Patents by Inventor Meihui Zhang

Meihui Zhang 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: 20240009841
    Abstract: A dynamic target tracking method for a robot having multiple joints includes: obtaining a motion state of a tracked dynamic target in real time; performing motion prediction according to the motion state at a current moment to obtain a predicted position of the dynamic target; performing lag compensation on the predicted position to obtain a compensated predicted position; performing on-line trajectory planning according to the compensated predicted position to obtain planning quantities of multi-step joint motion states at multiple future moments, and determining a multi-step optimization trajectory according to the planning quantities and a multi-step optimization objective function; and controlling the joints of the robot to according to the multi-step optimization trajectory.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Inventors: Jindi Zhang, Youjun Xiang, Meihui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20230191606
    Abstract: A collision detection method, a storage medium, and a robot are provided. The method includes: calculating an external torque of a first joint of the robot based on a preset generalized momentum-based disturbance observer; calculating an external torque of a second joint of the robot based on a preset long short-term memory network; calculating an external torque of a third joint of the robot based on the external torque of the first joint and the external torque of the second joint; and determining whether the robot has collided with an external environment or not based on the external torque of the third joint and a preset collision threshold. In the present disclosure, the component of the model error in the joint external torque calculated by the disturbance observer is eliminated to obtain the accurate contact torque, thereby improving the accuracy of the collision detection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Meihui Zhang, Yizhang Liu, Youjun Xiong, Huan Tan
  • Publication number: 20230158672
    Abstract: A robot obstacle avoidance method, a robot controller using the same, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: determining an influence value of an obstacle on a motion range of a joint of the robot according to a position of the obstacle in a workspace of the robot; establishing a state transition relationship of the robot by taking a joint velocity of the robot as a control target and a joint angular velocity of the robot as a control input quantity; and avoiding the robot from colliding with the obstacle during a movement process of the robot by performing a model predictive control on the robot according to the state transition relationship and the influence value. In the present disclosure, the influence of the obstacle on the motion range of the joint of the robot is fully considered.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2022
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: YIZHANG LIU, Youjun Xiong, Xianwen Zeng, Zhihao Zhang, Meihui Zhang, Chunyu Chen
  • Publication number: 20230130977
    Abstract: A method for controlling a robot comprising an end effector includes: establishing at steady state between the end effector and a working surface through a preset impedance control mechanism, and adjusting a contact force between the end effector and the working surface according to a preset desired force; obtaining a contact torque generated by the contact force; controlling the end effector to rotate according to the contact torque until a pose of the end effector is consistent with a pose of the working surface; and controlling the end effector to move tangentially along the working surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Xianwen Zeng, Yizhang Liu, Meihui Zhang, Jinliang Chen, Youjun Xiong
  • Publication number: 20220203534
    Abstract: A path planning method and a biped robot using the same are provided. The method includes: generating a candidate node set for a next foot placement based on a biped robot's own parameters and joint information of a current node, adding valid candidate nodes in the candidate node set to a priority queue so as to select optimal nodes for realizing next node expansion. These optimal nodes are output to generate a foot placement sequence from an initial node to a target node, which can greatly reduce the search amount for path nodes when the robot's legs intersect and touch the ground, thereby improving the efficiency of path planning.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Xingxing Ma, Chunyn Chen, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Hongge Wang, Jie Bai, Zheng Xie, Jiangchen Zhou, Meihui Zhang, Shuo Zhang, Youjun Xiong
  • Patent number: 11325247
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robotic arm control method as well as an apparatus and a terminal device using the same. The method includes: obtaining a current joint angle of each of M joints of the robotic arm; obtaining a reference included angle based on the current joint angle of each of the M joints of the robotic arm; determining an expected included angle corresponding to the robotic arm within a target angle range based on the reference included angle and the preset included angle related evaluation function; and controlling the robotic arm based on the target joint angles of the M joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: UBTECH ROBOTICS CORP LTD
    Inventors: Zecai Lin, Zhaohui An, Yizhang Liu, Meihui Zhang, Youjun Xiong, Jianxin Pang
  • Patent number: 10726018
    Abstract: Techniques and constructs to facilitate semantic matching and automated annotation (SMA) of attributes can take entity names and a keyword describing an attribute associated with the named entities as input and leverage a corpus of data such as data from tables, which can include HTML web tables, to automatically populate values associated with the named entities for the attribute. The constructs enable accurate SMA of attributes, such as attributes that relate to the entity and include numeric values in a different unit than the query, in a different scale than the query, and/or reflecting a time different from that of the query. An entity augmentation application programming interface (API) may be used to accept queries that include numeric criteria, parameters, or arguments, including query attributes represented by numeric values, which may be in different units or scales, and attributes represented by numeric values that can vary by time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakrabarti, Meihui Zhang
  • Publication number: 20150227589
    Abstract: Techniques and constructs to facilitate semantic matching and automated annotation (SMA) of attributes can take entity names and a keyword describing an attribute associated with the named entities as input and leverage a corpus of data such as data from tables, which can include HTML web tables, to automatically populate values associated with the named entities for the attribute. The constructs enable accurate SMA of attributes, such as attributes that relate to the entity and include numeric values in a different unit than the query, in a different scale than the query, and/or reflecting a time different from that of the query. An entity augmentation application programming interface (API) may be used to accept queries that include numeric criteria, parameters, or arguments, including query attributes represented by numeric values, which may be in different units or scales, and attributes represented by numeric values that can vary by time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 13, 2015
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Kaushik Chakrabarti, Meihui Zhang