Patents Assigned to UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
  • Patent number: 10927931
    Abstract: An arm assembly of a robot includes a servo coupled to the chest of the robot, an upper arm driven by the servo, a forearm rotatably coupled to the upper arm, a hand connected to an end of the forearm and rotatable about a first axis extending along a lengthwise direction of the forearm; and a hand transmission mechanism configured to transmit motion from the servo to the hand so as to drive the hand to rotate about the first axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Zuyi Mao, Xinpu Chen, Gao Yang, Defu Liu
  • Patent number: 10913155
    Abstract: A robot joint controlling method includes: receiving a motion command; determining one or more joint servos that are needed to execute the motion command; and determining whether the one or more joint servos are in an occupied state, and if not, executing the motion command so as to control the one or more joint servos to operate accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Gaobo Huang, Jiawen Hu
  • Patent number: 10906585
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a chassis comprising a frame, two hanging units symmetrically provided at both sides of the frame, and a front guiding wheel and a rear universal wheel provided below the frame, wherein each of the hanging units comprises a mounting rack fixedly connected to the frame, a hanging rack slidably connected to the mounting rack, and a driving wheel rotatably connected to the hanging rack, and the front guiding wheel is provided with a first driving motor, and the driving wheel of each hanging unit is driven by a second driving motor, and wherein a closed loop speed control system is formed between the first driving motor and both second driving motors, such that a rotational angle of the front guiding wheel is adjustable via the first driving motor when revolving speeds of both second driving motors are changed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Kunlei Zhao, Wenhua Yu, Libing Zhou, Qi Zhao
  • Patent number: 10894319
    Abstract: The present disclosure is provides a servo control method as well as an apparatus and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a teeth force reduction multiple of a gear of a servo; creating a voltage queue based on the teeth force reduction multiple; calculating a target loading voltage corresponding to a current moment based on a voltage queue; and applying the target loading voltage on a motor of the servo, wherein the target loading voltage is for driving the motor of the servo to rotate. Through the above-mentioned method, the loading voltage can be effectively reduced when the servo is started, thereby protecting teeth of the gear of the servo and increasing the service life of the servo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Yongping Zeng, Youjun Xiong, Zhongliang Wang, Dong Liu, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 10891945
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for judging termination of sound reception and a terminal device. The method including: performing a voice activity detection on a current sound clip to obtain a first value; performing a semantic relevance detection on the current sound clip and a next sound clip by deep learning to obtain a second value; performing a weighted calculation on the first value and the second value to obtain a third value; comparing the third value with a preset threshold; and determining whether sound reception of the current sound clip is terminated based on the comparison result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Haoming Li, Yanhui Xia, Liyang Li, Pinxiu Wen
  • Patent number: 10888993
    Abstract: An assembly for driving a waist of a humanoid robot to rotate with respect to a chest of the humanoid robot includes a support assembly fixed in the chest, a servo mounted to the support assembly, and a rotating member fixed to the waist and rotatable when driven by the servo.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Gao Yang, Defu Liu, Zuyi Mao, Xinpu Chen
  • Patent number: 10882184
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a servo motion control method and apparatus, as well as a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining position parameters of a plurality of control vertices of a servo in a constant speed motion; creating a first smooth trajectory equation of the servo to move from the starting point to the ending point based on the position parameters of the plurality of control vertices; and controlling the servo to move based on the first smooth trajectory equation. The present disclosure is capable of realizing the smooth control of the motion of the servo from a starting position to an ending position, and avoiding the severe impacts during starting and stopping which affect the stability of the servo while the servo is in a constant high-speed motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Lifu Zhang, Hanyu Sun, Xi Bai, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 10875179
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an impedance control method for a biped robot as well as an apparatus and a biped robot using the same. The method includes: correcting an impact force on a landing leg in the two legs of the biped robot using a natural attenuation function, and taking the corrected impact force as an input of an impedance control; obtaining an impedance model of the biped robot; determining a transfer function of the impedance control based on the impedance model; calculating an output of the impedance control based on the input of the impedance control and the transfer function of the impedance control; determining a joint angle of each joint based on the output of the impedance control and a planned pose of the biped robot; and transmitting joint angle information of each joint to motor(s) of the joint to perform the impedance control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Yuesong Wang, Youjun Xiong, Mingguo Zhao
  • Patent number: 10875178
    Abstract: A motion target direction angle obtaining method and a robot using the same. The method includes: creating an absolute coordinate system, and obtaining an absolute position coordinate of at least one point after the first point in the absolute coordinate system; creating a relative coordinate system with the first point as an origin, and obtaining a relative position coordinate corresponding to the at least one point In the relative coordinate system; calculating matrix parameters of a transformation matrix based on the absolute position coordinate of the at least one point and the relative position coordinate corresponding to the at least one point; and determining a direction angle of the motion target at the first point based on the matrix parameters. Combines an absolute portioning method and a relative positioning method to calculate the direction angle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Xiangbin Huang, Peng Nie, Musen Zhang
  • Patent number: 10875371
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a suspension system, and a chassis with the same. The system includes: a fixing frame having an opening; a suspension frame disposed at the opening; and a driving wheel rotationally coupled to the suspension frame. In which, two ends of the suspension frame are respectively disposed on two ends of the fixing frame at the two sides of the opening to be selectively moved up and down along a height direction of the fixing frame, and two elastic members are respectively disposed between each of the two ends of the suspension frame and the corresponding end of the fixing frame at the two sides of the opening. In the present disclosure, the fixing frame and the suspension frame can move with respect to each other in a vertical direction, and the resetting adjustment is realized through the elastic member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Kunlei Zhao, Wenhua Yu, Libing Zhou, Hailang Zhou
  • Patent number: 10871778
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot charging control method, apparatus, and robot thereof. The method includes: obtaining a linear distance between a charging portion of the robot and a charging station of a charging device, if a charging instruction is detected; determining polar coordinate information of a preset target position in a polar coordinate system taking the position of the charging portion as a pole based on the linear distance; moving the robot to the preset target position according to the polar coordinate information; rotating the robot in situ at the preset target position to a position the charging portion matching the charging station; and moving the robot from the preset target position to the charging station to establish an electrical connection for charging the robot between the charging portion and the charging station. The present disclosure realizes that a navigation route is unnecessary to be made in advance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 22, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Yongsheng Zhao, Zhichao Liu
  • Patent number: 10866961
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a data interaction method, including: receiving a search request from a service layer, and transmitting the search request to a search application server. The search application server is configured to manage the response data obtained from at least one third-party application. The method further includes receiving the response data transmitted from the search application server, and transmitting the response data to the service layer. As such, the time of accessing the third-party applications may be reduced, the data-accessing time may be reduced, and the data-accessing performance may be improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Lin Chen
  • Patent number: 10857681
    Abstract: A finger of a robotic hand includes a palm portion, a fixed phalanx fixed to the palm portion, a first movable phalanx rotatably connected to the fixed phalanx, a second movable phalanx rotatably connected to the first movable phalanx, a first pulling member to pull the first movable phalanx so as to rotate the first movable phalanx with respect to the fixed phalanx, a second pulling member to pull the second movable phalanx so as to rotate the second movable phalanx with respect to the first movable phalanx, and an actuator to pull the first pulling member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Sicong Liu, Youjun Xiong, Hongyu Ding, Qidong Xu, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 10852139
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to positioning technology, and particularly to a positioning method a positioning device, and a robot. In which, the method includes: obtaining first location information of the target object at a current moment being predicted by an extended Kalman filter model at a last moment; obtaining second location information of the target object at the current moment being collected by a sensor; predicting third location information of the target object at the current moment through the extended Kalman filter model based on the first location information and the second location information; and determining an error value of the third location information under a preset constraint condition, and correcting the third location information according, to the error value to obtain final location information of the target object at the current moment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Longbiao Bai, Zhichao Liu, Zhanjia Bi
  • Patent number: 10838424
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to robot technology, and particularly to a method and a robot for identifying charging station. The method includes: first, obtaining scanning data produced by a radar of the robot; then, determining whether an arc-shaped object exists in a scanning range of the radar of the robot based on the scanning data; finally, in response to determining that the arc-shaped object exists in the scanning range of the robot, determining that the arc-shaped object is a charging station. Compared with the prior art, the present disclosure substitutes the arc identification for the conventional concave-convex structure identification. Since the surface of the arc is relatively smooth, the data jumps at the intersection of the cross-section will not occur, hence the accuracy of charging station identification can be greatly improved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Gaobo Huang, Xiangbin Huang
  • Patent number: 10836032
    Abstract: A leg assembly of a robot comprising a waist includes a thigh rotatably coupled to the waist, a lower leg rotatably coupled to the thigh, a foot rotatably coupled to the lower leg, a servo fixe to the thigh, a first transmission mechanism configured to transmit motion from the servo to the thigh to drive the thigh to rotate with respect to the waist; a second transmission mechanism configured to transmit motion from the thigh to the lower leg to drive the lower leg to flex when the thigh move upward and extend when the thigh move downward; and a third transmission mechanism configured rotatably connected to the thigh and the foot in such a way that the foot dorsiflexes from an original position when the lower leg is flexing and rotates back toward the original position when the lower leg is extending.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Defu Liu, Gao Yang, Zuyi Mao, Xinpu Chen
  • Patent number: 10821604
    Abstract: The present disclosure is applicable to robot technology. A method for robot posture detection and a robot are provided. The method includes: obtaining a position parameter of each of nodes of a robot; obtaining a first weighted value of each of the nodes corresponding to the position parameter of the corresponding node; calculating a weighted value of each of body parts of the robot based on the first weighted value of the node of the corresponding body part; and correcting an original parameter of a center of gravity of the robot according to a body gravity center influence factor of each of the body parts, and the weighted value of each of the body parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Haiwu Su
  • Patent number: 10821606
    Abstract: The present disclosure is applicable to robot technology. A method for robot fall prediction, and a robot are provided. The method includes: searching a weighted value of a center of gravity of the robot corresponding to a posture of the robot, according to a preset first corresponding relationship; correcting an offset of the center of gravity of the robot based on the weighted value of the center of gravity of the robot; correcting an acceleration of the robot based on an offset direction of the center of gravity of the robot; and determining whether the robot will fall based on the corrected offset of the center of gravity, the offset direction of the center of gravity, and the corrected acceleration of the robot. The present disclosure improves the real-time performance and accuracy of the prediction for the fall of a robot through the fusion calculation of various data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2020
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Haiwu Su
  • Patent number: D910782
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP.
    Inventors: Jian Zhou, Huaqiang Lu, Yiping Li, Youjun Xiong, John Rhee, Peng Deng, Jianxin Pang, Zheng Xie, Shulong Liu, Yangyu Pi, Youpeng Li, Jing Shi, Yizhang Liu, Kunlei Zhao
  • Patent number: D911459
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP
    Inventors: Youjun Xiong, Huaqiang Lu, Yiping Li, Tao Xu, Sixin Li, Xinshui Huang, Meichun Liu, Qidong Xu, Youpeng Li, Da Li, Xue Yang, Zheng Xie, Qiuhong Shi