Rockwell Automation Technologies Incorporated

Keith D Carter

Yuhong Huang

Jatin P Bhatt

William Howell Martin

Bhanu K Gouda

Eric Allen Norrod

Robert B Hirschinger

Eric M Waydick

Theron Kotze

Michael D Lennard

James J Flood

Chloe David

Alexander G Brynildsen

Motion is coordinated between a robot and a mover in an independent cart system. A first mover for the independent cart system is located at an initial position, where the robot is mounted on the first mover. A motion trajectory command, defining motion of the robot and the first mover, is received at a motion controller. A mover command is generated for the first mover and a robot motion command is generated for the robot as a function of the motion trajectory command at the motion controller. The mover command is transmitted to a segment controller in a track segment on which the first mover is located, and the robot motion command is transmitted to a robot control system. Operation of the first mover is controlled with the segment controller in tandem with controlling operation of the robot with the robot control system responsive to the robot motion command.

Method of coordinating motion of a robot and vehicle in an independent cart system

A modular intelligent electronic overload device that requires only a single configuration file to describe the device with all of the available options. Furthermore, the modular intelligent electronic overload device contains embedded application files that provide commonly used control algorithms into the non-volatile memory of the modular intelligent electronic overload device that can be accessed by a user to configure the device without the need for a personal computer. Finally, the modular intelligent electronic overload device configuration parameters can be stored to virtual non-volatile memory contained in an associated user interface device, allowing for easy replacement of the modular intelligent electronic overload device.

Configurable modular intelligent electronic overload device and system with embedded programming tool

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Hendersonville, NC, United States of America

Keith D Carter