Abstract: Systems and methods for minimally invasive tele-surgery are described. For example, the disclosure describes methods for independently controlling motions of the robotic manipulator, cannula, and surgical instrument in various surgical contexts.

Abstract: A robot control system includes a relative relationship calculating section configured to calculate a relative relationship between a first member and a second member at least at one of a plurality of points based on data acquired by a vision sensor, a contact point determination section configured to determine a contact point between the first member and the second member based on the calculated relative relationship, a control point setting section configured to set a control point based on the determined contact point, and a fitting control section configured to control fitting of the plurality of points based on the set control point.

Abstract: An information providing method and apparatus a) transmits a request via a network, for recommended driving information for a first user to be received and displayed on a display of the first user, b) receives from the network driving data from a plurality of vehicles about how a plurality of users drive their vehicles including the first user, c) extracts a similar user from among the plurality of users who drives a vehicle with a predetermined similarity to how the first user drives a vehicle, and determines recommended driving information of the similar user from the similar user's driving history, d) transmits over the network to the first user the recommended driving information of the similar user, and e) displays on a display of the first user the recommended driving information of the similar user.

Abstract: Provided is a determination device capable of safely and reliably causing a vehicle on a side road to enter and merge into a main road when merging into the main road. Information is acquired that indicates the vehicle status of vehicles CA, etc., and vehicles Ca, etc., that are traveling on a side road SR that merges with a main road MR on which the vehicles CA, etc., are traveling. When, on the basis of said information, an intervehicular space is to be formed between the vehicles CA, etc., that will make it possible for a vehicle Ca, etc., to enter, the vehicles CA, etc., are caused to form an interval on the basis of the acceleration applied to each of the vehicles CA, etc., and the entering vehicle Ca, etc., is allowed to move to a position in the intervehicular space.

Abstract: A robot system has first and second joint control units that respectively calculate first and second current values to be supplied to first and second motors based on deviations between first and second operation targets for the motors that are input from a higher device and actual operation of output shafts of the motor, and control operation of the output shafts by supplying current to the motors based on the current values, and an error estimation unit estimating an error in operation of a second joint due to bending and/or twisting of a robot arm based on the first current value and the actual operation of the output shaft of the first motor, in which the second joint control unit calculates the second current value to control the rotation angle of the output shaft of the second motor in a manner compensating for an angle error of the second joint.

Abstract: A method for modifying a queue of vehicles. In one embodiment, the method includes at least one computer processor determining respective distance values between a first vehicle and one or more adjacent vehicles within a queue of vehicles. The method further includes determining a threshold distance value that corresponds to a distance required to extract the first vehicle from within the queue of vehicles. The method further includes determining a change of position corresponding to at least one adjacent vehicle to the first vehicle within the queue of vehicles based on the determined respective distance values, wherein the determined change in position moves the at least one adjacent vehicle to a distance value from the first vehicle that exceed the threshold distance value. The method further includes transmitting respective requests to the at least one adjacent vehicle to move to the determined change of position.

Abstract: An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and a processor configured to move the electronic device, obtain an image and location of the external electronic device, identify the external electronic device based on the obtained image, transmit the plurality of control commands to the identified external electronic device, monitor a response of the external electronic device, store an identifier of a first control command set and the location of the external electronic device, wherein the first control command is based on the monitoring, and the first control command set includes the first control command that performs a pre-specified first operation, receive a first input, move the electronic device based on the received first input and the location, and transmit the first control command to the external electronic device based on the received first input and the identifier of the first control command set.

Abstract: A method for controlling a robot includes the steps of: deciding whether there is a non-permanent object in a vicinity of the robot; if there is a non-permanent object, deciding whether the object qualifies for extended protection or not; and defining a safety zone around the object which the robot must not enter or in which a maximum allowed speed of the robot is less than outside the safety zone. The safety zone extends to a greater distance from the object if the object qualifies for extended protection than if it does not.

Abstract: A method for monitoring acceleration of a number A of axes of a multi-axis kinematic system utilizes a sampling process with a first sampling interval, wherein a first acceleration limit value assigned to the first sampling interval and a second different acceleration limit value is determined for the acceleration, where a second time interval is assigned to the second acceleration limit value, a plurality of position values of the axis is determined by sampling with the first sampling interval, a current acceleration is calculated via the ascertained position values, and the calculated current acceleration is monitored via a first instance of monitoring utilizing the first acceleration limit value and the assigned first sampling interval and, simultaneously, via a second instance of monitoring utilizing the second acceleration limit value and the assigned second time interval, such that acceleration of an axis is monitored using at least two acceleration limit values simultaneously.

Abstract: A remote control manipulator system includes a manipulator controlled remotely by an operator; a camera to capture an image including the manipulator; a posture sensor to detect posture data; an action instruction inputter with which the operator inputs an action instruction instructing action to move or stop the manipulator; a control device including a structural data storage to store manipulator structural data representing a structure of the manipulator, a model image generator to generate a model image with referring to the structural data storage and the posture data, and a presentation image generator to generate a presentation image by superimposing a model image on the captured image; and a display to display the presentation image.

Abstract: Examples provide a system for decanting items from a set of cases into a set of storage totes in preparation for induction into an automated tote storage device. A set of robotic decanting devices includes at least one robotic de-palletizing device configured to remove a selected case comprising a set of items from a pallet at a de-palletizing station. A stationary robotic case opener device opens each case as it moves along a conveyor device. A set of sensor devices scans cases and/or contents of cases to identify each item removed from each case. A stationary robotic picker device removes each item from each case and places each item into an appropriate destination tote. A robotic tote transfer device moves the destination tote to an induction point of the storage device. A decant manager component updates inventory to include items placed into each tote inducted into the storage device.

Abstract: A trajectory generation apparatus according to an embodiment includes an arithmetic unit capable of generating a positional trajectory of a movable part of a robot, in which: the arithmetic unit is further capable of generating a velocity trajectory of the movable part; and a predetermined time before switching a trajectory along which the movable part is moved from the velocity trajectory to the positional trajectory, the arithmetic unit predicts a position of the movable part at the time of the switching and generates the positional trajectory that starts from the predicted position.

Abstract: A driving assist method and a driving assist device is provided for controlling a transmission ratio of a continuously variable transmission, which steplessly shifts gears and outputs an engine rotation speed. The driving assist method and a driving assist device continuously performs downshifting until an upshift occurs, when the transmission ratio of the continuously variable transmission is controlled so that the engine rotational speed increases in conjunction with an increase in a vehicle speed and the upshift will be performed after the vehicle has accelerated.

Abstract: There is provided a method and an apparatus for controlling a robot arm. In this control scheme, a position error indicating a deviation between a command position, which is a control target position, and a current position, which is a position where the arm of the robot is currently located, is acquired. When the acquired position error exceeds a threshold, a new corrected command position between the current position and the command position is set. After the arm of the robot is moved to the corrected command position, a new corrected command position reset between the corrected command position serving as a new current position and the command position. Reconfiguration of a corrected command position is iterated until a current position of the robot arm becomes equal to the command position so that movement of the robot arm is achieved from the current position to the command position.

Abstract: A vehicle control apparatus is provided. The apparatus comprises a controller that performs following control of following the preceding vehicle based on the peripheral information. The controller controls traveling of a self-vehicle by setting one of a first state which requires driving preparation by a driver and a second state which does not require the driving preparation by the driver, controls the self-vehicle by setting the first state if a behavior amount of the preceding vehicle exceeds a threshold; and controls the vehicle by setting the second state if the behavior amount of the preceding vehicle does not exceed the threshold, and changes the threshold based on the peripheral information.

Abstract: A method of cooperatively controlling regenerative braking step by step for a vehicle, such as a rear-wheel-drive environmentally-friendly vehicle, performs a braking mode in accordance with a traveling risk degree determined in advance before initiating braking and changes the selectively performed braking mode by re-determining the traveling risk degree during a braking operation. The method includes: a first step of determining in advance the traveling risk degree before initiating braking; a second step of selectively performing any one of braking modes defined based on the traveling risk degree during braking; a third step of re-determining the traveling risk degree after the second step; and a fourth step of changing the selectively performed braking mode based on the traveling risk degree determined in the third step.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device and method of controlling a plurality of robots. According to an embodiment, a device and method of controlling a plurality of robots periodically measures variations in the density of people per unit quarter and deploys a robot, which is positioned close to a high-density unit quarter and has a low workload, in the unit quarter. According to an embodiment, the artificial intelligence (AI) module may be related to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), robots, augmented reality (AR) devices, virtual reality (VR) devices, and 5G service-related devices.

Abstract: A vehicle control device includes a tracking unit estimating a motion of a moving object, a model selection unit selecting a motion model corresponding to a moving object type, an abnormality determination unit determining a presence or absence of an abnormality of the estimation of the motion of the moving object based on the estimated moving object motion and the motion indicated by the motion model, and a control unit. A control mode in which the control unit controls traveling of a host vehicle when the abnormality determination unit determines that the abnormality is present differs from a control mode in which the control unit controls the traveling of the host vehicle when the abnormality determination unit determines that the abnormality is absent.

Abstract: A system of a robot for human following includes the robot faced toward a first direction. The robot includes a detecting device, a controlling device and a mobile device. The detecting device detects a target human and a obstacle. The controlling device generates a first parameter according to a first vector between the target human and the robot, generates a second parameter according to a second vector between the obstacle and the robot, and generates a driving command according to a first resultant force parameter generated from the first parameter and the second parameter and an angle value between the first direction and the first vector to drive the robot. The mobile device performs the driving command to enable the robot dodging the at least one obstacle and following the target human, simultaneously. A controlling method of a robot for human following is also disclosed herein.

Abstract: A component mounting device is capable of mounting a component having a feature portion on an upper surface, on a board. The component mounting device picks up a component by a pickup member and loads the picked-up component on a temporary loading stand at an angle substantially equal to a target mounting angle to the board. Subsequently, the component mounting device images the upper surface of the loaded component by an upper imaging device and picks up again the loaded component. Then, the component mounting device mounts the component picked up again at the target mounting angle at the target mounting position corrected based on the positional deviation amount of the feature portion recognized by the upper surface image of the imaged upper surface.