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5287433 Device for control of a robot manipulator for a metal sheet bending installation  
To perform a simple and rapid preparation of control program, the control device for a robot manipulator for a sheet metal bending installation is provided with a first key for inputting a command...
5214748 Robot teaching/playback system  
A robot teaching/playback system for controlling a robot which performs an operation on a work turned by a turntable and also controls the turntable, including a common controlling means for...
5198737 Programmable controller for industrial robots  
A programmable controller 1, capable of programming the whole operations of the factory cell 3 including a robot, is provided with a program input device 11 and comprises: a memory for storing the...
5172328 Food preparation system and method  
A fully automated robotized system and method is provided for cooking food products. The system and method is especially useful for use in a quick service or fast food restaurant and, in one...
5093607 Industrial robot system  
An industrial robot system comprises a control unit including programs for operating an industrial robot and a peripheral device of the industrial robot according to the programs; a memory for...
5046021 Robotic assembly and disassembly station for removably clamping a succession of workpieces to a succession of support pallets  
The station comprises a revolving table for receiving, positioning and clamping in an operating position a pallet of the type provided with adjustable anchoring elements for components of clamping...
5025390 Robotic workcell control system with a binary accelerator providing enhanced binary calculations  
A binary accelerator is provided for coprocessing operation with a microcontroller. A common memory is shared by the accelerator and the microcontroller for storage of binary equations and equation...
5020001 Robot controller  
A robot controller for having a workpiece held by a robot and having the workpiece machined by moving it relative to a stationary tool. The robot controller can control the velocity of relative...
5005394 Programming system for the single arm bending robot  
A device for controlling a manipulator for handling a workpiece processed by a press brake. The press brake is equipped with a side sensor for detecting the horizontal X-axis direction positions...
4998206 Automated method and apparatus for fabricating sheet metal parts and the like using multiple manufacturing stations  
A method and apparatus for fabricating sheet metal parts using workpiece manipulators to transfer a workpiece from one work station to another and position the workpiece for each operation to be...
4954762 Method and apparatus for controlling tracking path of working point of industrial robot  
A method and apparatus for controlling the tracking path of a working element so that the working element moves along a path having a predetermined positional relationship with a working object by...
4940925 Closed-loop navigation system for mobile robots  
A visual navigation system provides absolute position information to multiple automatically guided vehicles (AGVs) such as mobile robots. The beacon-equipped AGVs emit light visible to overhead...
4922435 Food preparation robot  
A fully automated robotized system and method is provided for cooking food products. The system and method is especially useful for use in a quick service or fast food restaurant and, in one...
4896274 Velocity proportional dac for use with a program controlled manipulator  
A machine and control are provided for effecting motion of a function element, such as an adhesive material dispensing gun, and controlling the operation of the function element by means of a...
4887014 Industrial robot control device  
An industrial robot control device for use in an automobile manufacturing line for instance. The device is capable of preventing incorrect or improper operations of the machines due to a voltage...
4836742 System for controlling a robot in association with a rotary table  
A system is provided for controling a robot operating in association with a rotary table, including a robot, a rotary table, and a control circuit. The control circuit carries out a step of...
4837734 Method and apparatus for master-slave manipulation supplemented by automatic control based on level of operator skill  
Remote manipulation method and system of the master-slave type in which an operation procedure plan is prepared for defining each of a sequence of pieces of work as being performed by manual...
4835730 Database driven robot programming system and method  
A robot assembly system which uses a set of related databases to separately describe (1) what task is to be performed by the system, (2) details about how to perform the task (e.g., specifying the...
4835450 Method and system for controlling robot for constructing products  
A 3-dimensional form of a sample product constituted by a plurality of parts having known forms is measured by imaging the sample product from a plurality of directions. Arrangement data...
4835711 Quickly reconfigurable robotic system  
A robot system having various work stations and control means which allows recognition of the identity, position and geometry of a plurality of the work stations and assures movement of a robot...
4831547 Multi-joint-robot controller for enabling detection of the spatial relationship between a robot and a rotary cable  
Synchronous operation of a multi-joint robot and a rotating table is facilitated by the provision of a multi-joint robot controller. The robot controller detects the position of an arm of the...
4807152 Metrological apparatus  
Metrological apparatus, particularly for measuring form, has a turntable 4 and a transducer 14 and associated stylus 12 mounted so that the tip 12a of the stylus is displaceable radially and...
4777608 Apparatus for starting playback action of teaching-playback robot  
An apparatus for starting a playback action of a teaching-playback robot, which is simple in construction and capable of handling works of various kinds or types, essentially including in...
4748571 Line-up vision system  
A line-up vision system for testing the alignment of a workpiece in a holder of an automated machining apparatus. A light source illuminates one portion of the workpiece and keeps another portion...
4729563 Robot-like game apparatus  
A robotic game apparatus comprises a CRT display. A robot has a photo detector which faces a screen of the CRT display and detects an image on the screen. On the screen of the CRT display, images...
4730258 Method of and apparatus for controlling automated devices  
A system for carrying out a cooperative control operation for a plurality of automated devices connected together in which the individual operations of the automated device can be controlled...
4727494 Computerized robot control system with scheduling feature  
In a robotic system for efficient serialization of processing a number of samples by a robotic manipulator through an identical sequence of processing steps with a plurality of the samples being...
4712183 Tracking robot apparatus  
A tracking robot apparatus has a robot for performing a predetermined operation, a movable device for moving an object of interest, a signal input device for designating operations of the robot and...
4700308 Method of fabricating sheet metal parts and the like  
A method and apparatus for fabricating sheet metal parts using workpiece manipulators to transfer a workpiece from one work station to another and position the workpiece for each operation to be...
4697979 Robot system safety method  
A safety method in a robot system including at least a robot (1), peripheral equipment (2-5) serviced by the robot, a robot control unit (6) which causes the robot to execute predetermined services...
4698766 Industrial processing and manufacturing systems  
An automated industrial processing or manufacturing installation including a series of computer controlled facilities such as machine tools, workpiece and tool conveyors, and storage devices is...
4698629 Method and apparatus for coordination among distributed subsystems  
A plurality of subsystems are connected in common to a single information transmission loop through associated subsystem controllers, coordinators and information transmission controllers...
4697239 Automated installation for processing large objects  
An automated mobile workshop composed of a workstation equipped with at least one tool for performing work, a transporter for moving the mobile workstation from one location to another, sensors for...
4692876 Automatic freight stacking system  
An automatic freight stacking system for loading previously determined freight articles of various configurations (shapes, size, material, etc.) to be shipped, using a loading scheduler for...
4689755 Self-configuring computerized robot control system with call-back feature  
Apparatus constructed such that it may control various other equipment for the performance of various work tasks, even other equipment yet to be designed for work tasks yet to be designed. The...
4664590 Transportable robot system  
The transportable robot system comprising a plurality of robot working areas, an unmanned transporter for transporting a robot mounted thereon and moving between the robot working areas and a...
4630225 System for detecting orientation of articles  
Data relating to the distances between each of all the feature points of the article to be checked and the other feature points thereof is stored in a memory in advance. The image of the article is...
4628464 Robotic system for mounting electrical components  
A robot including a vision system for providing information to the robot to permit the robot to accurately place electrical components such as integrated circuits on a circuit board is disclosed....
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...
4578562 Method and control system for controlling an industrial robot  
For controlling a work process carried out by means of a robot (RB), instructions are stored both relating to the positioning of the robot and relating to the very process to be accomplished. The...
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...
4549276 Industrial robot control method  
An industrial robot control method for use in a system having a machine tool (MAC), a numerical control device (NCU) for controlling the machine tool, an industrial robot (RBT), and a robot control...
4545106 Machine system using infrared telemetering  
Positional information about movable components in a machine system relative to the workpiece is wirelessly transmitted by infrared radiation to a remote receiver. The receiver is operative to...
4541062 Method of interlockingly controlling a robot and positioner  
A method of interlockingly controlling a robot and a positioner which includes operating manually or automatically a teaching roller along a weld line of a workpiece fixed to a rotatable...
4510684 Robot tool system  
A means for automatically replacing tool means on a robot arm comprising a novel automatically releasable tool means, comprising electrical control conduits communicating with said robot and, in...
4486843 Transitional command position modification for a controller  
A controller for a manipulator or robot having a plurality of power-driven, signal-controlled links interconnected to permit relative motion therebetween to define plural degrees of freedom. The...
4409650 Automatic position controlling apparatus  
An automatic positioning apparatus comprises a smoothing means. The smoothing means is adapted to connect smoothly a 3-dimensional path based on the preceding and succeeding four taught points...
4396987 Machine tool and robot control apparatus  
A machine tool and robot control apparatus, for use in a system having a machine tool, a numerical control device for controlling the machine tool, an industrial robot and a robot control device...
4348623 Numerical control system for controlling both a machine tool and a robot  
A numerical control system comprising a numerical control device, a machine tool for machining a workpiece under the control of the numerical control device, and a robot for executing various tasks...
4321679 Work setting system for manufacturing process  
A work setting system associated with a group of machine tools arranged in a production line for setting workpieces on pallets. The system includes a setting table section providing a location for...
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