Abstract: A device and method for electrical testing of a component, the component including a contact point, wherein the device includes: an interface to provide the component; a robot manipulator having an effector configured to pick up, handle, and release the component; a receiving interface into which the component is insertable; a contacting device having a counter contact, the contacting device positioned in a first state so that the robot manipulator is able to insert/remove the component into/from the receiving interface, and positioned in a second state so that the counter contact is connected to the contact point of the component inserted into the receiving interface; an analysis unit connected to the counter contact and configured to perform electrical testing of the component using connection of the counter contact and the contact point in the second state; and a control unit to control the robot manipulator and the contacting device.

Abstract: A device to detect medical status of a person, including a robot manipulator to receive and handle effectors, each effector enabling a selected activity; a first unit to determine a current state ZRM(t) of the robot manipulator and a current state of an effector; a second unit to determine a current position LKT,AKTk(t) of a person's body part related to the selected activity in a working region of the robot manipulator; a third unit to determine a wrench KW(t) acting on the robot manipulator; a fourth unit to specify target data and permissible deviations for the selected activity; and a control unit to control the robot manipulator upon specification of the selected activity as a function of: ZRM(t), LKT,AKTk(t), KW(t), target data, and permissible deviations, such that when a permissible deviation is exceeded, the robot manipulator and the effector are placed into a safe state based on the selected activity.

Abstract: A screwing device including: a container for screws; a manipulator having an effector to pick up a screw; an isolating unit connected to the container to provide the screw from the container at an interface such that a head of the screw is accessible to the effector; and a control unit to control the manipulator in executing a control program to perform operations including: guiding the effector along a trajectory having an orientation to the screw head at the interface, wherein the orientation is defined for locations along the trajectory; and executing force-regulated, impedance-regulated, and/or admittance-regulated periodic and closed tilting movements of the effector in relation to its orientation until a condition for a torque, a force, or a time for carrying out the tilting movements is reached or exceeded, and/or a force/torque and/or a position/speed signature at the effector is reached or exceeded, indicating successful pick-up of the screw.

Abstract: A system for controlling at least one machine which is assigned an individual machine language including defined command variables, the machine undergoing a change of state in the course of the control, having a control module which is designed to transform command variables of an interaction language into corresponding command variables of an individual machine language depending of the type of machine and/or the machine language assigned thereto.

Abstract: A robot having a robot manipulator with an effector, wherein the robot manipulator is designed and constructed for picking up, handling, and releasing an object and is controlled by a control unit, the robot including a first sensor means designed and constructed to determine a persisting adherence of the object to an effector after a release of the object by the effector, and where such an adherence persists, to generate a signal S, wherein when a signal S is present, the control unit is designed and constructed to control the robot manipulator in such a manner that it executes a predefined movement B in which the effector with the persistently adhering object is passed by a wiping object in such a manner that the adhering object is wiped off the effector on a surface or an edge of the wiping object.

Abstract: Device for plugging a plug-in region of an expansion board into a plug-in coupling including: a first interface providing the coupling; a second interface providing the board; a robot manipulator having an effector; and a controller controlling the robot manipulator to plug the region into the coupling, the controller configured to execute a program for the robot manipulator to perform operations including: picking up the board at the second interface using the effector; guiding the board along a trajectory and target orientation of the region to the coupling; carrying out tilting motions of the region until reaching or exceeding a limit value condition G1 for a torque acting on the effector and/or a limit value condition G2 of a force acting on the effector, and/or reaching or exceeding a force/torque signature and/or a position/velocity/acceleration signature at the effector, indicating completion of plugging the region into the coupling within predefined tolerances.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for plugging a plug-in region of an expansion board into a plug-in coupling, the plug-in coupling having a slot, which has a depth T along a depth axis TA and a length L along a longitudinal axis LA, and wherein the depth axis TA and the longitudinal axis LA define a plug-in plane, the device including: a first interface for providing the plug-in coupling; a second interface for providing the expansion board; a first robot manipulator having an effector; and a control unit for the open-loop/closed-loop control of the first robot manipulator, wherein the control unit is configured and designed to execute a control program having the following steps: the first robot manipulator picks up the expansion board at/from the second interface using the effector and guides the expansion board along the specified trajectory T with a specified target orientation Otarget(RT) of the plug-in region to the plug-in coupling provided at the first interface, wherein Otarget(RT) defines the targe

Abstract: The invention relates to a screwing device, including a storage container for screws having a screw head, a screw head drive, and a threaded pin, a robot manipulator having an effector, which is adapted to the screw head and the screw head drive, and is embodied and configured to pick up and handle such a screw, an isolating unit connected to the storage container, which provides screws from the storage container isolated at an interface at a known position in such a way that a respective screw head is accessible to the effector, a control unit for controlling/regulating the robot manipulator, wherein the control unit is embodied and configured to execute the following first control program: the effector is guided by the robot manipulator along a predetermined trajectory T1 having a target orientation Otarget,T1(RT1) to the screw head of a screw provided at the interface, wherein along the trajectory T1 for locations RT1 of the trajectory T1, the target orientation Otarget,T1(RT1) of the effector is defined,

Abstract: The invention relates to a robot having a robot manipulator with an effector, wherein the robot manipulator is designed and constructed for picking up, handling, and releasing an object and is controlled/regulated in accordance with a control program by a control unit, including a first sensor means, which is designed and constructed to determine a persisting adherence of the object to the effector after a release of the object by the effector in accordance with a control program, and where such an adherence persists, to generate a signal S, wherein the control unit is designed and constructed to execute the following control program: where a signal S is present, control the robot manipulator in such a manner that it executes a predefined movement in which the effector with the persistently adhering object is passed by a wiping object in such a manner that the adhering object is wiped off on the surface of the wiping object

Abstract: The invention relates to a device for the electrical testing of an electrical component (BT), which has a first electromechanical interface (S1), wherein the electrical component (BT) is provided with the first electromechanical interface (S1) thereof at a target position (POSS1) and a target orientation (OS1), the device including: a force-regulated and/or impedance-regulated and/or admittance-regulated first robot manipulator having a first effector, a control unit for controlling/regulating the first robot manipulator, the control unit being designed and constructed to execute the following first control program: controlling the first robot manipulator in such a manner that the first robot manipulator guides the second electromechanical interface (S2) along a predefined trajectory m with a predefined target orientation (Otarget,S2(RT)) to the first electromechanical interface (S1) of the electrical component (BT) provided at the position (POSS1), wherein, upon the mechanical connection of the first electro

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for electrical testing of an electrical component, the component including at least one electrical contact point.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a mobile robot having a base element and a torso being arranged on the mobile base element, the torso comprising at least two manipulators, which comprise a proximal base and a distal free end, wherein the manipulators with their proximal base are arranged to both sides of the torso and opposite to each other and wherein the proximal base of the manipulators is moveably guided in the torso.

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot device (500) having a movable manipulator and/or effector (400), according to which method a speed and/or direction of movement of the manipulator and/or effector (400) is monitored and adjusted as appropriate, taking into consideration medical parameters for injury and robot dynamics is provided. A robot device (500) for implementing such a method and to a computer program product for executing such a method.

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot device (500) having a movable manipulator and/or effector (400), according to which method a speed and/or direction of movement of the manipulator and/or effector (400) is monitored and adjusted as appropriate, taking into consideration medical parameters for injury and robot dynamics is provided. A robot device (500) for implementing such a method and to a computer program product for executing such a method.