Automated drywall sanding system and method

US10718119B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Canvas Construction, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Maria J. Telleria · Redwood City, US
• Gabriel F. Hein · Albany, US
• Kevin B. Albert · San Francisco, US
• Thomas Friel Allen · Oakland, US
• Henrik Bennetsen · San Francisco, US
• Josephine Marie Pedersen · Martinez, US
• Jonathan B. Pompa · Long Beach, US
• Charlie Yan · San Francisco, US
• Alana G. R. Yoel · San Francisco, US
• Miles J. Flannery · San Francisco, US
• Henry Tonoyan · San Francisco, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 30, 2018
• Grant date: Jul 21, 2020
• Expiry date: May 2, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S901/47
• WIPO field: Civil engineering
• WIPO sector: Other fields

Abstract

An automated sanding system that includes a robotic arm and a sanding end effector coupled at the distal end of the robotic arm, with the sanding end effector configured to sand a target surface. The system can further include a computing device executing a computational planner that generates instructions for driving the sanding end effector and robotic arm to perform at least one sanding task that at least includes the sanding end effector sanding a target surface, the generating based at least in part on obtained target surface data; and drives the end effector and robotic arm to perform the at least one sanding task.