Abstract: The present invention provides a car body positioning jig device capable of limiting the restriction of movement of a welding device, etc. In the car body positioning jig device, at least a portion of a main body section is disposed closer to an internal space of a body assembly than an opening. The main body section comprises: a first positioning mechanism unit for adjustably supporting the position of a first positioning member that positions a first region of the opening; a second positioning mechanism unit for adjustably supporting the position of a second positioning member that positions a second region of the opening; and a frame part for supporting the first positioning mechanism unit and the second positioning mechanism unit.

Abstract: A rotator is disclosed. The rotator includes a base and a mounting ring supported by the base. The rotator further includes a plurality of rollers on which the mounting ring rests when the rotator is fully assembled. The rotator is configured to support a steel column and allow rotation of the steel column to facilitate fabrication of the steel column.

Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a carrier frame, which includes at least two plug boards and a plurality of hollow insert parts. Each plug board includes a plurality of hollow insert parts, either end of the support rod is configured to be inserted into any one of the hollow insert parts; the carrier frame has a first state, in the first state, the at least two plug boards are arranged in parallel and the two adjacent plug boards are connected through the support rods.

Abstract: A universal holder configured for use with a machine tool is provided. The universal holder includes a base, a clamp assembly supported on the base for securing the machine tool in a relatively fixed orientation, and a locking assembly supported on the base and movable along a horizontal axis defined therethrough for lockingly engaging the machine tool when it is positioned on the base.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for the automated coupling and decoupling of a tool attachment from a tool drive means. The tool attachment and the tool drive means are configured to actuate a connection means for the connection of at least two workpieces. The connection means can be a screw or a bolt. The tool attachment can be coupled with and released from the tool drive means, in that the tool attachment is placed on the tool drive means. According to the invention, a magazine is present, having at least one tool attachment receiving space as well as holding means for the tool attachment in the tool attachment receiving space. The tool drive means is moveable in the axial direction with respect to the tool attachment for coupling as well as releasing the tool attachment with respect to the tool drive means. The tool attachment is held on the tool drive means in a form-fit manner. Coupling and decoupling occurs in an automated manner.

Abstract: A machining system comprises: a machining device that machines a workpiece; a set-up station with which pallet workpiece attachment/detachment is carried out; and a pallet conveyance device that conveys the pallet between the machining device and the set-up station. A partially cylindrical operator door, which can rotate around a set-up table on which the pallet is mounted, includes a partially cylindrical outer door and a partially cylindrical inner door which rotate following coaxial circular trajectories of different radii. The set-up station is provided with an interlocking mechanism that causes the outer door and the inner door to rotate in an interlocked manner so that a shielded state is constantly maintained between the operator side and the pallet conveyance device side.

Abstract: A tool holder assembly includes a holder body, a pull stud and a flow adjustment unit. The holder body has a holder coolant channel extending through a first end and a second end thereof. The pull stud has an insertion potion, a grip portion, and a longitudinal passage extending through the insertion portion and the grip portion, and fluidly communicating with the holder coolant channel. The flow adjustment unit includes a connection tube that extends into the longitudinal passage and projects outwardly from the grip portion, a resilient member urging the connection tube to project outwardly from the grip portion, and a flow guide channel extending through the connection tube and fluidly communicating with the holder coolant channel.

Abstract: A selecting device causes a machine tool, which machines a workpiece from a bar material, to select another workpiece that the machine tool can machine from a leftover material, which is a remaining part of the bar material being machined, when a workpiece to be machined is not machinable from the leftover material. The selecting device includes: a selecting unit that refers to mountable tool data indicating a tool that can be mounted on a mount position of the machine tool, and causes the machine tool to select another workpiece that is machinable by the tool that can be mounted on the machine tool, in selecting another workpiece to be machined by the machine tool from the leftover material.

Abstract: A dressing method of a cutting blade includes a first cutting step of causing the cutting blade to cut into a dressing board held by a holding surface of a chuck table with a cutting depth that does not surpass the length of the region of roundness in the radial direction of the cutting blade to form a cut groove in the dressing board, and a second cutting step of causing the cutting blade to further cut into the groove bottom of the cut groove formed in the first cutting step with a cutting depth that does not surpass the length of the region of roundness in the radial direction of the cutting blade to carry out cutting on the groove bottom with tracing of the cut groove.

Abstract: A device for removing tool joint edge burrs of a wheel comprises a frame, a base, first guide rails, a first movable plate, a first ball screw, a longitudinal motor, a transverse motor, second guide rails, a second ball screw, a movable plate II, an electric cylinder, a mobile roller bed, a circle center measuring sensor, an inner bearing, a shaft, a sleeve, guide keys, a hollow shaft, a pyramid cutter, outer cylinders, a left blade, a right blade and the like. The device is configured to simultaneously remove tool joint edge burrs from an outer rim and a cap slot edge and is used for automatic continuous production; by integrating inner and outer burr removing cutters, not only is the space saved, but also inner and outer independent feeding and independent rotation are realized; the inner and outer cutters have higher coaxiality, and the burr removing effect is improved.

Abstract: Disclosed is a device for removing tool joint edge burrs from a cap opening of a wheel. Four positioning rods circumferentially form a cone, and angle adjusting cylinders drive sliding blocks to move up and down. An electric cylinder drives an adjusting cone to move up and down to adjust the distance between a left cutting edge and a right cutting edge, and by adjusting the distance between the cutting edges, a cutter system is prevented from interfering with a narrow cap opening during descending, and an L-shaped revere chamfer cutter can be formed. According to the invention, not only is the space saved, but also the working efficiency is improved. The device can automatically remove burrs from a first and second tool joint inside a cap opening, can be used for automatic continuous production, and is advanced, stable, efficient and high in accuracy.

Abstract: A rotary wheel cleaning device comprises a feeding station, a cleaning station, a blowing station and a discharging station. The feeding station completes positioning, jacking and clamping of a wheel; the cleaning station completes cleaning of the wheel; the blowing station completes blowing of the wheel; and the discharging station transfers the cleaned wheel. The device can be used for automatic continuous production, in which the wheel can horizontally rotate and turn over during cleaning, so that the wheel is cleaned in multiple angles and multiple directions; and by skillful layout, feeding, cleaning, blowing and discharging of the wheel are orderly engaged, so that the cleaning process is coherent and cyclic, the period is short and the efficiency is high.

Abstract: A grinding device includes a first arm including at a tip thereof at least one grinding member configured to grind a workpiece, the first arm causing at least one grinding member to reciprocate linearly, and a second arm including at a tip thereof a gripping part configured to grip the workpiece, the second arm causing the workpiece to rock through repetitive two-way rotations.

Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for viscous and/or chemically erosive flow machining of work pieces. In certain examples, a tool for flow machining may be disclosed. The tool may include a cavity configured to receive a work piece and one or more inlets and outlets for viscous media flow. Viscous media and/or chemically erosive media can be flowed into the cavity and, via a media flow path, can be used to machine the work piece.

Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to advanced polishing pads with tunable chemical, material and structural properties, and new methods of manufacturing the same. According to one or more embodiments of the disclosure, it has been discovered that a polishing pad with improved properties may be produced by an additive manufacturing process, such as a three-dimensional (3D) printing process. Embodiments of the present disclosure thus may provide an advanced polishing pad that has discrete features and geometries, formed from at least two different materials that include functional polymers, functional oligomers, reactive diluents, addition polymer precursor compounds, catalysts, and curing agents.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a grinding head (1) for a floor grinding machine for grinding floor surfaces of stone or stone-like material. Such a grinding head (1) comprises a lower casing member (3), comprising a lower support (31) and an upwardly extending edge portion (32), and an upper casing member (2), comprising an upper cover (21) and a downwardly extending edge portion (22), wherein the upper casing member (2) is joinable to the lower casing member (3) by causing axially distal portions of the edge portions to bear on each other.

Abstract: It is an object of the invention to increase the degree of freedom in designing a power tool. A representative power tool has a spindle that transmits a driving force of a motor to a tool accessory, a tool accessory holding member that is configured to be movable in a direction of a spindle rotation axis direction between a holding position for holding the tool accessory and a releasing position for releasing the tool accessory, a lock mechanism that locks the tool accessory holding member in the holding position, and a body housing. The lock mechanism is disposed between a second end of the spindle and a wall of the body housing in the spindle rotation axis direction.

Abstract: A power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool, includes a tool-holding device that rotates about an output axis. The tool-holding device is configured to hold a tool device on the power tool such that the output axis and a tool rotation axis substantially coincide. The tool-holding device has at least a driver device and a clamping device that is movable relative to the driver device. To transfer a driving force to the tool device, the driver device has at least one torque transfer region that is arranged at a distance from the output axis. The driver device and the clamping device are configured to reach through a cut-out of the tool device, which cut-out extends through the entire material thickness of the tool device, and to clamp the tool device via the clamping device, which is movable substantially in a direction radial to the output axis.

Abstract: A method of processing chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) pad conditioners includes providing the CMP pad conditioner including conditioner substrate that is a metal, ceramic or a metal-ceramic material with a plurality of hard conditioner particles with a Vickers hardness greater than 3,000 Kg/mm2 bonded to a top surface of the conditioner substrate, and a slurry including an aqueous medium and a plurality of hard slurry particles having a hardness greater than 3,000 Kg/mm2. The surface of the pad conditioner is polished in a CMP apparatus using a polishing pad. After the polishing each conditioner particle has at least one exposed facet, and the plurality of hard conditioner particles have a maximum average protrusion-to-protrusion flatness (PPF) difference of 20 microns, and a sharpest edge measured by a value of a cutting edge radius (CER) that lies at an edge of the facet for at least 80% of the facets.

Abstract: In an embodiment, provided is a drilling method of Bawling a hole having a desired diameter in a fiber-reinforced plastic workpiece. The method includes disposing a resist layer, in which an opening having a diameter smaller than the desired diameter is formed, on the workpiece and ejecting blasting abrasives to the workpiece through the resist layer to cut a portion, which is exposed from the opening, in the workpiece while cutting a peripheral edge portion of the opening of the resist layer.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to abrasive buffing articles (“abrasive buffs”) and methods of making the same. The abrasive buffs include a substrate, such as a fabric, that has been impregnated with an abrasive polymeric composition that includes abrasive particles, such as primary abrasive particles and/or abrasive aggregates, such as spray dried abrasive aggregates. The abrasive buffs are flexible and capable of conforming to and effectively abrading, polishing, and buffing workpieces possessing a complex geometry.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to coated abrasive articles that include a grinding aid aggregates in a make coat, a size coat, a supersize coat, or combinations thereof, as well as methods of making coated abrasive articles.

Abstract: Various embodiments disclosed relate to nonwoven abrasive article including abrasive particles. In various embodiments, the present invention provides a nonwoven abrasive article including a nonwoven web including fibers and pores between the fibers. The nonwoven abrasive article includes abrasive particles, wherein each of the pores between the fibers independently includes one or more of the abrasive particles. Each pore is independently about the same size as the one or more abrasive particles therein.

Abstract: An abrasive tool having a bonded abrasive including a body having abrasive particles contained within a bond material and a barrier layer overlying a portion of the body and configured for removal by hand prior to use.

Abstract: A device for removing burrs from a flange face of a wheel is composed of a frame, guide posts, a feeding cylinder, a lifting table, a servo motor I, a bolt hole soft brush I, a center support, a servo motor II, a bolt hole soft brush II, a center hole soft brush, a transverse chute, longitudinal chutes, drainage channel soft brushes and the like. The zigzag shape of the drainage channel soft brushes can be adjusted to match the shape of flange drainage channels by adjusting the positions of the movable shaft I, the movable shaft II), the movable shaft III, the movable shaft IV and the movable shaft V in the chutes.

Abstract: A cleaning grinding head structure includes a main body, a connecting member connected with the main body, a stop ring mounted between the main body and the connecting member, and an operation member mounted on the connecting member. The main body has a first end provided with a fitting section and a second end provided with a connecting section. The main body has a mounting section arranged on the connecting section. The mounting section is provided with a plurality of slots. The connecting member has a first end provided with a locking section and a second end provided with a driving section. The locking section is provided with a mounting recess mounted on the connecting section. The mounting recess has a periphery provided with a plurality of ribs inserted into the slots of the main body.

Abstract: This invention provides a tool with a function of fastening and cutting a clamping band, including a left pliers head, a right pliers head and a switching structure. The right pliers head and the left pliers head cooperate with each other to fasten and cut the clamping band. The switching structure is disposed at the left pliers head and the right pliers head to adjust the distance between the left pliers head and the right pliers head when the left pliers head and the right pliers head clamp tightly. The tool with the function of fastening and cutting the clamping band provided in this invention achieves one tool with two functions.

Abstract: A rotary impact assembly structure includes a rotary tool and a rotary impact assembly. The rotary tool is assembled with the rotary impact assembly so that the rotary impact assembly is driven by the rotary tool to rotate. The rotary impact assembly has a counterweight plate. The counterweight plate has a first surface and a second surface at two sides thereof. The first surface is provided with a socket portion having an insertion hole at a center thereof. The second surface is provided with a plug portion at a center thereof. The rotary impact assembly structure is able to increase the rotational inertia and the amount of torque to quickly loosen or tighten a fastener and has a simple and convenient operation.

Abstract: A socket includes a first section and a second section which formed at the first end of the first section. The first section includes multiple side faces located on the outside thereof, and a corner portion is formed between each of two adjacent side faces. At least one of the corner portions includes a recess defined therein, and a resilient positioning unit is located in the recess and partially protrudes beyond the open end of the recess. A passage is defined axially through the first and second sections. The resilient positioning unit in the at least one of the corner portions does not affect the feature to secure the socket to the wrench.

Abstract: A pneumatic screw driving device includes a terminal element intended to cooperate with an element to be tightened/untightened and a body. The body houses: a pneumatic motor capable of rotationally driving the terminal element; an air intake into the motor; and a setting element for setting an intake section of the air intake into the motor. The setting element can take at least: a fixed state in which the intake section is fixed; and a setting state in which the intake section is adjustable between at least two values.

Abstract: A push fitting tubing remover is provided, comprising a locking grip wrench portion, and upper and lower disassembly clip portion. The locking grip wrench portion has an upper jaw portion and a lower jaw portion. The upper disassembly clip portion extends from the upper jaw portion of the locking grip wrench portion and has a first circular groove portion having a first diameter and a first thickness configured to enclose a first cylindrical object. The lower disassembly clip portion extends from the lower jaw portion of the locking grip wrench portion and has a second circular groove portion having a second diameter and a second thickness. The upper disassembly clip portion and the lower disassembly clip portion are parallel when gripping the first and second cylindrical objects with a gap therebetween. The upper and lower disassembly clip portions are configured to disassemble a tubing from a push fitting connector.

Abstract: A production aid for positioning at least one component relative to a further component includes a monolithic positioning main body configured such that, given its prescriptively correct arrangement on the further component, it predefines a prescriptively correct positioning of the component relative to the further component. The positioning main body includes at least one opening, into which a spacer bushing is positively fitted. The spacer bushing has a through hole through which a positioning pin is guided, or a positioning pivot, which is configured monolithically with the spacer bushing. The positioning main body, via the positioning pin or the positioning pivot, makes contact with the further component, and a longitudinal center axis of the through hole is arranged parallelly offset from a longitudinal center axis of the positioning pin or pivot.

Abstract: An electric nail gun using an air spring, the driving mechanism thereof including a working cylinder, a pneumatic cylinder, an air storage chamber, a nailing component, a lifting device, a one-way component, a latching device, a separating device and a guiding component. The nailing component has a first longitudinal edge to cooperate with the lifting device and a second longitudinal edge to cooperate with the latching device and the separating device. The first longitudinal edge has several discontinuous and protruding faces separated apart from one another and cooperating with cylindrical and protruding pins of the lifting device. The second longitudinal edge has a latching groove to cooperate with the latching device, the latching groove corresponding to a detaching section for a cam of the lifting device.

Abstract: A driver has: a wheel that is rotationally driven by an electric motor; pins provided to the wheel and arranged along a circumferential direction of the wheel; a piston reciprocably housed in a cylinder; a driver blade that integrally reciprocates with the piston; racks provided to the driver blade along an axial direction of the driver blade; and a controller configured to control a drive of the electric motor by PWM. The controller changes a duty ratio of the switching element provided on a power supply line for the electric motor in response to a change in remaining battery level as one of situations that affects a moving speed of the piston from the bottom dead point side to the top dead point side.

Abstract: The present invention includes devices and methods that assist in hanging pictures or other things in a desired position on a wall or other surface where it is desired to insert two or more mounting nails or studs. Embodiments of the invention include a pair of nail-inserting punch assemblies that are provided on one or more stabilizing bars, although other embodiments may include more than two punch assemblies. Preferred embodiments may also include a measuring strip (ruler) between the punch assemblies, a slidable level, a slidable nail or stud carrier, and/or a laser. The unique nail insertion mechanism of each punch includes a sleeve for receiving a finishing nail, a magnet for holding the nail in place, and a coil spring for maintaining the handle in striking position. After positioning the device on a wall, applying punching force to each handle collapses the spring and causes a nail to be driven into the wall.

Abstract: A fastener driving tool includes a striking member mounted in a housing for reciprocal movement relative to a fastener striking opening, a leaf spring engaging with the striking member at an end, and having a flexible section anchored by an anchoring unit, and a press handle pivotably connected with the anchoring unit, and having an elongated guide slot in which a pivot axle is movably engaged. The press handle is pivotable from a ready position, where the anchoring unit anchors the flexible section, through an intermediate position, where the anchoring unit is moved upwardly and rearwardly to cause resilient deflection of the leaf spring and load the leaf spring with an accumulated biasing energy, to a striking position, where the anchoring unit abuts against and is counteracted upon the pivot axle or a stop peg to be disengaged from the leaf spring so as to release the biasing energy.

Abstract: A working machine includes: an output shaft to which a tip tool is attachable; a housing rotatably supporting the output shaft; and a protection cover attached to the housing so as to cover an outer periphery of the tip tool which is attached to the output shaft. The protection cover is configured to be displaceable between a processing position to expose a part of the outer periphery of the tip tool to thereby allow cutting of a workpiece, and a protecting position to cover the outer periphery of the tip tool more than in the processing position, and is biased by a biasing member to be displaced from the processing position to the protecting position.

Abstract: A storage cabinet system includes a cabinet-box having a lip for engaging a top-rail of a mechanical lift platform. The cabinet-box further includes a plurality of compartments for holding and storing items. The storage cabinet system is useful for assisting users in holding items while on the mechanical lift platform, thus being more efficient and less hazardous.

Abstract: Automated storage and retrieval systems which include robots that move along ceilings and/or walls to retrieve and/or transport goods. The robots use magnetic adhesion to hold to the surfaces. The robots adjust the magnetic adhesion force in response to changes in weight or other conditions.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a motion control method and apparatus and a robot with the same. The method includes: obtaining a first rotational angle P1 of an output shaft of the servo currently at and a first time T1 for the output shaft of the servo to perform one rotation; obtaining a second rotational angle P2 for the output shaft of the servo to reach and a second time T2 for the output shaft of the servo to rotate from the first rotational angle P1 to the second rotational angle P2; calculating a motion curve B(t) of the output shaft of the servo based on the first rotational angle P1, the second rotational angle P2, the first time T1, and the second time T2; and controlling the servo to rotate according to the motion curve B(t). The present disclosure solves the instability in the gravity center of the robot.

Abstract: A robot fixing system includes a base member having a front surface in which an insertion hole is formed; a power transmission member configured to supply a rotational driving force to a movable part, which is supported on the base member in a rotatable manner about a first axis of rotation, by rotating about a second axis of rotation while opposing the front surface, a through hole being formed in the power transmission member to extend parallel to the second axis of rotation in a penetrating manner at a position separated from the second axis of rotation by a distance equal to a distance from the second axis of rotation to the insertion hole; and a fixing pin configured to be simultaneously inserted into the through hole and the insertion hole.

Abstract: A kinematic chain comprises a first pulley, arranged to rotate about a rotation axis x, and a second pulley arranged to rotate about a rotation axis y. The kinematic chain comprises then at least one connecting element comprising at least one passage having at least one rotating element, said or each connecting element also comprising at least one interface arranged to connect the connecting element to an adjacent connecting element or to a pulley, generating a rotational constraint about a rotation axis z. The kinematic chain also comprises a transmission element arranged to develop along a determined path for transmitting a rotational motion between the first pulley and the second pulley. The transmission element is adapted to be, in use, fixedly in contact with said or each rotating element by a constraint of rolling friction, in order to allow a modelling the determined path according to a predetermined geometry.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a robot, comprising: a movable base; and a torso arranged on the base. The torso comprises a first portion mounted to the base; a second portion installed to the first portion, wherein the second portion could be moved relative to the first portion; and a support substantially connected to the second portion.

Abstract: A system for performing industrial tasks includes a robot and a computing device. The robot includes one or more sensors that collect data corresponding to the robot and an environment surrounding the robot. The computing device includes a user interface, a processor, and a memory. The memory includes instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive the collected data from the robot, generate a virtual recreation of the robot and the environment surrounding the robot, receive inputs from a human operator controlling the robot to demonstrate an industrial task. The system is configured to learn how to perform the industrial task based on the human operator's demonstration of the task, and perform, via the robot, the industrial task autonomously or semi-autonomously.

Abstract: A robot includes an operation control unit that determines an execution track, which is a movement path of the robot, and a drive mechanism that causes the robot to move along the execution track. The robot generates a planned track corresponding to an event before the event occurs. When the event actually occurs while the robot is moving along the execution track, the robot moves along the planned track rather than the execution track. A multiple of planned tracks are generated sequentially with respect to one event, and when a multiple of planned tracks have already been generated when the event occurs, one planned track is selected from among the multiple of planned tracks.

Abstract: Unique systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of a robot training system are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is an industrial robot training system comprising a mixed reality display device structured to superimpose a virtual scene on a real-world view of a real-world scene including a plurality of physical objects including an industrial robot, a video input device, and a computing device. The computing device is structured to detect physical objects using video output from the video input device, generate virtual objects using the detected physical objects, simulate a virtual robot path, determine one movement of the series of robot movements causes a collision, adjust the virtual robot path so as to avoid the collision between the two virtual objects of the plurality of virtual objects, and program the industrial robot to perform a real robot path using the adjusted virtual robot path.

Abstract: The present disclosure provides a robot motion path planning method, apparatus, and terminal device. The method includes planning a planned path for a robot in a current scene using an open motion planning library (OMPL) database, setting a shortest ideal path as an initial ideal path, calculating a new path between the planned path and the initial ideal path using a dichotomy method, determining whether the new path meets an obstacle avoidance requirement and a structural constraint of the robot in the current scene, making the new path as the new planned path if yes, otherwise determining the new path as a new ideal path, optimizing the planned path using the dichotomy method iteratively until an error between the planned path and the ideal path is within a preset range, and determining the planned path as a motion path of the robot, thereby improving the motion efficiency.

Abstract: A system and method comprises marking or identifying an object to be perceptible to robot, while being invisible or substantially invisible to humans. Such marking can facilitate interaction and navigation by the robot, and can create a machine or robot navigable environment for the robot. The machine readable indicia can comprise symbols that can be perceived and interpreted by the robot. The robot can utilize a camera with an image sensor to see the indicia. In addition, the indicia can be invisible or substantially invisible to the unaided human eye so that such indicia does not create an unpleasant environment for humans, and remains aesthetically pleasing to humans. For example, the indicia can reflect UV light, while the image sensor of the robot can be capable of detecting such UV light. Thus, the indicia can be perceived by the robot, while not interfering with the aesthetics of the environment.

Abstract: A method of programming an industrial robot having a robot arm with an end-effector mounted thereto, which is controlled by a robot control unit to manipulate a workpiece which is arranged in a workplace of the robot, a target coordinate system being associated with the workplace and an image of the workplace and the workpiece is taken by an image capturing device and transmitted to a computing device having a human-machine-interface to generate control code for controlling the robot which is transmitted to the robot control unit, includes the following steps: capturing an image of the workplace and the workpiece to be manipulated by the robot; transferring the captured image to the computing device; displaying the captured image on a display associated to the computing device; marking the workpiece displayed on the display with a marker-object on the display; manipulating the marker-object in a sequence.

Abstract: In accordance with certain implementations of the present approach, a reduced, element-by-element, data set is transmitted between a robot having a sensor suite and a control system remote from the robot that is configured to display a representation of the environment local to the robot. Such a scheme may be useful in allowing a human operator remote from the robot to perform an inspection using the robot while the robot is on-site with an asset and the operator is off-site. In accordance with the present approach, an accurate representation of the environment in which the robot is situated is provided for the operator to interact with.