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8183815 Method and control device for automatically determining a mass of a door system  
A method is disclosed for automatically determining an effective mass of a door system that is driven by a motor and has at least one door. In this case a speed change accomplished during an...
8180487 Calibrated vision based robotic system  
A method of calibrating a vision based robotic system. The method includes engaging a calibration pin with a robotic tool and moving the calibration pin to a calibration block that includes at...
8179418 Robotic based health care system  
A robotic system that can be used to treat a patient. The robotic system includes a mobile robot that has a camera. The mobile robot is controlled by a remote station that has a monitor. A...
8155789 Device, method, program and recording medium for robot offline programming  
An offline programming device for preparing an operation program for making a robot with a hand perform a handling operation for an object with respect to a machine tool. The device includes a...
8148931 Multi-degree-of-freedom stage control system  
There are included a plurality of actuators, an instruction generator for generating instructions of plural degrees of freedom, a position arithmetic unit for calculating positions of plural...
8145347 Numerical control apparatus and numerical control method  
In a numerical control apparatus, a rotation-axis filtering processor subjects an angle change amount between interpolation points between rotation angles of a rotation axis to moving average...
8143833 Processing unit  
The invention relates to a processing unit of a measuring signal related to conditions of an object controlled by power electronics. The processing unit comprises an interface with digital...
8134324 Parallel mechanism  
A parallel mechanism includes a base portion, a bracket to which an end effecter is attached, a plurality of actuators attached to the base portion, a plurality of arms through which the plurality...
8120304 Method for improving motion times of a stage  
Methods and systems for, in one embodiment, accelerating a stage through a clearance height in a first direction and decelerating the stage in the first direction while accelerating in a second...
8115427 Methods, systems, and devices for a motor control system  
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling a motor are disclosed. A method may include determining a rotational direction of a motor from a pair of quadrature signals sent to a microprocessor....
8115439 System for moving mobile robots in accordance with predetermined algorithm  
A system for moving robots in accordance with a predetermined algorithm. The system includes: a surface having a position-coding pattern which identifies the surface; mobile robots for moving...
8108071 Method for coordinating cooperative robots  
A method for coordinating cooperative robots is provided. The method includes following steps. An abnormal event is detected by a sensor disposed in an environment or in a robot. The abnormal event...
8098030 Drive unit for a door or gate, particularly for a garage door, and method for operating such drive unit  
A drive unit for a door or a gate includes an electric motor, a detection unit for detecting the position of the door or gate, the detection unit being coupled to the motor and providing an...
8098038 Servomotor control system enabling high-speed oscillating motion to be highly precise  
A servomotor control system that includes a numerical control unit and servo control unit enables the use of learning control based on an angle synchronization method in high-speed oscillating...
8095239 Method and apparatus for controlling the motion of a robotic device  
A robot movement control device is connected to a communications network in a remote location relative to a robotic device that is also connected to the communications network. The robot movement...
8090474 Apparatus for controlling at least one machine  
An apparatus and a method for controlling at least one machine, such as an industrial robot, having drives, safety peripheral components and a controller for a machine, and also having a safety...
8082048 Position controlling device  
A structure is provided in which a thrust feed forward structure for operating a structure to be driven without vibration and a control structure which simultaneously compensates for positional...
8054029 Calibration method for servo  
A calibration method for servo is provided, wherein a motor of the servo is activated at a low-speed mode to drive a moved member of the servo moving to a first limit position and a second limit...
8032253 Automatic machine system and wireless communication method thereof  
In an automatic machine system comprising a mechanism unit (1) including at least one driving mechanism, a controller (2) for controlling a driving operation of the mechanism unit (1), and a...
8022655 Robot control system comprising a portable operating device with safety equipement  
A robot controller including a control unit and a portable device (TPU) for teaching and manually operating the robot. The TPU includes safety equipment, a safety TPU-part having a first...
8019037 Phase difference detection device and rotation position detection device  
A phase difference detection device able to detect a phase with a high precision is provided. A phase difference detection device 4 detecting a phase difference θ between an excitation signal Ss ...
8019460 Numerical controller of machine tool  
A numerical controller having a function-generating unit which executes function generation for shaft movement according to a machining program is provided, the numerical controller further...
8018194 Observation system and observation apparatus  
When application software running on a PC is in the state of being terminated, a switch unit is turned OFF with the control of a CPU and individual motors, and in this state, a light source is not...
8013549 Counter electro-motoric force based functional status detection of an electro-motor  
The present invention relates to a circuit for detecting a functional status of an electro-motor. Typical electro-motors need additional components to identify the functional status of the motor....
7949428 Robot apparatus and method of controlling the same  
A robot apparatus having a plurality of movable sections includes a motion control section that generates a control signal for the periodic motion of at least part of the movable sections according...
7944167 Method and apparatus for improving the position accuracy of a servo motor  
A method of operating a motor controlled by a closed loop servo control system is provided. The closed loop servo control system employs a digital filter, such as a PID filter, that employs one or...
7934571 Moving base for robotic vacuum cleaner  
A moving base for robotic vacuum cleaner includes a base; a motor mounted in a motor chamber on the base to alternatively drive a drive shaft thereof to rotate clockwise or counterclockwise; a...
7933667 Industrial robot system with a portable operator control device  
An industrial robot including a manipulator, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operating unit for teaching and manually operating the robot, which operating unit is adapted...
7915851 Numerical controller controlling acceleration and deceleration of respective control axes up to command speeds  
Initial speeds in the move commands for respective control axes at servo-on are determined according to parameter setting, or the comparative relationship or difference in speed among the actual...
7902785 Method and device for guiding the movement of a moveable machine element of a machine  
The invention relates to a method for guiding the displacement of a displaceable machine element (18) in a machine, comprising the following steps: a) specification of a guide target variable...
7893645 System and method for compartment control  
A system and method for controlling at least one movable stowage compartment is provided. The method includes sensing an input indicative of a desired movement of the stowage compartment and...
7888900 Apparatus and method for robot handling control  
A robot arm is provided with an end effecter for grasping an object and a force sensor for detecting a force acted upon the end effecter. In the state in which end effecter grasps an object, when...
7880420 Control system and method of massage machine  
A control system and method of massage machine for acting massage therapy on human body includes a common drive motor for driving multiple massage heads, multiple routine keys for setting motor...
7853357 Robot behavior control based on current and predictive internal, external condition and states with levels of activations  
In a robot device, an action selecting/control system includes a plurality of elementary action modules each of which outputs an action when selected. An activation level calculation unit...
7847502 Device and method for controlling machine tool  
A device for controlling a feed motion of a feed control axis and a rotary motion of a rotary control axis, both axes being provided in a machine tool so that the rotary control axis is fed along...
7847506 Machine tool controller  
In a machine tool controller (1): a position control unit (12) controls, based on an operational signal input from without during manual operation, a moving body's move-to point and moving speed; a...
7843152 Motor control apparatus  
A motor control apparatus comprises a control processing unit (3) creating a motor drive command, power supply processing units (2A to 2D) supplying a driving voltage to a motor, and a signal relay...
7834569 Type of stepper motor driver integrated circuit  
This invention discloses a type of stepper motor driver integrated circuit, comprising of a control logic circuit module and a connected stepper motor driver circuit module. The outputs, in groups...
7801645 Robotic vacuum cleaner with edge and object detection system  
A robot uses an infrared sensor including an infrared light source which produces pulses of infrared light. Optics focus reflections of the infrared light pulses from different portions of the...
7795833 Driving apparatus, exposure apparatus, and device manufacturing method  
A driving apparatus for moving an object. The apparatus includes a first actuator which drives the object in X and Y directions, a second actuator which drives a reaction force counter, which...
7787970 Position-measuring device and method for position measuring  
A position-measuring device having integrated function testing includes a position-recording unit, a processing unit, and a control-word generator. In a positional-data request, a positional-data...
7781991 Heat dissipation system and method  
A heat dissipation system used in an electronic device includes a plurality of fans positioned in the electronic device, a sensing module, and a processing module. The sensing module is configured...
7783387 Process for controlling industrial robots, and related robots, systems and computer programs  
A robot system (X-Z) includes a plurality of manipulators (1x-2x, 1y-2y, 1w-2w, 1z-2z) and a portable terminal (3), said terminal being able to connect to the manipulators in wireless mode. The...
7769489 Robot control device and robot system  
A robot control device that controls operation of a robot having an actuator includes a casing, an actuator driver, a drive-control board, a main control board, a main power supply board, a vent...
7769490 Robotic vacuum cleaner  
An autonomous robot, that is for example, suitable for operations such as vacuuming and surface cleaning includes a payload configured for vacuum cleaning, a drive system including a steering...
7764039 Numerical controller  
A numerical controller is capable of foreseeing the occurrence of interference during operation of a machine and securely preventing the interference. An advanced position calculating section...
7759893 Motor control apparatus and motor control method  
The motor control apparatus includes a memory that stores a correction data group for suppressing a fluctuation of an output of a motor, and a calculating unit that generates, by using a correction...
7755316 Moving member movement control apparatus, moving member movement control method and machine tool movement control apparatus  
A movement control apparatus for a moving member, includes: a drive unit that moves a moving member by rapid traverse on a first axis and a second axis intersecting the first axis, and overlaps the...
7756602 Vehicle entertainment and gaming system  
An entertainment system is for a vehicle and includes a vehicle environment sensor apparatus that captures data indicative of the vehicle's environment and that generates a vehicle environment data...
7739006 System and method for autonomous navigation in a ride vehicle  
There is provided an autonomous navigation system for use in conjunction with a ride vehicle. The autonomous navigation system includes an on-board sensor system for generating on-board sensor data...