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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 24, 2017
Filed:
May. 01, 2015
Kawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Kobe-shi, Hyogo, JP;
Kawasaki Robotics(usa), Inc., Wixom, MI (US);
Atsushi Nakaya, Akashi, JP;
Takao Yamaguchi, Freemont, CA (US);
Hajime Nakahara, San Jose, CA (US);
George Chin, San Leandro, CA (US);
KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, Kobe, JP;
KAWASAKI ROBOTICS (USA), INC., Wixom, MI (US);
Abstract
A method of teaching a robot includes: a swinging step of causing a hand to swing about a predetermined pivot, which is on an axis perpendicular to an optical axis of a sensor beam, to scan a target in a horizontal direction of the sensor beam; a determining step of determining whether or not the target has coincided with a position along a central axis of the hand in its longitudinal direction based on a detection signal of a mapping sensor, the detection signal having changed owing to the swinging of the hand; and a shifting step of, if it is determined in the determining step that the target has not coincided with the position, calculating an offset amount of the hand based on the detection signal of the mapping sensor, the detection signal having changed owing to the swinging of the hand, and causing the hand to shift to either right or left along the optical axis of the sensor beam in accordance with the calculated offset amount.