom, including a base structure, an XYZ stage, and an upper actuation assembly with a wrist angle stage, a forearm angle stage, and a digit angle stage providing relative positioning signals or values to facilitate machine control capabilities with a high number of degrees of freedom (high DoF).Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: HDT Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Chad Alan Dize, Daniel R. Wahl, Thomas W. Van Doren
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Publication number: 20140216192Abstract: Disclosed is a high degree of freedom control apparatus that includes a base attached to a strain gauge assembly movable in three orthogonal directions to provide signals indicative of a position of the strain gauge assembly relative to the base. An actuator assembly is supported on the base and movable by an operator's arm, hand, digit, or wrist relative to the base structure. The actuator assembly provides signals indicative of the position of the operator's arm, hand, digit or wrist in at least seven degrees of freedom relative to the base structure. The actuator assembly includes a wrist angle stage and a digit angle stage. The strain gauge assembly includes a spring plate and a load cell that is configured to provide a signal indicative of deflection of the load cell relative to the base.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2014Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: HDT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Chad Alan Dize, Daniel R. Wahl, Thomas W. Van Doren
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Publication number: 20130338796Abstract: A mechanical finger comprises a plurality of phalanges coupled to a single actuator using a kinematic linkage and a differential linkage arranged in parallel. The mechanical finger is capable of exhibiting consistent predictable motion when moving in free space or when contacting an object at the fingertip, and of curling in order to conform to an object when the contact is at other locations on the finger.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: HDT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Thomas Moyer, Eric L. Faulring, Julio J. Santos-Munne
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Patent number: 8470051Abstract: A mechanical finger comprises a plurality of phalanges coupled to a single actuator using a kinematic linkage and a differential linkage arranged in parallel. The mechanical finger is capable of exhibiting consistent predictable motion when moving in free space or when contacting an object at the fingertip, and of curling in order to conform to an object when the contact is at other locations on the finger.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2010Date of Patent: June 25, 2013Assignee: HDT Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Thomas Moyer, Eric L. Faulring, Julio J. Santos-Munne
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Patent number: 8251863Abstract: A transmission or actuator offering multiple rotational outputs proportionate in speed to that of a common rotational input, each output according to its own ratio. The ratios are continuously variable between positive and negative values, including zero, and may be varied by electromechanical actuators under computer control. The transmission relates the output speeds one to another under computer control, and thus makes possible the establishment of virtual surfaces and other haptic effects in a multidimensional workspace to which the transmission outputs are kinematically linked. An example of such a workspace is that of a robotic or prosthetic hand.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: HDT Robotics, Inc.Inventors: Eric L. Faulring, Thomas Moyer, Julio Santos-Munne, Alexander Makhlin, J. Edward Colgate, Michael Peshkin
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Publication number: 20110219899Abstract: A control actuator apparatus is presented having an actuator assembly providing three linear motion degrees of freedom relative to a base and three rotational degrees of freedom, and one or more additional actuators providing at least one additional degree of freedom, including a base structure, an XYZ stage, and an upper actuation assembly with a wrist angle stage, a forearm angle stage, and a digit angle stage providing relative positioning signals or values to facilitate machine control capabilities with a high number of degrees of freedom (high DoF).Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: HDT ROBOTICS, INC.Inventors: Chad Alan Dize, Daniel R. Wahl, Thomas W. Van Doren