Patents by Inventor Yasuharu Mukai

Yasuharu Mukai has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 9859829
    Abstract: In a motor control device, a velocity feed-forward control portion includes a velocity-side acceleration input portion that outputs received high-order command acceleration as a velocity-side acceleration output; a velocity-side velocity input portion that outputs a received high-order command velocity as a velocity-side velocity output; velocity-side boundary-velocity input portions which are prepared so as to respectively correspond to boundary velocities, and to output velocity-side boundary velocity outputs from the velocity-side boundary-velocity input portions corresponding to the high-order command velocity, the boundary velocities being velocities at boundaries of preset adjacent velocity ranges obtained by dividing a limited velocity range; a velocity-side first weight learning portion that changes velocity-side first learning weights in accordance with a velocity deviation, the velocity-side first learning weights respectively corresponding to velocity-side first outputs; and a velocity-side output
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya Numazaki, Yasuharu Mukai
  • Publication number: 20170201199
    Abstract: In a motor control device, a velocity feed-forward control portion includes a velocity-side acceleration input portion that outputs received high-order command acceleration as a velocity-side acceleration output; a velocity-side velocity input portion that outputs a received high-order command velocity as a velocity-side velocity output; velocity-side boundary-velocity input portions which are prepared so as to respectively correspond to boundary velocities, and to output velocity-side boundary velocity outputs from the velocity-side boundary-velocity input portions corresponding to the high-order command velocity, the boundary velocities being velocities at boundaries of preset adjacent velocity ranges obtained by dividing a limited velocity range; a velocity-side first weight learning portion that changes velocity-side first learning weights in accordance with a velocity deviation, the velocity-side first learning weights respectively corresponding to velocity-side first outputs; and a velocity-side output
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Applicant: JTEKT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazuya NUMAZAKI, Yasuharu Mukai
  • Patent number: 9085082
    Abstract: A distal end of a manipulator having a redundancy is constrained so as to leave one degree of freedom, an attitude of the manipulator is changed into a plurality of attitudes that are allowed by the redundancy by outputting joint position command values from a controller to servomotors that drive links that constitute the manipulator of which the distal end is fixed, and calibration is performed by obtaining parameter deviations of a robot constant of the manipulator on the basis of the joint position command values and actual measured values from rotary encoders, which are respectively provided at the servomotors, after each attitude change.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Yasuharu Mukai, Kazuya Numazaki
  • Patent number: 9014853
    Abstract: A pair of manipulators are caused to take a plurality of attitudes in a state where distal ends of the manipulators are coupled to each other, coordinates of joints between links at each attitude change are acquired on the basis of detection signals, at each attitude change, of rotary encoders provided for servomotors that drive the links of the manipulators, and a position and attitude of an installation point of a slave robot with reference to an installation point of a master robot are calculated on the basis of the joint coordinates acquired at the corresponding attitude change in a forward kinematics manner. A deviation vector for each attitude change between actual measured values of the installation point of the slave robot and the calculated values of the installation point of the slave robot is calculated, and robot constants of both manipulators are identified from the deviation vector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Yasuharu Mukai, Kazuya Numazaki
  • Patent number: 9002519
    Abstract: A CPU of a robot control device calculates load torque based on the inertia force, centrifugal force or Coriolis force, gravity force, friction torque, and actuator inertia torque applied to a joint axis of each link, each time an orientation parameter indicative of the link position and orientation allowed by a redundant degree of freedom is sequentially changed, under a constraint of end-effector position and orientation as target values. The CPU obtains the link position and orientation at which the ratio of the load torque to the rated torque of a rotary actuator provided for each joint is minimized, while the orientation parameter is being changed, and provides a feed-forward value that gives rise to each load torque obtained when the ratio of the load torque to the rated torque of the rotary actuator is minimized, to a control command generated to the rotary actuator of each joint axis for achieving the end-effector position and orientation as target values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2015
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Yasuharu Mukai, Kazuya Numazaki
  • Publication number: 20130245829
    Abstract: A CPU of a robot control device calculates load torque based on the inertia force, centrifugal force or Coriolis force, gravity force, friction torque, and actuator inertia torque applied to a joint axis of each link, each time an orientation parameter indicative of the link position and orientation allowed by a redundant degree of freedom is sequentially changed, under a constraint of end-effector position and orientation as target values. The CPU obtains the link position and orientation at which the ratio of the load torque to the rated torque of a rotary actuator provided for each joint is minimized, while the orientation parameter is being changed, and provides a feed-forward value that gives rise to each load torque obtained when the ratio of the load torque to the rated torque of the rotary actuator is minimized, to a control command generated to the rotary actuator of each joint axis for achieving the end-effector position and orientation as target values.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Yasuharu Mukai, Kazuya Numazaki
  • Publication number: 20130238127
    Abstract: A pair of manipulators are caused to take a plurality of attitudes in a state where distal ends of the manipulators are coupled to each other, coordinates of joints between links at each attitude change are acquired on the basis of detection signals, at each attitude change, of rotary encoders provided for servomotors that drive the links of the manipulators, and a position and attitude of an installation point of a slave robot with reference to an installation point of a master robot are calculated on the basis of the joint coordinates acquired at the corresponding attitude change in a forward kinematics manner. A deviation vector for each attitude change between actual measured values of the installation point of the slave robot and the calculated values of the installation point of the slave robot is calculated, and robot constants of both manipulators are identified from the deviation vector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi Ohta, Yasuharu Mukai, Kazuya Numazaki
  • Publication number: 20130238126
    Abstract: A distal end of a manipulator having a redundancy is constrained so as to leave one degree of freedom, an attitude of the manipulator is changed into a plurality of attitudes that are allowed by the redundancy by outputting joint position command values from a controller to servomotors that drive links that constitute the manipulator of which the distal end is fixed, and calibration is performed by obtaining parameter deviations of a robot constant of the manipulator on the basis of the joint position command values and actual measured values from rotary encoders, which are respectively provided at the servomotors, after each attitude change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Hiromichi OHTA, Yasuharu MUKAI, Kazuya NUMAZAKI
  • Patent number: 7218989
    Abstract: The control section can determine, on the basis of a detection signal from a detection device, whether operation of an element corresponding to the detection device has completed. The display device can display step sequence data and a three-dimensional model of a machine tool operated through simulation. When the abnormality detection section detects an abnormality of the machine tool, the control section extracts, from a ladder circuit corresponding to a step in which an abnormality has been detected, an element to be operated in response to completion of operation of a preceding element in the ladder circuit, or an element not having completed its operation. The control section then specifies a detection device corresponding to the extracted element or a moving part corresponding to the detection device, and displays the element or the moving part in the displayed three-dimensional model in a distinguishable manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2007
    Assignee: JTEKT Corporation
    Inventors: Yasuharu Mukai, Yoshiji Yamamoto, Yasunori Ban, Toshio Aono, Shigeo Ohishi
  • Publication number: 20060074514
    Abstract: The control section can determine, on the basis of a detection signal from a detection device, whether operation of an element corresponding to the detection device has completed. The display device can display step sequence data and a three-dimensional model of a machine tool operated through simulation. When the abnormality detection section detects an abnormality of the machine tool, the control section extracts, from a ladder circuit corresponding to a step in which an abnormality has been detected, an element to be operated in response to completion of operation of a preceding element in the ladder circuit, or an element not having completed its operation. The control section then specifies a detection device corresponding to the extracted element or a moving part corresponding to the detection device, and displays the element or the moving part in the displayed three-dimensional model in a distinguishable manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2005
    Publication date: April 6, 2006
    Applicant: TOYODA KOKI KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Yasuharu Mukai, Yoshiji Yamamoto, Yasunori Ban, Toshio Aono, Shigeo Ohishi