Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha

Ryo Nakajima

Hideari Kamachi

Gentoku Fujii

Yoshito Otake

Tomohiro Sugimoto

Kenichi Ohno

Takeshi Nakamura

Masakatsu Kaneko

Koichi Matsumoto

Mitsugu Takahashi

Kaoru Shibata

Masaru Maruo

Takao Shibayama

Seiji Isotani

Shinji Sawada

Andrew Kent Hittle

Shinichiro Watanabe

Shinji Yonehana

Joseph Lawrence Beck

David Edward Schludecker

Derek Alan Davish

Hitoe Motoki

Junichi Kakuda

Junnosuke Sakai

Adam William Meyer

A system for use in testing the installation of an airbag module in a vehicle is provided. The system includes a jig and an instrument coupled to the jig. The instrument includes a contact assembly and a linear actuator coupled to the contact assembly such that, when the contact assembly is seated adjacent to the airbag module, the contact assembly is selectively moveable towards the airbag module relative to the jig via the linear actuator for testing the installation of the airbag module.

Systems and methods for use in testing the installation of an airbag module in a vehicle

Provided is a nut feeding system for feeding a nut smoothly and efficiently without the occurrence of nut clogging or the like. A posture alignment deviceof the nut feeding systemrepeats an advance and retreat motion of an insert pin. After the insert pinis inserted into a screw hole of the nut N, the nut N is raised and transferred from the posture alignment devicetowards a supply placing unit

Nut feeding system

An apparatus executes movement control that causes a robot arm equipped with a camera to move up to an object, thereby enabling a manipulator to move to an object quickly, accurately, and stably as a control system. Specifically, when the object is not detected, the apparatus executes teaching playback control to cause a manipulator to move along a path up to a target position set in advance based on a position of the object. When the object is detected, the apparatus defines a position closer to the object than the target position as a new target position, sets a new path up to the new target position, executes teaching playback control to cause the manipulator to move along the new path until a switching condition for switching the movement control is fulfilled. When the switching condition is fulfilled, the apparatus executes visual servo control.

Information processing method, apparatus, and computer readable medium

A working device and a working method wherein an articulated robot controls vertical movement of a balancer arm by commanding vertical movement for a balancer, and moves the balancer arm horizontally by applying an external force to the balancer arm in the horizontal direction by means of a robot arm.

Working device and working method

According to the present invention, even during and immediately before a machining operation by a machining apparatus, it is possible to improve positioning control accuracy thereof and, as a result, machining accuracy thereof. A robotequipped with a machining toolperforms a moving operation to a target positionof a machining target workpieceand a machining operation on the machining target. A robot moving mechanismmoves the robotin parallel with the workpiecethat is being conveyed by a conveyance carriage. A robot control devicecontrols movement of the robot moving mechanismusing a detection result of a synchronizing sensorand carries out positioning control of the robotusing the detection result of a visual sensoror a synchronizing sensor

Machining system and method

An apparatusfor coupling a first memberand a second memberby a clip and a screw is constituted by member moving meansL,R for moving the second memberrelative to the first member, reaction force detecting meansL,R provided to the member moving meansL,R for detecting a press reaction force generated when the second memberis matched to the first member, clip fitting determining meansL,R for determining whether the clip is correctly fitted to a clip hole by reading the reaction force detected by the reaction force detecting meansL,R, and screw fastening meansfor fastening the screw when acceptable information is provided by the clip fitting determining meansL,R.

Method and apparatus of integrating work

A temporary operation path is set by connecting a plurality of welding points in a virtual space generated by a computer to investigate whether an end effector can be operated along the temporary operation path. If the operation cannot be operated, a path to avoid interference with a workpiece is set automatically while extracting a portion in which the workpiece exists in the internal space surrounded by the end effector in order to set a narrow-area operation path for withdrawing the end effector from a welding point. Next, in order to set a wide-area operation path for making movement between withdrawing points, a template operation is applied, in which the end effector is moved by a prescribed distance in a prescribed direction.

Setting method and setting apparatus for operation path for articulated robot

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Tochigi, Japan

Ryo Nakajima