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Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2025

Filed:

Aug. 03, 2021
Applicant:

Fanuc Corporation, Yamanashi, JP;

Inventor:

Kyouhei Kokubo, Yamanashi, JP;

Assignee:

FANUC CORPORATION, Yamanashi, JP;

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1674 (2013.01); B25J 9/1697 (2013.01);
Abstract

A robot system including: a robot with one or more movable elements respectively rotatable about one or more rotation axes; a control device that controls the robot; and a visual sensor attached to any of the movable elements of the robot, where the control device uses any of the movable elements of the robot as a subject element, compares a position of a predetermined target in a first image at an arbitrary first orientation of the robot at which the target fixed at a predetermined position is disposed inside a field of view of the visual sensor, and the position of the predetermined target in a second image at a second orientation at which the subject element is rotated about a rotation axis of the subject element with respect to the first orientation, and determines that the visual sensor is attached to the subject element.


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