Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd.

Masayuki Watanabe

Takayuki Yoshimura

Toshihiko Miyazaki

Hitoshi Kurohata

Hiroshi Yamaya

Masayuki Nishimura

Yukihisa Wada

Youichiro Baba

Hirofumi Hashimoto

Ayataka Kobayashi

Takahiro Tsubouchi

Junichi Kawabata

Tatsuo Yano

Kouji Ota

Joji Nakamura

Takashi Ohige

Yoshihumi Morimoto

Senji Kawai

Katsushi Kitaarashi

Takahisa Sudou

Takamitsu Furuyabu

Tadayuki Matsumoto

A vehicle bottom surface imaging system is equipped with a housing above which a vehicle can pass, first and second reflecting mirrors provided inside the housing and sequentially arranged along a passing direction of the vehicle, and first and second cameras provided inside the housing and arranged apart from each other in a vehicle width direction. The first reflecting mirror reflects the light incident from above the housing onto the first camera. The second reflecting mirror reflects the light incident from above the housing onto the second camera. The first reflecting mirror is so provided as to be changed over between a service state where the light incident from above the housing is reflected onto the first camera and a folded state where the reflected light from the second reflecting mirror onto the second camera is not blocked.

Vehicle bottom surface imaging system

A robot system includes a manufacturing system including a robot and peripheral equipment. There is a controller communicably connected to the robot, the peripheral equipment, and a portable information terminal. The controller includes a memory storing the operation program, operation mode setting circuitry to set an operation mode a teaching mode or a playback mode, operation controlling circuitry configured to control the operation of the robot in the teaching mode based on the operation command, and control the robot and the peripheral equipment in the playback mode in accordance with the operation program, and display controlling circuitry configured to control the portable information terminal in the teaching mode to display on a display an operation screen through which the operation command is inputted, and control the portable information terminal in the playback mode to display on the displaying part a screen different from the operation screen.

Robot system and method of controlling the same

A robot system includes an operating device that receives an operation instruction from an operator. The system further includes a real robot that is installed in a work space and performs a series of works constituted of a plurality of steps. The system further includes transmission type display device configured to allow the operator to visually recognize a real world and configured to display a virtual. The system further includes a control device configured to operate the virtual robot displayed on the transmission type display device based on instruction information input from the operating device. The control device is further configured to thereafter operate the real robot while maintaining a state that the virtual robot is displayed on the transmission type display device when operation execution information to execute an operation of the real robot is input from the operating device.

Robot system and method for operating same

A robot system includes an operating device that receives an operation instruction from an operator, a real robot that is installed in a work space and performs a series of works constituted of a plurality of steps, a camera configured to image the real robot, a display device configured to display video information of the real robot imaged by the camera and a virtual robot, and a control device, in which the control device is configured to operate the virtual robot displayed on the display device based on instruction information input from the operating device, and thereafter operate the real robot in a state that the virtual robot is displayed on the display device when operation execution information to execute an operation of the real robot is input from the operating device.

A robot system which includes a robot with a plurality of joints; a voice operation device to which a voice operation command is input by an operator; and a controller which controls an operation of the robot, the controller being configured to change the operation of the robot, in a case where the voice operation device detects a voice with a sound volume which is equal to or higher than a first predetermined sound volume which is preset, during the operation of the robot.

Robot system and operation method thereof

A direct teaching method of a robot includes specifying one of a plurality of robot arms as a master arm and specifying as a slave arm at least one of the robot arms which is other than the master arm; causing the slave arm to operate cooperatively with the master arm so that relative positions and postures of a wrist part of the master arm and a wrist part of the slave arm become a predetermined relation, while a teaching person is directly applying a force to an arbitrary location of the master arm including a tool, to move the master arm to a desired teaching position; and storing position information of at least one of the master arm and the slave arm at a time point when the master arm has reached the desired teaching position.

Direct teaching method of robot

By repeating for each control axis, that an axis angle of each control axis of an arm is detected during a direct teaching of a robot, a current position of a standard point defined on the arm or a tool is obtained based on the axis angle, a position instruction value that uses a position obtained by projecting the current position on a given movement route (moving direction) is generated as a target position, and each control axis is driven based on the position instruction value, until a deviation of an instruction angle corresponding to the position instruction value and the detected axis angle, or a deviation of the position instruction value and the current position of the standard point corresponding to the detected axis angle reaches a given value or below, the robot is taught, after the deviation becomes the given value or below, positional information on the arm.

Method of teaching robot and robotic arm control device

The present disclosure includes calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of first tool teaching points and the subsequent first tool teaching point, and calculating coordinates of a midpoint of one of a plurality of second tool teaching points that corresponds to the one first tool teaching point and the subsequent second tool teaching point, calculating an inter-midpoint distance between the midpoint of the first tool teaching points and the midpoint of the corresponding second tool teaching points, determining whether the inter-midpoint distance is within a given tolerance range, and reporting, when the inter-midpoint distance is out of the given tolerance range, the corresponding first tool teaching points and second tool teaching points as poor.

Method of verifying operating command, method of controlling machining device, recording medium recorded with operating-command verification program, and operating-command verification system

This method includes a step for the extraction of robot control program creation data from an animation program displaying an assembly sequence for the manufacturing of an assembled product with a plurality of parts, a step for the addition of predetermined robot control data to the robot control program creation data, and a step for the creation of a robot control program relating to the assembly operations of the assembled product using the robot control program creation data and the predetermined robot control data. A robot control program for manufacturing an assembled product with a plurality of parts can be easily generated.

Robot control program generation method and apparatus

The purpose is to enable an instructor who does not know any programming language to easily teach robot movements and operation content to a robot without using a teach pendant. This method for generating a robot operation program includes a step, using a GUI, for sequentially executing in a plurality of template element operation programs the feature of displaying a variable specification screen for specifying a variable of a certain template element operation program, and then storing the template element operation program for which the variable was specified in a storage unit as a custom element operation program. The plurality of template element operation programs is configured so that: one or more finger position coordinates specifying a robot motion required for the element operation corresponding to the program are included as variables; and the one or more finger position coordinates are all specified, thereby specifying the robot motion.

Robot motion program generating method and robot motion program generating apparatus

A controller is configured to operate a robot arm at a speed that is equal to or lower than a first maximum speed in a high-speed operation region, and operate the robot arm at a speed that is equal to or lower than a second maximum speed lower than the first maximum speed in a low-speed operation region, and change a collision detection sensitivity between the high-speed operation region and the low-speed operation region so that the collision detection sensitivity in the high-speed operation region becomes lower than the collision detection sensitivity in the low-speed operation region.

Robot system

An operation program creating method comprises performing, with a computer, a speed setting step that creates an operation program of a robot in such a manner that speeds at a plurality of teaching points are set, and in the speed setting step, the speed at a specified teaching point on the designed movement path is set based on a position change or a posture change in a plurality of teaching points including the specified teaching point, a teaching point which is upstream of the specified teaching point on the designed movement path, and/or a teaching point which is downstream of the specified teaching point on the designed movement path.

Operation program creating method and control method of robot

A vehicle has an electric storage unit having a plurality of electric storage elements and outputting energy for use in running of the vehicle, a blower placed closer to the exterior of a vehicle body relative to the electric storage unit and supplying the electric storage unit with air for adjusting the temperature of the electric storage element, and a pedestal supporting the blower. The pedestal has a bend portion allowing movement of the blower to a position off the electric storage unit through deformation in response to an external force.

Vehicle

A method for manufacturing an electronic device comprising the steps of: dry-etching a Ti-containing metal film formed on a substrate with a gas containing fluorine; and treating the substrate with a chemical solution containing fluorine ions after the dry etching step.

Method for manufacturing electronic device

Even if a stop position of a supplied workpiece is not accurate, in order which an online robot can accurately perform works such as welding and painting, through the use of an offline robot of the same type as the online robot, detecting three reference positions on a workpiece by a first optical three-dimensional position detection means and teaching can be performed. The first coordinate transform matrix A1 stores the coordinates of each of the positions for an operation on the workpiece as the taught contents, when it is assumed that the workpiece is at a first reference position. The online robot uses a second coordinate transform matrix A2 to calculate coordinates when it is assumed that the workpiece is at a second reference position of the online robot and stores these in a second memory, and the reference points of the workpiece which is supplied for processing are detected by a second optical three-dimensional position detection means and a third coordinate transform matrix A3 is used to determine each of the positions for operation on the supplied workpiece and the online robot reproduces them and performs the work. Even if the stop position of the supplied workpiece is not accurate, it is possible for operations to be accurately performed on the work.

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Kobe, Japan

Masayuki Watanabe