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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...
6992458 Emergency stop circuit  
Two emergency stop lines are provided. Due to contacts being opened by commands from emergency stop factors and from first and second CPUs, conducting to first and second contactors are stopped....
6992456 Biped walking mobile system, its walk controller, and walk control method therefor  
The present invention provides a biped (two-footed) walking mobile system, its walk controller, and walk control method therefore, which are to realize enhancing an walk stability, as well as a...
6992457 Two-legged walding locomotion apparatus and its walking controller  
A walk controller ( 30 ) for a biped (two-footed) walking mobile system, which drive-controls each joint drive motor ( 15 L, 15 R– 20 L, 20 R) of each leg portion ( 13 L, 13 R) of a biped...
6989646 Multi-axis air/electrical control system  
A system for allowing a wide selection of components to affect a desired result in the positioning business. Up to nine axes of coordinated motion are offered each of which may use a servomotor, a...
6980919 Walking condition determining device and method  
A device and a method that permit easy and accurate determination of a walking condition regardless of differences in foot landing points on soles or lengths of legs of a walker are provided....
6978193 Positioning data calculating procedure, positioning data calculating apparatus and articulated manipulator  
A positioning data calculating procedure calculates analytically relative rotation angles for the links arranged in series to form an articulated manipulator to locate an object in a desired...
6975923 Autonomous vehicle guidance on or near airports  
A method for operating an autonomous vehicle at an airport comprises the steps of: receiving a set of general purpose navigation signals; receiving a supplementary set of navigation signals;...
6973372 Drive unit and method for using the drive unit to control a machine tool  
A drive unit for a machine, in particular a machine-tool, robot and the like, is described. The drive unit has several components, and each component has at least one associated component-specific...
6968592 Self-running vacuum cleaner  
A self-running vacuum cleaner comprises a homing mode of following a back of a user with receiving a signal from a light emitting means or a transmitting means of a position indicator means held by...
6967455 Robot audiovisual system  
A robot visuoauditory system that makes it possible to process data in real time to track vision and audition for an object, that can integrate visual and auditory information on an object to...
6965812 Speech interface for an automated endoscopic system  
A robotic system which controls the movement of a surgical instrument in response to voice commands from the user. The robotic system has a computer controlled arm that holds the surgical...
6963185 System for estimating attitude of leg type moving robot itself  
A system for estimating a posture angular velocity of a predetermined part, such as a body 3 , of a robot by using motion state amounts of the robot, including a desired motion of a desired gait,...
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....
6959231 Robot system  
A robot system includes a plurality of segments 3 , joints 4 for linking the segments together, drive units 5 for actuating the joints, and a controller 8 for controlling the drive units....
6954681 Board align image acquisition device with improved interface  
An electronics assembly system includes an image acquisition system that is coupled to a controller through an improved interface. The coupling facilitates advanced monitoring and control of the...
6954719 Work site dust control system  
A method and system for controlling work site dust conditions are provided. The method may include providing a mobile dust control machine configured to treat a dust condition within a work...
6950720 Preset controller of compensator in rotary press  
A preset controller which performs preset control, which allows, in the case of updating and correcting a print operational condition for a print pattern number, another print operation for a...
6944517 Substrate apparatus calibration and synchronization procedure  
A method for positioning substrates in a substrate processing apparatus having a substrate alignment device, a first substrate transport apparatus and a second substrate transport apparatus,...
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...
6941191 Robot intelligence in natural environments  
A method for automatic, decentralized coordination of the movement paths of mobile robots in order to prevent collisions and to detect and resolve mutual blockings. According to the method, a robot...
6941192 Robot machining tool position and orientation calibration  
A robot having a spindle is calibrated by disposing a calibration tool in the robot spindle. The position of the calibration tool is measured. An axis of the spindle is determined based on the...
6941224 Method and apparatus for recording voice and location information  
A recording apparatus for a navigation device allows a user to make a voice recording in association with a vehicle location. The current location of the vehicle is determined by a GPS sensor. The...
6934606 Automatic calibration of a wafer-handling robot  
In one embodiment, a wafer-handling robot in a wafer processing system is automatically calibrated by determining an orientation of the robot relative to a chassis of the wafer processing system,...
6934604 Robot apparatus, method of controlling robot apparatus, method of display, and medium  
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 the feeling model exceeds a...
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...
6934603 Multiblock robot system  
The advantage of flexible multi-axis robot systems and robot cell-unit systems being further extended by providing electric and electronic E-POOL networks, consisting of multiblock individual...
6930762 Master transport apparatus  
An exposure apparatus has a mask stage ( 9 ), a prealignment device ( 7 ) which prealigns a mask ( 1 ) to be transferred to the stage ( 9 ), and a manipulating mechanism ( 10 ) which transports a...
6931304 Scalable means of supplying power to a remotely controlled, semi-autonomous robot  
An automated library system having multiple storage cells for storing multiple data cartridges. Rails are provided adjacent to the storage cells to guide one or more robots among the storage cells....
6928336 System and architecture for providing a modular intelligent assist system  
An intelligent assist system having a modular architecture, coordinated by electronic communication links between the modules, is provided. Motion modules provide an assist upon actuation, and are...
6928337 Robot simulation apparatus  
A computer is connected to a system formed by combining a robot with a peripheral device (such as a welder). The computer receives robot mechanical unit motion position information supplied from a...
6925410 Selecting a target device in a device network  
A device network to process signals has target devices, selecting devices that are movable relative to the target devices, and controllers. The controllers are in communication with the target...
6925358 Toy robot and control system therefor  
A toy robot system includes a toy robot and a surface over which the robot can move. The surface is constructed from a number of modules of various types that may be joined together. Each module...
6922611 Automation equipment control system  
A automation equipment control system comprises a general purpose computer with a general purpose operating system in electronic communication with a real-time computer subsystem. The general...
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...
6920376 Mutually-immersive mobile telepresence system with user rotation and surrogate translation  
A system and method of mobile telepresencing includes providing a surrogate capable of viewing outward and of translational movement, displaying the views outward for a user and sensing rotation of...
6920371 Welding system and methodology providing multiplexed cell control interface  
The present invention provides a welding system and methodology to facilitate communications and control. The system includes a cell controller to control one or more welders over a control...
6920375 Optical arm for guiding a laser beam on a robot arm  
This optical arm applicable to robots is comprised of: some bent tubular parts ( 1, 6, 16, 18 ), a straight tubular length ( 21 ) and an outlet part ( 23 ), coupled together with the possibility of...
6918964 Mechanized anthropomorphic car wash apparatus  
An automated car wash system is provided comprising an anthropomorphic robot that serves to spray and clean cars prior to their entering into, or within, an automated car wash so as to remove...
6920373 Synchronization and task control of real-time internet based super-media  
A closed-loop control system that remotely controls a device over a distributed communications system includes a device that is connected to the distributed communications system and that generates...
6917855 Real-time target tracking of an unpredictable target amid unknown obstacles  
Embodiments provide a strategy for computing the motions of a mobile robot operating in an obstacle-laden environment without requiring prior knowledge of the distribution of obstacles in the...
6917854 Method for recognition determination and localization of at least one arbitrary object or space  
A method for recognition, determination and localization of at least one arbitrary object or space and the picking up of said object, by at least on robot, in particular, a service robot, which...
6917856 Robot  
It is constructed so as to detect a joint movement position of a robot arm by a position detector and a joint movement speed is calculated from change amounts of the joint movement position and...
6914622 Teleconferencing robot with swiveling video monitor  
This invention relates to an apparatus for the projection of a remote conferee's presence into a group meeting environment by using a combination of videoconferencing/teleconferencing and robotics...
6912449 Image processing apparatus, robot apparatus and image processing method  
Each of plural image processing means is informed of address information of storage means in which image data to be read is stored upon request of the image data to be read by each of the plural...
6909940 Method and apparatus for the exchange of batteries in a robot located in an automated library  
An apparatus and a method for the exchange of power-supplied batteries which are arranged in a media-conveying untethered robot which is located in an automated data-storage library.
6907318 Multi-station robotic welding assembly  
A multi-station robotic welding assembly includes a mounting platform, and a plurality of robots attached to the mounting platform and located in respective weld stations. Each of the robots...
6907317 Hub for a modular intelligent assist system  
An intelligent assist system having a modular architecture, coordinated by electronic communication links between the modules is provided. A multi-function hub for use in the assist system includes...
6904343 Method of controlling automatic guided vehicle system  
A method of controlling an Automatic Guided Vehicle (AGV) system having a plurality of AGVs includes setting a moving path with task times of all the AGVs taken into account, and controlling the...