Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for producing a robot with a robotic arm. Said method can be carried out using an assembly robot wherein first housing segments are arranged in an intended sequence for the robotic arm, drive units are inserted into the first housing segments and the respective complimentary second housing segments are placed on the first housing segments comprising the drive units.

Abstract: A method for open-loop and closed-loop control of a device having a movement module, in terms of its interaction with a human, is based on an energy-based control process that makes it possible to monitor the amount of an overall energy in the system including the device and the human in dependence on a measured control variable describing the speed at which the device or its movement module moves. The method considers the entire power cycle, in particular the dynamics of the energy or power flow, in the system including the device and the human and takes into account the performance of the human during the closed-loop control. The method also enables the participation state of the human who is using the device to be determined in an iterative learning process without additional sensors. A device for carrying out the method is also provided.

Abstract: A connection assembly between a drive-side structure and a transmission outer ring sealing a transmission arranged radially inside, wherein an annular chamber comprising a connection element arranged therein is configured between the transmission outer ring and the drive-side structure, and a peripheral guide is axially configured at least on one side of the annular chamber between the transmission outer ring and the drive-side structure, wherein the connection element comprises bulges which are spaced over the peripheral extension and are elastically deformable and forms a force-fit connection between the transmission outer ring and the drive-side structure when the bulges elastically deform.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a robot system as well as a robot system. The robot system includes the following components: a robot ROBO with elements driven by actuators; first sensors S1i for sensing a current robot state; a central control unit ZSE, which executes a current control program SP(t) for controlling the robot system; one or more user interfaces NSp; one or more processor units PEr (205), which execute services MPSr for the central control unit ZSE and/or for one or more of the other components of the robot system; wherein the robot ROBO, the first sensors S1i, the central control unit ZSE, the user interfaces NSp, and the processor units PEr communicate with one another over a data network DN. The central control unit ZSE is configured and executed to predictively test whether an execution of the current control program SP(t) will lead to an error state. If such an error state is predicted during the test, execution of one or more actions takes place.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of collision handling for a robot with a kinematic chain structure comprising at least one kinematic chain, wherein the kinematic chain structure includes: a base, links, joints connecting the links, actuators and at least one end-effector, a sensor Sdistal.i in the most distal link of at least one of the kinematic chains for measuring/estimating force/torque, and sensors Si for measuring/estimating proprioceptive data, wherein the sensors Si are arbitrarily positioned along the kinematic chain structure, the method including: providing a model describing the dynamics of the robot; measuring and/or estimating with sensor Sdistal.i force/torque Fext,S.distal.

Abstract: A drive unit for joint being arranged between two arm members of a manipulator of a robotic system, the drive unit being intended for the rotatory drive of one arm member in relation to the other arm member, the drive unit having a first drive module, which is to be connected to a first arm member by means of at least one connecting element in a force- and torque-transmitting manner, and having a second drive module, which is to be connected with a second arm member by means of at least one connecting element in a force- and torque-transmitting manner, in which the connecting elements are configured to cooperate with the arm members in radial direction with respect to the rotary axis of the drive unit.

Abstract: A robot having actuator-driven elements, actuators to drive the elements, and brakes to decelerate the elements, the robot requiring voltage UB and/or current IB, the robot including: a source having an input to which voltage UP and current IP are applied, wherein, during normal operation, UP is equal to voltage UP,desired and IP is equal to current IP,desired, and having an output to which voltage Uactual and current Iactual are supplied, wherein during normal operation: Uactual=UB and Iactual=IB, an energy store integrated into the source for maintaining UB and IB for time ?t following failure or drop in UP and/or IP, a unit for monitoring UP, wherein as soon as UP deviates by amount ?U from UP,desired, a signal is generated, and a control unit connected to the unit for controlling the robot and its elements into a predefined safe state upon receipt of the signal.

Abstract: A multicopter including motors driving propellers, a first interface providing parameters including: a position of a center of gravity of the multicopter, time derivatives, an orientation of the multicopter and its time derivative; a second interface providing power generated by respective propellers; a first unit, based on the parameters, a provided model that describes dynamics of the multicopter, and an estimation of a force wrench acting externally on the multicopter, the estimation based on based on the model, determines horizontal components of a relative speed of the multicopter in relation to air; a second unit which, based on the horizontal components and power, determines a vertical component of the relative speed; a third unit which, based on the horizontal components, vertical component, and parameters, determines a wind speed in an inertial system; and a storage unit to store wind speeds and/or a transmission unit to wirelessly transmit the wind speeds.

Abstract: A method and robot for inserting an object into an object-receiving area using an actuator-driven robot manipulator of a robot, wherein the robot manipulator has an effector at its distal end, designed to receive and/or grip the object, and wherein an inserting trajectory T is defined for the object-receiving area and the object to be inserted, and a target orientation Osoll({right arrow over (R)}T) of the object to be inserted is defined along the inserting trajectory T for locations {right arrow over (R)}T of the inserting trajectory T including the following operations: receiving/gripping the object using the effector, moving the object using the robot manipulator along the inserting trajectory {right arrow over (T)} into the object-receiving area while continuously performing predetermined tilting motions of the object that are closed and cyclical motions relative to the target orientation Osoll({right arrow over (R)}T) via a force-regulated and/or impedance-regulated control of the robot manipulator unti

Abstract: A robot arm permitting a more sensitive and precise operation in the offline programming of a robot having a robot arm with a number of arm components, which can be connected to a robot body via a number of actuator-drivable joint connections.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method of controlling a movable robot manipulator for screwing in a screw at least already plugged into a thread, wherein the screw has a screw head with a tool engagement interface, the robot manipulator has at its distal end a tool designed to engage the tool engagement interface, the screw has a screw central axis, and the tool has a tool central axis about which the tool of the robot manipulator is rotatable.

Abstract: A system for controlling a robot.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a robot and to a robot, wherein the robot comprises movable elements ELEm which can be driven by actuators AKTn, and is designed to carry out a movement B with the elements ELEm, and wherein the robot comprises a detection system for determining signals WGkB(t) of a group of measurement variables GkB characterizing the movement B of the elements ELEm and the interactions thereof with an environment.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a robotic system having at least one robotic arm, a control unit for controlling the robotic arm and a robotic arm sensor system, wherein the controller and robotic arm sensor system are designed to respond to predetermined haptic gestures of the user acting on the robotic arm in such a way that the robotic system performs at least one predetermined operation associated with the haptic gesture.

Abstract: The invention relates to a robot, a robot control system, and a method for controlling a robot. The robot comprises a movable, multi-membered robot structure (102) that can be driven by means of actuators (101), at least one marked structural element S being defined on the movable robot structure (102), with at least one point PS marked on the structural element S. The robot is designed such that, in an input mode, it learns positions POSPS of the point PS and/or poses of the structural element S in a work space of the robot, the user exerting an input force FEING on the movable robot structure in order to move the structural element S, which is conveyed to the point PS as FEING,PS, and/or to the structural element S as torque MEING,S.

Abstract: A robot system including at least one robot arm and a control unit which is designed such that it can pre-set at least one pre-defined operation carried out by the robot system. The robot system also includes a display device and at least one input device applied to the robot arm, which is designed such that the sequence of operations of the robot system is set and/or the pre-defined operations of the robot system is parameterized by means of the input device, and which is also designed such that it allows the user to control, on a graphic user interface, represented by the control unit on the display device, the setting of the pre-defined operations of the robot system, the setting of the sequence of operations and/or the parameterization of the pre-defined operations for the robot system.

Abstract: Prosthesis including prosthetic links driven by actuators, first sensors that sense current state ZUS(t); second sensors that sense biosignals SIGBIO(t); third sensors that sense data DUMG(t); processing device; and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing device, perform operations including: determining based on SIGBIO(t), ZUS(t), and DUMG(t), model MA(t) of an action A, and predicting motions Beweg(MA(t)), dependent on MA(t) for a time period; determining a decision E to replace A with an action A?(E) based on SIGBIO(t), ZUS(t), DUMG(t), and Beweg(MA(t)) according to an evaluation scheme, wherein A?(E) can define a reflexive and/or protective motion, and if A?(E) does not define the reflexive and/or protective motion, then determining model MA?(t) of A?(E) and predicting motions Beweg(MA?(t)), dependent on MA?(t), for the time period; deriving control signals Sig(t) based on Beweg(MA(t)) or Beweg(MA?(t)), or based on the reflexive and/or protective motion, and controlling/regulatin

Abstract: The invention relates to a robotic system with at least one robotic arm and a control unit, which is designed so that it can preset at least one predefined operation that can be carried out by the robotic system. In addition, the robotic system comprises at least one input device attached to the robotic arm which is designed so that the predefined operations of the robotic system can be parameterized by means of the input device. In this case, the input device is designed so that it can provide a user-directed feedback to a user of the robotic system when setting the execution of operations, the logical sequence of the operations and/or parameterizing the predefined operations for the robotic system.

Abstract: A robot arm comprising a number N of actuator-drivable joint connections GVn, which are connected in series via arm links GLi, where n=1, 2, . . . , N, and i=1, 2, . . . , N?1, and N?6, wherein the robot arm is configured in such a way that the axes of rotation RGV,N-2 and RGV,N-1 of each of joint connections GVN-1, GVN-2 intersect at an angle in the range from 50 to 130°, an axis of rotation RGV,N of joint connection GVN, is arranged radially at a constant distance D1 from the axis of rotation RGV,N-1, and a sensor is present in the joint connection GVN-1 to detect a force or a torque about the axis of rotation RGV,N-1.