Kuka Roboter Gmbh

Edward Volcic

Kenneth A Stoddard

Michael C Chaffee

Khalid Mirza

R William Kneifel, Ii

A system and process is provided for controlling a robot path of a robot including providing a main path for movement of the robot based on path data having points along the main path and providing a safe evacuation path from each point in the main path to get to a safe position. The main path is formed with safety evacuation path considerations in mind such that along any point on ride path the robot can be safely moved to a safety point or to the unload position or safe position.

Robot trajectory control including emergency evacuation path system and method

The present invention is a system for controlling exclusive access by control programs () to system resources (). A system in accordance with the invention includes a plurality of addressable locations (and) in the system; a communication system () connecting the addressable locations which transmits communications between the addressable locations; a plurality of machines (), the machines being located at at least one of the addressable locations; a plurality of control programs which use resources including a plurality of machine control programs, each machine control program controlling at least one machine; and a plurality of resource managers (), the resource managers being located at a plurality of the addressable locations, each resource manager communicating over the communication system with at least one other resource manager, and the plurality of resource managers arbitrating which control program of the plurality of control programs is given exclusive use of at least one resource during execution of the control program.

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Rochester Hills, MI, United States of America

Edward Volcic