Self-configuring robotic system and method

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 4578764
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06472642

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A self-configuring robotic system and method are disclosed. The system employs a computer having a central processing unit and an operating system containing at least a nucleus, a sequence reprogrammer and task support services. A robotic device and at least one defined task performing device, which may be another robotic device, are used in the system. Each device has a corresponding module that is electrically connected to the device and provides all of the intelligence for the particular device. Each module also provides a control block flag and a starting offset for the computer. The modules are electrically connected to the computer through a plurality of physically separable electrical connections so that all of the intelligence for the devices is on the device side of the associated physically separable electrical connections.

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  • ZYMARK CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Buote, William J Natick, MA 8 272
Finn, Lawrence J Westborough, MA 1 25
Hutchins, Burleigh M Hopkinton, MA 24 699

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