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4748555 Control unit for a moving body  
A control unit for a moving body such as an optical system of a copying machine includes detection means for detecting a moving status of the moving body and control means for controlling the...
4742285 Full follow-up type servo-system  
In a servo-system of a conventional numerical control (NC) device, a delay in response or deformation is always observed on an output side with respect to an inputted speed command or position...
4733150 Device and method for compensating the gravitational effect on an element, raisable and lowerable by an electric motor, of a machine tool or of a robot  
For use with overhead axes of a machine tool or the axes which ride astride one another of a robot, the gravitational effect can be eliminated for controlled drives if a control variable which...
4724370 Servo system for a disk drive  
A servo system intermittently samples servo sectors from a data disk to obtain the position of the read/write head and to maintain an on-track alignment. A glass scale measures the movement of the...
4714988 Feedforward feedback control having predictive disturbance compensation  
In a method and a system for process control comprising in combination a feed-back control in which a manipulated variable is determined in accordance with a deviation of a controlled variable with...
4710691 Process and apparatus for characterizing and controlling a synchronous motor in microstepper mode  
A process for characterizing the motion of a synchronous motor in microstep mode to achieve desired precise velocity motion at the final output. The motor velocity is directly proportional to the...
4707780 Method and apparatus for reducing track errors in computer controlled machine tools or industrial robots  
In a computer-controlled machine tool, an auxiliary filter is inserted into the reference value channel of the drive control circuit, which filter has a transfer function approximately the inverse...
4706000 Tool posture control system  
A tool posture control system according to the present invention rotates a tool vector v 1 indicative of a present tool position to a target tool vector v 1 through vector rotation, and generates...
4701686 Line tracking control method  
A line tracking control method of controlling a robot (51) to cooperate with a conveyor (50) in its movement determines a speed of movement of the conveyor (50) as a constant, determines a...
4698570 Boom positioning apparatus for rock drill  
A boom positioning apparatus for a rock drill, including a boom mounted with a drilling apparatus, an input device for determining, as set values expressed in a rectangular coordinate system,...
4684861 Interface unit between a numerical controller and an electric power control circuit  
An interface unit is connected beween a numerical controller (NC) and an electric power control circuit (PC). The interface unit includes an actual speed memory (50) into which the numerical...
4682004 Measuring arrangement having a capacitive measuring electrode and a working tool with integrated electrode  
In a measuring arrangement for measuring or regulating spacing on thermal working machines (for example, flame cutting installations), two capacitive electrodes are arranged at different spacings...
4680521 Stabilization aid for a vehicle-or vessel-borne search unit  
A stabilization aid for a vehicle- or vessel-borne search unit comprises two servomechanisms for stabilizing the observation part (3) of the search unit about two mutually perpendicular axes (S 1 ...
4670849 Position error correcting method and apparatus for industrial robot  
A position error correcting method and apparatus suitable for operating an industrial robot with high accuracy, in which, after the industrial robot disposed on a working site is moved according to...
4658193 Sensing arrangement  
A sensor arrangement for providing positional information about a component (1) to a robot (11) comprises sensors (4,5) sensing index marks (2,3) on the component. The sensing arrangement derives...
4651073 Positioning control device for an electric motor  
A rotational position, velocity and acceleration of an electrical motor are detected and an amount of overrun produced when the motor has stopped is estimated from the detected velocity and...
4642781 System for automatically calibrating a robot  
A system for automatically compensating for inaccuracies of a robot in all degrees of freedom. The system includes moving a measuring body held by the robot gripper in response to a command...
4638221 Reaction force compensator  
Reaction force compensation means 70 (FIG. 1) for countering the reaction torque of a heavy body, such as rotatable yoke assembly 20, when accelerated relative to flimsily supported body 21 about...
4638230 Bang-bang controlled velocity command generator  
In a disc information storage system which employs a servo data disc, a servo data head and a moveable carriage assembly for transporting a plurality of magnetic heads radially across the surface...
4633423 Coherent error suppression in digital tachometers and the like  
Synchronous or coherent error appearing as one or more FM sidebands in the high frequency pulse signal of an incremental position encoding digital tachometer or the like and in an error signal...
4629954 Closed loop control method for hydraulic apparatus  
A non-linear function f(A) of an effective value D' with respect to a desired value A regarding speed, pressure or the like of an actuator of a hydraulic apparatus in a closed loop control for the...
4628458 Method of detecting lift of tool based upon cumulative machining distance  
Life of a tool used in a machining center having various sorts of tools can be detected by steps that a tool selection code at every execution of NC program is detected and the current-use tool...
4622504 Speed correcting device for use in speed command system  
In a speed correcting device for use in a speed command system such as a numerical controller or a tracer controller in which a movable machine part is driven at a speed corresponding to a speed...
4620281 In-process cutting tool condition compensation and part inspection  
The condition of the cutting tool is monitored during a turning operation and the machine is adjusted to compensate for tool condition. The device is also used as an in-process part inspection...
4611156 Method and apparatus for determining the position or dimensions of a test object  
An improved apparatus and process for sensing a test object by means of a switching sensor which is movable relative to the test object, in which the relative position between the test object and...
4608645 Numerical control system for a machine tool with a tool dimension compensation function  
A numerical control system is provided wherein numerical controllers associated with machine tools are respectively coupled to auxiliary controllers communicating with a host computer. Each...
4606489 Process and apparatus for controlledly decelerating a mobile tool or workpiece  
For the controlled slowdown of a translatory or rotary machine part to arrest same in a predetermined stop position of an entrained load, the part being driven by an electric motor against a...
H000104 Digital resolver compensation technique  
The technique compensates the resolver's output digitally by means of a dtal processor and a predetermined resolver error characteristic. The technique uses a digitally compensated resolver which...
4603284 Control system for manipulator apparatus with resolved compliant motion control  
A control system for manipulator apparatus having a manipulator arm movable in a plurality of axes utilizes resolved compliant motion control to improve servo response characteristics. The position...
4595867 Steering amplifier  
Described herein is a steering amplifier for use in the steering systems of watercraft. Potentiometers are mounted within the helm unit and the feedback unit of the craft and these potentiometers...
4594670 Robot control apparatus  
An apparatus for controlling a robot having multi-articulation-type arms with a high accuracy. Work point data and work point instructions for the robot are stored in a main storage section, while...
4594537 Redundant control system for X-wing valve actuators  
The capability of compensating automatically for a failure in an actuator and the associated drive circuit is enhanced by providing a dual channel actuator, each channel having a drive coil and a...
4593237 Servo-system having an adjustment indicator  
An adjustable servo-system for controlling the operating condition of its servo-motor adjustably includes an indicator unit capable of indicating a new optimum operating time to be used. The...
4591772 Load positioning system with gravity compensation  
A load positioning system with gravity compensation has a servo-motor (12), position sensing feedback potentiometer (38) and velocity sensing tachometer (42) in a conventional closed-loop servo...
4591771 Numerical control system  
In order to permit manual operation under a condition where the axial direction of a tool and the direction of a hole to be machined in a workpiece are held in agreement, the tool of a radius γ is...
4590578 Off-line programmable robot  
Machine operations are performed by a robot at a plurality of locations on a workpiece based on off-line data. The off-line data is corrected based on two levels of workpiece/robot alignment. First...
4587883 High resolution control system for a pressure-responsive positioning device  
Two magnetic valves, one of which reduces the pressure and the other one of which increases the pressure by which the displacement of a positioning member is controlled, only one of them operated...
4587470 Multiplex control system  
A multiplex control system including a plurality of controllers, the main controller being arranged by hardware, while the subsidiary controller being accomplished by software. Each of the...
4587469 Electric servo system  
An electric servo system has an electrical drive and a controllable object driven by the electrical drive whereby an error between an actual amount of actuation of the controllable object and a...
4583159 Numerical controlled machine tool making intermediate measurements  
A numerical controlled machine tool apparatus capable of providing intermediate measurement (in process measurement) during the carrying out of a machining process on a workpiece. A spindle of the...
4583031 Device for compensating geometrical defects in the ring of a radial detector of the active magnetic suspension of a rotor  
For compensating the geometrical defects of the annular armature of a radial position detector slaving an active radial magnetic bearing, a reference rotor having a small diameter is co-axially...
4581566 System for automatically calibrating a robot  
A system for automatically calibrating a robot in all degrees of freedom in one point to compensate for inaccuracies in the different coordinate directions. The system includes moving a measuring...
4578627 Device for correcting the control or the display of the position of a cutting tool of a cutting machine  
With cutting machines, having their loading means (7) adapted to be lowered below the running surfaces (11) of the crawlers (2) of the drift advancing machine, there results an erroneous position...
4578748 Positioning control system  
A positioning control system wherein variations in the robot coasting distance are substantially eliminated by stopping the command pulse signals simultaneously with a generation of the origin...
4578763 Sampled data servo control system with deadband compensation  
The present invention provides a high response inexpensive microprocessor based control system. The system uses only one detector that detects only one motion characteristic of the object...
4575802 Robot/workpiece orientation  
A robot "touches off" on the orthagonal touchblock faces of a workpiece holding fixture and the coordinate of the touches along axes nominally normal to the faces provide significant data from...
4567417 Actuator  
The invention relates to an actuator and to its application to the position servocontrol for a master-slave remote manipulator. The actuator comprises a box or case in which are housed an electric...
4563735 Process controlling method and system involving separate determination of static and dynamic compensation components  
A method and system of process control comprising in combination a feed-back control in which a deviation of a controlled variable with reference to a target value is applied to a velocity type...
4562392 Stylus type touch probe system  
A non-cutting tool or stylus (32), mounted in a position where a tool normally resides on a turret (26) of a numerically controlled machining system, rubs against the workpiece (41) as it rotates....
4556834 Numerically controlled pattern cutting machine for glass panes  
A system for control of movement of a cross sled which follows movement in an X-Y coordinate system according to a stored program, and for extending or shortening the path of movement either in the...