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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 21, 2021
Filed:
Nov. 27, 2020
Festo SE & Co. KG, Esslingen, DE;
Klaus Rautenbach, Esslingen, DE;
FESTO SE & CO. KG, Esslingen, DE;
Abstract
Working system for an application of force onto a workpiece, with a pneumatic actuator having an actuator housing designed to be fixed to a manipulator and a moveable element designed to couple an end effector and movably received on the actuator housing, and with a controller having a valve arrangement for a compressed air supply to the pneumatic actuator, has a position sensor system for determining a spatial position of the pneumatic actuator and for providing position-dependent electrical position sensor signals, and a processing system for processing the position sensor signals and for providing control signals to the valve arrangement, the processing system being designed for controlling a pneumatic supply to the pneumatic actuator as a function of the position sensor signals.