Patents by Inventor Yasumoto Mori

Yasumoto Mori has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 11945120
    Abstract: A robot control device, abnormality diagnosis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The robot control device (300) performs abnormality diagnosis of a robot body (200) including a motor (201) that rotates, from a starting angle position to a target angle position, a rotational shaft (204) for transmitting power to an arm (203) so that the arm performs a predetermined operation. The robot control device includes: a drive control unit (304) driving the motor so that the rotational shaft rotates from the starting angle position to the target angle position within a rotational speed range of the rotational shaft in which it is possible to detect a vibration component caused by an abnormality from among the vibration components generated along with the rotation of the rotational shaft; a vibration detection unit (305) detecting the vibration component; and a diagnosis unit performing abnormality diagnosis based on the detected vibration component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Maki Endo, Teruyuki Shiraki
  • Patent number: 11850739
    Abstract: A deterioration degree of a robot body is precisely evaluated. A robot control device 300 includes: a drive control unit 309 controlling operation of a robot body 200; a detection unit 310 detecting a signal used for analysis of a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is operated; a determination unit 304 determining whether a data section of the signal includes a constant speed section equal to or greater than a given section; a normalization unit 305 normalizing a signal in a non-constant speed section when the data section of the signal does not include the constant speed section equal to or greater than the given section; an analysis unit 307 analyzing the feature amount; and an estimation unit 308 estimating a remaining life of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Teruyuki Shiraki, Maki Endo, Yasumoto Mori
  • Patent number: 11465286
    Abstract: A remaining life of a robot body is precisely estimated. A robot control apparatus 300 includes: a drive control unit 305 that controls drive of a robot body 200; a detection unit 306 that detects a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 that is deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is driven; a determination unit 303 that determinates presence/absence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount; and an estimation unit 304 that estimates a remaining life of the robot body 200 when presence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 is determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Maki Endo, Yasumoto Mori, Teruyuki Shiraki
  • Publication number: 20210078187
    Abstract: A deterioration degree of a robot body is precisely evaluated. A robot control device 300 includes: a drive control unit 309 controlling operation of a robot body 200; a detection unit 310 detecting a signal used for analysis of a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is operated; a determination unit 304 determining whether a data section of the signal includes a constant speed section equal to or greater than a given section; a normalization unit 305 normalizing a signal in a non-constant speed section when the data section of the signal does not include the constant speed section equal to or greater than the given section; an analysis unit 307 analyzing the feature amount; and an estimation unit 308 estimating a remaining life of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Teruyuki SHIRAKI, Maki ENDO, Yasumoto MORI
  • Patent number: 10909277
    Abstract: The present invention is suitable for easily properly setting control parameters in short time. The simulation device of the present invention comprises: a frequency response function computing part (53) computing a frequency response function according to a first command value and a measured value of a mechanical system; an impulse response computing part (41) computing an impulse response by performing inverse Fourier transform on the frequency response function obtained according to the frequency response function and the control parameters; and a time response outputting part (44) executing time response simulation of the mechanical system (7) according to a second command value and the impulse response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Mamoru Egi, Shota Miyaguchi
  • Patent number: 10909278
    Abstract: The present invention easily displays a frequency response and a time response to a user. The simulation device of the present invention comprises: a frequency response function computing part (53) computing a frequency response function according to a measured value of a response of a mechanical system (7), a time response outputting part (44) executing time response simulation, a frequency response outputting part (45) outputting a frequency response characteristic and a display control part (26) displaying the time response simulation and frequency response characteristic simultaneously or selectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2021
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Mamoru Egi, Yasushi Ohno, Shota Miyaguchi, Yasutomo Kawanishi
  • Publication number: 20210016443
    Abstract: A remaining life of a robot body is precisely estimated. A robot control apparatus 300 includes: a drive control unit 305 that controls drive of a robot body 200; a detection unit 306 that detects a feature amount quantitatively indicating a deterioration degree of the robot body 200 that is deteriorated over time as the robot body 200 is driven; a determination unit 303 that determinates presence/absence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 based on the feature amount; and an estimation unit 304 that estimates a remaining life of the robot body 200 when presence of a sign of malfunction of the robot body 200 is determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Publication date: January 21, 2021
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Maki ENDO, Yasumoto MORI, Teruyuki SHIRAKI
  • Publication number: 20200368908
    Abstract: A robot control device, abnormality diagnosis method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The robot control device (300) performs abnormality diagnosis of a robot body (200) including a motor (201) that rotates, from a starting angle position to a target angle position, a rotational shaft (204) for transmitting power to an arm (203) so that the arm performs a predetermined operation. The robot control device includes: a drive control unit (304) driving the motor so that the rotational shaft rotates from the starting angle position to the target angle position within a rotational speed range of the rotational shaft in which it is possible to detect a vibration component caused by an abnormality from among the vibration components generated along with the rotation of the rotational shaft; a vibration detection unit (305) detecting the vibration component; and a diagnosis unit performing abnormality diagnosis based on the detected vibration component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto MORI, Maki ENDO, Teruyuki SHIRAKI
  • Patent number: 10416612
    Abstract: A control device for tuning a servo motor is suggested. The control device comprises a calculation unit configured to determine a current proportional speed gain of the servo motor and to calculate a stabilization time ratio based on a current stabilization time of the servo motor and a target stabilization time, a determination unit configured to select a gain determination process based on the calculated stabilization time ratio, to determine a next proportional speed gain using the selected gain determination process starting from the current proportional speed gain, wherein the calculation unit is further configured to update parameters of the servo motor according to the determined next proportional speed gain, and a control unit configured to generate a control signal for controlling the servo motor for driving a load based on the updated parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Mamoru Egi, Fumiaki Sato, Aimar Arrate, Pere Llibre, Federico Heras
  • Patent number: 10241497
    Abstract: Control that is less likely to cause an overshoot is performed when an actual inertia value is yet to be determined. A development support apparatus sets a ratio of a position proportional gain to a velocity proportional gain to a value smaller than a ratio set when a servo driver has determined an actual inertia value of a load machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto Mori, Mamoru Egi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yasushi Ono, Shota Miyaguchi
  • Patent number: 10038398
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a motor control apparatus and the like capable of obtaining an appropriate frequency characteristic. The motor control apparatus of the present invention includes a command value generating portion (10), a torque saturation detecting portion (61) for determining whether a driving value based on a command value exceeds a driving value capable of being output from the apparatus, a current saturation detecting portion (71), a voltage saturation detecting portion (72), and a command value correcting portion (20) for correcting the command value when the driving value is determined as being exceeded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutomo Kawanishi, Mamoru Egi, Yasushi Ohno, Yasumoto Mori
  • Patent number: 10012977
    Abstract: A control device, by which a user causes a servo motor to perform desired operation without being conscious of a maximum torque of the servo motor while easily understanding the transmission characteristic, selects which one of sliding mode control and PID control is adopted to control a servo motor based on at least one of a position deviation and a velocity deviation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Ono, Mamoru Egi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yasumoto Mori
  • Patent number: 9996062
    Abstract: The present invention implements a model-tracking motor control apparatus for stabilizing behavior of a controlled object. The control apparatus (1) includes: a motor control part (20), generating a driving torque instruction value used to enable the servo motor (2) to perform driving based on a detection value of an encoder (4) that performs detection on a rotational state of a servo motor (2); and a model control part (10), generating a model torque instruction value, and outputting the model torque instruction value to the motor control part (20), where the model control part (10) has a model torque limiter (104) that limits the model torque instruction value within a first limit range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Ono, Mamoru Egi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yasumoto Mori
  • Patent number: 9977418
    Abstract: A user can cause a servo motor to perform desired operation without occurrence of overshoot and hunting while being unconscious of a maximum torque that can be output from the servo motor. A control device that implements model following control includes a feedforward controller that implements sliding mode control.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi Ono, Mamoru Egi, Yasutomo Kawanishi, Yasumoto Mori
  • Publication number: 20170262573
    Abstract: The present invention easily displays a frequency response and a time response to a user. The simulation device of the present invention comprises: a frequency response function computing part (53) computing a frequency response function according to a measured value of a response of a mechanical system (7), a time response outputting part (44) executing time response simulation, a frequency response outputting part (45) outputting a frequency response characteristic and a display control part (26) displaying the time response simulation and frequency response characteristic simultaneously or selectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto MORI, Mamoru EGI, Yasushi Ohno, Shota MIYAGUCHI, Yasutomo KAWANISHI
  • Publication number: 20170261946
    Abstract: A control device for tuning a servo motor is suggested. The control device comprises a calculation unit configured to determine a current proportional speed gain of the servo motor and to calculate a stabilization time ratio based on a current stabilization time of the servo motor and a target stabilization time, a determination unit configured to select a gain determination process based on the calculated stabilization time ratio, to determine a next proportional speed gain using the selected gain determination process starting from the current proportional speed gain, wherein the calculation unit is further configured to update parameters of the servo motor according to the determined next proportional speed gain, and a control unit configured to generate a control signal for controlling the servo motor for driving a load based on the updated parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto MORI, Mamoru EGI, Fumiaki SATO, Aimar ARRATE, Pere LLIBRE, Federico HERAS
  • Publication number: 20170264231
    Abstract: The present invention realizes a motor control apparatus and the like capable of obtaining an appropriate frequency characteristic. The motor control apparatus of the present invention includes a command value generating portion (10), a torque saturation detecting portion (61) for determining whether a driving value based on a command value exceeds a driving value capable of being output from the apparatus, a current saturation detecting portion (71), a voltage saturation detecting portion (72), and a command value correcting portion (20) for correcting the command value when the driving value is determined as being exceeded.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasutomo KAWANISHI, Mamoru EGI, Yasushi Ohno, Yasumoto MORI
  • Publication number: 20170262572
    Abstract: The present invention is suitable for easily properly setting control parameters in short time. The simulation device of the present invention comprises: a frequency response function computing part (53) computing a frequency response function according to a first command value and a measured value of a mechanical system; an impulse response computing part (41) computing an impulse response by performing inverse Fourier transform on the frequency response function obtained according to the frequency response function and the control parameters; and a time response outputting part (44) executing time response simulation of the mechanical system (7) according to a second command value and the impulse response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto MORI, Mamoru EGI, Shota MIYAGUCHI
  • Publication number: 20170261948
    Abstract: The present invention implements a model-tracking motor control apparatus for stabilizing behavior of a controlled object. The control apparatus (1) includes: a feedback control part (20), generating a driving torque instruction value used to enable the servo motor (2) to perform driving based on a detection value of an encoder (4) that performs detection on a rotational state of a servo motor (2); and a feedforward control part (10), generating a model torque instruction value, and outputting the model torque instruction value to the feedback control part (20), where the feedforward control part (10) has a model torque limiter (104) that limits the model torque instruction value within a first limit range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasushi ONO, Mamoru EGI, Yasutomo KAWANISHI, Yasumoto MORI
  • Publication number: 20170261950
    Abstract: The invention supports the easy and appropriate setting of a plurality of control parameters. A setting support device of the invention includes: a test action instruction part, for changing at least one value among control parameters, so as to enable a servo driver to actually control test actions, or controlling test actions by utilizing the simulation of a hypothetical model; and a performance index calculation part, for working out performance indexes of the control of the servo driver according to a result of test actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Applicant: OMRON Corporation
    Inventors: Yasumoto MORI, Mamoru EGI, Fumiaki SATO