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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...
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...
8121732 Target position detection apparatus for robot  
A target position detection apparatus for a robot includes: a robot including an arm configured to be freely moved in at least two directions of X and Y axes, the arm having a wrist axis provided...
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...
8103153 Reliable monitoring of the speed in coordinate measuring appliances  
In a method for reliably monitoring the speed of a moveable coordinate measuring device, a first value of the speed is calculated from measured values of the coordinate measurement system. The...
8099192 Method and apparatus for teaching a workpiece transfer robot  
A method is provided for teaching a transfer robot used in conjunction with a workpiece processing system including a pedestal assembly, a light sensor having an optical input fixedly coupled to...
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...
8068924 Coordinative control method for adjusting the back and knee bottom sections of an adjustable bed, and computer program for implementing same  
A coordinative control method for adjusting the back and knee bottom sections of an adjustable bed or the like, and a computer program for implementing the method, are provided. Specifically, 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...
8024070 Passive walking legged robot  
The present disclosure provides a fixed point stabilization device for a legged mobile body having a generating mechanism for generating a fixed point. The present disclosure also provides a fixed...
8024067 Working station  
Immediately before a robot 20 starts to move at a high speed, a monitoring area 53 is expanded in a returning direction Y, and absence of an obstacle in the monitoring area 53 is confirmed. During...
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...
8019145 Legged locomotion robot  
A robot capable of performing appropriate movement control while reducing arithmetic processing for recognizing the shape of a floor. The robot sets a predetermined landing position of steps of the...
8014897 System, apparatus, and method for managing and controlling robot competitions  
A system and method for operating robots in a robot competition. One embodiment of the system may include operator interfaces, where each operator interface is operable to control movement of a...
8010229 Method and apparatus for returning cleaning robot to charge station  
Provided are a method and apparatus for ensuring a cleaning robot to return to a charge station. The method includes the steps of: (a) measuring a battery usable time, a running speed, and an...
7977907 Driving system for mobile robot  
In a system for driving a mobile robot having a body, a plurality of legs each comprising a thigh link and a shank link, a first electric motor and a second motor for driving the thigh link in a...
7957837 Companion robot for personal interaction  
A mobile robot guest for interacting with a human resident performs a room-traversing search procedure prior to interacting with the resident, and may verbally query whether the resident being...
7915841 Method for using a control device in a safety-related environment  
There is described a method for using a mobile control device, with which a machine can be operated within an assigned effective range. To this end an effective range list is configured, which is...
7902784 Mobile robot with arm member  
A mobile robot along with a method and system for a mobile robot including an arm member capable of lifting significant loads.
7904207 Method of evaluating and correcting robot program and device for evaluating and correcting robot program  
There is provided a device for evaluating and correcting a robot operation program for evaluating an appropriateness for the robot operation program and correcting the robot operation program,...
7881823 Robotic positioning and orientation device and needle holder comprising one such device  
The invention relates to a robotic device for the positioning and orientation of a platform that is connected thereto by means of articulated support structures forming parallel mechanical links,...
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...
7818091 Process and device for determining the position and the orientation of an image reception means  
A process and a device are provided for determining the pose as the entirety of the position and the orientation of an image reception device. The process is characterized in that the pose of the...
7808198 Robust timed switching control with state measurement  
A mechanism for empirically deriving the values of the damping ratio and frequency of the mechanism driven by a servo-controlled control system is disclosed. In accordance with the illustrative...
7765038 Mission planning system for vehicles with varying levels of autonomy  
A system in accordance with the present invention tasks a team of autonomous unmanned vehicles. The system includes a first team member and a second team member. The first team member has a first...
7765030 Gait generator for mobile robot  
A gait generating system for a mobile robot determines a gait parameter that defines a gait of a mobile robot 1 to be generated by updating a value of a priority parameter of the gait parameter...
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...
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...
7747348 Method and apparatus for using rotational movement amount of mobile device and computer-readable recording medium for storing computer program  
Provided is a method of using a rotational movement amount of a mobile device including obtaining images at two different points on a path along which the mobile device moves, searching for...
7747352 Physical modeling system for constructing and controlling articulated forms with motorized joints  
A “construction set” consisting of active and passive parts connected by joints that can be manipulated to form an movable articulated assembly representing things like animals and skeletons. Eac...
7738996 Method for positioning a welding robot tool  
A method for joining together at least two sheets with a tool controlled by an industrial robot and including a first arm and a second arm that are mutually movable in relation to each other. An...
7729821 Method for mounting pattern in actual machine  
When dot-sequential data indicating a temporal variation in position, speed, or acceleration is stored in a memory in an automated guided vehicle as it is, the capacity of the memory is...
7715947 System for lapping ring and pinion gears  
A system for lapping gear sets with a ring gear and a pinion gear. The system includes a lapping machine tool and a robot. The lapping machine tool has a first spindle and a second spindle. The...
7710060 Method for managing systems provided with redundant actuators  
The invention relates to a method for managing systems provided with redundant actuators of the type comprising at least a first system operating according to a first set of variables,...
7706918 Article holding system, robot, and method of controlling robot  
An article holding system includes a recognizing device for recognizing the state of the holding object, a holding method specifying means for specifying the holding method according to the state...
7701161 Motor balanced active user interface assembly  
An active user interface assembly includes a user interface, and one or more feedback motors coupled to the user interface. The one or more feedback motors, when energized, supply a feedback force...
7684896 System and method of estimating joint loads using an approach of closed form dynamics  
A method for estimating joint load at a joint of a segment. The method comprises the steps of receiving kinematic data, determining a modified acceleration using at least the kinematic data,...
7673536 Industrial robot  
An industrial robot (10) comprising three power transmission units (21, 22, 23) arranged concentrically and three drive means for driving the three power transmission units, respectively, is...
7664570 Method and apparatus for limiting the movement of a robot, and a robot equipped with said apparatus  
The safety in robotic operations is enhanced and the floor space in a factory or the like is effectively utilized. A virtual safety barrier 50 including the trajectory of movement of a work or tool...
7650205 Process for controlling industrial robots, and related robots, systems and computer programs  
An industrial robot includes a manipulator (1) having a control unit (2) and a portable terminal (3), the unit and the terminal being able to communicate in wireless mode for executing a robot...
7643903 Method of assuming acting point of floor reaction force to biped walking mobile body and method of assuming joint moment of biped walking mobile body  
While a biped walking mobile body is in a motion, such as level-ground walking, the position of the center of gravity (G0) of the biped walking mobile body, the position of an ankle joint (12) of...
7643905 Robot program correcting apparatus  
A robot program correcting apparatus, which displays three-dimensional models of a robot and a workpiece simultaneously on the screen of a display apparatus, and corrects an operation program for...
7634327 Decoupled synchro-drive robot base  
The present invention provides a synchro-drive mobile robot base which allows a robot to accomplish a 360° endless rotation through a triple shaft mechanism, while a turret, a steering unit and a ...
7627396 Industrial robot  
There is provided an industrial robot which comprises a manipulator having a tool at the tip end, a robot control unit for controlling the manipulator, and a primary teaching device and subsidiary...
7620476 Autonomous surface cleaning robot for dry cleaning  
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis...
7615961 Control device for stepping motor  
A control device for a stepping motor of the present invention stores setting data for controlling a state of the stepping motor in a data storage unit for each of a plurality of basic control...
7610108 Method and apparatus for attenuating error in dynamic and steady-state processes for prediction, control, and optimization  
A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model (20) and an independent dynamic model (22)....
7606634 Control device for mobile body  
Ground contact portions 10 are classified into a tree structure such that each of the ground contact portions 10 of a mobile body 1 (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact...
7603234 Controller of legged mobile robot  
The occurrence of a slippage of a robot in operation, following a desired gait, is determined, and the permissible range of a restriction object amount, such as a floor reaction force horizontal...
7599771 Parking assisting apparatus  
It is an object of the present invention to provide a parking assisting apparatus for assisting a vehicle driver in parking a vehicle more easily than the conventional apparatuses. The parking...