Seiko Epson Corporation

Katsuji Igarashi

Masaki Motoyoshi

Shunsuke Toshimitsu

Masatoshi Ono

Atsushi Asada

Kazuto Yoshimura

Kazushige Akaha

Hiroaki Fujimori

Yasuhiro Shimodaira

Kaoru Takeuchi

Takeshi Ishikawa

Yukihiro Yamaguchi

Yoshito Miyamoto

Nobuyuki Setsuda

Toyoki Tanaka

Chieko Iuchi

Yuki Sato

Provided is a control device controlling a robot having a movable section to which a work section, performing work on a target object, is attached and which moves the work section. The control device includes a control section receiving an output from a distance measurement section measuring a distance between the target object and the work section and controlling the movable section in accordance with a plurality of settings including a first section and a second section and a reception section selectively receiving (a) the first setting in which, when the work section is being moved by the movable section based on an output from the distance measurement section, the control section stops moving the work section when the distance or a rate of a change of the distance falls outside a preset reference range and (b) the second setting in which, when the work section is being moved based on the output from the distance measurement section, the control device continues to move the work section not based on the output from the distance measurement section when the distance or the rate of change falls outside the reference range.

Control device controlling robot and robot system

A control apparatus includes a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to control a robot supporting a dispenser, wherein the processor is configured to calculate a movement velocity of a landing point where a discharge substance discharged from a discharge port of the dispenser to an object lands on the object, wherein the movement velocity is used for controlling a discharge amount of the discharge substance.

Control apparatus and robot system

A robot includes a robot arm having an nth (n is an integer equal to or more than one) arm and an (n+1)th arm, the nth arm is rotatable about an nth rotation shaft, the (n+1)th arm is provided on the nth arm rotatably about an (n+1)th rotation shaft in a shaft direction different from a shaft direction of the nth rotation shaft, and, while a distal end of the robot arm is moved from a first point to a second point, a first operation such that the nth arm and the (n+1)th arm overlap as seen from the shaft direction of the (n+1)th rotation shaft and a second operation of rotating the nth arm are performed.

Robot

A robot control apparatus that controls a robot including a manipulator, a force detector provided in the manipulator, and an actuator that drives the manipulator based on a target position, includes a display control unit that displays a motion position of the manipulator derived based on a target force and an output of the force detector and the target position on a screen.

Robot control apparatus, robot, and robot system

A robot has an operation mode setting unit that sets an operation mode of the robot. The operation mode setting unit changes a correction factor multiplied by the maximum acceleration and the maximum deceleration of an arm and the servo gain of a servo circuit, and thereby selectively sets the operation mode to one of a first operation mode, a second operation mode in which the arm operates faster than in the first operation mode, and a third operation mode in which the arm vibrates less than in the first operation mode.

Robot and robot controller

Teaching pendant for industrial robots

A robot includes an angular velocity sensor installed to a second horizontal arm and for obtaining the angular velocity of the first horizontal arm with respect to a base, and suppresses the vibration of the first horizontal arm by driving a first electric motor based on the angular velocity of the first horizontal arm. In the robot, an electric wire to be connected to a second electric motor incorporated in the second horizontal arm and electric wire to be connected to the angular velocity sensor are laid around through a wiring duct having end portions coupled respectively to the base and the second horizontal arm, disposed outside the first horizontal arm and outside the second horizontal arm, and having a passage leading to the inside of the base and the inside of the second horizontal arm.

Horizontal articulated robot

A position detection device for a horizontal articulated robot includes a camera for imaging the robot or a work as an imaging object, a control section for calculating a location of the imaging object from an image, an acquisition section (I/O) for obtaining the drive amounts of first and second electric motors of the robot, and a storage section for storing the calculated location of the imaging object and the drive amounts so as to correspond to each other. A common trigger signal for detecting the location of the imaging object is input to the camera and the I/O. The camera starts to image the imaging object in response to the input of the trigger signal. The I/O starts to obtain the drive amounts in response to the input of the trigger signal.

Position detection device for robot, robotic system, and position detection method for robot

A robot includes a first horizontal arm coupled to a base, a second horizontal arm coupled to the base via the first horizontal arm, first and second motors adapted to rotate the respective arms, and first and second encoders adapted to calculate rotational angles and rotational velocities of the respective motors. A first motor control section subtracts first and second angular velocities based on the first and second encoders from a sensor angular velocity detected by an angular sensor, and controls the first motor so that a velocity measurement value obtained by adding a vibration velocity based on a vibration angular velocity as the subtraction result and a first rotational velocity becomes equal to a velocity command value.

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Katsuji Igarashi