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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 10, 2013
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2012
Tetsuro Izumi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kenichi Koyanagi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kenji Matsukuma, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yukio Hashiguchi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Tetsuro Izumi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kenichi Koyanagi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kenji Matsukuma, Kitakyushu, JP;
Yukio Hashiguchi, Kitakyushu, JP;
Kabushiki Kaisha Yaskawa Denki, Kitakyushu-Shi, JP;
Abstract
A robot system according to embodiments includes a conveying device, a plurality of robots, an image capturing device, a workpiece detecting device, and a control device. The control device includes an operation instruction unit and an allocating unit. The operation instruction unit generates an operation instruction for performing a holding operation on workpieces on the basis of the detection result of the workpiece detecting device and transmits the operation instruction to the robots. The allocating unit determines which of the plurality of robots to which the operation instruction unit transmits the operation instruction on the basis of conveying situations of the workpieces obtained from the detection result of the workpiece detecting device.