Honda Motor Co., Ltd.

Yasutaka Ishizuka

Takeshi Arimitsu

Kotaro Muraoka

Masaichi Ohno

Satoshi Oikawa

Michiaki Ohkubo

Toshiki Iida

Yutaka Yoshida

Kazushi Ninomiya

Kasane Goda

Ayanori Nagata

Yuya Kaichi

A fastening apparatus assembles an assembly component to an assembled component by fastening a fastening member. The fastening apparatus includes: an imaging device that captures, in a state where the assembly component having a first fastening hole is mounted on an upper portion of the assembled component having a second fastening hole, an image of a region including at least the first fastening hole; and a control device that calculates a first position of the first fastening hole and a second position of the second fastening hole based on the captured image. The control device controls a robot to cause the fastening member to be moved to and inserted into the first fastening hole based on the first position and to move the assembly component in a state where the fastening member is inserted in the first fastening hole in a direction of the second position, and controls the robot to fasten the fastening member in response to detection of the fastening member being inserted into the second fastening hole.

Fastening apparatus and fastening method

A robot system and method for controlling a robot, wherein during learning, a detection unit detects, as waveform data for learning, the contact state when a socket is caused to contact a set position of the head of a bolt and is caused to rotate around the set position within a set movement range. A learning unit learns a plurality of detected sets of the waveform data for learning and writes the learning results to a determination unit. During practical operations, the determination unit recognizes the amount that the socket slips with respect to the bolt on the basis of actual waveform data indicating the change in the contact state when the socket is in contact with the head of the bolt and the written learning results.

Robot system and method for controlling robot

An abnormal noise determination apparatus including a microphone array disposed inside a vehicle and an electronic control unit including a microprocessor. The microprocessor is configured to perform acquiring an abnormal noise data on an abnormal noise generated by a sound source disposed in a predetermined position inside the vehicle, the abnormal noise data including an information on a strength and a generation direction of the abnormal noise collected by the microphone array in advance or assumed to be collected by the microphone array; acquiring a traveling noise data including an information on a strength and a generation direction of a traveling noise collected by the microphone array during traveling of the vehicle; and determining whether the abnormal noise is included in the traveling noise of the vehicle, based on the abnormal noise data acquired and the traveling noise data acquired.

Abnormal noise determination apparatus and method

While an insert shaft () disposed with a wide angle lens () at a top end thereof is being inserted into a hole to inspect a wall surface of the hole on the basis of an image photographed through the wide angle lens (), gas is injected into the innermost recess of the hole along the outer circumferential surface of the insert shaft () by a gas injection mechanism (). The gas injection mechanism () is provided with a guide () configured to surround a top end portion of the insert shaft () and form a gas injection passage (R) extending in the longitudinal direction of the insert shaft () between the inner circumferential surface of the guide () and the outer circumferential surface of the insert shaft (), and a gas supply unit () configured to supply gas to an inner space of the guide ().

Hole inspection method and hole inspection device

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Tochigi, Japan

Yasutaka Ishizuka