Abstract: This control device is able to prevent the position displacement of a workpiece supported by a workpiece moving device. The control device includes a workpiece moving device controller configured to control the workpiece moving device wherein a time constant corresponding to a time period from a commencement to an termination of acceleration and deceleration of the workpiece moving device is longer for causing the robot and the workpiece moving device to perform an operation other than the workpiece processing operation, compared with the time constant for performing a workpiece processing operation in which the robot and the workpiece moving device perform work on the workpiece in cooperation with each other.

Abstract: A linear object handling structure of a robot includes a rotational drum supported above a base in a rotatable manner about a vertical axis line, a plurality of operation shafts supported by the rotational drum, and a hollow part near the vertical axis line in the rotational drum. A first linear object group including cables for driving the operation shafts has one end fixed to the base and the other end wired to the motors of the operation shafts supported by the rotational drum, and is disposed to penetrate through the hollow part. A second linear object group for a peripheral device supported by any one of the operation shafts is collectively covered by a flexible conduit pipe, disposed to penetrate through the hollow part, and detachably fixed to the base and the rotational drum.

Abstract: A control device includes a controller. The controller detects, as an event, that a target present outside a vehicle has been overlooked by a driver of the vehicle during. The controller controls the outputting of a target image, which is an image including the target overlooked in the detected event, toward the driver.

Abstract: An information providing device includes a control unit configured to detect an object entering a road from a first image which is captured from a vehicle and to acquire a second image including the detected object and a communication unit configured to provide the second image to present the second image to a driver under the control of the control unit. A driving support device includes a control unit configured to acquire a second image including a detected object when the object entering a road is detected from a first image captured from a vehicle and to present the acquired second image to a driver.

Abstract: A vehicle controller includes a control unit. The control unit detects a target that moves in a direction to approach a vehicle from an image captured from the vehicle. Based on a detection result, the control unit determines whether the vehicle should evacuate in order to let the target pass by. When determining that the vehicle should evacuate, the control unit causes the vehicle to evacuate without waiting for an operation by a driver.

Abstract: An information provision device includes a controller configured to detect installation of an anti-skid tool onto a vehicle from an image including at least a part of the vehicle and at least a part of the vicinity of the vehicle and a communication unit configured to provide position information of the vehicle at the time of the installation of the anti-skid tool detected by the controller. A driving assistance device includes a communication unit configured to acquire position information of a vehicle at the time of installation of an anti-skid tool when the installation of the anti-skid tool onto the vehicle is detected from an image including at least a part of the vehicle and at least a part of a vicinity of the vehicle, and a controller configured to present information acquired by the communication unit to the driver of another vehicle different from the vehicle.

Abstract: A driving assistance device includes a control unit that acquires event position information and an object image, and presents the acquired object image to a driver who is driving toward a position indicated in the acquired event position information. The event position information is position information of a vehicle at the time when a fact that a first object is confused with a second object, existing on the same road as the first object, is detected as an event in the vehicle, and the object image is an image captured from the vehicle and including the second object.

Abstract: A map generation device includes: a communication unit that acquires position information about a vehicle at a time when an image is photographed from the vehicle; and a control unit that estimates a dispersion state of pollen, based on the position information about the vehicle acquired by the communication unit and detection information indicating a result of a first detection in the image, and generates map information indicating the estimated dispersion state, the first detection in the image being a detection of a person that wears an anti-pollen article.

Abstract: A driving assist device includes a control unit configured to acquire event position information that is position information about a vehicle when it is detected that a driver of the vehicle is in a looking aside state in the vehicle, as an event, and configured to present attention information calling for attention, to a driver who is driving toward a position indicated by the event position information.

Abstract: A robot capable of preventing adhesion of a cutting fluid or the like on components thereof. The robot includes a robot arm, and a wrist connected to a distal end of the robot arm and including a plurality of movable elements connected to each other, and the movable elements being hollow elements, an end effector connected to a distal end of the wrist, a wire member laid to extend through the respective movable elements, and a cover to be mounted on the wrist so as to surround a connection between the two movable elements connected to each other.

Abstract: A calibration method for a laser processing robot, including: fixing a jig that includes a target-site to a base of the laser processing robot; placing a laser processing tool at a position where a laser beam is scanned with respect to the target-site, the laser processing tool having a function for two-dimensionally scanning the laser beam and a function for receiving the laser beam reflected at an object and for measuring a distance to the object; measuring distances to respective portions of the target-site by scanning the laser beam; calculating a coordinate transformation function for converting a position and orientation of the target-site, which is obtained based on the measured distances to the respective portions of the target-site, into an actual position and orientation of the target-site; and correcting a tool-center-point of the laser processing tool by the coordinate transformation function.

Abstract: A robot system including a robot body and a control device. The robot body includes wrist elements at a distal end of an arm; a wired wire body connected to an end effector fixed to the third wrist element. The control-device includes an angle calculation unit that calculates, in a Cartesian coordinate system of which the origin is the wire-body outlet and which has one coordinate axis extending in a direction along the first axis, angles of straight lines connecting the wire-body outlet and specific points of the wire body, with the straight lines projected onto a plane perpendicular to the coordinate axis, about the coordinate axis, with reference to a position where a load acting on the wire body is the least; and a determination unit that determines whether the absolute values of the angles calculated by the angle calculation unit have exceeded predetermined angle thresholds.

Abstract: A method for compensating teaching positions which includes: generating a compensation start point and a compensation end point in positions where each of a number of teaching positions is sandwiched between the compensation start point and the compensation end point in a direction crossing a welding path, the number of teaching positions being set along the welding path of a welding base material; detecting a profile of the welding base material along a detection path by performing touch sensing while a welding torch is being moved along the detection path from the generated compensation start point toward the generated compensation end point, a welding wire protruding from the welding torch; and compensating each of the teaching positions based on the detected profile.

Abstract: A sensor bracket is provided with frame members supporting an acceleration sensor, the frame members having circular arc members holding an outer periphery of a tool of a robot in a state in which circumferential-direction gaps are defined in at least one portion of the circular arc members in a circumferential direction, and a bolt thread-screwed into the frame members so as to reduce the circumferential-direction gaps.

Abstract: There is provided a welding wire processing structure, of an arc welding robot, including a wire hose for feeding a welding wire to a wire feeder that is attached to a rear portion of an arm provided with a welding torch at a tip, from a rear end surface of the wire feeder to a forward side, and a connector for attaching the wire hose to the rear end surface, where the connector connects the wire hose in a direction intersecting a feed direction of the welding wire by the wire feeder.

Abstract: A robot is provided with a first base, a robot arm having a rotation arm member, and a second base. A bottom end portion of the first base is fixed to an upper end portion of the second base using a fixing member, the rotation arm member includes an arm member opening, the second base includes an upper surface having an upper opening and a side surface having a side opening, the rotation arm member and the first base are configured to allow the conduit containing the welding wire and introduced into an interior of the rotation arm member through the arm member opening to reach the upper opening, the side opening allows the conduit introduced into an interior of the second base through the upper opening to come out of the second base.

Abstract: A robot wrist structure includes a first wrist element that is supported by a forearm in a rotatable manner about a first axis; a second wrist element that is supported by the first wrist element in a rotatable manner about a second axis that is orthogonal to the first axis; and a third wrist element that is supported by the second wrist element in a rotatable manner about a third axis that is orthogonal to the second axis and that is disposed in the same plane as the first axis. Further the second wrist element is provided with, at a position at which the second axis is included, a second axial hollow hole that passes therethrough in a direction along the second axis.

Abstract: A dissimilar-metal joining tool that places a ring-shaped joining auxiliary member made of iron, on a surface of a workpiece in which a second metal plate made of non-ferrous metal is laminated on a first metal plate made of iron, coaxially with a through-hole penetrates the second metal plate, and that performs arc welding toward an inner hole of the joining auxiliary member, the dissimilar-metal joining tool includes a base attached to a distal end of a robot; an arc welding torch attached to the base; a positioning mechanism provided in the base, and places the inner hole at a joining position in the arc welding torch and holds the joining auxiliary member in a radially-positioned state; and a pressing mechanism presses the joining auxiliary member in the vicinity of an outer peripheral edge.

Abstract: Provided is a robot including: a base; and a movable portion including a rotating drum that rotates about a vertical axis with respect to the base. The base is provided with an opening portion through which wire members are led into the base; the base and the rotating drum are provided with a hollow portion in which the wire members are guided into the rotating drum; the robot further includes a distribution board member that is detachably attached to the base; the distribution board member is provided with an attachment portion that is attached to the base, and a relay portion that is disposed on the outside of the opening portion with a gap therebetween; and the relay portion includes a mountable region in which a connector that relays some of the wire members is mounted.

Abstract: Provided is a wire body processing structure for a robot having a wrist, a base end of which is connected to a forearm in a rotatable manner about a first axis and a distal end of which has a plurality of working tools attached thereto. The wire body processing structure includes a first flexible conduit disposed along the first axis from the forearm to the distal end of the wrist and also includes a second flexible conduit disposed longitudinally within the first conduit. A first wire body for one of the working tools is extended longitudinally through the second conduit. A second wire body for another one of the working tools is extended longitudinally through a space between the first conduit and the second conduit.