Fanuc Corporation

Shinsuke Sakamoto

Tomoyuki Terada

Masayuki Hamura

Tatsuya Oumi

Hirotsugu Kaihori

Kenji Aztuma

Teaching pendant for a robot

While jog feeding, if the robot can be moved safely without interference or collision with others, the data on jog feeding path is accumulated in an external memory device. And a safe region in which the robot can move without interference or collision can make from some accumulated paths in the robot axial space and stored. When start point and end point for the desired path are specified, one path, which links the start point and the end point and is composed of such safe regions, is found. Then the robot positions are taught as positions corresponding to the path.

Robot teaching method

Robot control apparatus and method eliminating any influence of motion

A robot position teaching system and method including a robot controller to control a robot, a visual sensor to measure a three-dimensional position, an image processing device to measure a position by processing and analyzing an image recognized by the visual sensor, and a position teaching unit provided with a grasping portion having a size which can be grasped by a hand of an operator, and an index which can visually be recognized by the visual sensor, and is disposed at a distal end of a rod-type body extending from the grasping portion. The operator turns on a moving switch of the position teaching unit such that the robot controller moves the robot toward a position of the index recognized by a camera. When an approach teaching switch of the position teaching unit is turned on after movement of the robot is stopped, data of a current position of the index recognized by the camera is stored as teaching position data. On the other hand, by turning on an arrival teaching switch, a current position of the robot is stored as the teaching position data.

Robot position teaching system and method

Off-line teaching method for a robot

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Yamanashi, Japan

Shinsuke Sakamoto