Patents Assigned to Roboter GmbH
  • Method for Classifying Moving Vehicles by Tracking a Position Value of the Vehicle
    Publication number: 20140049419
    Abstract: Method in which vehicles are measured repeatedly while traveling through a radar cone, and specific position values are formed so as to be associated with the measurement times. This can be a specific radial distance or a specific object angle. The change over time is analyzed with respect to a section of discontinuity. The length of this section depends upon the length of the vehicle and makes classification possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Applicant: JENOPTIK Robot GmbH
    Inventor: Michael LEHNING
  • Cable protection device for an industrial robot and industrial robot with such a cable protection device
    Patent number: 8642888
    Abstract: The invention relates to a conducting line protection device for an industrial robot having at least one power line, having a basic ring section, a hollow cylinder section whose diameter is matched to an inside diameter of a pipe component of the industrial robot that rotates relative to the conducting line protection device, an inner edge rounding section whose rounding radius is matched to a diameter of the power line, and a radial bearing section for rotatable support of the conducting line protection device relative to the pipe component of the industrial robot. The invention also relates to an industrial robot having such a conducting line protection device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Karlinger, Rainer Krumbacher
  • Hand-held device and method for detecting the spatial position of a working point of a manipulator
    Patent number: 8645098
    Abstract: According to the present invention a portable hand-held device (1) for detecting the spatial position of a working point of a manipulator, in particular of a robot, comprises handling means (2, 3) for handling the hand-held device by a user, means for detecting a position (4), wherein a spatial position of the means for detecting a position (4) is detectable; and a tactile element (5) which is connected, preferably detachably connected, to the means for detecting a position and at which a reference point (R) is defined, wherein the handling means (2, 3) and the means for detecting a position (4) are connected with one another by a joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2014
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Hietmann, Andreas Sedlmayr
  • Method and system for conclusively capturing a violation of the speed limit on a section of road
    Patent number: 8639435
    Abstract: By means of the method according to the invention, a vehicle is detected when it drives into and out of a specified section of a roadway, the detection time is acquired, and an image recording in which the vehicle registration plate of the vehicle is detected is produced so as to be associated with each detection time. The image recordings in which the same vehicle registration plate was determined are correlated, and an average speed is determined from the difference of the associated detection times and the known length of the section of road and is compared with a specified maximum speed. If a speeding violation is determined, a high-resolution image recording of the driver of the vehicle is generated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Jenoptik Robot GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Fliegen
  • Computerized method for loading a load carrier with packages
    Patent number: 8615386
    Abstract: In a computerized method, and a computer-readable medium encoded with programming instructions for implementing the method, multiple layers of packages stacked on a load carrier are virtually constructed in a computer and, for each of the layers, an automatic determination is made with regard to the additive pressure that each layer exerts on the respective layers therebelow in the stack. The packages are organized in the multiple layers in the virtual construction dependent on predetermined constraints for the respective additive pressures, and the virtual construction is made available at an output of the computer in a form allowing the actual loading of the load carrier with the packages to be guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Baldes, Gerda Ruge, Julian Haselmayr
  • Method and device for automated palletizing of packages
    Patent number: 8615321
    Abstract: In a method for automated palletizing of packages, in particular by means of a manipulator, packages are arranged on the edge of a loading area and, if possible, a virtual initial layer of multiple packages is initially generated and this layer is then centered relative to the loading area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Lars Baldes, Gerda Ruge, Julian Haselmayr
  • Method for Safely Identifying a Vehicle Captured by a Radiation Sensor in a Photograph
    Publication number: 20130307969
    Abstract: Method for securely identifying in an image recording (1) a vehicle (2) acquired by a radiation sensor, wherein the driving track traveled by the vehicle is determined from obtained measurement data pertaining to the position of the vehicle, this driving track being extrapolated over the image recording (1) and inserted into the image recording (1). A representative length of the vehicle is advantageously determined from obtained measurement data pertaining to speed and to the duration over which measurement data are acquired, and the driving track which is inserted into the image recording (1) is interrupted over the representative length starting at the photo point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2011
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: JENOPTIK Robot GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Gebauer
  • Industrial Robot With A Ring-Shaped Trailing Stop
    Publication number: 20130305866
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial robot which comprises a robot arm having multiple connecting links that are connected by means of joints, in which at least two adjacent connecting links, respectively, are connected by means of a joint, which is designed as a swivel joint, can be adjusted by means of a motor and is defined in its maximum rotatable adjustment angle by means of a mechanical stop device, which connecting links comprise a stop projection which is connected to one of the two adjacent connecting links, an engaging piece which is connected to the other one of the two adjacent connecting links and a drag stop which can be adjusted by the engaging piece, which drag stop comprises a drag stop body and an annular body which is connected with the drag stop body which is pivoted in an annular groove in an inner wall of a housing component of one of the two adjacent connecting links.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Krumbacher, Franz Liebl, Christoph Groll
  • Robot Arm With An Adjustment Device
    Publication number: 20130305868
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Liebl, Gernot Nitz
  • Method and automated manipulator system for palletizing packages dependent on a grip position of the packages
    Patent number: 8583277
    Abstract: In a method for palletizing packages using an automated manipulator, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium encoded with programming instructions for implementing the method, a sequence of grip positions is designated for accepting packages with the automated manipulator, and a supply of provided packages is automatically checked with regard to the grip positions of the packages in the supply. The supplied packages are palletized according to a predetermined initial palletizing pattern as long as the packages are supplied in the grip positions in the sequence. The packages are palletized by the manipulator according to an alternate palletizing pattern, different from the initial palletizing pattern, in the event that a package is not supplied to the manipulator in a grip position in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Kuehnemann, Lars Baldes, Gerda Ruge
  • Milling robot for processing the internal walls of inaccessible pipelines
    Patent number: 8573889
    Abstract: A milling robot used to process the internal walls of inaccessible pipelines with a milling robot arm. The milling robot arm supports a milling head that is deflectable via remote control in the direction of the inner wall of the pipe. The milling robot arm stiffens and bends more or less depending on the controlled pressure feed; the eccentric, torsionally rigid, fixed-length core that can only be deflected in one plane provides a high level of torsional rigidity and the outer casing that is stiffened by the controlled internal pressure provides for a high level of stiffness in the longitudinal and bending directions. The milling robot arm can be swiveled all the way around in the inner pipe to be processed with the aid of a supply hose that is rigid in terms of shear or a pneumatically controllable slew ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2013
    Assignee: IMS Robotics GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Bauer
  • Telepresence System
    Publication number: 20130282179
    Abstract: The invention relates to a telepresence system (1) with a human-machine interface (2), and with a teleoperator (3) designed to communicate bid sectionally with the human-machine interface (2) via a communications channel (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Jacob, Marc-Walter Ueberle, Thomas Neff, Martin Kuschel, Tobias Ortmaier
  • Method And Apparatus For Setting and Controlling A Manipulator Process
    Publication number: 20130282177
    Abstract: According to a method according to the invention for designating and/or controlling a manipulator process for a manipulator configuration (1, 2, 3) having at least one manipulator, in particular, an industrial robot, wherein the manipulator process exhibits a given oriented manipulator track for the manipulator configuration, at least one action by the manipulator configuration can be designated, or shall be executed, respectively, in particular, differently, in relation to a reverse movement running counter to the oriented manipulator track, and/or a return movement running in the same direction as the oriented manipulator track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 16, 2013
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Guenther Wiedemann, Andreas Hagenauer, Manfred Huettenhofer, Martin Weiss
  • Robot System Comprising A Robot And Two Devices That Can Be Connected To Said Robot In An Alternating Manner, And Method For Changing Said Devices
    Publication number: 20130274918
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for changing devices (W1, D1; W2, D2) which are connected to a robot (R) and which communicate with a robot application (APP), having the following steps: S2: detecting a disconnection of a communication with a first device (W1, D1); S3: removing an address entry (“MAC1/IP1”) for the first device from a communication index (ARP); S4: establishing communication with a second device (W2, D2); and S5: generating an address entry (“MAC2/IP1”) for the second device in the communication index.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Ovidiu Zurbau
  • Apparatus and method for receiving and transferring glass substrate plates
    Patent number: 8550765
    Abstract: An apparatus for transferring and accepting glass substrate plates includes a double fork gripper having two superimposed, individual fork grippers that are movable relative to one another perpendicular to their extension planes. The fork grippers may be inserted simultaneously therewith into a receiving station having at least two depositing planes so that relative movement of the individual fork grippers perpendicular to their extension planes transfers a glass substrate plate to the receiving station and receives another plate from the receiving station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Cottone, Martin Peghini
  • TESTING APPARATUS AND TESTING METHOD FOR A TRAFFIC MONITORING DEVICE WITH A LASER SCANNER
    Publication number: 20130258340
    Abstract: A testing apparatus and a testing method for a traffic monitoring device with a laser scanner. The testing apparatus has an adjusting plate which provides a receiving place for receiving a traffic monitoring device which is to be tested and a measuring board. A line pattern along an imaginary straight line extending at the height of the reference scanning plane is provided on the measuring board which has a matte black surface. Vertical lines and a diagonal line are arranged on the straight line, and the diagonal line forms an angle with the straight line, which angle is selected in such a way that laser pulses emitted by the laser scanner form at least three laser spots with a reference laser spot width and a reference laser spot length on the diagonal line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: JENOPTIK Robot GmbH
    Inventors: Michael TRUMMER, Michael LEHNING, Christoph GEBAUER
  • Method and system for depalletizing tires using a robot
    Patent number: 8538579
    Abstract: In a method and system for depalletizing tires using a robot, wherein the tires are randomly located on a carrier, the position and orientation of outer tires on the carrier are detected using a sensor, and a processor, using a signal from the sensor, determines a tire that can be gripped by a gripping tool of an industrial robot, and calculates a movement path for the gripping tool for that tire. If the calculated path is not collision-free, another tire from among the outer tires is selected, and a movement path for depalletizing that tire is determined. The procedure is repeated until a collision-free movement path for a tire from among the outer tires is established. The gripping tool is then guided according to this collision-free movement path to depalletize the tire having the collision-free path associated therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Cottone, Thorsten Eberhardt, Sven Heissmeyer, Alexander Hollinger, Martin Peghini
  • Method And Device For Controlling A Peripheral Component Of A Robot System
    Publication number: 20130238132
    Abstract: In a method according to the invention for controlling a peripheral component (1) of a robot system (2), a power output, in particular a force, of the peripheral component is adjusted on the basis of an ascertained force (F1; m3g+m3d(x3)2/dt2), said force acting dependent on at least one robot pose, in particular a robot path (x3(t)).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2011
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Johannes Kurth
  • Manipulator having a counterweight device comprising cantilevered arms
    Patent number: 8528439
    Abstract: The invention relates to a manipulator (1) comprising a plurality of members (12, 14) connected to each other by joints (A1-A6) that can be adjusted by drives (M1-M6), and a counterweight device (15) associated with one of the joints (A1-A6) and comprising a rod (19) coupled to a first member (12) connected to the joint (A1-A6) on one side and connected to a spring device (26) supported on a seat (25) on the other side, said seat being coupled to a second member (14) connected to the joint (A1-A6) by means of at least one bearing arrangement (18), comprising a first bearing component (17) and a second bearing component (16) connected to the second member (14). The seat (25) is connected to the first bearing component (17) by means of at least one cantilevered arm (23, 24).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Joachim Markert
  • Control Of A Robot
    Publication number: 20130218334
    Abstract: In addition to an automatic operating mode (“AUTOMATIC”), in which protective monitoring (1) is carried out, and a set-up operating mode (“SET-UP”), in which manual control input (3, 6) is provided, a method according to the invention for controlling a robot comprises a remote access operating mode (“REMOTE ACCESS”) in which the protective monitoring (1) is carried out and manual control input (3, 5, 7) is provided
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Hollmann