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7391178 Robot controller and robot system  
A robot control apparatus with great safety is provided by detecting access of a teacher to a robot and automatically reducing the operating speed of the robot when the teacher accesses the robot....
7383100 Extensible task engine framework for humanoid robots  
An extensible task engine framework for humanoid robots. Robot instructions are stored as tasks and skills. Tasks are designed so that they can be executed by a variety of robots with differing...
7379789 Gait generating device of legged mobile robot and legged mobile robot controller  
A permissible range of a restriction object amount, which is a vertical component of a floor reaction force moment or a component of the floor reaction force moment in floor surface normal line...
7373219 Grip strength with tactile feedback for robotic surgery  
Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is...
7372230 Off-axis rotary joint  
An off-axis rotary joint ( 20 ) for selectively enabling communication of a signal (i.e., electrical and/or optical) between a housing ( 21 ) mounted for rotation about an axis (y-y) relative to a...
7353081 Method and a system for programming an industrial robot  
A method for programming an industrial robot. The robot is taught a path having waypoints located on or in the vicinity of an object. An image of the object is obtained. Information is obtained...
7348746 Abnormality detection system of mobile robot  
In an abnormality detection system of a mobile robot, it is configured such that it is self-diagnosed whether the quantity of state is an abnormal value, or whether at least one of the internal...
7337040 Self-position estimating device for leg type movable robots  
Based on a detected or estimated value of an actual posture of a predetermined part, such as a body 3 , of a robot 1 and a deviation the actual posture from a posture of a desired gait, a...
7328087 Bipedal robot with storage battery  
A bipedal robot of the present invention has a trunk consisting of an upper trunk and a lower trunk which are rotatable around a rotation axis relative to one another. The upper trunk has shoulders...
7319919 Control device and footstep determination device for legged mobile robot  
A landing position/orientation of a foot ( 22 ) to be landed in a landing action of a robot ( 1 ) such as a biped mobile robot or the like is estimated, and a desired footstep path for the robot (...
7313463 Biomimetic motion and balance controllers for use in prosthetics, orthotics and robotics  
Systems for controlling the motion of multiple articulated elements connected by one or more joints in an artificial appendage system. Four different embodiments includes a controller that reduces...
7308335 Gait generation device and control device for leg type movable robot  
When generating a gait for a legged mobile robot 1 which has floating periods in which all the legs 2 of the robot float in the air and landing periods in which any of the legs 2 is in...
7266424 Walking robot using simple ground reaction force sensors and a method of controlling the same  
A walking robot using simple ground reaction force sensors and a method of controlling the same. It is an aspect of the present invention to provide the walking robot and the method of controlling...
7254464 System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices  
Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of...
7248943 Method for judging communication state in a control system of linked joints  
Provided is a method in which a communication state between a main control unit and each sub control unit can be judged to be normal or abnormal, in a condition where a noise may be generated from...
7236852 Motion controlling apparatus and method and remote controlling apparatus and method for legged mobile robot  
A legged mobile robot itself is responsive to the result of error detection during robot operations to perform error avoiding processing autonomously. In detecting an error, requested commands are...
7228201 Information processing device, information processing method, and robot apparatus  
A robot device (1) has a central processing process (CPU) having a plurality of objects and adapted for carrying out control processing on the basis inter-object communication carried out between...
7209801 Method and a system for programming an industrial robot  
A method for programming an industrial robot having a tool. The method includes obtaining configuration data for the tool and for the robot path and information about the position and orientation...
7190144 System and method for adjusting a PID controller in a limited rotation motor system  
An adjustment system is disclosed for adjusting a proportional, integral, derivative controller in a limited rotation motor system. The adjustment system includes a first transform unit, a second...
7190141 Exoskeletal device for rehabilitation  
A modular exoskeletal device adapted to fit the lower extremities of a patient during rehabilitation. The device has only two actuators during the standing stage of rehabilitation. Two additional...
7162331 Power supply control device and method for mobile robot  
A charging/discharging circuit electrically controls the charge of a battery using supplied current and discharge of it. A micro-controller drives a robot according to instructions from a personal...
7161322 Robot with a manipulator arm  
A robot that includes an arm coupled to a platform. The arm includes an actuator that moves a second arm linkage relative to a first arm linkage. In a first mode of operation the actuator moves the...
7155314 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7155313 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7151983 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7148645 Moving body, legged mobile robot, and control program  
According to a legged mobile robot of the present invention, a variable measuring portion 101 measures the changing amount of a secondary desired angle θ T2 , namely, of the newest primary...
7146252 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20. The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7146251 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7146250 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7146249 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7145300 Multi-axis AC servo control system and method  
A multiple axis servo control implements a multi-tasking PWM control unit to provide PWM signals for multiple axes in a single unit. A time slice mechanism provides axis selection signals based on...
7142946 Robot apparatus  
A robot apparatus is provided. A CPU 15 determines an output of a feeling model based on signals supplied from a touch sensor 20 . The CPU 15 also deciphers whether or not an output value of...
7133744 Information processing apparatus and method, program storage medium, and program  
An input motion acquiring unit acquires a motion trajectory of an object from an image recognizing unit. A dynamic modelling processor models a plurality of robot motion patterns stored in a robot...
7117067 System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices  
Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of...
7113849 Ambulation control apparatus and ambulation control method of robot  
The stability of attitude of a robot can be recovered by an ambulation control apparatus and an ambulation control method according to the invention if it is lost in the course of a gesture for...
7095203 Numerical controller  
A numerical controller which, after once stopping a slave axis during superposing control, can easily resume the superposing control. In the superposing control, a motion amount for a master axis...
7089083 Electronic pet system, network system, robot, and storage medium  
A virtual electronic pet and a pet-type robot that changes emotional state and instinct state according to surrounding information and internal information. The electronic pet behaves according to...
7076338 Motion unit generating method for legged mobile robot  
A predetermined action sequence is generated by using basic motion units which include time-sequential motion of each joint and compound motion units in which basic motion units are combined....
7054715 System, method, and program for robot control  
System and method for allowing execution of control over robot hardware other than specific robot hardware by using control software that does not have features to be applied to the robot hardware...
7047107 Robot control apparatus  
There are provided a parameter storage part for storing monitor point information, a locus generation part for generating motions of the support, each joint point, and the like based on the...
7024277 Determination and control of activities of an emotional system  
A method and a sub-system, henceforth called method DKA, for the determination and control of the activities of an emotional system aS, belonging to the class of autonomous, motivated agents and...
7024250 Method and apparatus for the synchronous control of manipulations  
A method for the synchronous control of several manipulators, such as several industrial robots, is characterized in that control units of specific manipulators exchange control information...
7020542 Apparatus for measuring and fixing the three-dimensional location of medical instrument  
An apparatus for measuring and fixing the three-dimensional location of medical instrument that can be easily placed at a desired location by a user. In addition, a medical apparatus for measuring...
6995536 Low cost robot manipulator  
The present invention discloses a robotic manipulator, comprising at least one joint, each joint having a drive axis and at least one microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensor aligned...
6961640 Motion control for a legged robot  
A predetermined action sequence is generated by using basic motion units which include time-sequential motion of each joint and compound motion units in which basic motion units are combined....
6943520 Two-legs walking type moving device, method and device for controlling its walking  
Disclosed is a biped walking mobile system which achieves stability without altering a preestablished gait, and a walk controller and control method therefor. The biped walking mobile apparatus...
6934605 Palletizer system for selectively palletizing individual or pairs of objects moving along a conveyor  
A palletizer system is described for transferring a object that are conveyed along a conveyor to a rack, the object having a surface, the palletizer system comprising a camera, a robot transfer...
6922610 Robot having offset rotary joints  
A robot is obtained having various functions that are demanded for planetary landing vehicles, extreme operations robots or the like, in particular to provide a leg structure for a robot that is...
6922609 Floor shape estimation system of legged mobile robot  
A floor shape estimation system for a legged mobile robot, in particular a biped walking robot, which estimates a foot-to-foot floor inclination difference based on at least a control error of the...
6914402 Method for synchronized operation of machines having axes actuated by single drives  
In a method for operating machines ( 138 ) with a plurality of shafts ( 102, 110, 111 ), in which the shafts ( 102, 110, 111 ) are each driven, synchronized with one another, by individual drive...
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