Patents by Inventor Clemens Eppner

Clemens Eppner 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: 20260115905
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for training a robot grasp diffusion model includes performing, based on grasp data that includes one or more first robot grasp poses, one or more operations to train an untrained diffusion model to generate a trained diffusion model; generating, using the trained diffusion model, one or more second robot grasp poses; simulating the one or more second robot grasp poses to generate one or more labels indicating if the one or more second robot grasp poses are successful robot grasp poses; and performing, based on the one or more second robot grasp poses and the one or more labels, one or more operations to train an untrained machine learning model to generate a trained machine learning model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Adithyavairavan MURALI, Yu-Wei CHAO, Clemens EPPNER, Balakumar SUNDARALINGAM, Fabio TOZETO RAMOS, Dieter FOX
  • Publication number: 20260115906
    Abstract: The disclosed method for controlling a robot to grasp an object includes receiving sensor data from one or more sensors, generating, based on the sensor data and using a first trained machine learning model, one or more grasp poses, selecting, from the one or more grasp poses and using a first trained machine learning model, one or more filtered grasp poses, generating, based on the one or more filtered grasp poses, a grasping plan, and causing the robot to grasp the object based on the grasping plan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2025
    Publication date: April 30, 2026
    Inventors: Adithyavairavan MURALI, Yu-Wei CHAO, Clemens EPPNER, Balakumar SUNDARALINGAM, Fabio TOZETO RAMOS, Dieter FOX
  • Patent number: 12533806
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate a motion plan. In at least one embodiment, a motion plan is generated using a neural network based, at least in part, on a demonstration of a task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2026
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Albert Wu, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox
  • Patent number: 12390929
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for determining whether collisions will occur in potential paths of an object within a scene. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks determine whether collisions will occur in potential paths of an object within a scene based at least in part on point cloud data of the object and the scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Danielczuk, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox
  • Patent number: 12299800
    Abstract: One common robotic task is the rearrangement of physical objects situated in an environment. This typically involves a robot manipulator picking up a target object and placing the target object in some target location, such as a shelf, cabinet or cubby, and requires the skills of picking, placing and generating complex collision-free motions, oftentimes in a cluttered environment. The present disclosure provides collision detection for object rearrangement using a three-dimensional (3D) scene representation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2025
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Adithyavairavan Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Adam Fishman, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20240338598
    Abstract: One embodiment of a method for generating simulation data to train a machine learning model includes generating a plurality of simulation environments based on a user input, and for each simulation environment included in the plurality of simulation environments: generating a plurality of tasks for a robot to perform within the simulation environment, performing one or more operations to determine a plurality of robot trajectories for performing the plurality of tasks, and generating simulation data for training a machine learning model by performing one or more operations to simulate the robot moving within the simulation environment according to the plurality of trajectories.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2024
    Publication date: October 10, 2024
    Inventors: Caelan Reed GARRETT, Fabio TOZETO RAMOS, Iretiayo AKINOLA, Alperen DEGIRMENCI, Clemens EPPNER, Dieter FOX, Tucker Ryer HERMANS, Ajay Uday MANDLEKAR, Arsalan MOUSAVIAN, Yashraj Shyam NARANG, Rowland Wilde O'FLAHERTY, Balakumar SUNDARALINGAM, Wei YANG
  • Publication number: 20240177392
    Abstract: One common robotic task is the rearrangement of physical objects situated in an environment. This typically involves a robot manipulator picking up a target object and placing the target object in some target location, such as a shelf, cabinet or cubby, and requires the skills of picking, placing and generating complex collision-free motions, oftentimes in a cluttered environment. The present disclosure provides collision detection for object rearrangement using a three-dimensional (3D) scene representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Adithyavairavan Murali, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Adam Fishman, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20240149447
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques to generate a motion plan. In at least one embodiment, a motion plan is generated using a neural network based, at least in part, on a demonstration of a task.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Albert Wu, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20240009851
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques determine a set of grasp poses that would allow a robot to successfully grasp an object that is proximate to at least one additional object. In at least one embodiment, the set of grasp poses is modified based on a determination that at least one of the grasp poses in the set of grasp poses would interfere with at least one additional object that is proximate to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox, Adithyavairavan Murali
  • Patent number: 11745347
    Abstract: Candidate grasping models of a deformable object are applied to generate a simulation of a response of the deformable object to the grasping model. From the simulation, grasp performance metrics for stress, deformation controllability, and instability of the response to the grasping model are obtained, and the grasp performance metrics are correlated with robotic grasp features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORP.
    Inventors: Isabella Huang, Yashraj Shyam Narang, Clemens Eppner, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Dieter Fox
  • Patent number: 11724401
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques determine a set of grasp poses that would allow a robot to successfully grasp an object that is proximate to at least one additional object. In at least one embodiment, the set of grasp poses is modified based on a determination that at least one of the grasp poses in the set of grasp poses would interfere with at least one additional object that is proximate to the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox, Adithyavairavan Murali
  • Patent number: 11701771
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system determines a set of possible grasp poses that allow a robot to successfully grasp an object by generating a set of potential grasp poses, and then evaluating the performance of each potential grasp pose. In at least one embodiment, the system performs a refinement operation on the grasp poses, and based on an evaluation of the poses, creates an improved set of possible grasps for the object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: NVIDIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20220297297
    Abstract: Candidate grasping models of a deformable object are applied to generate a simulation of a response of the deformable object to the grasping model. From the simulation, grasp performance metrics for stress, deformation controllability, and instability of the response to the grasping model are obtained, and the grasp performance metrics are correlated with robotic grasp features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2021
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corp.
    Inventors: Isabella Huang, Yashraj Shyam Narang, Clemens Eppner, Balakumar Sundaralingam, Miles Macklin, Tucker Ryer Hermans, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20220152826
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques for determining whether collisions will occur in potential paths of an object within a scene. In at least one embodiment, one or more neural networks determine whether collisions will occur in potential paths of an object within a scene based at least in part on point cloud data of the object and the scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Danielczuk, Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20210138655
    Abstract: Apparatuses, systems, and techniques determine a set of grasp poses that would allow a robot to successfully grasp an object that is proximate to at least one additional object. In at least one embodiment, the set of grasp poses is modified based on a determination that at least one of the grasp poses in the set of grasp poses would interfere with at least one additional object that is proximate to the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox
  • Publication number: 20200361083
    Abstract: In at least one embodiment, a system determines a set of possible grasp poses that allow a robot to successfully grasp an object by generating a set of potential grasp poses, and then evaluating the performance of each potential grasp pose. In at least one embodiment, the system performs a refinement operation on the grasp poses, and based on an evaluation of the poses, creates an improved set of possible grasps for the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: November 19, 2020
    Inventors: Arsalan Mousavian, Clemens Eppner, Dieter Fox