Abstract: Provided is a production system including: an industrial machine configured to execute each of a plurality of processes; and a circuitry, the circuitry being configured to: detect an abnormality that has occurred in the industrial machine; receive, when the abnormality is detected, a specification of one or more processes to be executed in order to perform recovery, based on process information associating, for each of the plurality of processes, at least a name of the each of the plurality of processes with a variable representing an operation of the industrial machine and indicating that at least one of refer or change is to be performed by a process program to be executed in the each of the plurality of processes; and record recovery process information indicating the received one or more processes.

Abstract: Provided is a production system including: a first industrial machine configured to control a second industrial machine; and circuitry configured to acquire data relating to an operation of at least one of the first industrial machine or the second industrial machine, wherein the first industrial machine comprises a synchronous area regularly subjected to synchronization and an asynchronous area different from the synchronous area, and wherein the first industrial machine is configured to: write the data into the asynchronous area; and transmit the data written in the asynchronous area to an external device.

Abstract: Provided is a work system including: an object imaging unit configured to acquire an object image by photographing an object from a work direction; a work position acquisition unit configured to acquire a work position based on an existence region of the object obtained from a machine learning model; and a work unit configured to execute work on the object based on a work position obtained by inputting the object image to the work position acquisition unit.

Abstract: A method of teaching a robot including providing a pin at a location within a work station, and the robot in an area adjacent to the station. The robot having an arm and an end effector that pivots. The end effector has a through-beam sensor including a light emitter and a light receiver to sense when an object is present therebetween. The robot is moved to perform sensing operations in which the sensor senses the pin, such operations are performed while a position and/or an orientation of the end effector are varied to gather sensed position and orientation data. The sensing operations are performed such that the pin is located at different distances between the emitter and the receiver as the robot moves the sensor across the pin. Calculations are performed on the data to determine the location of the pin with respect to a coordinate system of the robot.

Abstract: A power conversion device connected in parallel to a second power conversion device including power conversion circuitry that performs power conversion by changing a connection state between first multiple lines on a primary side and second multiple lines on a secondary side, baseline selection circuitry that selects one of the second multiple lines on the secondary side as a baseline and partial modulation control circuitry that controls the power conversion circuitry to maintain a state in which the baseline is connected to one of the first multiple lines on the primary side and to change a connection state between other second multiple lines on the secondary side and the first multiple lines on the primary side, wherein the baseline selection circuitry switches a line selected as the baseline based on a switching timing used by second baseline selection circuitry of the second power conversion device to select a second baseline.

Abstract: An encoder includes a disc and a sensor. The disc has a circular surface with a central axis and is rotatable around the central axis. The disc has a slit row provided on the circular surface. The slit row includes slits arranged in a circumferential direction of the circular surface around the central axis and in a radial direction of the circular surface. The sensor is provided opposite to the slit row on circular surface. The sensor has a first light receiver and a second light receiver. The first light receiver is configured to output a first light receiving signal as the slit row rotates along the circumferential direction when the disc rotates around the central axis. The second light receiver is configured to output a second light receiving signal as the slit row moves along the radial direction when the disc rotates around the central axis.

Abstract: A control system includes multiple industrial devices each belonging to one or more communication domains of multiple communication domains set in the same industrial communication network such that industrial devices belonging to the same communication domain communicate with each other. One or more industrial devices of the industrial devices include processing circuitry that stores domain information indicating whether or not the one or more communication domains to which the one or more industrial devices belong is a secure domain in which secure communication is performed, performs security processing related to the secure communication when the domain information indicates the secure domain, and performs the secure communication based on the security processing.

Abstract: A planning system includes search circuitry configured to run a simulation to repeatedly generate candidate positions which are candidates for a target position with respect to a motion of a robot, and selection circuitry configured to select the target position among the candidate positions. The search circuitry includes evaluation circuitry configured to calculate an evaluation value corresponding to each of the candidate positions, estimation circuitry configured to generate a calculation model showing a relationship between each of the candidate positions and the evaluation value with a regression analysis, and setting circuitry configured to set a new candidate position based on the calculation model.

Abstract: A robot includes a base plate rotatable around a rotation axis, a first arm connected to the base plate at a first axis which is perpendicular to the rotation axis and around which the first arm is rotatable, a second arm connected to the first arm at a second axis which is parallel to the first axis and around which the second arm is rotatable, a third arm connected to the second arm at a third axis which is parallel to the first axis and around which the third arm is rotatable, a turnable link connected to the third arm at a fourth axis which is perpendicular to the third axis and around which the turnable link is rotatable, a distal-end swingable portion connected to the turnable link at a fifth axis which is perpendicular to the fourth axis and around which the distal-end swingable portion is rotatable, a distal end connected to the distal-end swingable portion at a sixth axis which is perpendicular to the fifth axis and around which the distal end is rotatable, and a welder connected to the distal end.

Abstract: An abnormality information estimation system includes processing circuitry that identifies, based on operation data related to an operation of an industrial device that controls a mechanism, multiple unit phenomena due to the operation, and estimates abnormality information about an abnormality occurring in the mechanism based on the multiple of unit phenomena.

Abstract: A system for estimating an abnormality includes an industrial device that controls one or more jigs such that the one or more jigs press an object to perform a work process, and processing circuitry that acquires operation data that is related to an operation of the industrial device and is measured at multiple time points after the object is pressed by the one or more jigs, and perform an estimation estimating an abnormality based on the operation data acquired.

Abstract: Provided is a communication system, in which a first industrial machine and a second industrial machine are configured to communicate to/from each other, the communication system comprising circuitry configured to synchronize first time information updated by the first industrial machine and second time information updated by the second industrial machine with each other, wherein the second industrial machine is configured to: acquire state data on the second industrial machine; and transmit to the first industrial machine the second time information at a time when the state data is acquired and the state data.

Abstract: A transfer system includes a hand that supports a workpiece to be transported; an arm that moves the hand; a scanning controller that moves the hand by the arm along a scanning direction that intersects sides which are provided to be fixed to the hand and not parallel with each other, such that the sides pass a known reference position in a transfer path of the workpiece; and a position detector that detects a positional deviation of the hand in a direction intersecting the scanning direction, based on a timing at which one of the side reaches the reference position and a timing at which the other side reaches the reference position RP, while the scanning controller is moving the hand.

Abstract: An encoder includes a scale and a sensor. The scale has first and second absolute patterns. The sensor includes a light source, and first and second absolute light receivers. The first and second absolute light receivers receive light from the first and second absolute patterns, respectively. The first absolute light receiver receives light from the first pattern and includes first and second light receiving elements. Each first light receiving elements outputs a first signal with a first phase. Each second light receiving elements outputs a first signal with a second phase. The first and second light receiving elements are arranged alternately. The second absolute light receiver includes third and fourth light receiving elements. Each third light receiving element outputs a second signal with the first phase. The third and fourth light receiving elements are arranged alternately. Each fourth light receiving element outputs a second signal with the second phase.

Abstract: Provided is a production system including: a first industrial machine; and a second industrial machine configured to periodically communicate to and from the first industrial machine. The second industrial machine is configured to transmit its data to the first industrial machine through use of each of a plurality of periodic regions included in one period.

Abstract: A motor control system includes host control circuitry configured to generate a first control command; a plurality of motor control apparatuses configured to control a plurality of motors, respectively, based on the first control command; and reference information output circuitry configured to output reference information to one of the plurality of motor control apparatuses which is configured to control one of the plurality of motors. The reference information relates to control of the plurality of motors. Each of the plurality of motor control apparatuses corresponds to a corresponding motor among the plurality of motors and includes information sharing circuitry configured to share the reference information among the plurality of motor control apparatuses via data communication; command conversion circuitry configured to convert the reference information into a second control command; and motor control circuitry configured to control the corresponding motor based on the second control command.

Abstract: A learning system includes real environment image acquisition circuitry, virtual environment image generation circuitry, and GAN learning circuitry. The real environment image acquisition circuitry is configured to acquire a real environment image indicating a real environment in which real objects and a real background are provided. The virtual environment image generation circuitry is configured to generate a virtual environment image indicating a virtual environment in which virtual objects and a virtual background are provided. The virtual environment image includes at least one of the virtual background and the virtual objects which have a different color or different colors different from colors of the real background and the real objects. The GAN learning circuitry is configured to perform GAN (Generative Adversarial Networks) learning via which the virtual environment image is got more similar to the real environment image based on the real environment image and the virtual environment image.

Abstract: An abnormality determination system includes first data acquisition circuitry configured to acquire time-series data relating to an operation of a device, sample data creation circuitry configured to create sample data based on abnormality time-series data which the first data acquisition circuitry acquires while an abnormality occurs in the operation of the device, and first abnormality determination circuitry configured to determine the abnormality in the operation of the device based on the time-series data and the sample data.

Abstract: A coating system includes a first robot configured to open an opening/closing portion of a vehicle body and a second robot configured to coat an interior of the vehicle body through the opening/closing portion opened by the first robot. The first robot has a first base via which the first robot is mounted to a structure forming a coating area. The second robot has a second base via which the second robot is mounted. The second base is mounted below the first base in a vertical direction.

Abstract: A distributed motor control system includes motor control devices that individually control motors that coordinately drive an industrial machine. Each of at least two motor control devices of the motor control devices includes processing circuitry that performs sharing processing including sharing coordinated control data, used in coordinated driving of the industrial machine between the at least two motor control devices, via data communication, and control a corresponding motor using the coordinated control data shared via the sharing-processing.