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7580774 |
Characterization and classification of pose in low dimension
A BodyMap matrix for a pose includes elements representing Euclidean distances between markers on the object. The BodyMap matrix can be normalized and visualized using a grayscale or mesh image,...
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7428446 |
Dry powder dose filling systems and related methods
Systems for flowably dispensing dry powders include means for generating a first non-linear vibration input signal, the first non-linear input signal comprising a carrier frequency modulated by a...
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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...
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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...
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7181314 |
Industrial robot with controlled flexibility and simulated force for automated assembly
An industrial robot that has uses a simulated force vector to allow a work piece held by the robot end effector to be mated with a work piece whose location and orientation is not precisely known...
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7148644 |
Marking robot
A robot adapted to operate in association with an interface surface having disposed therein or thereon coded data indicative of a plurality of reference points of the interface surface, the robot...
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7136722 |
Method for generating a motion of a human type link system
A human-type link system, such as a humanoid robot having a dynamically feasible motion of the link system that is generated when a reference joint acceleration that is only calculated from a...
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7117067 |
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...
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7107124 |
Roll-pitch-roll wrist methods for minimally invasive robotic surgery
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...
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7104334 |
Deployable automatic foaming fire protection system
A deployable automatic foam fire suppressant system comprising a pump module having at least one pump coupled to a foam material source, the at least one pump comprising a pump suction component...
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7054715 |
System, method, and program for robot control
System and method for allowing execution of control over robot hardware other than specific robot hardware by using control software that does not have features to be applied to the robot hardware...
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7020537 |
Tuning electrodes used in a reactor for electrochemically processing a microelectronic workpiece
A facility for selecting and refining electrical parameters for processing a microelectronic workpiece in a processing chamber is described. The facility initially configures the electrical...
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6996456 |
Robot with tactile sensor device
Methods and apparatuses for calibrating and teaching a robot to accurately work within a work environment. The present invention preferably provides one or more tactile sensor devices that may be...
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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...
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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,...
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6772053 |
Aspects of a control system of a minimally invasive surgical apparatus
A surgical method and a control system is provided. The surgical method and the control system can advantageously be used in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus. The method includes generating...
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6701193 |
Method of adaptively controlling paint system
A method is provided of adaptively controlling a paint system for painting vehicle bodies. The method includes the steps of obtaining an estimated Jacobian that identifies characteristics of the...
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6690999 |
Manipulator control method
A method for controlling a hyper-redundant manipulator including a plurality of links coupled by joints by determining the shape the manipulator takes when the end of the manipulator is moved to a...
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6678581 |
Method of calibrating a wafer edge gripping end effector
A method of calibrating a wafer edge gripping end effector. A wafer calibration tool is held in a stationary position simulating the position of a semiconductor wafer to be picked up by the wafer...
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6651025 |
Method and device for determining a regularity
The invention relates to a device or method to determine the phenomenological regularity of the phase modulation of one or more cyclically fluctuating quantities, including the possibility to...
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6643564 |
Method of determining retreat permission position of carrier arm and teaching device thereof
A retreat permission position of a carrier arm when the carrier arm is moved back to retreat outside a mounting table after the carrier arm carries a substrate to a position above the mounting...
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6643563 |
Trajectory planning and motion control strategies for a planar three-degree-of-freedom robotic arm
A method for moving a substrate to a predetermined location with a specified orientation with a robotic manipulator, the robotic manipulator having a plurality of joint actuators and an...
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6618645 |
Method of using a specimen sensing end effector to determine angular orientation of a specimen
Robot arm ( 16 ) end effectors ( 10, 110, 210 ) of this invention rapidly and cleanly transfer semiconductor wafers ( 12 ) between a wafer cassette ( 14 ) and a processing station. The end...
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6597971 |
Device for avoiding interference
An interference avoiding device for determining occurrence of an interference in a robot operation in advance and automatically avoiding the interference, to be suitably applied to an automatic...
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6591165 |
Robot apparatus, body unit and coupling unit
A robot system having a plurality of component units. The robot system includes a first storage device, and a second storage device. The robot system further includes a plurality of control...
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6584378 |
Device and a method for determining coordinates and orientation
When determining coordinates of a point of an object ( 2 ) in a reference system of coordinates and the orientation of the object in the space in a measuring position assumed by the object, the...
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6522949 |
Robot controller
When a position deviation of teaching point of a robot manipulator is detected during continuous operation of a robot system, device for correcting the teaching point without stopping continuous...
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6490504 |
Feeding robot and control method therefor
A feeding robot which is capable of drawing a glass panel for a liquid crystal display from a cassette without bringing it into collision with the cassette, and then feeding the drawn glass panel...
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6470237 |
Robot having a body unit and plural component units connected thereto
A robot is provided which comprises a body unit, plural component units connected to the body unit, a memory mounted on the body unit for storing unit information of each of the component units and...
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6456901 |
Hybrid robot motion task level control system
A hybrid control system is provided for controlling the movement of a robot. The hybrid control system includes a singularity detector; a task level controller that receives a motion plan and...
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6442450 |
Robot device and motion control method
The robot apparatus of the present invention autonomously makes natural motions. The robot apparatus is provided with a control means 32, which has a feeling/instinct model that causes a motion...
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6438458 |
Substrate conveying system in semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
A substrate conveying system wherein, at a substrate transfer position of a conveyance robot, a robot arm is moved upwardly at a normal speed from its lowermost position, and wherein the movement...
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6427098 |
Method for controlling pivoting machine member
A method and apparatus for control of pivoting machine members propelled by linear actuators so as to permit coordinated motion of the pivoting members with translating machine members. Position...
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6415203 |
Toboy device and method for controlling the same
In the robot system and the control method thereof, the motion of the movable part of which one end has been connected freely in rotation in the direction of at least one axis or more will be...
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6393340 |
Robotic mechanisms with active and passive joints
Control of a robotic mechanism comprising both active and passive joints is accomplished, where the motion of one or more of the passive joints is constrained by one or more constraints imposed on...
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6385509 |
Tool actuation and force feedback on robot-assisted microsurgery system
An input control device with force sensors is configured to sense hand movements of a surgeon performing a robot-assisted microsurgery. The sensed hand movements actuate a mechanically decoupled...
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6366293 |
Method and apparatus for manipulating and displaying graphical objects in a computer display device
A graphical object in an object-oriented environment is comprised of a plurality of child graphical objects. The parent graphical object and each of the child graphical objects have a property...
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6356808 |
Method for cell alignment and identification and calibration of robot tool
A method for cell alignment, identification and calibration of part of a robot tool, preferably a part of the robot tool, is positioned close to a detector, whereupon it is moved repeatedly past...
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6321140 |
Robot device
A robot device having a plurality of component units connected together and controller detachably mounted on one of the component units for driving and controlling each the component units in a...
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6321137 |
Method for calibration of a robot inspection system
A system for calibrating a robot used for inspecting a workpiece to maintain the accuracy of the robot during inspection of workpieces on a production basis, the system including means for storing...
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6314339 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing an actual motion to perform a desired task by a performer
A method for optimizing an actual motion to perform a desired task by a performer wherein the performer has joints connected to body parts, the joints being actuated by muscle forces resulting in...
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6301526 |
Master device having force reflection function
A master device for generating motion instruction of the slave robot by sensing motion of the arm with fixed to the arm of the operator, and reflecting motion limit information by external force...
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6289263 |
Spherical mobile robot
A spherical robot having a spherical body and a drive mechanism. The spherical body defines a cavity and a center. The drive mechanism is disposed within the cavity, coupled to the spherical body,...
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6278907 |
Apparatus and method of distributing object handling
A modular object handling system has a multi-level control architecture, which includes a system controller that coordinates the functions and/or operations of individual module controllers, that...
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6278906 |
Uncalibrated dynamic mechanical system controller
An apparatus and method for enabling an uncalibrated, model independent controller for a mechanical system using a dynamic quasi-Newton algorithm which incorporates velocity components of any...
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6260282 |
Stage control with reduced synchronization error and settling time
A positioning system used, by way of example, for lithography, uses the position of the wafer stage as the trajectory command for the reticle fine stage control circuit. The reticle fine stage...
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6256555 |
Robot arm with specimen edge gripping end effector
Robot arm (16) end effectors (10, 110) of this invention rapidly and cleanly transfer between a wafer cassette (14) and a processing station semiconductor wafers (12) having diameters greater than...
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6243624 |
Non-Linear muscle-like compliant controller
A compliant controller implements a biological model of a primate muscle so as to provide simultaneous position and force control with nonlinear damping for an actuator. The compliant controller...
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6226566 |
Method of constrained cartesian control of robotic mechanisms with active and passive joints
The present invention is a method of controlling a robotic mechanism comprising both active and passive joints, where the motion of one or more of the passive joints is constrained by one or more...
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6216056 |
Method of controlling force assisting device and control apparatus using the same
With an operation handle arranged in the neighborhood of e.g. a microscope for operation as an appliance to be supported attached to the tip of plural arms rotatably coupled with one another, the...
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