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7606634 Control device for mobile body  
Ground contact portions 10 are classified into a tree structure such that each of the ground contact portions 10 of a mobile body 1 (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact...
7606633 Robot simulation device, and robot simulation program  
A robot simulation device is provided. It includes a virtual robot working environment in which a virtual robot has a task of transferring a virtual object from a start point to a goal point, the...
7603199 Control device for mobile body  
Ground contact portions are categorized in a tree structure manner such that all of the ground contact portions of a mobile body (mobile robot) equipped with three or more ground contact portions...
7577497 Industrial robot with portable emergency stop unit  
An industrial robot including a manipulator, a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operating unit for teaching and manually operating the robot, which operating unit is adapted...
7571027 Kinematic singular point compensation systems and methods  
Kinematic singular points in a process system are handled. In one embodiment, a numerically controlled (NC) processing system includes materials processing installation having a multi-axis...
7564209 Micro-manipulator  
A micro-manipulator has grippers for gripping micro-material; an actuator for driving the grippers; a drive amount detection device for detecting a drive amount of the actuator; a power control...
7561942 Apparatus and method of controlling mobile body  
An apparatus and method of controlling a mobile body that travels around a sound source which generates a sound. This apparatus includes a traveling information producer for producing traveling...
7558647 Device and method for controlling robot arm, robot and program based on object-dependent impedance  
In a robot arm controlling device, a mechanical impedance set value of the arm is set by an object property-concordant impedance setting device based on information of an object property database...
7529632 Driving force calculating device, driving force calculating method, power assisting device, driving force calculating program, and computer-readable storage medium  
A driving force calculating device ( 1 ) includes: a setting information acquiring section ( 23 ) which acquires (a) muscle specifying information that specifies a target muscle, which is a muscle...
7515990 Article control system, article control server, article control method  
The system includes a sensor for detecting a state of a space; a robot for executing a handling job for an article; an article identifying part for identifying, when an article is handled by a...
7493192 Gait producing device for leg type movable robot, and control device  
A desired trajectory of a vertical component of a translation floor reaction force of a legged mobile robot 1 , a vertical component of a total center-of-gravity acceleration or a body...
7469166 System and method of predicting novel motion in a serial chain system  
A method of predicting kinematic data for a segment. The method comprises the steps of determining a modified acceleration using at least original kinematic data, estimating a joint load for a...
7466099 Multi-mode manipulator arm and drive system  
The present invention relates to a manipulator arm and drive system that can be operated in multiple modes, including an on or off mode, referred to herein as a “rate mode” or a spatially...
7454268 Manipulator  
A manipulator comprises an operation command unit provided with an attitude adjusting unit and an end effector control unit, a connecting unit having one end connected to the operation command...
7451016 Industrial robot comprising a portable operating unit which a movable key device for identification of the robot  
An industrial robot system including a plurality of industrial robots. Each robot includes a manipulator, a control unit for automatically operating the manipulator, and a movable key device...
7440819 Animation system for a robot comprising a set of movable parts  
The object of the invention is to make the movable parts of a robot reproduce the movement of the movable parts of an animated object, via the transmission of movement parameters to the robot in a...
7437214 Robot device and method of controlling the same  
A legged mobile robot can calculate the movement amount between a portion of the robot apparatus that had been in contact with a floor up to now and a next portion of the robot apparatus in contact...
7430457 Robot teaching program editing apparatus based on voice input  
Candidate character strings representing objects disposed in a work cell, models for robot operation instructions which has variable parts, and robot commands related to the objects are defined in...
7415321 Robot controller  
Realized is a robot controller capable of handling a large amount of data of images and so on necessary for advanced intelligence of control while securing a real-time performance with a simple...
7409265 Leg-type moving robot and floor reaction force detection device thereof  
It is arranged such that displacement sensors ( 70 ) are installed at a position in or vicinity of elastic members ( 382 ), to generate outputs indicating a displacement of the floor contact end of...
7400939 Robot device, motion control device for robot device and motion control method  
A motion equation with a boundary condition regarding a future center-of-gravity horizontal trajectory of a robot is solved so that the moment around a horizontal axis at a point within a support...
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...
7366587 Legged mobile robot  
The characteristics of actuators themselves and the characteristics of controllers for the actuators are dynamically or statically controlled to achieve stable and highly efficient movements. In a...
7359766 Robot cleaner and operating method thereof  
A robot cleaner comprises a suction unit installed within a cleaner body, for sucking dirt on a floor; a driving unit for moving the cleaner body; a wheel installed at a bottom of the cleaner body...
7343223 Robot apparatus and load sensor  
A load sensor that is inoperable even when applied with a large load, has a simple structure easily designed to be lightweight and compact and can detect a load with a high accuracy, and a legged...
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...
7330777 Robot coordinated control method and system  
A reference signal is transmitted from one of a plurality of robot control devices connected by communication connecting device to the other robot control device. The timing of generation of an...
7330776 System, apparatus, and method for managing and controlling robot competitions  
A system and method for operating robots in a robot competition. One embodiment of the system may include operator interfaces, where each operator interface is operable to control movement of 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...
7324872 Robot apparatus  
An external force estimation system for estimating an external force acting upon a robot apparatus which includes a machine body which in turn includes a plurality of movable joints is disclosed...
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...
7313462 Integrated tool with automated calibration system and interchangeable wet processing components for processing microfeature workpieces  
An integrated tool and automatic calibration systems that enable wet chemical processing chambers, lift-rotate units and other hardware to be quickly interchanged without having to recalibrate the...
7310571 Method and apparatus for reducing environmental load generated from living behaviors in everyday life of a user  
An apparatus calculates, based on unimproved behavior amounts, behavior amount variations of living behaviors when each of living behaviors increases by one unit behavior amount, calculates...
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...
7295891 Method and device for controlling movements in the case of manipulators  
In a method for controlling the movement of a manipulator associated with an interpretation of a given point sequence of poses (positions and orientations) by splines, the motion components are...
7292913 Articulated robot  
In the articulated robot, types of teaching a moving track of the robot can be optionally selected. The articulated robot comprises: a switch for manually selecting a moving axis to move an arm...
7292912 Door knocker control system for a remote controlled teleconferencing robot  
A robot system that includes a robot and a remote station. The remote station may be a personal computer coupled to the robot through a broadband network. A user at the remote station may receive...
7289885 Dual purpose media drive providing control path to shared robotic device in automated data storage library  
A dual purpose media drive exchanges data with removable media items. The drive includes at least one port to receive various control signals, including (1) data exchange commands directing the...
7289884 Hand control system, method, program, hand, and robot  
According to the hand control system ( 2 ), the position and posture of a palm ( 10 ) are controlled such that the object reference point (P w ) and the hand reference point (P h ) come close to...
7289883 Apparatus and method for patient rounding with a remote controlled robot  
A method for remotely monitoring a patient. The method includes generating and transmitting input commands to the robot from a remote station. The remote station may include a personal computer...
7269480 Mobile robot  
A mobile robot which has a communication with a detection target by a motion of the mobile robot or by an utterance from the mobile robot, the mobile robot includes: a personal identification unit...
7269479 Article transporting robot  
An article transporting robot or an article transporting system includes a state recognizing means for recognizing the state of the article, a transportation method specifying means for specifying...
7260450 Apparatus and method for controlling elastic actuator  
An internal pressure of a hydropneumatic drive actuator is measured by a pressure measurement device, a displacement amount of a movable mechanism is measured, a desired value and a measurement...
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...
7245990 Industrial robot  
A robot control unit for controlling a robot mechanism unit constantly detects the status of a robot and stores it as robot status data. An operation command input by voice from a head set is...
7239940 Modularity system for computer assisted surgery  
A medical system that allows a medical device to be controlled by one of two input devices. The input devices may be consoles that contain handles and a screen. The medical devices may include...
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...
7233842 Method of determining axial alignment of the centroid of an edge gripping end effector and the center of a specimen gripped by it  
A method determines axial alignment between the centroid of an end effector and the effective center of a specimen held by the end effector. The method is implemented with use of an end effector...
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