Fanuc Corporation

Fujitsu Fanuc Limited

Shibuya Kogyo Co., Ltd.

Ryo Nihei

Nobutoshi Torii

Akihiro Terada

Tetsuaki Kato

Hajimu Inaba

Shinsuke Sakakibara

Kenichi Toyoda

Yasuo Naito

Yasuo Sasaki

Atsushi Watanabe

Toshihiko Inoue

Hitoshi Mizuno

Takeshi Okada

Tomoyuki Yamamoto

Hiroji Nishi

Satoshi Kinoshita

Takeaki Aramaki

Hiroshi Wakio

Kyozi Iwasaki

Mitsuhiro Yasumura

Takahiro Hase

Kazunori Ban

Seiichiro Nakashima

Hikaru Yamashiro

Shigemi Inagaki

Kazuhisa Otsuka

Takatoshi Iwayama

Takashi Iwamoto

Jun Kikuchi

Hideki Sugiyama

Hiroshi Takamatsu

Hidenori Kurebayashi

Kenji Yoneda

Atsuo Nagayama

Masatoshi Ito

Kazutaka Nakayama

Takashi Sato

Soichi Arita

Masahiro Morioka

Masayuki Hamura

Satoshi Adachi

Shouta Takizawa

Tatsuo Karakama

Tohru Mizuno

Yoshihiro Tanno

Tamotsu Sakai

Kokoro Hatanaka

Masanao Miyawaki

Toshinari Tamura

Jun Ibayashi

Seiichiro Nakajima

Hiroshi Uchida

Nobutoshi Toril

Tetsukai Kato

Tsutomu Miyagawa

Nobitoshi Torii

Takenobu Miura

Masao Kita

Yukinobu Fanuc Manhonharimomi Tsuchida

Masakazu Fanuc Dai3virakaramatsu Ichinose

Yasusuke Oshima

Takashi Room8-107 Fanuc Manshonharimomi Sato

Kokoro Room6-305 Fanuc Manshonharimomi Hatanaka

Jun Fanuc Dai3virakaramatsu Ibayashi

Takatoshi Fanuc Manshonharimomi Iwayama

Toshihiko Fanuc Manshonharimomi Inoue

A robot controller making a robot execute tasks including several work units in a parallel manner for several workpieces, in accordance with several operation programs for individually commanding the work units. The robot controller includes an information collecting section collecting state information showing, in real time, a state of an environment of the robot; a program selecting section selecting a first executable program satisfying a task starting condition, from operation programs ready to be executed for workpieces, based on the state information; a processing section processing, for execution, the first executable program; and a program-completion judging section judging whether the processing section has completed a processing of the first executable program. The program selecting section selects, based on the state information, a second executable program satisfying the task starting condition, from the operation programs ready to be executed, so as to satisfy a judgment of the program-completion judging section.

Device and method for controlling robot

A taught point correcting device for correcting a taught point in an operation program of a robot. The device includes a judging section judging whether position data of any of a plurality of different taught points, previously taught and included in an operation program, has been corrected or not; and a data correcting section correcting, when the judging section judges that position data of a first taught point among the different taught points has been corrected, position data of a correlative taught point having a relative positional relationship with the first taught point, in accordance with a taught-point rule previously prescribing the relative positional relationship between the different taught points. The device may also include a storing section storing the taught-point rule. The taught-point rule may include a rule prescribing a distance between any two taught points among the different taught points.

Device, program, recording medium and method for correcting taught point

A robot system including a robot arm driven by a servo motor; and a robot controller controlling an operation of the robot arm. The robot system further comprises a first detection section detecting a rotation amount of the servo motor; a second detection section attached to a tip portion of the robot arm, and detecting a velocity or acceleration of the tip portion of the robot arm; a computation section computing the velocity or acceleration of the tip portion of the robot arm based on values detected by the first detection section, and computing a deviation between this computed velocity or acceleration and the velocity or acceleration detected by the second detection section; and an emergency stop section for bringing the servo motor to an emergency stop when a magnitude of the deviation computed by the computation section is greater than a reference value.

Robot system

A production system in which a human and a robot may simultaneously perform a cooperative task in the same area while ensuring human's safety. A robot is positioned at one side of a working table, and an operator is positioned at the other side of the working table. The reachable area of the operator is limited by the working table. An area of the working table is divided into an area where only the operator may perform a task, an area where only the robot may perform a task, and an area where both the operator and the robot may enter. In a cooperation mode, the maximum movement speed of a component of the robot is limited lower than when the component of the robot is outside the cooperative task area, and, the motion of the robot is limited so that the robot does not enter a robot entry-prohibited area.

Production system having cooperating process area between human and robot

A robot includes a base member, which is installed at a position offset from the front of a door of a machine tool to the side, as viewed in a direction vertical to the surface where the door is provided and is fixed to a surface of a base slanted so as to face the door side. A rotary member is coupled to the base member so as to be rotatable about a first axis extending vertical to the slanted surface. A first arm member is coupled to the rotary member so as to be able to swivel about a second axis vertical to the first axis, and a second arm member is coupled to the first arm member so as to be able to swivel about a third axis parallel to the second axis.

Robot system using robot to load and unload workpiece into and from machine tool

A robot includes a traveling rail supported by struts, and a robot body attached to a slider that slides on the traveling rail. A robot controller includes a speed calculation device for calculating moving speeds of the robot hand portion on the coordinate axes of a rectangular coordinate system set for the robot controller; a comparator device for comparing the moving speeds on the coordinate axes calculated by the speed calculation device with threshold values on the coordinate axes of the rectangular coordinate system, respectively; and a halting device for halting the robot in case at least any one of the moving speeds is higher than the corresponding threshold value.

Robot controller for halting a robot based on the speed of a robot hand portion

A robot control unit () comprises: a setting means () for setting operating ranges of each shaft and a working tool of the robot (); a storage means () for storing an inertial running distance of the robot decided by at least one of the operating speed of the robot and the weight of the working tool; and an arriving range calculation means () for calculating an arriving range to which the robot arrives according to the operating range, which has been set by the setting means, and the inertial running distance stored by the storage means. Due to the foregoing, while consideration is being given to the inertial running distance of a robot, the arriving range of the robot is made. Further, a display means () for displaying the arriving range may be provided. In the case where each shaft of the robot and the working tool deviate from the operating range, a stopping means () for stopping the robot may be provided.

Robot operating range setting device

An industrial robot, having an end-effector supporting mechanism for holding an end-effector and accommodating an imaging device of a visual sensor, which is free from the interference with the periphery and capable of taking an image of the working position. A container-shaped adaptor of the end-effector supporting mechanism is attached to a distal end of a wrist flange provided in a robot wrist supported by a robot arm. The adaptor has a first attachment section provided with a first attachment surface to be attached to the wrist flange, and a second attachment section provided with a second attachment surface disposed generally parallel to a wrist flange surface at a position apart from the first attachment section by a predetermined distance along a rotary center axis of the wrist flange. On the second attachment surface, a tool holding member of the end-effector supporting mechanism for holding the working tool is attached.

Industrial robot

A cable laying structure for a robot, which does not interfere with external devices in a periphery of a forearm. Camera and hand control cables and motor control cables are drawn into a robot mechanism through a connection panel of a base of a robot main body. While allowing the motor control cables to sequentially diverge, the control cables are arranged in a robot arm along an upper arm portion and guided to the forearm. The control cables are introduced into the forearm with a shield and a sheath removed. After reaching an end effector-mounting face, the control cables are connected to a camera and a hand. The forearm is formed of conductive material and grounded on the base of the robot main body to have the same electric potential as the base by using an earth cable, and therefore the forearm is utilized in replacement of the shield.

Cable laying structure for robot

A gripping type hand including a plurality of finger mechanisms provided respectively with finger joints, actuators for driving the finger joints, and links supported by the finger joints and operating under driving force of the actuators. The gripping type hand includes an operation controlling section capable of respectively controlling the actuators of the plurality of finger mechanisms independently from each other; a position detecting section for respectively detecting operating positions of the finger joints of the plurality of finger mechanisms; and strain detecting sections provided respectively for the plurality of finger mechanisms and detecting strains generating in the links due to force applied to the finger mechanisms. The operation controlling section coordinately controls the actuators of the plurality of finger mechanisms to adjust gripping force generated by the plurality of finger mechanisms, based on the operating positions of the finger joints detected by the position detecting section and the strains of the links detected by the strain detecting sections.

Gripping type hand

A managing structure for an umbilical member of an industrial robot, the umbilical member being for supplying air and electric energy to a work tool attached to an end of a wrist of the robot, in which the umbilical member is properly moved and interference between the umbilical member and a peripheral object or a forearm of the robot is prevented. The umbilical member elastically contacts a guide surface of a guide plate attached to a second wrist element of the robot without widely projecting from the robot. The umbilical member is guided such that the extending direction of the umbilical member generally coincides with the longitudinal direction of the guide plate before the umbilical member is connected to the work tool. The thickness of the guide plate may be gradually reduced or constant toward a free end of the guide plate. The rotational motion about a third axis of the work tool by a final axis of the robot is converted to the rotational motion about a fourth axis via a transmission, so as to rotate the work tool. Even when the work tool is rotated, the umbilical member is properly moved. The work tool may also be rotated about the third axis.

Managing structure for umbilical member of industrial robot

A control device for controlling the motion of a movable part in a machine while suppressing vibration generated in the movable part. The control device includes a state-variable estimating section for estimating a state variable of a controlled system in the machine and outputting an estimated state variable; a reference model for outputting an ideal controlled variable for the controlled system; a compensator for calculating a compensation value for correcting a control input for the controlled system, based on a difference between the estimated state variable and the ideal controlled variable; and a feedback control section for determining the control input, based on a deviation between a desired command value and one of the estimated state variable and the ideal controlled variable. A corrected control input obtained by correcting the control input determined through the feedback control section by using the compensation value calculated through the compensator is input to the controlled system as well as to the state-variable estimating section and the reference model.

Vibration control device

A laser processing robot including a manipulator; a laser processing tool attached to the manipulator; an optical fiber for transmitting a laser beam to the laser processing tool; and a line passage formed inside the arm section to accommodate the optical fiber. The arm section includes a first member disposed fixedly about a first control axis and a second member supported on the first member rotatably about the first control axis. The line passage is formed continuously within the first and second members, an optical fiber inlet port thereof being provided in the first member and an optical fiber outlet port thereof being provided in the wrist portion. The laser processing tool includes an attachment section attached to the wrist portion rotatably about a second control axis perpendicular to the first control axis; a nozzle section extending from the attachment section and provided with a laser beam passage.

Laser processing robot system

A visual sensor main body is attached to a first attachment provided in a vicinity of a hand provided to a tip end of a robot arm to take an image of a workpiece to obtain a position and an attitude of the workpiece. Based on the detected position and attitude, the workpiece is grasped with the hand. The sensor main body is handed to the second attachment provided in the retreat position. Then, after mounting the grasped workpiece to a chuck of a working machine and machining the workpiece, the workpiece is taken out with the hand.

Robot with sensor

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