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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 08, 2023
Filed:
Oct. 19, 2020
Fanuc Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;
Toshiyuki Ando, Yamanashi, JP;
FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi, JP;
Abstract
A controller for controlling an operation of a machine or a robot for handling an object by includes: a sensor signal acquisition unit that acquires a signal from a sensor that outputs three-dimensional point cloud data and a corresponding camera image of an imaging subject; a region acquisition unit that acquires a region having a height lower than a predetermined value; a non-object region setting unit that sets, as a non-object region, a region of the camera image corresponding to the acquired region; a complementary color setting unit that sets a color of the non-object region to a color complementary to a color of the object; an object position recognition unit that recognizes a position of the object relative to the imaging subject from the camera image; and an operation control unit that controls the operation of the machine or the robot using at least the recognized position.