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Yutaro Uchida

Makoto Takahashi

Wataru Watanabe

Ryo Kabutan

Keita Satsuma

Hiroshi Hashimoto

Masao Ojima

Kanji Takanishi

A simulation system includes circuitry configured to: determine placement of a robot with respect to another object in a virtual space, based on a placement constraint applied to the robot for executing a plurality of tasks; generate a path representing a trajectory of at least a portion of the robot or a tool operated by the robot during the tasks, based on a spatial relationship between the determined placement of the robot and the other object that satisfies the placement constraint; execute an operation program including the generated path in the virtual space in which the robot and the other object are placed; and check whether the robot interferes with the other object, based on the spatial relationship between the determined placement of the robot and the other object along the generated path in the virtual space, as a result of executing the tasks in the operation program.

Interference check for robot operation

A program generation system according to an example includes circuitry configured to: set multiple kinds of candidate postures of a robot in a connection area between a work path that is a trajectory of the robot in a task and an air-cut path that is a trajectory of the robot connecting tasks; evaluate an operation program including the work path and the air-cut path while changing a posture of the robot in the connection area among the multiple kinds of candidate postures; determine one of the multiple kinds of candidate postures as the posture of the robot in the connection area based on an evaluation result in the evaluating; and generate the operation program.

Determination of robot posture

A programming assistance device includes a program storage unit that stores a first program comprising a first set of time series jobs and stores a second program comprising a second set of time series jobs. Each job of the first program defines at least one operation of a first robot, and the first program is configured to be performed along a shared time line. Additionally, each job of the second program defines at least one operation of a second robot, and the second program is configured to be performed along the shared time line. The programming assistance device further includes circuitry that identifies a verification target time in the shared time line based, at least in part, on a user designation, and generates, based on the first program and the second program, a job image indicating at least one of the first set of time series jobs executed by the first robot and at least one job of the second set of time series jobs executed by the second robot at the verification target time designated in the shared time line.

Programming assistance for robots

A control systemincludes a first controller, and a second controller. The second controller includes a program storage module that stores two or more coordinate conversion programs, and a control processing modulethat acquires program designation information for designating one of two or more coordinate conversion programs from the first controller. Additionally, the control processing module may acquire a first operation command in the coordinate system for the first controller from the first controller, and convert the first operation command to an operation target value of two or more joint axes of a multi-axis robot using the coordinate conversion programs according to the program designation information. Driving power according to the operation target value may be output to the joint axes.

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Yutaro Uchida