Abb Schweiz Ag

Abb Gomtec Gmbh

Leopold Bock-Krausen

Bernd Gombert

Michael Ries

Richard Roberts

Andras Acsai

The invention relates to a mobile robot having running gear and at least one robot arm mounted on the running gear, a sensor system for sensing obstacles in the surroundings of the robot and a navigation unit for laying down a route along which the running gear can be moved while avoiding the obstacles, and a control unit for the robot arm which is adapted to lay down a permissible position for the robot arm by reference to the obstacles sensed and the route.

Mobile robot with collision anticipation

A robot system comprises a base (), a robot arm () connected to the base, a camera (), at least one objective lens in the camera () being movable with the robot arm (), and a screen (). A control unit () is configured to detect a change in the distance between an object () detected by the camera () and the objective lens, and to vary the zoom factor of a zoom function of the camera () according to the change in distance.

Robotic system

The Invention relates to a control device () for controlling a robot system () with at least one robot arm () on which a surgical instrument () is secured that has an end effector (), wherein the control device () comprises an imaging system () that records the control specification of at least one hand (), evaluates it and converts it to corresponding control commands for one or more components of the robot system (). In order to simplify the control of the robot system () and in particular to make it intuitive, it is proposed that a control unit () be provided which determines the orientation and/or the position and/or the degree of opening of the end effector () of a surgical instrument () as first parameter or first parameters, and moreover determines the orientation and/or the position and/or the degree of opening of at least one hand () as second parameter or second parameters, and, in the event of a deviation of one or more of the first parameters from the corresponding second parameter, suppresses a manual control of the end effector (), and, in the event of an agreement of one or more of the first parameters with the corresponding second parameter, frees a gesture control, such that the surgical instrument () can be actuated by hand.

Control device and method for controlling a robot with a system by means of gesture control

The invention relates to a device () for manually controlling a robot system, comprising an input device (), which can be operated by means of at least two hands and has a sensor system () for detecting control specifications of a first hand () and control specifications of a second hand (). According to the invention, the control device () comprises a first control unit (), which performs a position control function in dependence on the control specifications of the first hand (), and a second control unit (), which performs a velocity control function or a position control function in dependence on the control specifications of the second hand ().

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Munich, Germany

Leopold Bock-Krausen