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6903527 Servo controller  
A switch is turned on by a learning control start command from a master control unit, and the positional deviation at respective cycles is read in. Correction data read out from a learning memory...
6904334 Robot apparatus and method for controlling the operation thereof  
A robot apparatus which may be turned to a sound source direction by a spontaneous whole-body concerted operation. With the possible range of rotation of the neck unit of a robot apparatus 1 of...
6901624 Self-moving cleaner  
A self-moving cleaner has a main body and comprises an intake opening for suctioning dust, an electric blower for generating airflow to suction dust, a dust receiver for collecting the dust...
6901314 Alignment apparatus for substrates  
An alignment apparatus for substrates comprises a first movement mechanism moving a substrate to be treated in a horizontal direction, a second movement mechanism moving the substrate in a vertical...
6901313 Legged mobile robot and control method thereof, leg structure of legged mobile robot, and mobile leg unit for legged mobile robot  
A legged mobile robot controls the posture of the body thereof in a stable manner using a ZMP stability determination criterion with a relatively long sampling period. The legged mobile robot has a...
6898484 Robotic manufacturing and assembly with relative radio positioning using radio based location determination  
Global positioning system inputs are used in a manufacturing process where location of a work piece relative to a robotic manipulator is input into a control system. The manipulator is located and...
6898487 Specimen sensing and edge gripping end effector  
Robot arm end effectors rapidly transfer semiconductor wafers between a wafer cassette and a processing station. Preferred embodiments of the end effectors include proximal and distal rest pads,...
6898486 Position detecting device and takeout apparatus with position detecting device  
A position detecting device and a takeout apparatus capable of obtaining information on height or stage number of an object in a stack of objects by a two-dimensional image capturing device for an...
6898485 Device and method for controlling operation of legged robot, and robot device  
A robot to operate accurately while canceling an affect of pitch-axis, roll-axis, and yaw-axis moments, these moments being applied on the robot body during a leg-moving operation such as walking....
6897631 Legged robot  
A legged robot, wherein an electric motor 88 for driving a joint 10 R connecting a body and each leg 2 R is disposed on the leg side and is disposed with an offset from the rotation axis of the...
6895298 Multi-axis cutter diameter compensation for numeric control machine tools  
A method, computer software program, and automated tool for utilizing cutters in the automated tool to produce a part includes measuring a cutter to determine a second radius, the second radius...
6895306 Method and apparatus for controlling a tray changer incorporated in a robot control system  
A control circuit of a tray changer is interfaced with a control circuit of a robot. A tray changer control program, used for operating the tray changer, is loaded into the robot control system....
6895305 Robotic apparatus and wireless communication system  
A robotic apparatus and system adapted to communicate with a wireless sensor. The apparatus may be either physical or virtual in nature and is adapted to communicate physical movements with a...
6889120 Mutually-immersive mobile telepresence with gaze and eye contact preservation  
A method and system are provided for user and participant telepresencing including viewing a user from a plurality of views to obtain an image of a user, communicating the image of the user to a...
6889118 Hardware abstraction layer for a robot  
Methods and apparatus that provide a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for a robot are disclosed. A HAL can reside as a software layer or as a firmware layer residing between robot control software...
6885911 Track anomaly detection in an automated data storage library  
Track anomalies in an automated storage library are detected by transmitting a track health signal from one portion of the track. The presence of a track anomaly is determined based on any...
6882901 Ultra-precision robotic system  
A multiple degree-of-freedom ultra-precision (DOF) robotic system yielding either rigid body guidance or large deformation analysis (LDRS, i.e. semi-flexible and flexible robotics) is developed...
6879879 Telepresence system with automatic user-surrogate height matching  
A method and system for mutually-immersive telepresencing includes determining a height of a user and monitoring a height of an image of the user on an adjustable height surrogate. The method...
6879877 Method and apparatus for producing operation signals for a motion object, and program product for producing the operation signals  
A method and apparatus for providing a motion object with psychological and emotional expressions characterized by simplified processing and reduced control data associated with controlling a...
6879875 Low cost multisensor high precision positioning and data integrated method and system thereof  
The design of the low cost GPS/IMU positioning and data integrating method, which employs integrated global positioning system/inertial measurement unit enhanced with dual antenna GPS carrier phase...
6876903 Gait pattern generating device for legged mobile robot  
A gait generation system of a legged mobile robot, in particular a biped robot that has the dynamic model expressing the relationship between the motion of the body and leg and the floor reaction...
6871115 Method and apparatus for monitoring the operation of a wafer handling robot  
The integrity of control signals used to control a wafer handling robot is monitored by a monitor connected to various points of the robotic control system. The monitor includes a memory for...
6871116 Determining pallet case configurations for placement by a robot  
A method of determining pallet layers for placement by a material handling system robot can include identifying cases for inclusion in a pallet and identifying case dimension information for the...
6865446 Robot device and method of controlling robot device operation  
A robot apparatus is provided which includes body portions such as a head block ( 4 ), leg blocks ( 3 A to 3 D), an actuator ( 25 ) to actuate the body portions and a CPU ( 10 ) to supply a...
6865447 Robot capable of detecting an edge  
A robot which incorporates a body, and sensors that allow the robot to interact with objects in the room, and prevents the robot from traveling off an edge or bumping into obstacles. A driving...
6862497 Man-machine interface unit control method, robot apparatus, and its action control method  
There is proposed a method that may be universally used for controlling a man-machine interface unit. A learning sample is used in order at least to derive and/or initialize a target action (t) to...
6859996 Computer directed head stack assembly installation system  
The present invention provides a computer directed head stack assembly installation system with an installation software stored on recordable media directing the controlling a sequence of head...
6859682 Pet robot charging system  
Image data obtained by image-capturing by a pet robot is stored in a memory, and any of conditions whether the memory capacity is scarce, a captured image transfer instruction is made, or the...
6859683 Integrated robotic cell  
An integrated robotic cell having robot and series of sensors is able to process a component as desired by an operator using an interactive interface display. The integrated robotic cell includes a...
6859684 Method of controlling table angle of transport robot  
A table angle controlling method capable of effectively preventing an article placed on a table ( 20 ), from falling off by tilting the table so that the synthetic vector of horizontal acceleration...
6856862 Light curtain safety system for semiconductor device handler  
A light curtain safety system for a semiconductor device handler that includes a programmable control unit and a robot mechanism that is selectively operated in response to signals generated by the...
6853878 Robot controller  
A robot controller for teaching a robot with high efficiency. The robot controller including command storage unit ( 21 ) where a movement command and a work command are stored, command identifying...
6853877 Method and apparatus for mobile robot motion control  
A mobile base movable relative to a surface is disclosed. The base includes a main housing having at least two wheels pivotably and rotatably mounted to the housing with each wheel having a...
6853881 Robot information processing system  
A robot controller executes an operating program, calculates a position and posture of a robot, and sends the position and posture information to a personal computer (PC). At the PC side, on the...
6853964 System for encoding and manipulating models of objects  
A method models an object composed of one or more components. Data are input to a memory of a computer system for each component of the object. The data include Cartesian coordinates expressed in...
6853879 Medical manipulator and method of controlling the same  
A medical master/slave manipulator is excellent in operability and capable of reducing burden on the operator. The medical master/slave manipulator includes a master unit provided with an operation...
6853880 Autonomous action robot  
An autonomous action robot which can turn its line of sight to face a person who calls out, can recognize the face of a person, and can perform various actions in response to commands. First, a...
6850817 Surgical system  
A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers ( 72 R and 72 L) for control of right and left manipulators ( 24 R and 24 L) through use of a...
6850818 Robot apparatus and control method thereof  
A robot apparatus integrates individual recognition results received asynchronously and then passes the integrated information to a behavior module. Thus, handling of information in the behavior...
6847862 Conveyor system  
A conveying apparatus is provided with a control device for performing infinite rotation control of rotation of a strut or wrist shaft of a robot conveying an article and a drive shaft of a...
6845295 Method of controlling a robot through a singularity  
A method of controlling a robot ( 32 ) includes the steps of selecting an initial configuration from at least one of a first, second, and third sets to position a TCP at a starting point ( 44 )...
6845297 Method and system for remote control of mobile robot  
A system for tele-operating a robot in an environment includes a user interface for controlling the tele-operation of the robot, an imaging device associated with the robot for providing image...
6845296 Object taking out apparatus  
An object taking out apparatus capable of taking out randomly stacked objects with high reliability and low cost. An image of one of workpieces as objects of taking out at a reference position is...
6842246 Six degree of freedom position ranging  
An alignment system includes a first module having a plurality of emitters and a first receiver configuration located on the face of the first module. A second module has a second plurality of...
6842666 Robot system  
A robot system, in which various pieces of information are exchanged between a tool on a wrist of a robot and a control panel by wireless communication, includes plural storage cells for supplying...
6841963 Robot cleaner, system thereof and method for controlling same  
A robot cleaner, a system thereof, and a method for controlling the same. The robot cleaner system includes a robot cleaner that performs a cleaning operation while communicating wirelessly with an...
6839612 Microwrist system for surgical procedures  
A medical robotic system with a handle assembly that is used to control a medical instrument. The handle assembly and medical instrument have five degrees of freedom. Five degrees of freedom may...
6836701 Autonomous multi-platform robotic system  
An autonomous multi-platform robot system ( 100, 1100 ) for performing at least one functional task in an environment is provided. The system includes at least one navigator platform ( 110, 1110 )...
6836702 Method for fine tuning of a robot program  
A method for fine tuning of a robot program for a robot application comprising an industrial robot, a tool and a work object to be processed by the tool along a path comprising a number of desired...
6836700 System and method generating a trajectory for an end effector  
A method, program embodied on a computer readable medium, and various systems are provided for generating a process trajectory. A normalized image of an object is displayed on a display device of a...