Kuka Deutschland Gmbh

Kuka Roboter Gmbh

Carl Zeiss Smt Gmbh

Martin Riedel

Jens Kugler

Bernhard Geuppert

Stefan Hembacher

Sebastian Lohmeier

Wolfgang Schober

Sven Brudniok

Dietmar Tscharnuter

Yevgen Kogan

Marwène Nefzi

Rainer Bischoff

Andre Reekers

Andreas Keibel

Moritz Zasche

Burkhard Corves

Dieter Schaab

Mathias Huesing

Michaela Schmid

Sabine Beck

Jorge Torres

Till Schulte-Rebbelmund

Tim Detert

Christoph Scheuvens

Jakob Berghofer

Michael Lorenz

Martin Wahle

Matthias Schellhase

Nenja Rieskamp

An annular heat sink for fastening to an outer shell wall of a heat-emitting electric motor includes at least one guide wall portion which is arranged on the annular heat sink and covers portions of at least one flow duct, delimited laterally by peripheral cooling fins, from the outside, in such a way that an air flow which has entered into a flow duct in a first region of a side of the annular heat sink which faces the incoming air is deflected into a second region of a side of the annular heat sink which faces away from the incoming air. The heat sink may be used in an electric motor, which may in turn be used in a drive arrangement.

Annular heat sink, electric motor, and drive arrangement with an annular heat sink

A mobile security basic control device () of a robot (), has a hand-held housing (), an emergency stop switching means () arranged at the housing (), a communication device () for establishing a link in terms of control between the mobile security basic control device () and a robot controller () of the robot (). A holder () is connected to the housing (), which is designed to mount the mobile security basic control device () on a mobile terminal (). The mobile terminal has a terminal control system () and a multi-touchscreen (), which is designed to transmit inputs to the terminal control system () via the multi-touchscreen (). The mobile security basic control device () comprises a coding device () which, in a state where the mobile security basic control device () is mounted on the mobile terminal () by means of the holder (), is designed to automatically transmit at least one identification code identifying the mobile security basic control device () to the terminal control system () via the multi-touchscreen ().

Mobile security basic control device comprising a coding device for a mobile terminal with multi-touchscreen and method for setting up a uniquely assigned control link

A robot arm includes multiple joints and multiple links which can be adjusted relative to one another by movements of the joints of the robot arm. Each driven joint is paired with a drive device, and each drive device is designed to adjust the robot arm joint paired therewith, namely by automatic actuation of a motor of the respective drive device. The robot arm has a distal end link designed in the form of a tool flange, a hand link arranged directly upstream of the distal end link in the kinematic chain of the joints and links and on which the distal end link is rotatably mounted about a flange rotational axis. An additional output link is rotatably mounted on the hand link about a rotational axis that is parallel to the flange rotational axis and which is arranged on the hand link so as to lie opposite the distal end link.

Robot arm with an additional output link

A robot has a robotic arm, including a base with a base contact surface and an end-effector that is connected to the base by joints which can be adjusted by robotic arm joint drives such that the end-effector has at least five, and in particular at least six, actuated degrees of freedom with respect to the base. The robot further includes a robot joint module with a first contact surface that can be fastened—in particular, releasably—to the base contact surface, a second contact surface for fastening the robot to a stationary environment or mobile platform, and at least one robot joint module drive for pivoting the first contact surface relative to the second contact surface about a pivot axis, so that the end-effector has at least six, and in particular at least seven, actuated degrees of freedom with respect to the second contact surface, and in particular with respect to the stationary environment or mobile platform.

Robot

A robot structure and a rehabilitation device have multiple elements and joints connecting the elements. At least one of the elements includes a first tubular piece with a first outer lateral surface wall, and a second tubular piece with a second outer lateral surface wall. The second tubular piece is arranged such that the length thereof is at an angle to the length of the first tubular piece so that the second tubular piece is inserted into two opposing tubular sections of the first tubular piece, and the second tubular piece passes through the first outer lateral surface wall of the first tubular piece at opposite sides. The second tubular piece is rigidly connected to the first tubular piece by a first connection element and a second connection element.

Robot structure and rehabilitation device

A robot arm includes a plurality of links and a plurality of joints connecting the links for adjustment relative to one another. At least a first link has a first bearing pin, a second bearing pin located opposite the first bearing pin, and a second link connected in an articulated manner to the first link by one of the joints has a first bearing flange on which the first bearing pin of the first link is rotatably mounted, and has a second bearing flange on which the second bearing pin of the first is rotatably mounted. The first bearing flange of the second link has a circumferentially closed recess in which the first bearing pin of the first link is received, and the second bearing flange of the second link has a circumferentially open recess in which the second bearing pin of the first link is received. An opening in the circumferentially open recess has an opening width that is greater than the width of the second bearing pin of the first link, and the second bearing flange has securing structure with which the second bearing of the first link is secured to the circumferentially open recess of the second bearing flange.

Robot arm and method for assembling a robot arm

A robot assembly includes at least four load-bearing structural parts connected by joints between each two adjacent structural parts to form a chain, and a joint motor associated with each joint for the driven movement of the structural parts connected by the joint relative to each other. A control device is provided in one of the structural parts which is connected at both ends to an adjacent structural part via an associated joint. The control device is designed to control at least three of the joint motors, and the electrical connection of the control device to each of the joint motors necessary for the controlling process is provided by a separate control line dedicated to the associated joint motor.

Robot assembly

A robotic arm includes a plurality of joints and a plurality of links, each connecting two adjacent joints to one another in a fixed arrangement. At least one of the links includes at least one first casing shell and at least one second casing shell, wherein the first casing shell is connected to the second casing shell in a form-fitting manner in order to form a hollow link, and wherein structure connecting the casing shells includes at least one zip fastener.

Robotic arm comprising casing shells connected by at least one linear connection element

A method for operating a robotic arm using a first visualization device includes visually indicating, on the robotic arm and/or in the workspace of the robotic arm and/or on a work surface below the robotic arm, an imminent adjustment of at least one axis of the robotic arm, in particular of at least one axis closest to the robotic arm base.

Method and system for operating a robotic arm

The invention relates to a mobile security basic control device () of a robot (), comprising a hand-held housing (), an emergency stop switching means () arranged at the housing (), a communication device () for establishing a link in terms of control between the mobile security basic control device () and a robot controller () of the robot (), and further comprising a holder () connected to the housing (), which is designed to mount the mobile security basic control device () on a mobile terminal (). Said mobile terminal has a terminal control system () and a multi-touchscreen (), which is designed to transmit inputs to the terminal control system () via the multi-touchscreen (). The mobile security basic control device () comprises a coding device () which, in a state where the mobile security basic control device () is mounted on the mobile terminal () by means of the holder (), is designed to automatically transmit at least one identification code identifying the mobile security basic control device () to the terminal control system () via the multi-touchscreen ().

A robot arm includes multiple links and joints connecting the links to one another in an articulated manner, wherein, in cooperation with the joints, the links are designed to carry and move a load in space. The joints can be automatically adjusted by motors of the robot arm to move the links. At least one first link has a first casing and a neighboring second link has a second casing. The casings are designed to transfer respective forces and torques resulting from the weight of the robot arm itself and/or the load to the neighboring link. The first casing and/or the second casing has a deformation element designed to form a buffer body in a joint space between the first and second casings, which is changed due to an adjustment of the associated joint. The buffer body at least substantially or completely fills the changeable joint space.

Robot arm having at least one deformation element

The present invention relates to an operating device for controlling or programming a manipulator. The manipulator has a plurality of degrees of freedom which are independent of each other. The operating device comprises a manual control lever which is configured to specify at least one two-dimensional movement of the manipulator. Preferably, the manual control lever is a joystick. The operating device also comprises an information display which is allocated to the manual control lever and comprises a plurality of independently controllable display segments. The operating device further comprises a control device which is configured to individually control the display segments of the information display.

Operating device for a manipulator

An operating device for controlling or programming a manipulator with six degrees of freedom that can be controlled independently from one another. The operating device includes three input arrangements which are each configured to specify a movement of the manipulator along an x-axis, y-axis or z-axis of the manipulator, and to specify a rotation of the manipulator about the x-axis, y-axis or z-axis of the manipulator. The three input arrangements are thereby respectively aligned along one of three main axes of the operating device.

Operating device for controlling or programming a manipulator

An optical imaging arrangement includes an optical element unit, and an actuator device connected to the optical element unit and is configured to be connected to a support structure for supporting the optical unit. The actuator device is configured to: actively adjust, in an adjustment state, a position and/or an orientation of the optical unit with respect to the support structure in N degrees of freedom; and support the optical element unit in a statically overdetermined manner in at least one of the N degrees of freedom via a plurality of active first and second actuator components such that, in a holding state following the adjustment state, the first and second actuator components cause a parasitic residual load introduced into the optical element unit in the at least one of the N degrees of freedom.

Optical imaging arrangement with a piezoelectric device

A positioning device for a robot includes an end effector, in particular a surgical end effector, which has a base and a flange to which the robot can be secured, wherein the flange is connected to the base by a kinematic system which has at least two joints. The flange can be adjusted from a first position relative to the base, in particular at least substantially on a circular path or straight line, to a second position by the kinematic system, the second position being spaced apart from the first position. An orientation means reorients the flange from a first orientation in the first position into a second orientation in the second position, the second orientation being rotated about a reference axis by at least 75 degrees, in particular relative to the first orientation, as a result of an adjustment from a first position into a second position.

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