Fanuc Corporation

Atsuo Nagayama

Atsushi Watanabe

Ryo Nihei

Tetsuaki Kato

Ryuichi Hara

Toru Shirahata

Takayuki Ito

Hidetoshi Kumiya

Kazuto Hirose

Yukinobu Fanuc Manhonharimomi Tsuchida

Masakazu Fanuc Dai3virakaramatsu Ichinose

A method of preventing interference of an industrial robot in which teaching of an operation program to the robot is easy and interference of the robot with an external cooperative apparatus can be easily avoided. If a current position of a reference point on the robot for detecting interference is outside a common area (S,) and a target position of the reference point is outside the common area (S,), a motion command is outputted to drive the robot. If the target position of the reference point is within the common area, it is determined that whether or not a movable part of the cooperative apparatus is within the common area, and if the movable part is outside the common area, an operation forbidding signal for the cooperative apparatus is turned on and the motion command is outputted to make the robot move. If the movable part of the cooperative apparatus is within the common area, the motion command is withheld till the movable part of the cooperative device moves out of the common area (S,S,). If the current position of the reference point is within the common area (S,), the operation of the cooperative apparatus is forbidden (S,S,).

Method of avoiding interference of industrial robot

A robot controller resolving a path deviation caused in relation to override processing or temporary stop. A motion planning section constituting software of the robot controller forms a motion plan of a robot with no consideration of overriding and outputs it to an interpolation processing section. The interpolation processing section carries out interpolation processing at each period of calculation processing, calculates a motion amount at each ITP and outputs it to a filtering section. An output filtered for acceleration or deceleration control at the filtering section is processed by an overriding processing section having an operational shutter. An output after the processing to which an override value .beta. (0.ltoreq..beta..ltoreq.1) common to respective axes has been applied is constituted by velocity and acceleration respectively multiplied by .beta. and .beta..sup.2. Acceleration or deceleration of two operation is uniformly exhausted at a corner portion where two operation overlap and, therefore, path error is not caused. Even when overriding is changed in passing through the corner portion, operation is similarly carried out. By gradually changing overriding in deceleration and acceleration before and after a temporary stop, path deviation accompanied by a temporary stop can also be resolved.

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A method of tracking a robot with respect to a circularly moving workpiece W. When a workpiece on a disc-shape conveyer remains stationary at a reference position W0, positions P0 and Q0 are taught to the robot in a stationary coordinate system .SIGMA.0 and the robot is placed on stand-by at a position A. The angular displacement of the disc-shape conveyer is detected by a pulse encoder and counting of the output pulses starts when the workpiece W arrives at the reference position W0. A CPU of a robot controller reads the counted amount in a short cycle and transforms it into a rotation amount .theta. of the conveyer from the reference position. Updating of matrix data for setting a rotary coordinate system .SIGMA.rot based on the rotation amount .theta. is repeated. When the workpiece W reaches the reference position W0, the CPU executes interpolation calculation for successively determining a target point to which the robot is moved, based on the position data of the waiting position and the position data of teaching points P0 and Q0. The position data obtained by the interpolation calculation in the rotary coordinate system .SIGMA.rot is converted into the position data in the stationary coordinate system .SIGMA.0 and the position of the robot is controlled based on thus obtained position data.

Circular tracking method for robot

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Oshino-mura, Japan

Atsuo Nagayama