Patents by Inventor LIANG-TING TSAI

LIANG-TING TSAI 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: 20220055213
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a collision-free path generating method for a robot and an end effector quipped thereon to move. The method includes steps of configuring a virtual working environment, containing a plurality of virtual objects at least including the robot, the end effector and a target object consisting of a plurality of basic members and mapped from a working environment in a reality, in a robot simulator; selecting a level of detail and a pre-determined shape for a collider covering the plurality of virtual objects to determine boundaries for the plurality of objects; randomly sampling a combination of robot configurations; and based on the determine boundaries and the randomly sampled combination of robot configurations, performing a heuristic based pathfinding algorithm to compute a collision-free path for the robot and the end effector quipped thereon to move to the target object accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: SHIH-CHUNG KANG, LIANG-TING TSAI, CHENG-HSUAN YANG
  • Publication number: 20220055216
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method. The method includes steps of causing a visual programming panel including a timeline editor and a variety of action blocks configured to enable a variety of basic actions correspondingly for a target robot to perform to be displayed in a visualization interface provided by a robot simulator shown on a web browser; at the visual programming panel, operating by a user to group at least two action blocks representing at least two basic actions selected from the variety of basic actions to form an action collection; and generating a program capable of commanding an end effector equipped on the target robot in a work cell to perform according to the action collection in the robot simulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: SHIH-CHUNG KANG, LIANG-TING TSAI, CHENG-HSUAN YANG
  • Publication number: 20210316458
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method. The method includes causing a visual programming panel including a timeline editor and a plurality of motion blocks enabling a variety of robotic motions to be displayed in a visualization interface provided by a robot simulator shown on a web browser; selecting from a user, at the visual programming panel, at least one motion block from the plurality of motion blocks and adding the at least one motion block into the timeline editor, via a drag-and-drop, to form a motion configuration; and according to the motion configuration at the visual programming panel, automatically generating a program capable of commanding an end effector equipped on a target robot in a work cell to perform at least one selected robotic motion from the variety of robotic motions in the robot simulator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: SHIH-CHUNG KANG, LIANG-TING TSAI, CHENG-HSUAN YANG
  • Publication number: 20210316457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a near-site robotic construction system. The system includes a work station situated on a near-site position in a close proximity to a building foundation on which a building is under construction and providing shelter and workspace for at least one robot to work; and a computer-assisted cloud based near-site robotic construction platform installed on a cloud server system and configured to provide for a user to operate through a web browser, import and extract a building information modelling data, and plan a predetermined motion command set partly based on the extracted building information modelling data, wherein the at least one robot is configured to work in accordance with the predetermined motion command set to prefabricate a plurality of components for the building in the work station on the near-site position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: SHIH-CHUNG KANG, LIANG-TING TSAI, CHENG-HSUAN YANG
  • Publication number: 20210316459
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented system. The system includes: an internet capable device installed with a web browser to enable web browsing to access an internet; and a cloud computing server system available on the internet and configured to: cause a visualization interface to be displayed on the web browser; receive a user instruction corresponding to a user interaction with the visualization interface inputted through the web browser; import an extracted building information modelling data from external; plan and simulate a robot motion path and a sequence of motions partly based on the extracted building information modelling data by selectively performing intelligent algorithms according to the user instruction; and generate a predetermined motion command set including the determined robot motion path and sequence of motions for a robotic device to move accordingly to prefabricate a plurality of construction components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: SHIH-CHUNG KANG, LIANG-TING TSAI, CHENG-HSUAN YANG