Automated drywall painting system and method

US11499325B2 · 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: Nov 15, 2022
• Expiry date: Mar 30, 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 painting system that includes a robotic arm and a painting end effector coupled at a distal end of the robotic arm, with the painting end effector configured to apply paint to a target surface. The painting system can also include a computing device executing a computational planner that: generates instructions for driving the painting end effector and robotic arm to perform at least one painting task that includes applying paint, via the painting the end effector, to a plurality of drywall pieces, 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 painting task.