Dr. Vojislav Kalanovic, professor, mechanical engineering, has been officially been awarded Patent No. 7,431,632 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office.
The issued patent relates to the Flexible Robot Environment (FRE®), a robotic solution that combines linear mechanical and motor/drive components with proprietary hardware, software and controls from Control Systems Technologies, LLC, a company owned and operated by Kalanovic. The end result is a cost-effective, highly innovative, configurable, and interchangeable multi-degree-of-freedom (DOF), robotic solution package that can be applied in a multitude of applications. This modular robotic concept can be used to create various robotic systems including redundant (more than 6 DOF) robotic solutions.
Since FRE® is modular with respect to hardware and software, control issues of such systems require special solutions. The issued patent addresses these problems, allowing for spatially concentrated and/or distributed redundant robotic configurations to become an industrial reality.
This recognition is a third straight U.S. patent awarded to Dr. V. Kalanovic in the area of robotics and automated manufacturing.
