Abstract: Provided is a robot control device that can suppress the stoppage of operations due to the detection of a contact error. The robot control device controls a robot that implements welding in association with contact with a to-be-welded object, said device comprising: an action stoppage unit that stops the action of the robot if detected that the robot has been subjected to an external force equal to or greater than a threshold; an instructing unit that instructs a welding power supply device to start welding; and a detection sensitivity adjustment unit that lowers the sensitivity at which as external force is detected at the action stoppage unit during a period of time from the point in time at which the instructing unit instructs the welding power supply device to start welding until a prescribed wait time has elapsed.

Abstract: A calculation device, a calculation method, and a storage medium are provided. The present invention is provided with: a first calculation unit which, with respect to input data, performs calculations relating to predetermined processing by using a first model in which a corresponding relationship between input data and output data changes by performing machine learning that uses learning data, and outputs a first output; a second calculation unit which, with respect to input data, performs calculations relating to predetermined processing using a second model for which the correspondence relationship between input data and output data is fixed, and outputs a second output; and a comparison unit which, on the basis of a comparison result obtained by comparing the first output and the second output with a prescribed determination standard, outputs the first output, the second output, or a third output that is a combination of the first and second outputs.

Abstract: An automatic generation method for a robot return-to-base code includes the following steps that: on the basis of a preset signal collection mode, a robot collects a guide signal which is sent by a charging base and distributed within a preset range (S1); the robot transmits signal information and position information of the robot recorded when the guide signal is collected to a data processing device (S2); and the data processing device generates a robot return-to-base code corresponding to the charging base according to the received signal information and position information (S3). By means of the information collected by the robot in different modes, the data processing device automatically generates, according to the information, the robot return-to-base code corresponding to the charging base, so that research and development personnel do not need to delve into a robot return-to-base algorithm or write a specific return-to-base code.

Abstract: An agricultural mower system includes: a towing vehicle including an engine and a tongue coupler and defining a towing centerline; a mower including a frame carrying cutters and pivotably coupled to a tongue that is pivotably coupled to the tongue coupler, the frame defining a mower centerline that is offset from the towing centerline, the tongue defining a towing angle with respect to the towing centerline and a mower angle with respect to the mower centerline; a mower angle actuator coupled to the tongue and the frame; and a controller configured to: determine the towing angle has changed by a change amount relative to a defined towing angle; determine a turn compensation amount for the mower angle as a function of the change amount and a constant; and output a compensation signal to cause the mower angle actuator to adjust the mower angle by the determined turn compensation amount.

Abstract: Proactively mitigating risk to a vehicle traversing a vehicle transportation network is described. First and second hazard zones for first and second objects ahead of the vehicle are respectively determined. The first hazard zone includes a first target lateral constraint that extends over a left lane boundary, and the second hazard zone includes a second target lateral constraint that extends over a right lane boundary. The lateral constraints separately allow the vehicle to avoid the objects without a speed constraint. Where the first and second hazard zones overlap in the longitudinal direction, a lateral buffer is allocated between the lateral constraints to generate first and second allocated lateral constraints. Longitudinal constraints are respectively determined based on times of arrival at each hazard zone. Using the constraints, a proactive trajectory is determined that includes a lateral contingency, a longitudinal contingency, or both. The vehicle is controlled according to the trajectory.

Abstract: An item identification and pose determination system is described for use in purposeful selection of items from a collection. The system may be configured to determine a pose of one or more items in a collection of items based on bounding box information associated with the item as well as depth data of the present location of the item. The bounding box is aligned to the depth data using a machine learning algorithm and randomized search algorithm and the pose of the item enables determination of grasp locations for removing the item from the collection and intentionally placing at a destination in a particular pose.

Abstract: A calibration pod for calibrating a robotic wafer pod handling apparatus includes a pod body configured for handling by the robotic pod handling apparatus, at least one laser disposed on a bottom of the pod body, and a power module disposed on or in the pod body and operatively connected to power the at least one laser. In a manufacturing method, the pod body comprises a wafer carrier for carrying a cassette of semiconductor wafers, which has a bottom with a plurality of holes for aligning placement of the wafer carrier in a load port of a semiconductor device fabrication facility. The at least one laser here includes a plurality of lasers corresponding to the plurality of holes in the bottom of the wafer carrier, and each laser is mounted in a respective hole of the bottom of the wafer carrier.

Abstract: Provided are a lane change information sharing device and a vehicle with which information for making a lane change can be shared between vehicles forming a vehicle group. The lane change information sharing device is equipped with: a determination section for determining, when a first vehicle forming a vehicle group changes lanes from a first lane to a second lane, which is adjacent to the first lane, whether an obstruction exists in a virtual route from the first lane to the second lane of the first vehicle; and an information-sharing control execution section for executing a control for transmitting information about the first possible lane change region, which is a region that can be used by the first vehicle when the first vehicle changes lanes from the first lane to the second lane, to a second vehicle forming the vehicle group together with the first vehicle, when the determination section has determined that no obstruction exists.

Abstract: A robot hand controller is provided for controlling operations of a robot (e.g., an industrial robot), which is configured to be held with a position and posture of an arm being changed by a user, and a hand mounted on the arm and held with an open/closed position being changed by a user. In the controller, the position and posture of the arm and the open/closed position of the hand are detected. A gripping force of the hand is detected. A reception unit receives an operation of recording a state of the arm and the hand, and a recording unit records, as state information in time series, the position and the posture, the open/closed position, and the gripping force, which are detected when the operation is received by the reception unit. Operations of the arm and the hand are controlled to reproduce the recorded state information recorded in time series.

Abstract: Systems and methods for personalized route prediction including receiving, at a first time, first input data associated with a first route; populating a first database with the input data; receiving, at a third time, second input data associated with a second route; comparing the second input data to the first input data included within the first database; determining, based on the comparison, a first cluster including the first data and the second input data or a second cluster including the second input data; populating a second database based on the first cluster or the second cluster; determining, using the first database and at a second time, at least one of: predicted departure data, predicted destination data, and/or predicted route data; and causing, based on the predicted departure data, predicted destination data, and/or predicted route data, to perform an action in association with a vehicle.

Abstract: The method can include performing inference using the system; and can optionally include training the system components. The method functions to automatically interpret flight commands from a stream of air traffic control (ATC) radio communications. The method can additionally or alternatively function to train and/or update a natural language processing system based on ATC communications. Additionally, the method can include or be used in conjunction with collision avoidance and/or directed perception for traffic detection associated therewith.

Abstract: A method for force or torque sensing in an electromechanical actuator-driven robot comprising one or more links, one or more joints, an end effector and a controller is provided, the method comprising: estimating a first set of load torques in one or more joints in a given configuration of the robot without external force or load applied to the end effector; identifying gravitational and frictional components in the first set of load torques; estimating a second set of load torques in the one or more joints in the given configuration of the robot with an external force or load applied to the end effector; calculating a difference between the second set of load torques and the first set of load torques, taking into account the identified gravitational and frictional components; calculating an external force or torque acting on the end effector based on the difference between the second set of load torques and the first set of load torques using a Jacobian matrix for the given configuration of the robot; and pr

Abstract: A method for predicting a movement of a hybrid behavior vehicle, the method may include receiving video streams of driving scenes; analyzing the video streams by creating an environment-based behavioral model of each hybrid-behavior vehicle of the vehicles to provide multiple environment-based behavioral models; wherein each environment-based behavioral model associates environmental elements located at an environment of a hybrid-behavior vehicle to one or more predicted behaviors of the hybrid behavior vehicle; and responding to the creation of the multiple environment-based behavioral models.

Abstract: Techniques for operating an autonomous follower vehicle that is following a leader vehicle. A desired path to be traversed by the follower may be determined from a Leader Follower Relative Pose (LFRP) derived from sensor data. A pursuit pose is derived along the desired path from the present leader pose, such as either interpolating backward or forward. As a result, the pursuit distance no longer needs to be the same as the distance derived solely from the LFRP. This permits steering controls (lateral position) to be freed from requirements to satisfy safety constraints that might otherwise be imposed by other considerations (such as longitudinal spacing between vehicles).

Abstract: A moving body including a first external world information acquisition device is autonomously movable based on first external world information acquired by the first external world information acquisition device. An outer shell member of the moving body includes an upper surface facing upward of the moving body. The first external world information acquisition device is provided on the upper surface. The first external world information acquisition device is arranged below an uppermost portion of the upper surface in an upper-lower direction of the moving body.

Abstract: Various embodiments of the technology described herein generally relate to systems and methods for trajectory optimization with machine learning techniques. More specifically, certain embodiments relate to using neural networks to quickly predict optimized robotic arm trajectories in a variety of scenarios. Systems and methods described herein use deep neural networks to quickly predict optimized robotic arm trajectories according to certain constraints. Optimization, in accordance with some embodiments of the present technology, may include optimizing trajectory geometry and dynamics while satisfying a number of constraints, including staying collision-free and minimizing the time it takes to complete the task.

Abstract: A growspace automation system and method. The system includes a grow space with localization structures and a mobile robot. The mobile robot comprises sensors, a mobility mechanism, and a plurality of mobility modules. The mobile robot is configured to automate growspace processes, such as transport, watering, sensing, or cleaning.

Abstract: A motion path generation device generates a motion path of a robot that has a plurality of joints and a plurality of shafts. Adjacent two of the plurality of shafts are connected by a corresponding one of the plurality of joints. The motion path generation device generates a via point candidate that is a candidate of a next via point to be connected to a parent via point. The motion path generation device adds the via point candidate as a new via point in response to determining that the via point candidate does not interfere with an obstacle.

Abstract: An obstacle detection device detects an obstacle existing in one or more monitoring areas that are set to correspond to a movable part. A state determination unit determines whether a state of the actuator is a standby state or a suspended state under circumstances where the actuator is at a stop. On determination that the state of the actuator is the standby state, a display control unit executes automatic image output that is processing for causing a display device to display a monitoring image corresponding to a monitoring area in which the obstacle is detected out of the one or more monitoring areas. On determination that the state of the actuator is the suspended state, the display control unit stops the execution of the automatic image output.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a coating method including the specification of at least one coating path for moving a paint impact point along at least one coating path over the surface, the at least one coating path running through a surface region of the component to be coated which is bounded by edges. The disclosure also includes, presetting reference values of the spatial edge point positions and/or of the edge point orientations of the surface region, spatial measurement of position, orientation and/or shape of the component to be coated or of a part of the component to be coated with a measuring system, where, in the course of the spatial measurement, measured values of the edge point positions and/or of the edge point orientations of the edge points on the edges of the surface region are measured.