Abstract: A system for facility monitoring and reporting to improve safety using one or more robots includes: a network; a plurality of autonomous mobile robots operating in a facility, the robots configured to monitor facility operation, the robots further configured to detect a predetermined critical condition, the robots operably connected to the network; a server operably connected to the robots over the network; and an individual robot operably connected to the server over the network, the individual robot operating in the facility, the robots not comprising the individual robot, the individual robot configured to monitor facility operation; wherein the robots are configured to regularly produce a regular report under normal operating conditions, the report displaying data received from the server, wherein the robots are further configured to produce to the server a critical condition report upon occurrence of the critical condition.

Abstract: A system for facility monitoring and reporting to improve safety using one or more robots includes: a network; a plurality of autonomous mobile robots operating in a facility, the robots configured to monitor facility operation, the robots further configured to detect a predetermined critical condition, the robots operably connected to the network; a server operably connected to the robots over the network; and an individual robot operably connected to the server over the network, the individual robot operating in the facility, the robots not comprising the individual robot, the individual robot configured to monitor facility operation; wherein the robots are configured to regularly produce a regular report under normal operating conditions, the report displaying data received from the server, wherein the robots are further configured to produce to the server a critical condition report upon occurrence of the critical condition.

Abstract: A method and an apparatus for optimizing a target working line are disclosed. The target working line includes at least one robot manipulator, at least one conveyor and at least one item on the conveyor to be displaced by the robot manipulator. The method includes: obtaining an evaluation model for the target working line, the evaluation model yielding an overall success rate of moving the item from one conveyor to another conveyor based on at least one measuring parameter, the measuring parameter being a physical attribute of the target working line; yielding the overall success rate for the target working line as a function of a value for the measuring parameter for the target working line; and in case that the yielded overall success rate is lower than a predetermined threshold rate, updating a value for a configuring parameter based on the overall success rate, the configuring parameter corresponding to the measuring parameter, and the configuring parameter being states of the working line.

Abstract: A position correction method includes: a step of opposing a hand to a target by moving the hand such that the hand becomes in a predetermined first initial posture; a first position detection step of detecting a position of the target from a rotation angle of a rotation axis when the target blocks a detection light by swinging the hand; a step of opposing the hand to the target by moving the hand such that the hand becomes a predetermined second initial posture different from the first initial posture; a second position detection step of detecting a position of the target from the rotation angle of the rotation axis when the target blocks the detection light by swinging the hand; and a correction amount arithmetic step of obtaining rotation angle correction amounts of the second axis and the third axis based on a difference between the position of the target acquired in the first initial posture and the position of the target acquired in the second initial posture.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot joint motion control method and apparatus as well as a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining coordinates of a plurality of key points of a motion of a joint of the robot based on a preset linear control model; determining coordinates of two smooth connecting points respectively before and after each key point based on a preset time connecting factor; calculating a joint motion trajectory between each two adjacent smooth connecting points using a preset parabola connecting formula, based on the coordinates of the two smooth connecting points and the corresponding key point; and controlling the joint of the robot to move according to the joint motion trajectory between each two adjacent smooth connecting points. The present disclosure can avoid the joints of a robot from overshooting, thereby enhancing the user experience.

Abstract: The control system includes: a driven body driven by a motor; a control apparatus configured to operate the body; and a sensor detecting a state quantity of the body, wherein the control apparatus includes: a storage storing a correction amount for correcting vibration occurring at the mounting position; a control unit configured to generate a command value for the motor in each control cycle based on an operation program, and perform operation control of the body based on the correction amount and the command value; a calculation unit configured to calculate the correction amount; an update unit configured to update the correction amount each time the operation control is performed; and a determination unit configured to determine validity of at least one of an internal parameter and the like of the sensor based on the command value and the state quantity each time the operation control is performed.

Abstract: A method for controlling a state of charge of an energy storage device of a motor vehicle. A control device receives a first operator control signal and, only if the first operator control signal is received by a first operator control element of an operator control device and describes a user request to change a state of charge, a first operating mode of the control device is activated, whereby the control device is coupled to a power control device. A second operating mode of the control device, in which the control device is coupled to a monetarization device, is activated only if the first operator control signal is received by a second operator control element of the operator control device, the signal describing a user request to transmit a monetary value to a data server device external to the motor vehicle.

Abstract: A robot is disclosed which includes a dynamic safety zone feature capable of defining a space around the robot to be monitored to provide safe operating conditions for personnel or property. The dynamic safe zones can be a volume around one or more moving components of the robot. Such dynamic safe zones can be scaled depending on the nature of the operation (fast moving robot having a larger dynamic safety zone). Multiple different zones can be used in some embodiments. The zones can further be scaled depending on the nature of the sensors used in the operation of the robot. Multiple different moving components can have different dynamic safety zones.

Abstract: According to a production method, when a workpiece is grasped with a hand that includes two grasping pieces that grasp the workpiece by sandwiching the workpiece in a width direction between two surfaces orthogonal to a subject flat surface, and pressing surfaces that abut against a to-be-pressed surface of the workpiece opposite to the subject flat surface, the pressing surfaces are caused to abut against the to-be-pressed surface near a grasping position. The robot is operated on a basis of forces detected by a force sensor so that the robot assumes an orientation with which moments about axes that lie within the subject flat surface are balanced, and the workpiece is grasped with the two grasping pieces of the hand at a position where the moments are balanced. The robot is then operated to assume an orientation with which the subject flat surface aligns with the target flat surface.

Abstract: Systems and methods of the present disclosure provide a control solution for a robotic actuator. The actuator can have one or two degrees of freedom of control, and can connect with a platform using an arm. The arm can have at least two degrees of freedom of control, and the platform can have at least two degrees of freedom of control. The platform can be subjected to unpredictable forces requiring a control response. The control solution can be generated using operational space control, using the degrees of freedom of the arm, platform, and actuator.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods that perform actions including: receiving a user input selecting a current location within a map displayed on a screen of the terminal device; generating a request message indicating a request for a location relationship between the selected current location and a target location, the request message including an identifier of the current location, the target location being a location currently or previously displayed on the map; transmitting the request message to a map server configured to determine a geographical location of the current location and a geographical location of the target location; receiving, from the map server, a location relationship between the current location and the target location, wherein the location relationship is determined based on the geographical location of the current location and the geographical location of the target location; and displaying a graphical indicator representing the location relationship.

Abstract: A method of correcting a position of a robot includes: a correction step of rotating an arm around a first axis to detect a rotation angle around the first axis when a target blocks detection light, and locating the first axis, a third axis, and the target on an identical straight line by rotating the arm and/or a hand around the first axis, a second axis, and/or the third axis based on a detection result; and a correction amount arithmetic step of obtaining rotation angle correction amounts of the second axis and the third axis based on the rotation angle of each rotation axis acquired after the correction step in a first posture.

Abstract: An entry and starting system in an object has a control and transmission unit configured to use a radio link to interchange at least one radio signal and an ultrasonic link to interchange at least one ultrasonic signal with a portable electronic device. The control and transmission unit sets up a radio link to the portable electronic device and uses the electronic device via the radio link to stipulate at least one relevant parameter for a subsequent ultrasonic link. The control and transmission unit is additionally configured so as, following the stipulation of the parameters, to set up an ultrasonic link according to the previously determined parameters. The entry and starting system checks an authorization of the portable electronic device, the portable electronic device being detected as authorized if the at least one relevant parameter of a subsequent ultrasonic link is concordant with the at least one stipulated parameter.

Abstract: An autonomous companion mobile robot and system may complement the intelligence possessed by a user with machine learned intelligence to make a user's life more fulfilling. The robot and system includes a mobile robotic device and a mobile robotic docking station. Either or both of the mobile robotic device and the mobile robotic docking station may operate independently, as well as operating together as a team, as a system. The mobile robotic device may have an external form of a three-dimensional shape, a humanoid, a present or historical person, some fictional character, or some animal. The mobile robotic device and/or the mobile robotic docking station may each include a fog Internet of Things (IoT) gateway processor and a plurality of sensors and input/output devices. The autonomous companion mobile robot and system may collect data from and observe its users and offer suggestions, perform tasks, and present information to its users.

Abstract: A mobile manufacturing device and a method for producing three-dimensional lattice or mesh structures, wherein the mobile manufacturing device is a mobile device adapted to move along a three-dimensional structure to be produced, in particular while performing both translation and rotation movements in three-dimensional space, and wherein the mobile manufacturing device includes a means for detection of its position relative to the dimensional structure to be produced, so that the mobile manufacturing device is able to produce the three-dimensional structure as an autonomous robot.

Abstract: This method is for calibrating a coordinate system of an image capture device and a coordinate system of a robot arm in a robot system that includes a display device, the image capture device, and the robot arm to which one of the display device and the image capture device is fixed, the robot arm having a drive shaft. The method includes: acquiring first captured image data based on first image data; acquiring second captured image data based on second image data different from the first image data; and calibrating the coordinate system of the image capture device and the coordinate system of the robot arm, using the first captured image data and the second captured image data.

Abstract: An end-effector may be summarized substantially as described and illustrated herein.

Abstract: In one embodiment, a walking robot includes a robot body, multiple legs attached to and extending from the body, at least one leg including a pivot joint having an initial zero position and a foot that is adapted to contact a ground surface, wherein force applied to the foot because of contact with the ground causes the leg to pivot about the pivot joint, and an angular position sensor associated with the pivot joint and configured to measure a pivot angle through which the leg has pivoted about the pivot joint, the angle being related to the force applied to the foot.

Abstract: In an eccentricity error correction method for an angle detector, an output shaft angle is determined in at least three measurement positions. A difference between an arm angle value at each measurement position and the output shaft angle detected at each measurement position is determined as an eccentricity error. An error curve indicates a relationship between the arm angle value and the eccentricity error, and is determined as a function of the arm angle value by approximating the eccentricity error at each measurement position with a sine wave of which a single cycle is a single rotation of the arm. A correction formula that associates the output shaft angle and the arm angle value is determined using the error curve. A correction value corresponds to the detected output shaft angle, and is determined based on the correction formula and correcting the eccentricity error when the arm is rotated.

Abstract: Techniques are disclosed for controlling a plurality of components of a vehicle that are configured to emit heat when activated. A controller receives heat demand information about the activated components and determines from the heat demand information, an amount of power available for consumption by all of the activated components. The controller actively allocates power between the activated components according to the determined amount of power available such that an actual amount of power consumed by all of the activated components does not exceed the determined amount of power available.