Robot Control

Robot Control patent applications listed are from June 2005 to current and include Date, Patent Application Number, Patent Title, Patent Abstract summary and are linked to the corresponding patent application page.

12/14/06 - 20060282194 - Tape library storage bridge
A digital data storage unit, such as tape library, has a multiplicity of storage media slots, each storage media slot for receiving a storage media, such as a tape, one or more of data transfer drives, such as tape drives, for writing data to and reading data from the storage ...

12/07/06 - 20060276934 - Device and method for controlling robot
A robot controller making a robot execute tasks including several work units in a parallel manner for several workpieces, in accordance with several operation programs for individually commanding the work units. The robot controller includes an information collecting section collecting state information showing, in real time, a state of an ...

11/30/06 - 20060271240 - Device, program, recording medium and method for correcting taught point
A taught point correcting device for correcting a taught point in an operation program of a robot. The device includes a judging section judging whether position data of any of a plurality of different taught points, previously taught and included in an operation program, has been corrected or not; and ...

11/30/06 - 20060271239 - Controlling a robot using pose
Systems and methods are presented that enable robot commands to be determined based on the pose of an object. A method is described for determining the orientation and pose of an object using indistinguishable points. The resolution of the pose detection is based on the robot'command vocabulary. A system is ...

11/30/06 - 20060271238 - Network-based robot control system and robot velocity control method in the network-based robot control system
Provided are a network-based robot control system and a robot velocity control method in the network-based robot control system. A client calculates a robot control velocity according to its reception state of video data frames captured by a robot, generates a robot control message including the calculated robot control velocity, ...

11/23/06 - 20060265104 - 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 on the right and left sides. An arm is provided at each shoulder. A pair ...

11/23/06 - 20060265103 - Robot control apparatus
A robot control apparatus allows a plurality of mobile robots to carry out tasks at a reduced or minimized cost as a whole with consideration given to costs derived from an encounter with an obstacle is provided. An action optimization controller provided in the robot control apparatus generates an instruction ...

11/16/06 - 20060259196 - Substrate carrier handler that unloads substrate carriers directly from a moving conveyor
In a first aspect, a substrate loading station is served by a conveyor which continuously transports substrate carriers. A substrate carrier handler that is part of the substrate loading station operates to exchange substrate carriers with the conveyor while the conveyor is in motion. A carrier exchange procedure may include ...

11/16/06 - 20060259195 - Automated pharmacy admixture system (apas)
In a preferred embodiment, an automated Pharmacy Admixture System (APAS) may include a manipulator system to transport medical containers such as bags, vials, or syringes in a compounding chamber regulated to a pressure below atmospheric pressure. In a preferred implementation, the manipulator system is configured to grasp and convey syringes, ...

11/16/06 - 20060259194 - Virtual wall system
A virtual wall system includes a mobile robotic device having a steering unit for steering itself, a steering control unit connected with the steering unit for controlling the steering of the steering unit, at least one signal transmitter mounted thereon for emitting a signal, and a sonic receiver for receiving ...

11/16/06 - 20060259193 - Telerobotic system with a dual application screen presentation
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 both video and audio from a camera and a microphone of the robot, respectively. The ...

11/09/06 - 20060253224 - Self-guided cleaning robot, self-guided robot, and program product for performing method for controlling travel of self-guided robot
A self-guided robot for traveling with a predetermined traveling pattern includes a gyro sensor for detecting an angle indicative of a traveling direction from a reference position, a left rotary encoder and a right rotary encoder for detecting a traveling distance from the reference position, left and right driving wheels ...

11/09/06 - 20060253223 - Robotic trajectories using behavior superposition
A system and method for robotic trajectory planning are described. The robotic trajectory is comprised of a least-mean-square (LMS) approximation of previously learned behaviors and a radial basis function (RBF) correction to the LMS approximation. The RBF correction ensures that the trajectory follows a learned behavior when the trajectory target ...

11/09/06 - 20060253222 - Auxiliary communication interface system and method thereof
An auxiliary communication system and method, wherein system components can be electrically isolated, wherein a machine controller and a robot can communicate according to standard protocols, and wherein auxiliary equipment can be incorporated into the communication system, thereby alleviating the need for and the voltage limitations of auxiliary I/O boards. ...

11/02/06 - 20060247825 - Robot device, information processing method, and program
The present invention relates to a robot apparatus capable of notifying a user of the state of communication with an access point, an information processing method and a program therefor. A humanoid robot 5, which independently determines an action in accordance with an instruction from a user or a surrounding ...

10/26/06 - 20060241811 - Motion control systems and methods
A method in a robot of providing hardware abstraction for robot control software. A plurality of resource drivers for the robot includes resource drivers for which no corresponding hardware is present on the robot. Resources that are available on the robot are automatically detected based a hardware configuration detected for ...

10/26/06 - 20060241810 - High stiffness, high accuracy, parallel kinematic, three degree of freedom motion platform
A parallel kinematic machine (PKM) with three active kinematic chains and a leg has improved precision and stiffness maps by: providing drive and actuation of each active kinematic chain by devices secured rigidly to a support structure so that only a fixed length leg of the chain is suspended; driving ...

10/26/06 - 20060241809 - Systems and methods for controlling a legged robot using a two-phase disturbance response strategy
Systems and methods are presented that enable a legged robot to maintain its balance when subjected to an unexpected force. In the reflex phase, the robot withstands the immediate effect of the force by yielding to it. In one embodiment, during the reflex phase, the control system determines an instruction ...

10/26/06 - 20060241808 - Robotics visual and auditory system
Robotics visual and auditory system is provided which is made capable of accurately conducting the sound source localization of a target by associating a visual and an auditory information with respect to a target. It is provided with an audition module (20), a face module (30), a stereo module (37), ...

10/19/06 - 20060235570 - Wireless controllable cleaning robot and remote controlling system for controlling the same
Disclosed herein is a wireless controllable cleaning robot and remote controlling system for controlling the same, wherein a drive of the cleaning robot is controlled by means of various control signals which are transmitted from a lot of external apparatuses having various wireless communication functions. The cleaning robot includes a ...

10/12/06 - 20060229766 - Motion control apparatus for teaching robot position, robot-position teaching apparatus, motion control method for teaching robot position, robot-position teaching method, and motion control program for teaching robot-position
A motion control apparatus for teaching a robot position includes an operating unit that inputs an operating command to a robot on a camera coordinate system having, as a reference, an image capturing screen displayed on the monitor, a converting unit that generates a motion vector on the camera coordinate ...

10/12/06 - 20060229765 - Autonomous machine
An electric machine, such as an autonomous vacuum cleaner, is powered through a cable and includes a means or device for detecting the orientation of the cable with respect to the main body of the machine that may be in the form of a pivotable member such as pendulum, connected ...

10/05/06 - 20060224276 - Method for monitoring the position of a semiconductor processing robot
A robotic positioning system that cooperates with a sensing system to correct robot motion is provided. The sensing system is decoupled from the sensors used conventionally to control the robot's motion, thereby providing repeatable detection of the robot's true position. In one embodiment, the positioning system includes a robot, a ...

10/05/06 - 20060224275 - Device for an industrial robot
A device for restricting the working range around an axis of an industrial robot in the form of restriction of the maximum angle for rotation of the first part of the robot relative to a second part thereof, connected to the first part. The robot includes a fixed stop arranged ...

09/28/06 - 20060217840 - Automatic cleaning system
The automatic cleaning system according to the present invention comprises a radio wave generating device 70, a radio wave receiver antenna 61 for receiving a radio wave transmitted from the radio wave generating device 70, and a radio wave-strength measuring circuit 62 for measuring strength of the radio wave received ...

09/28/06 - 20060217839 - Object management apparatus, object management method and computer program product
An object management apparatus for managing an object which executes a process includes an execution conditions holding unit that holds the process and corresponding execution condition indicating a first status of the object as a prerequisite for executing the process; an execution instruction acquisition unit that acquires an execution instruction ...

09/28/06 - 20060217838 - Autonomous mobile robot
An autonomous mobile robot is provided which is autonomously movable, including an upper body, legs connected under the upper body, a first detector which detects an object in a front region of the upper body in a moving direction of the robot, and a second detector which detects an object ...

09/28/06 - 20060217837 - Robot device, movement method of robot device, and program
A robot device, which autonomously performs actions, includes a moving unit that moves the robot device, and a target position acquiring unit that acquires position information of a target. A movement method judging unit receives an instruction for a movement from a user, and judges whether or not a destination ...

09/21/06 - 20060212171 - Off-line teaching device
An off-line teaching device, for adjusting a vision sensor and carrying out set-up work off-line, which used to be done in the field, so as to reduce the operation time in the field. The off-line teaching device has a storing device for storing data including the shapes and the dimensions ...

09/21/06 - 20060212170 - Laser-welding teaching device and method
A laser welding teaching device, and a teaching method, for simplifying the teaching of the motion of a scanner and for reducing a welding operation time by a welding robot. The laser welding teaching device is connected to a robot control device for controlling the welding robot for welding a ...

09/21/06 - 20060212169 - Method for positioning a welding robot tool
A method for joining together at least two sheets with a tool controlled by an industrial robot and including a first arm and a second arm that are mutually movable in relation to each other. An actual position of the sheets is detected by bringing one of the arms to ...

09/21/06 - 20060212168 - Robot remote control system
An object of the invention is to provide a remote control system for robot in which a remotely controlled robot apparatus is capable of carrying out skillful movement and movement for removing a heavy load. A robot remote control apparatus 1 includes a remote instruction unit 4 for generating control ...

09/21/06 - 20060212167 - Enabling unit of teaching pendant
A teaching pendant enabling device includes first enabling signal circuit (C1), second enabling signal circuit (C2), first monitor circuit (C3) and second monitor circuit (C4) which are formed of contacts included in right and left deadman switches (1a and 1b) and those included in relays (R1 and R2.) The first ...

09/07/06 - 20060200274 - Hand and handling robot
A hand as an end effector. The hand includes a base, a hook element associated with the base and capable of hooking and lifting an object, a holding element associated with the base and cooperating with the hook element to hold the object therebetween, and a drive section causing a ...

09/07/06 - 20060200273 - Method and apparatus for controling the advance movement of a joining tool
In a method and an apparatus for controlling the advance movement of a joining tool, the joining tool fixed to the robot is moved from an initial position to a pre-position wherein the die of the joining tool is spaced from the workpieces to be joined for a certain distance. ...

09/07/06 - 20060200272 - Method of assuming acting point of floor reaction force to biped walking mobile body and method of assuming joint moment of biped walking mobile body
While a biped walking mobile body is in a motion, such as level-ground walking, the position of the center of gravity (G0) of the biped walking mobile body, the position of an ankle joint (12) of each leg (2), and the position of a metatarsophalangeal joint (13a) of a foot ...

08/31/06 - 20060195228 - Robot locus control method and apparatus and program of robot locus control method
A robot locus control method includes the steps of calculating the position and attitude of an end tool of a robot on the basis of a local-coordinate system set based on a fixing point out of the robot, and transforming the position and attitude of the end tool on the ...

08/31/06 - 20060195227 - Behavior control apparatus, behavior control method, and program
A behavior control apparatus to control behavior of a device capable of sensing a state of an environment and selecting an action on the basis of a sensing result is provided. The behavior control apparatus includes a predicting unit configured to learn the action and change in the state of ...

08/31/06 - 20060195226 - Mobile robot system and program for controlling the same
A living assistance system is provided with an information presentation device capable of directly displaying information relating to an article onto actual environment, a moving area generation unit (for generating a moving area of the robot, a grabbing feasible area generation unit for generating a grabbing feasible area of the ...

08/31/06 - 20060195225 - Living assistance system
In a robot operation terminal, a storage unit has a group-belonging article table that indicates articles belonging to each of groups. Upon receipt of operation information indicating an operation to be instructed to the robot through an input unit, when this operation information specifies a group as its operation subject, ...

08/31/06 - 20060195224 - Robot cleaner and method of control thereof
A robot vacuum cleaner that comprises a driving unit moving a body on a cleaning surface; a cleaning area detecting unit detecting an area of the cleaning surface; and a central processing unit calculating a spiral cleaning travel pattern corresponding to a shape of each cleaning area based on the ...

08/31/06 - 20060195223 - Method of estimating joint moment of two-legged walking mobile body
Displacements of respective joints corresponding to respective joint elements (J9 and the like) of a rigid link model (S1) representing a two-legged walking mobile body (1) are sequentially grasped. Also at the same time, values, in a body coordinate system (BC), of an acceleration vector of the origin of the ...

08/24/06 - 20060190136 - Method and system for controlling a manipulator
A method of planning a path for a multi-axis machine. The method includes specifying kinematic limits for each axis of the multi-axis machine, breaking the path into a sequence of linear moves, and deriving a jerk pulse array for each axis for each move. ...

08/24/06 - 20060190135 - Robot cleaner and method of control thereof
A robot vacuum cleaner has a driving unit moving a cleaner body on a cleaning surface; a distance detecting unit detecting a distance of travel by the driving unit; an obstacle detecting unit detecting an obstacle near the cleaner body; and a central processing unit moving the cleaner body to ...

08/24/06 - 20060190134 - Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second ...

08/24/06 - 20060190133 - Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet cleaning
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface and a second ...

08/24/06 - 20060190132 - Autonomous surface cleaning robot for dry cleaning
An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries cleaning elements arranged to suction loose particulates up from the cleaning surface. The cleaning elements include a jet port disposed ...

08/24/06 - 20060190131 - System and method for adaptive machine programming
A system, method and apparatus for resource reallocation based on ambient condition data is disclosed herein. The system includes a planning module (102) for configuring plan data to include a primary sequence and an auxiliary sequence, a rule table (116) for storing the auxiliary sequence, an ambient condition receiver (124) ...

08/17/06 - 20060184281 - Method of washing a contaminant from a surface via a robotic arm
The present invention pertains to a robotic wash cell including a six-axis robotic arm and end effector equipped with nozzles that spray unheated, solvent free, pure water at high-pressure to clean or debur objects by maintaining the nozzles in close proximity and substantially normal to each surface being cleaned or ...

08/17/06 - 20060184280 - System and method of synchronizing mechatronic devices
Embodiments include a system for controlling motion of a human limb. The system may include a plurality of mechatronic devices, each of which may be in communication with at least one other of the plurality of mechatronic devices. Each of the mechatronic devices includes one or more of a processor, ...

08/17/06 - 20060184279 - Article handling system and method and article management system and method
A sensing unit, such as a camera, or the like, senses the conditions of articles and mobile existences, including humans, in a life space, such as a house of a household, or the like. An article management/operation server manages, on an article database, attribute information of the articles, which include ...

08/17/06 - 20060184278 - Robot movement control method
A robot movement control method, in which a robot is moved along a smooth path (10, 11) determined based on a teaching path defined to pass a designated starting point (TP4), at least one intermediate point (TP5, TP6) and a terminal point (TP7), is disclosed. The smooth path is determined ...

08/17/06 - 20060184277 - Enhancements to mechanical robot
A mechanical robot can have a GPS receiver for localization, to enable it to navigate and/or perform location-specific functions. Also, the robot can be caused to ambulate in a location, taking pictures of guests and/or sounding an alarm if an unknown person is imaged by a camera on the robot. ...

08/17/06 - 20060184276 - 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 direction, or a vertical component of an angular momentum changing rate of the robot or a component ...

08/17/06 - 20060184275 - Robot simulation device, and robot simulation program
A robot simulation device, capable of simulating if a robot can transfer an object without any interference in a working space where obstacles are disposed. The device comprises of an input device, a display, a processing unit, computing programs and an output device of teaching programs. And the device further ...

08/17/06 - 20060184274 - Autonomously moving robot
An autonomously moving robot drives while evading an obstacle by recognizing the obstacle and self-location by an environment information acquisitioner. The information acquisitioner comprises an imager that takes an image of a circumference on a driving route, an image recognition processor that extracts an area having a property relating to ...

08/17/06 - 20060184273 - Robot device, behavior control method thereof, and program
In a robot device, an action selecting/control system (100) includes a plurality of elementary action modules each of which outputs an action when selected, an activation level calculation unit (120) to calculate an activation level AL of each elementary action on the basis of information from an internal-state manager (91) ...

08/17/06 - 20060184272 - 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 structure. For this purpose, there are provided a motion control means for performing a calculation process for achieving ...

08/10/06 - 20060178777 - Home network system and control method thereof
A home network system and a control method thereof. A user with a mobile station at a remote location can control a home robot and monitor security conditions and home appliance conditions at a house via a wireless network. In the home network system, the mobile station is adapted to ...

08/10/06 - 20060178776 - Systems and methods for the automated pre-treatment and processing of biological samples
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the present invention allow for the automatic control and scheduling of a staining apparatus for biological samples on slides present within the apparatus. In some embodiments, the actions of a robot coupled to the staining apparatus, which performs some of the staining ...

08/10/06 - 20060178775 - Accelerometer to monitor movement of a tool assembly attached to a robot end effector
An accelerometer is mounted on a robot to monitor movement of a tool assembly attached to the robot end effector for safety monitoring purposes. The accelerometer provides an output signal to the robot controller which the controller uses to monitor the robot movement and stop that movement when a predetermined ...

08/03/06 - 20060173578 - Controller of legged mobile robot
The occurrence of a slippage of a robot in operation, following a desired gait, is determined, and the permissible range of a restriction object amount, such as a floor reaction force horizontal component or a floor reaction force moment vertical component to be applied to the robot, is variably set ...

08/03/06 - 20060173577 - Robot control device, robot control method, and robot control program
The content of the voice designation of a designator is recognized by a voice recognition part 130 at the time of controlling a robot, and the content of the indication of gesture or the like is recognized by an image recognition part 120. A movement destination and a map around ...

07/27/06 - 20060167589 - 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 unit, a working unit connected to the other end of the connecting unit and provided with an end effector and ...

07/27/06 - 20060167588 - 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 information, which is information about traveling of the mobile body; a direction estimator for estimating a direction in which the mobile ...

07/27/06 - 20060167587 - Auto motion: robot guidance for manufacturing
A robot manufacturing facility, for example for use in automobile manufacture, includes at least one robot for acting on a workpiece or intermediate product of a pre-calculated shape and dimensions at a pre-calculated position and orientation relative to a reference frame. The robot includes a body or base structure, at ...

07/20/06 - 20060161302 - Robotic tool coupler rapid-connect bus
A tool changer comprising a master module and a tool module includes a rapid-connect communication bus between the master and tool modules. A unique tool identification number, along with other tool-related information, may be transmitted from the tool module to the master module within about 250 msec of the master ...

07/20/06 - 20060161301 - Processing method for playing multimedia content including motion control information in network-based robot system
Disclosed herein is a processing method for playing motion-including multimedia content using a network-based robot system. The method including the step at which the service server forms and stores motion-including multimedia content data packets by inserting synchronized robot terminal motion control data into a multimedia content file divided at packet ...

07/20/06 - 20060161300 - Interface for robot motion control
Systems and methods are presented that enable a higher-level software application to control a robot's motion through a generic motion interface. In one embodiment, a system includes a controller, an interface, and a set of robot driver modules. The interface receives a command from the controller and translates the command ...

07/20/06 - 20060161299 - Method and apparatus to correct static deflection in a handling robot
An apparatus and method of optimally correcting a static deflection caused by a weight of an end effector coupled to a robot arm or a load on the end effector when the end effector is activated to handle a large sheet of glass. A deflection angle of the end effector ...

07/06/06 - 20060149421 - Robot controller
A robot controller is disclosed in which a specific target position is predetermined in order to define approaching and leaving paths for a robot hand, and a plurality of different path patterns are stored in a path pattern storage means as the approaching and leaving paths along which the robot ...

07/06/06 - 20060149420 - Floor reaction force estimation method for two-legged walking mobile body
The direction of a component vector on a plane perpendicular to a predetermined axis (Y axis) of a floor reaction force acting on each landing leg (2) is determined in such a way that the direction of a moment generated around a center-of-gravity of a two-legged walking mobile body (1) ...

07/06/06 - 20060149419 - Movable robot without falling over
A movable robot includes a movement mechanism unit configured to perform driving for moving the movable robot; a body unit continuously connected to the movement mechanism unit in a movable manner in a planar direction between the movement mechanism unit and the body unit; and a shock absorber interposed between ...

07/06/06 - 20060149418 - Multi-purpose robotic operating system and method
A dynamically configurable robotic system and method for performing surgical operations using a plurality of robotic arms remotely controlled by at least one operator console. The system comprises a track system configured for mounting to a patient support table, such that the track system provides a stable operating platform for ...

07/06/06 - 20060149417 - Vision-aided system and method for guiding a vehicle
A method and system for guiding a vehicle comprises a location determining receiver for collecting location data for the vehicle. A vision module collects vision data for the vehicle. A location quality estimator estimates the location quality data for the location data during an evaluation time window. A vision module ...

06/29/06 - 20060142897 - Roll-pitch-roll wrist methods for minimally invasive robotic surgery
A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers (72R and 72L) for control of right and left manipulators (24R and 24L) through use of a servomechanism that includes computer (42). Cameras (46R and 46L) view workspace (30) from different angles for production of stereoscopic ...

06/29/06 - 20060142896 - System for carrying an item
The item-carrying system comprises: a robot comprising: a gripping portion for gripping an item and can open/close; external force detecting means for detecting an external force applied to the gripping portion; opening-degree detecting means for detecting an opening-degree of the gripping portion; and autonomous movement means; and receiving/passing motion deciding ...

06/22/06 - 20060136096 - Navigational control system for a robotic device
A navigational control system for altering movement activity of a robotic device operating in a defined working area, comprising a transmitting subsystem integrated in combination with the robotic device, for emitting a number of directed beams, each directed beam having a predetermined emission pattern, and a receiving subsystem functioning as ...

06/22/06 - 20060136095 - Automated pharmacy admixture system (apas)
An Automated Pharmacy Admixture System (APAS) may include a manipulator that transports medical containers such as bags, vials, or syringes about a substantially aseptic admixing chamber. In a preferred implementation, a gripper assembly is configured to substantially universally grasp and retain syringes, IV bags, and vials of varying shapes and ...

06/22/06 - 20060136094 - Robot controller and robot control method
An input unit enters angular displacements by which drive shafts of a robot arm are to be turned as teaching data into a control unit. The control unit converts the input angular displacements into position-attitude data, namely, converted commands, indicating a position of the free end of the robot arm ...

06/15/06 - 20060129278 - Legged mobile robot control system
In a legged mobile robot control system having leg actuators each driving the individual legs and arm actuators each driving the individual arms, an external force acting on the right arm is detected, operation of the right arm actuators is controlled to produces a handshake posture, and operation of the ...

06/15/06 - 20060129277 - Architecture of an embedded internet robot system controlled by brain waves
The present invention discloses an architecture of an embedded internet robot system controlled by brain waves, wherein the brain-computer interface and the internet robot system cooperate with the alertness level detection technology and the instruction translation technology, and thereby, the user can control a distal-end robot purely via consciousness activities ...

06/15/06 - 20060129276 - Autonomous mobile robot
Disclosed is a space-saving autonomous mobile robot capable of switching two types of light irradiation appropriately. The robot includes a moving mechanism, an autonomous movement controller for controlling the moving mechanism, a self-location recognition unit for sensing a self-location of the robot, a map data storage unit for storing a ...

06/15/06 - 20060129275 - Autonomous moving robot
The present invention aims to provide an autonomous moving robot capable of visibly showing the human an initial check result for a sound input means in the initial stage after the robot device is turned on and activated, and whether or not the input sound was normally recognized. The robot ...

06/08/06 - 20060122731 - Motion generation system of legged mobile robot
A model's ZMP (full-model's ZMP) is calculated using a dynamic model (inverse full-model) 100c2 that expresses a relationship between a robot movement and floor reaction, a ZMP-converted value of full model's corrected moment about a desired ZMP is calculated or determined based on a difference (full-model ZMP's error) between the ...

06/08/06 - 20060122730 - Wireless controller and a method for wireless control of a device mounted on a robot
A wireless controller for controlling and/or monitoring a device arranged mounted on or relative to an industrial robot. A wireless communicator including a processor arranged with software means handles wireless communication to and from the device. A control carries out at least one control function for one or more actuators ...

05/18/06 - 20060106493 - Camera referenced control in a minimally invasive surgical apparatus
Enhanced telepresence and telesurgery systems automatically update coordinate transformations so as to retain alignment between movement of an input device and movement of an end effector as displayed adjacent the input device. A processor maps a controller workspace with an end effector workspace, and effects movement of the end effector ...

05/18/06 - 20060106492 - Multi-axis robot provided with a control system
The robot comprises: a controller (C), including power modules (22) for supplying the motors (10) of the arm (A) of the robot (R), a CPU unit (26), for calculation and processing and connection means (52, B), between the arm (A), the power modules (22) and the CPU unit (26). The ...

05/11/06 - 20060100739 - Physical modeling system for constructing and controlling articulated forms with motorized joints
A “construction set” consisting of active and passive parts connected by joints that can be manipulated to form an movable articulated assembly representing things like animals and skeletons. Each active part includes a position sensor for acquiring and storing position data specifying a sequence of positions assumed by the active ...

05/04/06 - 20060095159 - Self structuring and computing system
A modular self structuring and computing system includes a matrix formed of a plurality of modules. Each module comprises up to six connecting assemblies that are detachably coupled to one another through pin and hole type connections to form a housing for a power source. Each connecting assembly includes a ...

05/04/06 - 20060095158 - Robot control system and robot control method thereof
A robot control system and a robot control method provide improved user convenience in operating the system. The robot control system includes a wireless IP sharing device, connected with the Internet, for transmitting and receiving an image signal and/or a control signal, a robot running by itself in accordance with ...

04/27/06 - 20060089750 - 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 drive to read and/or write data to a media item mounted by the drive, and (2) robotic device management commands. ...

04/13/06 - 20060079998 - Security robot
A security robot that boards a mobile unit to protect the mobile unit from theft is provided. The robot has an internal sensor such as an acceleration sensor installed at the robot and generating an output indicative of condition inside the robot, an external sensor such as CCD cameras installed ...

04/13/06 - 20060079997 - Systems and methods for dispersing and clustering a plurality of robotic devices
The present invention features methods for operating, such as methods for dispersing and clustering, robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive commands that describe a ...

04/06/06 - 20060074526 - Robot program generating device and robot program analyzing device
A work model (or an image) is displayed on an image plane of a robot simulator (201), and a measuring portion and a measuring method are designated (202, 203) and a work shape and a work loading state are designated (204), and then it is judged whether or not the ...

04/06/06 - 20060074525 - Network architecture for remote robot with interchangeable tools
Systems, methods and devices for the remote control of a robot which incorporates interchangeable tool heads. Although applicable to many different industries, the core structure of the system includes a robot with a tool head interface for mechanically, electrically and operatively interconnecting a plurality of interchangeable tool heads to perform ...

03/30/06 - 20060069463 - Trespass detecting system and method
A trespass detecting system includes a motion detector installed at a specific area, detecting motion and generating a motion detect signal, and transmitting the generated motion detect signal A mobile robot photographs the specific area based on the motion detect signal and transmits the photographing image signal. A network connector ...

03/23/06 - 20060064203 - Method for making mobile unit accompany objective person
A method for making a mobile unit accompany an objective person moves the mobile unit in correspondence with movement of the objective person and executes control so that the mobile unit moves along the walking direction of the objective person by detecting the foot landing of the objective person, detecting ...

03/23/06 - 20060064202 - Environment identification device, environment identification method, and robot device
An environment identifying apparatus (400) is adapted to be mounted in a robot apparatus that moves in an identifiable unique environment in which a plurality of landmarks are located so as to identify the current environment by means of a plurality of registered environments. The environment identifying apparatus comprises an ...

03/16/06 - 20060058920 - Control apparatus for movable robot
The control apparatus for a movable robot comprises: environment information acquisition means (such as video camera 3 and microphone 4); a current position detecting means (15); a map storage (7); a control parameter storage (9) for storing control parameters adjusted to different environments; and control means (11, 12) for determining ...

03/16/06 - 20060058919 - Medical examination and treatment apparatus
A medical examination and treatment apparatus includes a robot operable to control a tool, and an internal position-determination system to measure a position of the tool by determining a setting of adjusting elements of the robot. The apparatus further includes an external position-determination system to measure the position of the ...

03/09/06 - 20060052901 - Robot interference prevention control device
A robot interference prevention control device reads in advance a teaching program of each robot, calculates a scheduled stop position for each robot when issuing a stop command after n number of interpolation periods from the current interpolation period, and checks whether or not interference would occur at the scheduled ...

03/02/06 - 20060047364 - Self-propelled cleaner
Electronic components with which a monitoring unit is provided are an infrared CCD sensor and an output connector only, so that the monitoring unit is simple in construction. That is, the monitoring unit is designed such that it is not provided with a substrate or electronic component having complex wirings ...

03/02/06 - 20060047363 - Machine vision system for lab workcells
A robotic laboratory automation system includes a vision feedback apparatus with one or more teaching plates adapted for placement in a microplate or other specimen holder of a laboratory instrument or stack to represent the location of the microplate. The vision feedback system is adapted to control the robotic manipulator ...

03/02/06 - 20060047362 - Dialogue control device and method, and robot device
No robot that can make a dialog customized for the user is known to date. According to the invention, various pieces of information appendant to an object are stored as values of the corresponding items of the object and a topic that is related to the topic used in the ...

03/02/06 - 20060047361 - Article control system ,article control server, article control method
The system includes sensing means 120 for detecting a state of a space; a robot 102 for executing a handling job for an article; an article identifying part 32 for identifying, when an article is handled by a movable body, the article in response to a detection result obtained by ...

02/23/06 - 20060041332 - Robot apparatus and control method therefor, and robot character discriminating method
In a robot apparatus and a control method therefor, firstly, partial or whole state space of a behavioral model is expanded or reduced, secondly, transition to a predetermined node in the behavioral model is described as transition to a virtual node and a node group to be allotted to the ...

02/23/06 - 20060041331 - Method used by robot for simultaneous localization and map-building
A method used by a robot for simultaneous localization and map-building, including: initializing a pose of the robot and locations of landmarks; sampling a new pose of the robot during motion of the robot, and constructing chromosomes using the locations of the landmarks; observing the landmarks from a present location ...

02/02/06 - 20060025889 - Travel time display device and method for industrial robot
There is provided a travel time display device for an industrial robot which can display travel time on the screen such that time taken for moving a work from any designated starting point to any other point can be seen at a glance. The travel time display device includes: a ...

02/02/06 - 20060025888 - Environment map building method, environment map building apparatus and mobile robot apparatus
An environment map building method and an environment map building apparatus can express the surrounding embodiment with a high resolution in the height direction in a manner robust relative to observation noises. The present invention provides an environment map building apparatus for building a three-dimensional environment map to be used ...

02/02/06 - 20060025887 - Apparatus and method for calling mobile robot
An apparatus for calling a mobile robot includes a generator installed at a remote controller, and generating an RF signal and infrared signal for calling a mobile robot when a call signal is inputted by a user; and a controller installed at the mobile robot, calculating a direction of the ...

01/26/06 - 20060020370 - System and method for confining a robot
A robot is confined to a bounded area by placement of a retroreflective marker, defining a boundary, and a detector on the robot. The detector sends a signal, that if reflected off of the marker, toward the robot, and detected by a receiver, will signal the control system of the ...

01/26/06 - 20060020369 - Robot vacuum cleaner
The invention covers a robot cleaner that includes a cleaning unit and wheels to move the robot cleaner. The robot cleaner also includes a processor for controlling cleaning that is capable of estimating the size of a room based on distances between obstacles. The robot cleaner has several modes of ...

01/26/06 - 20060020368 - Robot apparatus and method of controlling the motion thereof
The present invention provides a robot apparatus is capable of moving autonomously, flexibly responding to a motion of conforming to an external moving subject that may typically be the user of the robot apparatus and conforming to the motion of the moving subject, and also capable of modifying the conforming ...

01/26/06 - 20060020367 - Apparatus and methods for positioning wafers
A method for calibrating a controller of a robotic arm in a microelectronics manufacturing apparatus that includes storing a default position for an edge detector, moving a blade on the robotic arm based on the default position of the edge detector such that at least three edge points on the ...

01/19/06 - 20060015216 - Information processing apparatus and method, program storage medium, and program
An input motion acquiring unit acquires a motion trajectory of an object from an image recognizing unit. A dynamic modeling processor models a plurality of robot motion patterns stored in a robot motion pattern storage unit in a dynamic system form, and stores the modeled robot motion patterns into a ...

01/19/06 - 20060015215 - System and method for automated search by distributed elements
A system and method for decentralized cooperative control of a team of agents for geographic and other search tasks. The approach is behavior-based and uses probability particle approach to the search problem. Agents are attracted to probability distributions in the form of virtual particles of probability that represent hypotheses about ...

01/19/06 - 20060015214 - Joint structure of robot
In a robot joint structure, a first main link (42) and a second main link (44) are connected through two movable links including a first movable link (70) and a second movable link (72), and the two movable links are arranged to cross. With this, it becomes possible to increase ...

01/12/06 - 20060009879 - Programming and diagnostic tool for a mobile robot
A method of communicating with a robotic device and associated system enables configuration information and diagnostic information to be communicated between the robotic device and a configuration tool. The method consists of using a configuration tool, such as a hand-held device, that can communicate information to the robotic device to ...

01/12/06 - 20060009878 - Programming device for returning robot to waiting position
A programming device for making a program for returning a robot to its waiting position when the robot is stopped by an error. A robot control device is connected to the programming device via a network line. When the robot during operation is stopped by the error, information including data ...

01/12/06 - 20060009877 - Device and method for checking and/or calibrating a passenger recognition device arranged in a vehicle seat
The invention relates to a device and a method for checking and/or calibrating a passenger recognition device arranged in a vehicle seat, in the case of which device a child's seat can be pressed against a vehicle seat and in the case of which method a vehicle seat is loaded ...

01/12/06 - 20060009876 - Guidance system for a robot
A guidance system for a robot includes a main monitoring station and an unmanned movable base station, which is in communication with the main monitoring station. A robot is provided which is adapted to operate within a predetermined radius of the base station. Either an umbilical cord connection or a ...

01/05/06 - 20060004489 - Process and device for controlling the robotal device
A process is provided for controlling a robotal device, such as a multiaxial industrial robot, by a control unit, with a control core for executing control processes for the robotal device. An interface function checks whether models and/or procedures optionally contained in the control core or additional models and/or transformation ...

01/05/06 - 20060004488 - Product presentation robot
A product presentation biped robot implementing presentation of products such as vehicles through explanation of at least one among performance, specifications and operation of the products, is provided. The robot has a communication unit being capable of communicating with a database located externally of the robot and storing information including ...

01/05/06 - 20060004487 - Customer service robot
A customer robot enabling a customer service including key management with respect to a plurality of lock-equipped objects in an environment such as vehicles in a parking lot is provided. The robot has an unlock/lock signal database storing unlock/lock signals respectively set for the objects, an object identification implementor recognizing ...

01/05/06 - 20060004486 - Monitoring robot
A monitoring robot capable of boarding a mobile unit such as a vehicle together with a driver to perform monitoring surrounding of the mobile unit, is provided. The robot has a microphone, a voice recognition unit voice-recognition processing a sound signal of the microphone, CCD cameras, an image recognition unit ...

12/29/05 - 20050288819 - Apparatus and method for an autonomous robotic system for performing activities in a well
An autonomous robot performs maintenance and repair activities in oil and gas wells, and in pipelines. The robot uses the well and pipeline fluids to provide most of the energy required for the its mobility, and to charge a turbine from which it may recharge batteries or power a motor ...

12/22/05 - 20050283274 - Robot alignment system and method
The robot alignment system is used for establishing a predetermined alignment position between a movable robot member and an article that is processed by the robot. The system includes a laser transmitter that emits a focused laser beam and a target against which the focused laser beam is directed. The ...

12/15/05 - 20050278067 - Method and system for assessing the state of at least one axial joint
A method assesses a state of at least one axial joint of an industrial robot, on the basis of data of a mechanical backlash present at the axial joint of the industrial robot, a state of wear of the axial joint being determined. On the basis of data of a ...

12/08/05 - 20050273197 - Method and system for controlling a robot
A system and method are described that use impulse radio technology to enhance the capabilities of a robot. In one embodiment, a system, a robot and a method are provided that use the communication capabilities of impulse radio technology to help a control station better control the actions of the ...

12/01/05 - 20050267637 - 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 purpose computer includes a program execution module to selectively start and stop processing of a program of equipment instructions and to generate a plurality ...

12/01/05 - 20050267636 - Image transmission device and method, transmitting device and method, receiving device and method, and robot apparatus
An image transmission device and method, a transmitting device and method, a receiving device and method, and robot apparatus are capable of effectively transmitting the image data of multiple channels by using the existing systems which are formed on the premise of transmitting and receiving of the image data through ...

12/01/05 - 20050267635 - Operation range restricting device for robot joint provided with operation region detection device
An operation region detection device includes a dog, a support member for supporting it, and a detection switch outputting a signal based on contact or noncontact with the corresponding dog. The support member is arranged in a hollow part of a joint of a robot and attached to one of ...

12/01/05 - 20050267634 - Image transmission device and method, transmitting device and method, receiving device and method, and robot apparatus
An image transmission device and method, a transmitting device and method, a receiving device and method, and robot apparatus are capable of effectively transmitting the image data of multiple channels by using the existing systems which are formed on the premise of transmitting and receiving of the image data through ...

12/01/05 - 20050267633 - Vehicle appraisal assisting robot and vehicle appraisal system using the robot
A vehicle appraisal assisting robot (1) of the invention comprises: an information acquisition means (12) for acquiring basic information required for appraisal of a vehicle (7) from a client; an image taking unit (13) for taking an image of a portion of the vehicle required to evaluate a state of ...

12/01/05 - 20050267632 - Vehicle diagnosis robot
A vehicle diagnosis robot of the invention comprises: an image taking unit (11) for taking an image of a portion of a vehicle to be inspected; an action generator (12) for generating an action required for the image taking unit to take an appropriate image of the portion of the ...

12/01/05 - 20050267631 - Mobile robot and system and method of compensating for path diversions
A mobile robot measures a rotation angle using information from an image photographed by a vision camera. A mobile robot system comprises a main body of the robot, a driving part for driving a plurality of wheels; a vision camera mounted on a main body thereof to photograph an upper ...

12/01/05 - 20050267630 - Walking gait producing device for walking robot
An object of the present invention is to provide a gait pattern generating device by which a gait pattern of a robot such as a humanoid bipedal walking robot having a structure easy to fall down can be generated easily in real time. This device calculates a driving quantity of ...

12/01/05 - 20050267629 - Electronic directing system
The present invention relates to an arrangement and electronic navigational control system for a self-propelling device (5), preferably a lawn-mowing robot. The system comprises at least one navigational control system (3) connected to at least one signal generator (1) and a sensing unit arranged at the self-propelling device (5). The ...

11/24/05 - 20050261803 - Mobile brain-based device for use in a real world environment
A mobile brain-based device BBD includes a mobile base equipped with sensors and effectors (Neurally Organized Mobile Adaptive Device or NOMAD), which is guided by a simulated nervous system that is an analogue of cortical and sub-cortical areas of the brain required for visual processing, decision-making, reward, and motor responses. ...

11/10/05 - 20050251292 - Obstacle following sensor scheme for a mobile robot
A robot obstacle detection system including a robot housing which navigates with respect to a surface and a sensor subsystem aimed at the surface for detecting the surface. The sensor subsystem includes an emitter which emits a signal having a field of emission and a photon detector having a field ...

11/10/05 - 20050251291 - System, method and apparatus for organizing groups of self-configurable mobile robotic agents in a multi-robotic system
A system of self-organizing mobile robotic agents (MRAs) in a multi-robotic system (MRS) is disclosed. MRAs cooperate, learn and interact with the environment. The system uses various AI technologies including genetic algorithms, genetic programming and evolving artificial neural networks to develop emergent dynamic behaviors. The collective behaviors of autonomous intelligent ...

11/10/05 - 20050251290 - Method and a system for programming an industrial robot
A method for programming an industrial robot. The robot is taught a path having waypoints located on or in the vicinity of an object. An image of the object is obtained. Information is obtained about the position of a pointer pointing at points. The position of the points relative to ...

11/03/05 - 20050246064 - Method for detecting position errors using a motion detector
The present invention is a method and system for detecting position errors in robotic motion According to the method, a Doppler motion detector unit is placed proximate a critical position of a robot. Signals from the Doppler motion detector unit are monitored. Robot position errors are detected in the robot ...

11/03/05 - 20050246063 - Robot for participating in a joint performance with a human partner
For a joint performance of a dialogue between a human partner and a robot, the robot analyzes phrase and action of the partner to detect a recognized behavior of the partner and analyze a state of audience listening to utterances from the partner and the robot to detect a recognized ...

11/03/05 - 20050246062 - Method for controlling a machine, particularly an industrial robot
The invention relates to a method for controlling a machine, particularly a robot, such as a multiaxial industrial robot, in which the control takes place whilst taking account of working process-specific degrees of freedom in order to avoid kinematic fixed positions. ...

11/03/05 - 20050246061 - Robot controller and robot controlling method
A robot controller according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises a base; a first link; a first actuator which drives to rotate the first link relative to the base; a first torque transmission mechanism which transmits the torque of the first actuator to the first link at a ...

10/27/05 - 20050240310 - Medical tele-robotic system
A robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote control station may ...

10/27/05 - 20050240309 - Method and device for influencing a multiaxial manipulator
A method for influencing a multiaxial manipulator, such as a multiaxial industrial robot, with a manually guided influencing device, whose position and location in space are measured and used for influencing the manipulator, is characterized in that in alternation movements of the influencing device and associated movements of the manipulator ...

10/27/05 - 20050240308 - Method and device for controlling walking of legged robot
The present invention provides a walking control method and a walking control apparatus for achieving stable attitude control of a legged robot. In the walking control of the legged robot, basically, a foot-sole coordinate system based on sole positions and having at least a first coordinate axis in a direction ...

10/27/05 - 20050240307 - Robot device , legged locomotion robot operation control device and operation control method, legged locomotion robot sensor system, and locomotion device
The lumbar part of a robot as a controlled-object point where the mass is moved to the largest extent is set as the origin of a local coordinate, an acceleration sensor is disposed at the controlled-object point to directly measure the attitude and acceleration at that position to control the ...

10/27/05 - 20050240306 - Gait generation device for legged mobile robot
An allowable ranges of a horizontal component of the translation floor reaction or a floor-surface-parallel component of the translation floor reaction force of a legged mobile robot 1 or a horizontal component of a total center-of-gravity acceleration or a floor-surface-parallel component of a total center-of-gravity acceleration of the robot 1 ...

10/20/05 - 20050234595 - Self-propelled cleaner and method of controlling the same
In a cleaner, it is determined whether or not a remaining volume of a battery is equal to or more than a sum of a battery volume required for returning to a position of a battery charger and a predetermined allowance value. When the remaining volume of the battery is ...

10/20/05 - 20050234594 - Self-running cleaner
A self-running cleaner that can be operated longer at reduced cost includes a cleaning unit for suction of dust and dirt, a storage battery supplying power consumed by the cleaning unit, a solar cell recharging the storage battery, a camera detecting illuminance of a plurality of sites, a running unit ...

10/20/05 - 20050234593 - Systems and methods for controlling a legged robot based on rate of change of angular momentum
Systems and methods are presented that use the rate of change of a legged robot's centroidal angular momentum ({dot over (H)}G) in order to maintain or improve the robot's balance. In one embodiment, a control system determines the current value of {dot over (H)}G, compares this value to a threshold ...

10/20/05 - 20050234592 - System and method for reconfiguring an autonomous robot
In accordance with the present invention, systems and methods for reconfiguring an autonomous robot are provided. By using a system interface, the present invention provides an approach for distributing the complex and costly robotic components of the conventional autonomous robots. By distributing these components, users, such as software developers, may ...

10/13/05 - 20050228542 - Auto-calibration method and device for wafer handler robots
A method and system to calibrate a handler robot can include determining positions for stations between which the robot will transfer payloads, performing a transfer of a payload by the robot between the stations, measuring an offset and angle of the payload from the determined position of the station to ...

10/13/05 - 20050228541 - Robotic library communication protocol
A method and system are disclosed for transmitting data among robots and a controller computer system within an automated robotic library. A robotic library communication protocol is described for communicating among the robotic mechanisms and the controller computer system. The robotic library communication protocol defines multiple fields for each packet ...

10/13/05 - 20050228540 - Robot device and method of controlling the same
The present invention is to realize a robot apparatus and a control method thereof that can remarkably improve the entertainment ability. In a robot apparatus with plural leg parts having multi-step of joint mechanisms respectively connected to a body part and a control method thereof, it is designed so that ...

10/13/05 - 20050228539 - 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 (1) is set up. Based on the estimated landing position/orientation and the desired ...

10/06/05 - 20050222711 - Robot and a robot control method
A robot is autonomously moved locally by a move mechanism. In the robot, a check work memory stores a plurality of check works and check place to execute each check work in case of a user's departure to a remote location. A check work plan unit selects check works to ...

10/06/05 - 20050222710 - Mechanical arrangement and components for reducing error in deduced reckoning
The present application discloses a mechanical arrangement and components for reducing errors in position estimation in mobile robotic vehicles that use deduced reckoning. The arrangement provides a method for determining the weight to be carried by the driven wheels to provide increased or maximum contact force between the driven wheels ...

10/06/05 - 20050222709 - Robot device and method of controlling the same
The present invention is applied to, for example, a legged mobile robot and makes it possible to 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 with ...

09/29/05 - 20050216123 - Image transmission device and method, transmitting device and method, receiving device and method, and robot apparatus
An image transmission device and methods a transmitting device and method, a receiving device and method, and robot apparatus are capable of effectively transmitting the image data of multiple channels by using the existing systems which are formed on the premise of transmitting and receiving of the image data through ...

09/29/05 - 20050216122 - Self-propelled cleaner
Conventional nursing support robots, which are intended only for nursing, use complicated equipment. Therefore, they are expensive and it is difficult for them to be popularly used. According to the present invention, when a robot system decides at step S440 that it is time preset on a timer, it calculates ...

09/29/05 - 20050216121 - Robot apparatus and emotion representing method therefor
In a robot apparatus, the storage capacity necessary for holding motion data is diminished in representing the emotion by motions exploiting the body resources. In demonstrating component behaviors of the robot apparatus, the basic posture, as the posture at the start time of one or plural movements forming a component ...

09/22/05 - 20050209736 - Self-propelled working robot
A self-propelled working robot according to the present invention comprises a traveling assembly (1) having a wheel (6) and first and second working assemblies (20, 50) that are detachable from the traveling assembly 81). One of the first and second working assemblies (20, 50) is selectively mounted on the traveling ...

09/22/05 - 20050209735 - Precision feed end-effector composite fabric tape-laying apparatus and method
A fabric and tape laying machine operable with: (a) a robot including programmable control means, (b) a supply roll containing a continuous strip of composite tape or fabric, and (c) a mold of predetermined surface shape relative to x, y and z coordinates, including: a. a chassis mountable to and ...

09/22/05 - 20050209734 - Robot system and controller
In a robot system having a pendant that is operated by an operator, whereby the operation of a robot (11) is controlled by a signal sent out from the pendant, a plurality of operators operate a single robot by the pendant held by each of the plurality of operators. ...

09/15/05 - 20050203667 - Ambulation control apparatus and ambulation control method of robot
The stability of attitude of a robot can be recovered by an ambulation control apparatus and an ambulation control method according to the invention if it is lost in the course of a gesture for which the upper limbs take a major role. The apparatus and the method obtain the ...

09/15/05 - 20050203666 - Call device, call control system, call management system, and call control method
When a controller receives an incoming call signal, the controller supplies melody information stored in a melody information storage to a sound source. The sound source starts to output a melody, represented by the melody information, from a speech speaker. When an input unit accepts a talk start command, the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197741 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197740 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

09/08/05 - 20050197739 - Behavior controlling system and behavior controlling method for robot
A behavior control system and a behavior control method for a robot apparatus are disclosed. The behavior control system and the behavior control method for a robot apparatus include a function of adaptively switching between a behavior selection standard, taking into account the own state, required of an autonomous robot, ...

09/01/05 - 20050192706 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187662 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187661 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187660 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187659 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187658 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/25/05 - 20050187657 - Robot with display device
A robot allowing an operator to refer to information required for inspections or the like without having to use a printed manual or a display screen of a teaching pendant. A display device has a flexible display screen that uses organic light-emitting diodes, a control unit, and a plug. The ...

08/18/05 - 20050182514 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/11/05 - 20050177278 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/11/05 - 20050177277 - Ambulation control apparatus and ambulation control method of robot
The stability of attitude of a robot can be recovered by an ambulation control apparatus and an ambulation control method if it is lost in the course of a gesture for which the upper limbs take a major role. The apparatus and the method obtain the pattern of movement of ...

08/11/05 - 20050177276 - 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 primary signal PS. The primary signal PS comprises sets of parameters associated with the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171643 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171642 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171641 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171640 - Robot apparatus
A robot apparatus is provided. 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 pre-set threshold value. If the CPU finds that the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171639 - Self-running cleaner with anti-overturning capability
An acceleration sensor is disposed on the center line of a main body to sense and output to a determination processing unit the acceleration component in three axial directions orthogonal to each other. The determination processing unit has a predetermined threshold value set for the acceleration in the z axis ...

08/04/05 - 20050171638 - Self-traveling vacuum cleaner capable of ensuring wide obstacle detection range
A passive sensor is provided in a forward direction of a main body of a self-traveling vacuum cleaner. The passive sensor receives a reflected light of an external light of a target object at a length within a certain length range at a predetermined angle of visibility, and measures the ...

08/04/05 - 20050171637 - Self-running cleaner with collision obviation capability
A main body of a self-running cleaner conducts a cleaning job while self-propelling at a velocity vector in the direction of the arrow. A person approaches with a movement vector in the direction of the arrow in front of the main body. A determination processing unit of the main body ...

08/04/05 - 20050171636 - Autonomous mobile robot cleaner system
An autonomous mobile robot cleaner system including a robot cleaner and remote controllers for guiding the robot cleaner to rooms so as to clean several rooms in a house automatically and successively in user-selected cleaning modes. The remote controllers are placed on a corridor in the vicinity of the entrances ...

08/04/05 - 20050171635 - Walking type moving device and walking control device therefor and walking control method
A walk controller (30) to drive-control drive means of respective joint portions (15L, 15R to 20L, 20R) of respective leg portions (13L, 13R) based on gait data comprises force sensors (23L, 23R) to detect forces applied to the soles of respective foot portions (14L, 14R), and a compensation part (32) ...

07/28/05 - 20050165508 - Robot
The present invention aims to provide a robot having the structure suitable for freely moving about in the environment where there is an obstacle within the house, for example. The robot includes a communication section transmitting by wireless an image taken by the camera to a base station, and via ...

07/28/05 - 20050165507 - Robot device operation control device and operation control method
A ZMP equilibrium equation stating the relationship of various moments applied to a robot body of a robot, based on desirable motion data made up by trajectories of respective parts, imaginarily divided from the robot body, is generated, and moment errors in a ZMP equilibrium equation are calculated. A priority ...

07/21/05 - 20050159842 - Measuring system
A measuring system which can easily measure a three-dimensional position of a target to be measured using a light receiving device mounted to a manipulator of a robot. When the manipulator is positioned at a first position, a moving process for moving an image of the target imaged by the ...

07/21/05 - 20050159841 - Robot system and autonomous mobile robot
The present invention relates to a robot system which includes an autonomous mobile robot as well as to the autonomous mobile robot. In the system in which monitoring is performed using the autonomous mobile robot which travels along a predetermined path, the present invention can reduce the interval between the ...

07/21/05 - 20050159840 - System for surface finishing a workpiece
A system is provided for finishing a surface of a workpiece, for instance by abrading a brazed area or welded area to remove excess brazed or weld material during the refurbishment of the turbine blade. A real-time control system has a controlled material removal rate strategy where a computer controls ...

07/14/05 - 20050154493 - 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 robotic arms and instruments used to perform a medical procedure. The system may include an arbitrator ...

07/14/05 - 20050154492 - Gait producing device for leg type movable robot
A desired gait is generated so as to satisfy a dynamical equilibrium condition concerning the resultant force of gravity and an inertial force applied to a legged mobile robot 1 using a dynamics model which describes a relationship among at least a horizontal translation movement of a body 24 of ...

07/07/05 - 20050149229 - Predictive robot, control method for predictive robot, and predictive robotic system
A predictive robot includes a prediction-related item storage to store terms related to prediction performance, a first communicator which transmits stored prediction-related terms and receives a search result of information search with regard to the prediction-related terms, a search controller to control information search of the prediction-related terms stored in ...

07/07/05 - 20050149228 - Cleaning robot and control method thereof
A cleaning robot and a control method thereof in which a cleaning path desired by the user is recognizable by the cleaning robot, thereby being capable of cleaning a cleaning area desired by the user in a pattern desired by the user. The cleaning robot includes a running unit to ...

07/07/05 - 20050149227 - Architecture for robot intelligence
An architecture for robot intelligence enables a robot to learn new behaviors and create new behavior sequences autonomously and interact with a dynamically changing environment. Sensory information is mapped onto a Sensory Ego-Sphere (SES) that rapidly identifies important changes in the environment and functions much like short term memory. Behaviors ...

06/30/05 - 20050143860 - Method of controlling redundant manipulator
A method of controlling a redundant manipulator for assigning one or more redundant joints from a plurality of joints and obtaining the solution to an inverse kinematics problem at high-speed. The joints are arbitrarily classified into redundant joints and non-redundant joints, and an initial value is set for the joint ...

06/30/05 - 20050143859 - Method for controlling parallel kinematic mechanism machine and control device therefor
Each actuator command is obtained based on kinematic parameters at step S1, loads exerted by weight of each component of a machine are calculated at step S2, and loads in the direction of axis of each actuator are obtained at step S3. Then loads in the direction of axis of ...

06/30/05 - 20050143858 - Method for controlling a robot
A method for controlling a robot wherein a procedure is carried out with the robot while maintaining the robot immobile in axes that are not required to carry out the procedure. ...

06/23/05 - 20050137751 - Auto-diagnostic method and apparatus
Methods for automated calibration and diagnostics of a workpiece transfer system are provided. In one embodiment, a method for locating an end effector includes retrieving a workpiece located at a target location, passing the workpiece through a plurality of sensors, wherein at least one of the sensors changes state in ...

06/23/05 - 20050137750 - Method and apparatus for using rotational movement amount of mobile device and computer-readable recording medium for storing computer program
Provided is a method of using a rotational movement amount of a mobile device including obtaining images at two different points on a path along which the mobile device moves, searching for matching points with respect to the obtained images and obtaining an image coordinate value of each of the ...

06/23/05 - 20050137749 - 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 to be contacted with the floor, and rotated by movement of the cleaner body; ...

06/23/05 - 20050137748 - Apparatus and method for detecting position of mobile robot
An apparatus and a method for detecting a position of a mobile robot in accordance with the present invention can accurately detect a position of a mobile robot by calculating time taken for each ultrasonic signal generated by ultrasonic signal oscillating means of a charging station to reach the mobile ...

06/23/05 - 20050137747 - Interactive personalized robot for home use
An interactive personalized robotic system for a home environment includes a home network in communication with at least one electronic device. A robot is in communication with the home network and is capable of controlling the at least one electronic device. The robot further includes a plurality of modules for ...

06/23/05 - 20050137746 - System and method for communication between an industrial robot and a tpu
An industrial robot comprising a manipulator (2), a control unit (3) for controlling the manipulator, a portable operating unit (4) for reaching an manually operating the robot, which operating unit is adapted for communication with the control unit and comprising a operator control means (9). ...

06/16/05 - 20050131581 - Environment recognizing device, environment recognizing method, route planning device, route planning method and robot
An environment recognizing device and an environment recognizing method can draw an environment map for judging if it is possible to move a region where one or more than one steps are found above or below a floor, a route planning device and a route planning method that can appropriately ...

06/16/05 - 20050131580 - Virtual encounters
A virtual reality encounter system includes motion sensors positioned on a human user. The motion sensors send motion signals corresponding to movements of the user as detected by the motion sensors relative to a reference point, the motion signals are transmitted over a communications network. The system also includes a ...

06/09/05 - 20050125101 - 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 cases. Using the case dimension information, the cases can be classified into at least one group, wherein each group is ...

06/09/05 - 20050125100 - Method and device for controlling robot
A method for controlling a robot during an interpolation of a trajectory or motion to any prescribed position, comprises the steps of a) ignoring at least one of the three originally prescribed or interpolated tool center point orientation values; b) finding new tool center point orientation values that place the ...

06/09/05 - 20050125099 - Motion editing apparatus and method for robot device, and computer program
To implement a dynamic, elegant motion performance of an actual robot, a motion editing system is provided which includes a motion editor to edit motions of an upper body and whole body of the robot and a foot trajectory editor to create a gait pattern and lower-body motion to stabilize ...

06/09/05 - 20050125098 - Protocol for a remotely controlled videoconferencing robot
A robotic system that includes a robot and a remote station. The remote station can generate control commands that are transmitted to the robot through a broadband network. The control commands can be interpreted by the robot to induce action such as robot movement or focusing a robot camera. The ...

06/02/05 - 20050119790 - 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 provide greater dexterity than medical robotic systems of the prior art with four or less degrees of freedom. ...

06/02/05 - 20050119789 - Method for fabricating sliding vacuum cups
A surface clinging robotic device. The device includes a supporting structure or base, on which is mounted (a) a lead pivoting support surface, such as a pivoting wheel, and (b) two or more traction drives, such as drive wheels. Each of the traction drives are independently driven by a separate-drive ...

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