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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 14, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 27, 2021
Applicant:
Nec Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
NEC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/16 (2006.01); B25J 19/02 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
B25J 9/1661 (2013.01); B25J 9/1664 (2013.01); B25J 19/023 (2013.01);
Abstract
A control deviceX mainly includes an operation planning meansX and a determination meansX. The operation planning meansX determines an operation plan of a robot regarding a work of sorting plural items into plural sorting containers. The determination meansX determines whether or not the sorting containers are replenished. Then, the operation planning meansX updates the operation plan based on the arrangement of the sorting containers after the replenishment if the sorting containers is replenished.