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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 08, 2020
Filed:
Feb. 13, 2015
Applicant:
Abb Schweiz Ag, Baden, CH;
Inventor:
Anders Lager, Västerås, SE;
Assignee:
ABB Schweiz AG, Baden, CH;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1676 (2013.01); G05B 2219/39135 (2013.01); G05B 2219/40497 (2013.01); G05B 2219/45063 (2013.01);
Abstract
A method for avoiding collisions between two robots providing first movement information related to a first robot movement; determining for a plurality of second robot movements whether they involve a risk for collision between the first and second robots; and executing one of the second robot movements. Information about a movement of one robot enables a robot controller of another robot with an overlapping work area to select among available robot movements an appropriate one that does not involve a risk for collision between the two robots.