Comau, Inc.

Giorgio Cantello

Luca Maria Lachello

Renzo Calcagno

Gianluca Gastaldi

Davide Ferla

Antonio Zaccagnini

Luciano Cane

Aldo Bottero

Guido Cargnino

A programming system for a robot or similar apparatus comprises a portable programming terminal () having a display device (D), a plurality of jog keys () for controlling the robot movements and a plurality of teaching keys (). The body of the terminal () comprises a first portion (), wherein the jog keys () and the teaching keys () are arranged, having a width which progressively decreasing until reaching the area of union with a second portion () of the body, wherein the display device (D) is positioned; the jog keys () comprises two series of keys () being positioned in a substantially symmetrical fashion to each other, each series being along a respective longitudinal side of the first portion (), whereas the teaching keys () are positioned within or close to the restricted zone of the body, bridging the first and the second portion ().

Portable terminal for controlling, programming and/or teaching robots or similar automatic apparatuses

A programming system for a robot includes a portable programming terminal () having a series of jog keys () for controlling the motions of the robot, a key () for selecting one among a plurality of possible co-ordinate systems for the jog keys () and a key () for storing the position reached by a predefined point of a tool supported by the robot, as a result of a motion thereof. The terminal () includes additional control keys (), able to be operated manually instead of the jog keys (), to cause, independently from the co-ordinate system selected with the selection key (), a Cartesian and/or angular displacement of the predefined point of the tool relative to a reference point that may be varied at will, which corresponds to the position of the operator who uses the terminal ().

System for programming robots or similar automatic apparatuses, comprising a portable programming terminal

A control system for robots comprising a control unit for generating and controlling the paths of a movement of the moving parts of the robot, a drive unit for generating the control signals for controlling the motors associated to the moving parts of the robot, and an Ethernet-type network for connection of the control unit and the drive unit. An interface module is also provided to connect the control unit to peripheral units and distributed input/output units. The drive unit comprises, in conjunction with a plurality of CPUs that close the control loops of the torques generated by the individual motors, a main CPU responsible for position control in the framework of the drive unit. The latter CPU thus retains knowledge of the overall status of the machine.

Control system for robots

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Turin, Italy

Giorgio Cantello