Sintokogio, Ltd.

Tohoku University

University of Yamanashi

Miyuki Hayashi

Yoshikane Tanaami

Takahiro Kokawaji

Koji Ito

Yoshiaki Kanamori

Taiyu Okatani

Yoshiyuki Noda

Yukie Maeno

Akimasa Nakao

An interface apparatus for providing a user with a hang gliding experience in a virtual space includes: a control bar which the user is to grip; a tilt mechanism which supports the control bar from above such that the control bar is tiltable; a force sensor that is provided to the tilt mechanism and that detects a force and a moment which are applied from the user to the control bar; and an input and output section that provides a signal indicative of the force and the moment to a simulation apparatus configured to generate the virtual space and that acquires, from the simulation apparatus, a control signal for controlling the tilt mechanism so as to tilt the control bar.

Interface apparatus and hang gliding experience system

An improvement in reliability of manufacture of an assembly including a tap is achieved. A control section of a manufacturing system for manufacturing an assembly including a tap causes a robot to perform: a step of producing a first assembly by gripping a cap having an opening and engaging the cap with a collet having a recess such that the cap is placed on the collet; a step of producing a second assembly by gripping the first assembly and inserting the first assembly into a recess of a tap holder; and a step of producing a third assembly, which is an assembly including a tap, by gripping the tap and inserting the tap through the opening of the cap of the second assembly into the recess of the collet.

Manufacturing system and manufacturing method for manufacturing assembly including tap

In a measurement system, a processor sets, on the basis of three-dimensional data, a movement route to be taken by a hand part to cause a contact to follow the surface of an object to be measured in such a manner that a reaction force detected by a force sensor becomes a predetermined value. The processor causes the contact to follow the surface of the object to be measured while adjusting the reaction force to become a predetermined value, and acquires a path taken by the hand part having moved. The processor acquires the roughness of the surface of the object to be measured from the contact during a period in which the contact is caused to follow the surface. The processor measures the dimension of the object to be measured on the basis of the path and at least one of the movement route and the three-dimensional data.

Measurement system and checking method

Reduced is, when a user performs an input operation, restriction of an action of the user other than the operation. A garment includes: a contact sensor which has fibrous electric conductors and which detects an input operation performed by a user; a transmitting section that transmits information indicative of the input operation to a management device; and a notification section that executes notification according to an instruction from the management device.

Garment and notification system

A fusion welding device includes: a robot arm; a fusion welding hand attached to the robot arm and including a fusion welding head for fusing and joining together workpieces while being separated from the workpieces; a support provided to the fusion welding hand and abutting on the workpieces; a force sensor for detecting a force and a moment exerted, through the support, by the workpieces; and a control section configured to control motion of the robot arm in accordance with parameters calculated from a signal outputted from the force sensor.

Fusion welding device and fusion welding device control method

An interface apparatus includes: a plurality of force plates provided over a floor of a real space; and an output section that provides, with respect to a plurality of users, a simulation apparatus configured to generate a virtual space with an output signal from a force platethat has detected a foot pressure of a user and a signal indicating a position of the user on the floor and a posture of the user, the position and the posture each having been specified on the basis of a position of the force plate on the floor.

Interface apparatus and coexistence experience providing system

An aspect of the present invention provides a pickup system which makes, even in a case of transporting a load by using a single unmanned flying object, the unmanned flying object and the load less likely to tilt. A pickup system () includes: a holder () for holding a load (L); a measuring instrument () for measuring the position of the center of gravity of the holder () holding the load (L); and a controller () for moving, to a position immediately above the position of the center of gravity of the holder () holding the load (L), a connector () which is attached to the holder () in a movable manner and which is for connecting the holder () to a drone (D).

Pickup system and pickup method

A method for producing a force sensor is a method for producing a force sensor that includes a plate-shaped member (base material) and a strain gauge made of a conductor film, the method including: a first step (see (c)) of forming a conductor layer on one of main surfaces of the plate-shaped member (base material) via a dielectric layer; and a second step (see (d)) of processing the conductor film into the strain gauges by a semiconductor transfer production method.

Method for producing force sensor

An automatic application device includes: a robot arm; an application hand configured to apply, to a workpiece, a paint that is a liquid; a force sensor configured to detect a force and a moment acting on the application hand; and a control section configured to control the robot arm in accordance with a parameter calculated from an output signal from the force sensor.

Automatic application device and automatic application method

In order to reduce the chance that a metasurface pattern is damaged by electrostatic discharge, a force sensor module includes a first substrate having light transparency; a metasurface pattern provided on a first principal surface; a second substrate provided so as to face the first substrate and including a second principal surface facing the first principal surface; a reflective layer provided on the second principal surface; a spacer layer provided on the first principal surface and made of an electrically-conductive material; a joining layer for joining the second principal surface and the spacer layer together; and a grounding wire connected to the spacer layer.

Force sensor module

A robot includes a robot hand, a robot arm, a force sensor, and a control device. The control device performs admittance control to determine a position of the robot hand in accordance with a force detected by the force sensor, and provides, to the robot arm, an instruction to move the robot hand to the determined position. Further, the control device records, as teaching data, the instruction provided to the robot arm.

Robot and method of controlling the same

A force sensor is provided, the force sensor including: a first substrate; a metasurface pattern provided on a principal surface; a protective layer covering the metasurface pattern; a second substrate provided so as to face the first substrate; a reflective layer provided on a second principal surface; and a spacer defining a spacing between the first substrate and the second substrate, so that the force sensor is capable of offering desired response characteristics specified at the time of design.

Force sensor

Provided is an automatic polishing system that is capable of adjusting a degree of polishing in accordance with a condition of a surface of a body of a mobile object. The automatic polishing system includes: a multi-articulated robot; a polishing machine including a spindle that spins around an axis and a polishing tool that is fixed at an end of the spindle; a sensor which is provided between the multi-articulated robot and the polishing machine and which detects normal reaction (z-axis component F) that acts from a polish target surface to the polishing machine and moment (z-axis component M) that acts around the axis of the spindle; and a control unit which controls the multi-articulated robot based on the normal reaction (z-axis component F) and the moment (z-axis component M).

Automatic polishing system and automatic polishing device

Provided is a technique with which a batter who is practicing batting with a tee can acknowledge how the batter should change his/her hitting posture. An information processing device includes a processor that executes: (a) continuously measuring, according to either or both of output signals from a motion sensor and a force plate, a posture of a batter who is practicing batting with a tee; (b) determining, according to an output signal from a force sensor internally stored in the tee, a timing at which the batter hits a ball placed at the tee; (c) determining, as a hitting posture of the batter, a posture of the batter at the determined timing; and (d) outputting a message instructing the batter to change the batter's hitting posture, according to information indicating an exemplary hitting posture and information indicating the determined batter's hitting posture.

Information processing device, information processing method, and program

An operation system includes: a force sensor; and a stick body configured to transmit, to a strain element of the force sensor, force or moment which has been received; and a control section configured to detect a direction of the force or moment received by the stick body, on the basis of an output of the force sensor, and to generate an operation signal for an object to be operated in accordance with the direction detected.

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Nagoya, Japan

Miyuki Hayashi