Patent ID: 9427872
Filing Date: 2016-08-30
CPC Classification: B25J,G01D,G05B,Y10S

Claim Text:
1. A device comprising: a hardware segment; an actuator to adjust a position of the hardware segment within a range of positions; an encoder to rotate about an encoder axis responsive to the actuator adjusting the position of the hardware segment, wherein the encoder includes a plurality of deformations separated by given offset angles; data storage that includes a dataset indicating offset angles between a reference configuration and a plurality of configurations of the encoder, wherein the offset angles indicated in the dataset relate to the given offset angles between the plurality of deformations, and wherein the reference configuration is indicative of the encoder being at a given encoder position about the encoder axis; and a controller to cause the actuator to adjust the position of the hardware segment to an end of the range of positions, and to: