Patents by Inventor Rune Søe-Knudsen

Rune Søe-Knudsen has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20230191603
    Abstract: A robot controller for controlling a robot arm comprising: —a first space shaping module configured to provide a shaped first space target motion by convolving a first space target motion with an impulse train, where the first space target motion defines a target motion in a first reference space; —a second space shaping module configured to provide a shaped second space target motion by convolving a second target motion with the impulse train; where the second target motion defines the target motion in a second reference space; and —a motor controller module configured to generate motor control signals to the joint motors based on the shaped first space target motion and the shaped second space target motion. This makes it possible to dynamically adjust in which reference space the input shaping shall be performed whereby vibrations and deviation in one reference space caused by input shaping in another reference space can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Universal Robots A/S
    Inventors: Dan Kielsholm THOMSEN, Rune SØE-KNUDSEN, Jeppe Barsøe JESSEN, Christian Valdemar LORENZEN
  • Publication number: 20230035296
    Abstract: A method and a robot controller for controlling a robot arm, where the robot arm comprises a plurality of robot joints connecting a robot base and a robot tool flange, where each of the robot joints comprises an output flange movable in relation to a robot joint body and a joint motor configured to move the output flange in relation to the robot joint body. The robot arm is controlled based on vibrational properties of at least one external object connected to the robot arm, where the vibrational properties are received via an external object installation interface by generating control signals for said robot arm based on a target motion and the received vibrational properties of the at least one external object, the control signal comprises control parameters for said joint motor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Applicant: Universal Robots A/S
    Inventors: Rune SØE-KNUDSEN, Dan Kielsholm THOMSEN
  • Publication number: 20220219320
    Abstract: A method of detecting change in contact between a contact part of a robot arm and an object as defined by the independent claims, by obtaining a contact force provided at the contact part of the robot arm by sensing a force provided to a part of said robot arm; and by obtaining the part acceleration 5 of the contact part of the robot arm by sensing the acceleration of at least a part of the robot arm and then indicate if a change in contact between the contact part of the robot arm and the object has occurred based on the obtained contact force and the obtained contact part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: July 14, 2022
    Inventor: Rune SØE-KNUDSEN
  • Patent number: 9833897
    Abstract: Methods includes calibrating robots without the use of external measurement equipment and copying working programs between un-calibrated robots. Both methods utilize the properties of a closed chain and the relative position of the links in the chain in order to update the kinematic models of the robots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2017
    Assignee: Universal Robots A/S
    Inventors: Rune Søe-Knudsen, Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, Henrik Gordon Petersen
  • Publication number: 20160136805
    Abstract: Methods includes calibrating robots without the use of external measurement equipment and copying working programs between un-calibrated robots. Both methods utilize the properties of a closed chain and the relative position of the links in the chain in order to update the kinematic models of the robots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Rune SØE-KNUDSEN, Esben Hallundbæk ØSTERGAARD, Henrik Gordon Petersen
  • Patent number: 9248573
    Abstract: The invention pertains to a method of calibrating robots without the use of external measurement equipment. The invention furthermore pertains to a method of copying working programs between un-calibrated robots. Both methods utilize the properties of a closed chain and the relative position of the links in the chain in order to update the kinematic models of the robots.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: UNIVERSAL ROBOTS A/S
    Inventors: Rune Søe-Knudsen, Esben Hallundbæk Østergaard, Henrik Gordon Petersen