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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 26, 2018
Filed:
Aug. 15, 2016
Olympus Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Mitsuaki Hasegawa, Tokyo, JP;
Toshihiro Yoshii, Tokyo, JP;
OLYMPUS CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
An initialization method for a manipulator includes: a reference angle maintaining step of setting a rotational angle of a joint part to a reference angle that has been predetermined, and maintaining the reference angle in a state where a driving force relay part is switched to a driving force release state; a drive part coupling step of switching the driving force relay part to a driving force relay state in a state where the joint part is arranged at a position where an initialization operation is performed after the reference angle maintaining step is performed; and an origin setting step of performing matching of a drive origin of a drive part according to a state of the rotational angle.