Abstract: A method for overlaying AR objects on an environmental image representing the environment includes recording a depth image of the environment from a point of vision; modifying the representation of an AR object to be placed in the environmental image in terms of how it appears from the point of vision at a pre-defined spot in the environmental image; determining how the parts of the AR object facing the point of vision are arranged in relation to an associated image point of the depth image, from the point of vision; modifying at least the representation of parts of the AR object in a pre-determined manner in relation to the apparent depth in the image; and overlaying the processed AR object on the environmental image. A device for overlaying AR objects on an environmental image displaying the environment operates according to the method steps.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for creating a robot model (17) of an industrial robot (1) which has a robotic arm (2) having a plurality of successive limbs (3-8) which are adjustable by means of drives (11-16) via transmissions (5) in relation to axes (A1-A2), controlled by a control device (10) of the industrial robot (1). According to the invention, the robotic arm (2) is moved in a plurality of poses. At least one of the limbs (4) is moved in the same first movement direction (18) by means of the drive (11) thereof at least upon approaching the individual poses. In order to obtain the robot model (17), the robotic arm (2) is measured at each of the poses thereof.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 15, 2010
Date of Patent:
April 14, 2015
Assignee:
KUKA Roboter GmbH
Inventors:
Gernot Nitz, Dietmar Tscharnuter, Wolfgang Michel, Rene Rossig, Michael Muller
Abstract: The invention relates to a robot arm of an industrial robot. The robot arm includes a flange provided to secure an end effector and several sequentially-positioned members connected by means of links, of which one of the members is mounted immediately before the flange, and the flange is mounted to rotate with respect to an axis relative to this member. To adjust the flange with respect to the member mounted immediately before the flange, the robot arm comprises an adjustment device that includes a base carrier is detachably attachable to the flange particularly by means of screws, with an adjustment means disposed on the base carrier that interacts with a counter-adjustment means disposed on the member mounted immediately before the flange.
Abstract: A method for referencing a drive position of an electric drive of a gripper half of a production gripper in a closed position of two gripper halves includes closing the open gripper halves, determining multiple actual positions of an electric drive and tracking error values of the electric drive in a time interval during the closing of the gripper halves until beyond a point in time in which the closed position is reached, determining a straight line based on the ascertained tracking error values depending on a related time-tracking-error function, determining the instant of the zero crossing of the straight line of the time-tracking-error function, and determining the actual position of the electric drive that corresponds to the instant of the zero crossing of the straight line of the time-tracking-error-function. A production gripper and a respective control device for operating the production gripper are set up to carry out such a method.
Abstract: In a method and device for depalletizing stack containers, the stacked containers are supported by at least one support base, and the stacked containers on the support base are frictionally engaged and lifted on two opposite sides thereof.
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out a dynamic range compression in traffic photography for representation having greater detail fidelity in images created in connection with traffic monitoring installations. The problem addressed by the invention is that of finding a possibility for achieving, in the case of digitally obtained images in traffic photography, whilst precluding the different subjective influences on the part of the processing personnel, a representation of the dark regions with greater detail fidelity, without the information of the brighter regions being lost in the process. According to the invention, this problem is solved by means of a method for carrying out a specific dynamic range compression in traffic photography.
Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for detecting and documenting the speeds of a plurality of vehicles in an image document. The plurality of vehicles drive simultaneously through the measurement zone of a radiation-based, multitarget-capable measuring arrangement. Vehicle-specific measurement data are acquired from the measurement results, and measurement data sets are formed from these vehicle-specific measurement data and stored. One of the vehicles driving at a speed above a limiting value causes a camera to be triggered. An image document in which a speed is displayed so as to be assigned to the imaged vehicles is generated from the image data acquired by the camera and from the last stored measurement data set.
Abstract: A device for a system for traffic monitoring of vehicles in road traffic, the device having a first mounting frame and a second mounting frame, which can be secured relative to each other by inner fixing elements. At least the first mounting frame has a cylindrical, especially cuboidal, shape. At least one device for recording a traffic situation can be disposed or is disposed in the first mounting frame and wherein at least the first mounting frame is accessible from four sides.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 23, 2014
Publication date:
October 23, 2014
Applicant:
JENOPTIK Robot GmbH
Inventors:
Volker PAETZOLDT, Thomas BUENGER, Stephan MASERSKI, Joerg FRIESSNER
Abstract: A method for detecting a traffic violation in a traffic light zone through rear end measurement by a FMCW radar device (1). A specific position (sP1) assigned to the front of a vehicle (3) and the radial velocity are derived from the measurement signal obtained at a first measurement time (t1), and a first anticipated position (eP1) for the front of the vehicle is calculated by the distance-time rule at the second measurement time (t2) by means of the time period between the first measurement time (t1) and the second measurement time (t2). Through repeated calculation of an anticipated position for the front of the vehicle at further measurement times, an anticipated time when the front of the vehicle crosses a stop line (5) defining the traffic light zone is predicted iteratively with the determined vehicle velocity.
Abstract: The invention relates to a machine comprising a first member, a rotatable second member rotatable relative to the first member relative to an axis, a control device, a drive connected with the control device for moving the two members relative to one another, and a first Hall sensor connected with the control device and arranged on the first member. On the second member, a first, second and third magnet are arranged next to each other on a common circular trajectory such, that during a rotation of the two members relative to one another, the first Hall sensor is located at a specific position in the detection zone of the magnets. The second magnet which is developed as the center magnet is facing towards the first Hall sensor with another magnetic pole than the first and third magnet.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 11, 2012
Date of Patent:
September 9, 2014
Assignee:
KUKA Roboter GmbH
Inventors:
Gernot Nitz, Stefan Roth, Dietmar Tscharnuter
Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring device (20) for ascertaining a torque acting on an axis (A2,) and to a robot (1) with a robot arm (2) having a plurality of members which are rotatably mounted in reference to axes (A1-A6). The robot (1) also has the measuring device (20), in order to determine for at least one of the axes (A2) the torque exerted on that axis (A2).
Abstract: A handling system and method for automatically moving a gravity-based load body using a robot. The load body is supported by a load body holding means connected to an end effector flange of the robot. A gravity compensation device includes a connector element acting on an element or the end effector flange of the robot to compensate for the gravity of the load body.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
April 5, 2012
Date of Patent:
August 19, 2014
Assignee:
KUKA Roboter GmbH
Inventors:
Sven Brudniok, Günter Schreiber, Johann Maischberger
Abstract: In order to determine a virtual sensor tool center point sensor TCP of a light section sensor, the invention provides that: the sensor TCP is placed in sufficient concordance with a point on a line on a surface a so-called feature of a reference part with a known location; a normal to the surface of the reference part is determined; the Z direction of the sensor is brought in concordance with the normal of the surface of the reference part, and; a defined alignment of the sensor with the line of the feature is determined.
Abstract: A method according to the present invention for changing of an operating mode of at least one industrial control (1-1) of a plurality of networked industrial controls (1-1, 1-2), in particular of a robot control, comprises the steps of: sending a first packet (I-1) via a network (3) of the networked industrial controls (1-1, 1-2); receiving said first packet (I-1) by a receiving means (1-1.1) of at least one industrial control; and changing of said industrial control from a first operating mode (A) into a second operating mode (H) on basis of said received first packet (I-1) if the first packet (I-1) is addressed to said industrial control, wherein in the first opening mode (I) and in the second operating mode (II) different groups of components (1.1-1, 1-1.3, 1-1.4, 1-1.5, 1-1.6) of the industrial control (1-1) are supplied with energy.
Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial robot, having a multiple-axis robot arm, with a base, a carousel that is rotatably supported relative to the base in reference to an axis and a mechanical stop device provided to limit a rotary motion of the carousel relative to the base. The stop device has a slider situated on the base, with stops situated at its ends, a trailing stop situated in the slider and a drive dog situated on the carousel. The drive dog and the slider are designed so that the drive dog is introduced into the slider by a corresponding rotary motion of the carousel relative to the axis and pushes the trailing stop against the relative stop. The trailing stop includes a plastically deformable damping element, which is provided to brake the carousel due to a plastic deformation caused by the trailing stop being pushed against the relevant stop by the drive dog.
Abstract: The invention is directed to a method for classifying a moving vehicle. The object of the invention is to find a novel possibility for classifying vehicles moving in traffic which allows a reliable automatic classification based on two-dimensional image data. This object is met according to the invention in that an image of a vehicle is recorded by means of a camera and the position and perspective orientation of the vehicle are determined therefrom, rendered two-dimensional views are generated from three-dimensional vehicle models which are stored in a database in positions along an anticipated movement path of the vehicle and are compared with the recorded image of the vehicle, and the vehicle is classified from the two-dimensional view found to have the best match by assignment of the associated three-dimensional vehicle model.
Abstract: The invention is directed to a method and an arrangement for detecting a traffic violation in a traffic light zone through rear end measurement by a FMCW radar device. For this purpose, a vehicle driving through a radar beam of a FMCW radar device, whose first outer edge beam horizontally forms an obtuse angle with the roadway edge, is measured at its front end, flank and rear end. The vehicle length is determined from the obtained measurement signals and added to the specific radial distance of the vehicle, which is determined close to a stop line through the vehicle rear, and a prediction is made based on the vehicle speed about the vehicle front driving over the stop line.
Abstract: Disclosed is a trailer for traffic monitoring that comprises means which enable the wheels to be raised and lowered as well as at least one system for detecting and documenting red light and/or speed infringements arranged in such a way that it can be integrated into the body of the trailer.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
July 25, 2012
Date of Patent:
June 24, 2014
Assignee:
Jenoptik Robot GmbH
Inventors:
Martin Schaufelberger, Andres Kellenberger
Abstract: The invention is concerning a robotic arm that features several consecutive mobile links and motors associated with axes relative to one another for the moving of the links. At least one of the links is selectively mountable in at least two configurations relative to its adjacent links.
Abstract: An electronic power circuit, electrical machine and a method for verifying the functionality of an electronic power circuit. The invention relates to an electronic power circuit, an electrical machine with the electronic power circuit and a method for verifying the functionality of the electronic power circuit. The electronic power circuit comprises a power unit with at least one power semi-conductor switch, which is equipped to generate a pulsed electrical voltage for an electrical consumer from an electrical voltage on the basis of an alternating powering on and off of the at least one power semiconductor switch, and control electronics equipped to control the power semiconductor switch for the alternating powering on and off.