Abstract: An industrial system including a machine for processing or producing a product. The machine includes at least one actuator providing a repetitive sequence of movements of a machine part, and a regulator controlling the movements of the actuator in response to a reference value. An industrial robot is adapted to tend the machine. The robot includes a drive unit and a robot controller adapted to generate control signals to the drive unit based on a control program including movement instructions for the robot. The robot controller is adapted to generate the reference value to the regulator based on a control program including movement instructions for the machine part. The regulator may also be an integrated part of the robot controller.

Abstract: An industrial robot including a drive package with a motor and a gear between an output shaft of the motor and a third shaft of the robot in immediate proximity to the third shaft for rotation of an upper arm of the robot relative to a lower arm. The gear is a multistage gear transmission with parallel gear-wheel axes and one of the gear wheels of the gear is secured to the third shaft.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for an industrial robot that comprises a manipulator and a control system comprising a processor and a computer program that influences the processor and is adapted to control a process, wherein the computer program comprises a plurality of cooperating objects (44), for addressing said objects (44).

Abstract: A device and a method for tool center point calibration of an industrial robot. The device is intended to calibrate an industrial robot with respect to a tool mounted on the robot. The device includes a camera designed to take a plurality of images of at least part of the robot tool for a plurality of different tool orientations, an image-processing unit designed to determine the positions of the robot tool in the orientations based on the images, a calculation module adapted to calculate the position of the center point of the robot tool, based on the determined positions, and a control module adapted to calculate the corrective movements of the robot.

Abstract: A system, method and computer program product for minimizing risks associated with meteorology dependent activity. Such activity may include operation of renewable power sources and the delivery of power output from those renewable sources for sale on a market. The system and method identify risks to market participants in the event of possible shortfall, and provide metrics and mitigation processes for addressing the risks before the contractual breaches occurs for failure to deliver power, or imbalances occurred in grid operations.

Abstract: A control system for controlling the movements of a plurality of mechanical units. The control system includes a program that includes a plurality of mechanical unit programs. Each program includes movement instructions for at least one of the mechanical units. The control system also includes a plurality of path planners. At least one of the path planners is adapted to receive instructions from more than one of the mechanical unit programs and on basis thereof determine how the mechanical units should move in order to synchronize their movements. The control system further includes switches adapted to switch a mechanical unit program from one path planner to another, whereby the movements of the mechanical units are synchronized when their mechanical unit programs are connected to the same path planner and the movements of the mechanical units are independent when their mechanical unit programs are connected to different path planners.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for manufacturing fiber-reinforced products with integrated insert parts by moulding a heat-bonding resin having a viscosity of about 1-10_6 and about 30-10+6 mPas, between two joinable halves of a separable mould having an upper and lower mould parts forming a cavity therebetween, the inner moulding faces are attached to displaceable fixed parts of a pressing table. Prior to moulding, an insert part is fixed in position in the cavity, and the mould parts each have a set of a support devices displaceable in the cavity relative to the respective moulding faces. According to the method, the resin is located in the cavity before the mold is closes and the insert is in position prior to and during an initial phase of moulding. The support device is removed prior to the setting of the resin in the mould leaving holes in the material, and thereafter the mold parts are held together for filling the holes.

Abstract: A method and a device for providing feedback on weaving parameters in connection with programming an industrial robot provided with a tool to perform a weaving movement. The device includes a simulation unit receiving the weaving parameters and on basis thereof performing a simulation of the weaving movement with a mathematical model of the weaving movements, a graphical unit receiving the calculated trace and on basis thereof producing a graphical representation of the weaving movement, and a display unit displaying the graphical representation of the weaving movement.

Abstract: A method for controlled reclosing of branch elements in an electric power system that has been subjected to a disturbance and that includes at least one branch element and at least one circuit breaker connected thereto. The angular difference between voltage vectors on both sides of the circuit breaker or at two end points of the branch element is detected and compared with a comparison value. In dependence on a magnitude of a deviation of the angular difference from the comparison value, the reclosing is either completed or blocked. The comparison value is updated automatically and regularly in such a way that an adaptive value is obtained. A system includes an element arranged to update the comparison value automatically and regularly in such a way that an adaptive value is obtained.

Abstract: The invention relates to a converter provided with a resonant circuit (16), which comprises a control device (24) adapted, in connection with a commutation of the phase current (iph) from a semiconductor element of turn-off type of a first current valve (2, 3) to a rectifying member of a second current valve (3, 2) to effectuate a turn-on of the auxiliary valve (18) of the resonant circuit with a varaible time delay (td) after the turn-off of the first current valve, the converter comprising a member (35) for determining said time delay in dependence on the magnitude and the direction of the phase current (iph) and the magnitude and the direction of a determined unbalance so that the unbalance is corrected at least partly when the control device applies the time delay (td). The invention also relates to a method for controlling such a converter.

Abstract: A method to calculate energy demand in an energy generation, transmission and distribution network including one or more power plants based on different energy source types including renewable energy, a communications system and one or more local consumption metering units. A customer demand profile for one or more customers is provided. A customer-specified proportion of power demand to be supplied from a given energy source type is registered. A total predicted energy demand dependent is calculated in part on an accumulated demand for the given energy source type.

Abstract: A method of synthesizing or growing a compound having the general formula Mn+1AXn(16) where M is a transition metal, n is 1, 2, 3 or higher, A is an A-group element and X is carbon, nitrogen or both, which comprises the step of exposing a substrate to gaseous components and/or components vaporized from at least one solid source (13, 14, 15) whereby said components react with each other to produce the Mn+1AXn (16) compound.

Abstract: An industrial robot including a contact panel having one or several contacts to allow connection to the industrial robot of one or several cables through which energy, signals or a substance may pass to and/or from the industrial robot. A cover forms part of an outer surface of the industrial robot. Each one of the one or several contacts of the contact panel protrudes through an opening in the cover so as to be accessible from the outside of the industrial robot. The contact panel is mounted to and supported by a holder that is secured in an internal cavity of the industrial robot so as to allow the contact panel to be held in place in the industrial robot when the cover is removed.

Abstract: A control system adapted for real time applications for carrying out the following functions: communication, control of a process or a device, and safety functions. The control system includes a plurality of function modules adapted for at least carrying out the control function and the safety functions. Each function module is adapted for receiving input data and for providing output data. Each function module is adapted to carry out a defined task based on the received input data and provide output data based on the task carried out. Each function module is adapted to carry out the task during a time period, which is independent of what is simultaneously going on in the other modules. At least one of the function modules has its logical components implemented on a programmable logic device.

Abstract: A method for fault detection in a power transformer/autotransformer and/or interconnected power lines, which are within the zone protected by the differential protection, and particularly suitable for detecting turn-to-turn faults in power transformer/autotransformer windings. All individual instantaneous phase currents of the protected object are measured, individual phase currents as fundamental frequency phasors are calculated, the contributions of the individual protected object sides negative sequence currents to the total negative sequence differential current are calculated by compensating for the phase shift of an eventual power transformer within the protected zone, the relative positions of the compensated individual sides negative sequence currents in the complex plane are compared, in order to determine whether the source of the negative sequence currents, i.e.

Abstract: An industrial robot system including at least one industrial robot including a manipulator and a control unit for controlling the manipulator, a portable operator control device for teaching and manually operating a robot. The portable operator control device includes safety equipment including an enabling device, which upon activation enables manual operation of the robot by the portable operator control device. The portable operator control device is adapted for wireless communication with the control unit, and a detecting unit that detects when the portable operator control device enters an area defined in the vicinity of the manipulator. The robot includes an enabling function which upon activation enables the enabling device of the portable operator control device, and upon deactivation disables the enabling device. The robot system is adapted to automatically activate the enabling function of the robot upon detecting that the portable operator control device enters the defined area.

Abstract: A method and apparatus are disclosed for off-line programming of multiple interacting robots. For example, a system for off-line programming (100) of multiple interacting robots includes a computer (110) for off-line programming and verification of program codes (111) for multiple interacting robots (131-133) and a robot controller (120) connected to the computer (110) to receive a download of at least one of the program codes for execution. Multiple interacting robots (131-133) can be controlled by the robot controller (120).