Abstract: A robot controller includes a memory unit that stores an address table that contains a plurality of start addresses for additional system software files each used to add a function to system software for the robot controller, and a function addition portion that adds a function to the system software based on an additional function file stored in an external memory device. The function addition portion uses an index value with respect to the address table to acquire one of the start addresses for the additional system software files. Programs contained in the system software and the additional system software files each use a position-independent code based on relative addressing.

Abstract: A fan unit is detachably attached on a side face of a housing, a heating element is housed in the housing, and the fan unit includes a fan configured to be detachably attached to the fan unit. The fan unit is configured to detachably support the fan so that when the fan unit is attached to the housing, directions in which the fan is attached to and detached from the fan unit are made different from directions in which the fan unit is attached to and detached from the housing.

Abstract: To change or update each operating pattern and/or an operating condition according to a workpiece feeding state and/or an operating state of a robot. A workpiece transfer system includes: a workpiece infeed device for feeding a workpiece; a robot for transferring the workpiece being fed; a control device for selecting an operating condition of the robot based on a condition related to the workpiece and/or a condition related to the robot, the control device including a storage unit in which plural operating conditions are stored and a selection unit for selecting, as the operating condition of the robot, an optimum operating condition out of the plural operating conditions.

Abstract: An object is to reduce the risk of outflow of defects and improve the work efficiency of assembly work. An assembly system 10 according to an embodiment of the present invention is used to assemble a finished product while sequentially placing and fixing multiple types of components to a workpiece. The assembly system 10 includes a collaborative robot 20 configured to collaborate with a worker 100, an identification information reading unit 27 configured to read identification information indicated on a component placed on the workpiece, and a controller 70 configured to determine whether a type of the component placed on the workpiece is correct or incorrect based on the read identification information and control the collaborative robot in accordance with a result of the correctness determination.

Abstract: In a determination device including at least one sub-device and a control device that controls the sub-device, and determining suitability of the sub-device, the control device includes a selection unit that selects a type of an actual operation characteristic to be obtained from the sub-device, a model information obtaining unit that obtains, as model information, an operation characteristic estimated to be output from the sub-device that is suitable, the operation characteristic corresponding to the selected type, an operation information obtaining unit that obtains actual operation information representing operation information regarding the actual operation characteristic of the sub-device, a determination unit that determines the suitability of the sub-device in accordance with a difference between the obtained actual operation information and the obtained model information, and a determination result output unit that outputs a determination result of the determination unit.

Abstract: Provided is a machine tool control device that makes it possible to alleviate shock generated in a machine tool during an oscillation cutting process. A control device 1 for a machine tool that carries out a process by relatively oscillating a tool and a workpiece is provided with: an oscillation command generation unit 13 that generates an oscillation command on the basis of an oscillation condition; an oscillation start/end determination unit 14 that determines start/end of oscillation on the basis of the oscillation command; and a position speed control unit 18 that relatively oscillates the tool and the workpiece on the basis of a superimposed command generated by superimposing the oscillation command on a moving command according to a determination result of the oscillation start/end determination unit 14. The oscillation start/end determination unit 14 determines start/end of oscillation when the absolute value of the oscillation command is no greater than a predetermined value.

Abstract: Provided is a response analysis device which can efficiently confirm a response of an API. This response analysis device comprises: an execution history acquisition unit which acquires history information about an API; a first determination unit which determines an execution period and a processing time of the API corresponding to a newly added application; a second determination unit which determines an execution start time and a processing time of the API corresponding to an existing application on the basis of the history information obtained by the execution history acquisition unit; and a response analysis unit which analyzes a response of the API on the basis of the execution period and the processing time of the API corresponding to the newly added application, and the execution start time and the processing time of the API corresponding to the existing application.

Abstract: A laser machine having less constraints on the dimension and shape of a machining object than a laser machine in the related art. The laser machine includes: a flying body capable of floating and moving in a space; a machining head mounted on the flying body and configured to radiate a laser beam; a position/posture detector configured to detect the position and posture of the machining head with respect to a workpiece; a radiation position changer capable of changing the radiation position of the laser beam radiated from the machining head on the basis of the position and posture of the machining head detected by the position/posture detector; and a laser oscillator configured to supply the laser beam to the machining head.

Abstract: This machine tool includes a spindle, a workpiece support section that supports the workpiece, a servo motor that rotates or moves workpiece support section relative to the spindle, and a control device that controls the servo motor, where the control device displays an adjustment screen for adjustment of at least either of a gain and a filter of the servo motor on a display device when the control device recognizes that the servo motor is newly mounted, when a machining program of the workpiece is changed, or when an operation value of the servo motor or a value calculated based on the operation value deviates from a predetermined criterion.

Abstract: Provided is a robotic welding system with which welding can be appropriately carried out even when the amount of a gap largely changes and when welding occurs at a high speed. A robotic welding system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a welding torch; a gap detector configured to detect in advance a gap amount between welding targets in front of the welding torch; a robot moving the welding torch and the gap detector; a controller configured to cause a welding condition to change based on the gap amount detected in advance by the gap detector; and a welding power source configured to execute welding based on the welding condition instructed by the controller.

Abstract: Provided is a robot control device capable of facilitating the work of setting a control center for controlling the operation of a robot. The robot control device controls a robot manipulator which is equipped with an end effector. The robot control device includes: an image processing unit that, by using a feature extraction model for detecting images of the robot manipulator, and position/posture information of the robot manipulator, detects, from images (M1, M2) in which at least part of the robot manipulator is captured, a position in a three-dimensional space which corresponds to designated positions (P1, P2) designated on the images, as a position relative to the robot manipulator; and a coordinate system determination unit that sets a control center, for controlling the operation of the robot manipulator, to the position detected in the three-dimensional space.

Abstract: Provided is a waveform display device that can easily designate an analysis target range just by selecting a location to be analyzed with regard to a tool trajectory.

Abstract: Regarding a backlash amount measurement system provided in the servo control device of the drive motor of machine tools and industrial machines, a technical problem is to accurately measure the backlash amount at the time of inversion of a drive shaft by means of a backlash amount measurement system having a simpler configuration with a small number of detectors. The above technical problem can be solved by a backlash amount measuring unit equipped with an inversion detection unit which detects the start of inversion of the shaft, an arrival detection unit which detects that the backlash end has been reached from the start of inversion, and a time/distance measurement unit which measures the time from when the inversion detection unit detects the start of inversion until the arrival detection unit detects that the backlash end has been reached, or the movement distance.

Abstract: A machine learning device that learns an operation of a robot for picking up, by a hand unit, any of a plurality of objects placed in a random fashion, including a bulk-loaded state, includes a state variable observation unit that observes a state variable representing a state of the robot, including data output from a three-dimensional measuring device that obtains a three-dimensional map for each object, an operation result obtaining unit that obtains a result of a picking operation of the robot for picking up the object by the hand unit, and a learning unit that learns a manipulated variable including command data for commanding the robot to perform the picking operation of the object, in association with the state variable of the robot and the result of the picking operation, upon receiving output from the state variable observation unit and output from the operation result obtaining unit.

Abstract: A chatter vibration determination device is provided with a machine learning device configured to observe machining condition data including a feed speed and a spindle rotational frequency in cutting as state data representative of the current state of environment, execute processing related to machine learning using a learning model obtained by modeling the relationship of chatter vibration with a machining condition for the cutting, based on the state data, and estimate the occurrence/non-occurrence of chatter vibration and the improvement of the chatter vibration. The chatter vibration determination device outputs the result of the estimation of the occurrence/non-occurrence of the chatter vibration and the improvement of the chatter vibration.