Abstract: A robot system including at least one robot arm and a control unit which is designed such that it can pre-set at least one pre-defined operation carried out by the robot system. The robot system also includes a display device and at least one input device applied to the robot arm, which is designed such that the sequence of operations of the robot system is set and/or the pre-defined operations of the robot system is parameterized by means of the input device, and which is also designed such that it allows the user to control, on a graphic user interface, represented by the control unit on the display device, the setting of the pre-defined operations of the robot system, the setting of the sequence of operations and/or the parameterization of the pre-defined operations for the robot system.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing a robot with a robotic arm. Said method can be carried out using an assembly robot wherein first housing segments are arranged in an intended sequence for the robotic arm, drive units are inserted into the first housing segments and the respective complimentary second housing segments are placed on the first housing segments comprising the drive units.

Abstract: A method and device for the open-loop/closed-loop control of a robot joint that is driven by an electric motor are provided, wherein the robot joint has a current sensor that comprises first sensor electronics for detecting a first operating current of the electric motor, a first position sensor for detecting a drive position of a drive train of the robot joint, a second position sensor for defecting an output position of an output train of the robot joint, and a first torque sensor for detecting a torque in the output train, wherein the electric motor is controlled by open-loop/closed-loop control on the basis of a pre-determined target control variable. The method comprises: providing measured values; checking for the presence of a fault by the first fault detector when the measured values and/or time derivatives thereof fail to satisfy first threshold values; and checking for a fault with further fault detectors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for controlling and regulating motors, MOTm, of a robot, with m=1, 2, . . . M, wherein the robot has robot components that are interconnected via a number, N, of articulated connections GELn, the joint angles of the articulated connections GELn can be adjusted by means of associated motors MOTm; Z(tk) is a state of the robot components in an interval, tk; and a first system of coupled motion equations BGG is predetermined and describes rigid-body dynamics or flexible-body dynamics of the connected robot components.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for performing open-loop and closed-loop control of a robot manipulator that has an end effector, driven by a number M of actuators ACTm.

Abstract: A robot arm allowing an improved ergonomic operation during a learning programming process of a robot having a robot arm with a number N of arm components An, which can be connected to a robot body via a number N of actuator-drivable joint connections GVn, where n=1, 2, . . . , N.

Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method of controlling a robot manipulator, which includes a sensor for detecting an external force during an interaction of the robot manipulator with an environment. The proposed method is characterized in that a force-time curve is determined for the external force acting on the robot manipulator detected by the sensor, and, if the value of the detected external force is higher than a defined threshold value, a safety mode of the robot manipulator is activated, which controls a movement speed and/or a movement direction depending on the detected external force, wherein the movement speed and/or the movement direction of the robot manipulator is/are controlled depending on predetermined medical injury parameters before the safety mode is activated.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing a robot with a robotic arm. Said method can be carried out using an assembly robot wherein first housing segments are arranged in an intended sequence for the robotic arm, drive units are inserted into the first housing segments and the respective complimentary second housing segments are placed on the first housing segments comprising the drive units.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a method and to a device for defining a movement sequence for a multi-axis manipulator of a robot system, which manipulator has a plurality of elements which form different rotational axes, and an end element for interaction with an effector, wherein the effector is intended to carry out at least one arbitrary operation in a working space, and wherein in order to carry out the at least one arbitrary operation the end element of the manipulator is to be transferred into an arbitrary target pose with respect to the working space, wherein the manipulator moves in a plurality of steps to the target pose while approaching the end element, and for each step at least one defined impedance pattern and/or admittance pattern is defined with respect to at least one axis which forms the axis of a coordinate system which is linked to the manipulator.

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: This invention concerns an effector unit (1) for a robot, which can be locked and unlocked via a relative movement of the robot, so that several effectors (3) can be used in the effector unit (1). In addition, the invention concerns a corresponding method for automatically changing effectors.

Abstract: The invention relates to a robot system comprising at least one robot arm and a control unit which is designed such that it can pre-set at least one pre-defined operation that can be carried out by the robot system. The robot system also comprises a display device and at least one input device applied to the robot arm, which is designed such that the sequence of operations of the robot system can be set and/or the pre-defined operations of the robot system can be parameterised by means of the input device, and which is also designed such that it allows the user to control, on a graphic user interface, represented by the control unit on the display device, the setting of the pre-defined operations of the robot system, the setting of the sequence of operations and/or the parameterisation of the pre-defined operations for the robot system.

Abstract: A method and arrangement for reducing the torque ripple of a brushless DC motor having a stator, a rotor, and a motor control unit, via which motor control unit the motor is controlled in a polyphase manner, having a data memory for storing rotational angle-dependent correction data of the control current of the motor, which are impressed on the instantaneous values for controlling the motor. In a first step, for each position of the rotor, the phase currents holding the rotor in this position are determined and are used to derive reference current data, which is stored in a table of the data memory together with the respective position data of the rotor, determined by the position sensor. In a second step, during continuous operation of the motor, the position-dependent reference current data stored in the data memory is combined with the control current of the motor.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an arrangement for reducing the torque ripple of a brushless DC motor (6) having a stator, a rotor, and a motor control unit, via which motor control unit the motor is controlled in a polyphase manner, having a data memory (1) for storing rotational angle-dependent correction data of the control current of the motor (6), which are impressed on the instantaneous values for controlling the motor. According to the invention, in a first step, for each position of the rotor, the phase currents holding the rotor in this position are determined and are used to derive reference current data, which is stored in a table of the data memory (19) together with the respective position data of the rotor, determined by the position sensor, and, in a second step, during continuous operation of the motor, the position-dependent reference current data stored in the data memory is combined with the control current of the motor.