Patents Issued in July 2, 2020
  • Publication number: 20200206883
    Abstract: A reaction torque limiting backup wrench arrangement (1) has at least one fastener engaging means e.g. spanner (6) or socket (170), for a pressure boundary bolted joint nut (5) of a respective fastener (3). The backup wrench arrangement provides a reaction torque up to a threshold above which rotation allowed by motion of the fastener engaging means is determined by a magnitude of the reaction torque and force deflection characteristic of a biasing arrangement acting directly or indirectly on the fastener engaging means. Tension in the flexible tension element e.g. chain (7) urges the spanner (6) onto the nut (5) of the fastener permitting the spanner to displace when torque transmitted through a bolt to the nut or bolt head within the spanner exceeds a threshold torque, enabling the nut or bolt head to rotate, helping prevent bolt over-tightening, and helping indicate the bolt seizing or galling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Integrity Engineering Solutions Pty Ltd
    Inventor: Ian Warren BROWN
  • Publication number: 20200206884
    Abstract: A power tool includes a housing defining a grip portion, a motor having a motor drive shaft, a drive assembly coupled to the motor drive shaft and driven by the motor, an output assembly coupled to the drive assembly and having an output member that receives torque from the drive assembly, causing the output member to rotate about an axis, and a transducer assembly disposed between the grip portion and the output assembly to measure the amount of torque applied through the output member, when the motor is deactivated, in response to the power tool being manually rotated about the axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Wyatt R. Silha, Jacob P. Schneider, John S. Dey, IV, Hans T. Banholzer
  • Publication number: 20200206885
    Abstract: A tool for removing a stuck bit of a drilling device from the drilling medium in which it was being drilled is provided. The system generally comprises a frame, a hydraulic lift operably connected to the frame, and a lifting platform. Operating the hydraulic lifting device may cause a strut to move in a linear direction, which may cause the carriage to move in a linear direction. By moving the strut in linear direction such that the carriage extends beyond the length of the drilling device, the carriage may contact the drilling medium, which may cause a lifting force to be applied to the drilling device. A user may then use the carriage to move the drilling device to a new location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Donald Pyron
  • Publication number: 20200206886
    Abstract: An angled adapter for coupling a tool bit to a tool includes a housing and a transmission assembly positioned in the housing. The transmission assembly is configured to convert an input torque about a first axis from the tool to an output torque about a second axis acting on the tool bit. The second axis is disposed at an angle relative to the first axis. The angled adapter also includes a shank supported by the housing and including a tool coupling portion configured to couple to the tool. The tool coupling portion has an outer dimension. The shank also includes a transmission coupling portion coupled to the transmission assembly, and an intermediate portion extending between the tool coupling portion and the transmission coupling portion. The intermediate portion has a diameter that is less than the outer dimension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Smith C. Theiler, Jacob A. Krabbe, Michael J. Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20200206887
    Abstract: A power tool with a rotatable tool in the form of a saw blade or milling cutter, including a sensor device for detecting a mechanical vector quantity, where the mechanical vector quantity includes a force, an acceleration, a velocity, a deflection, a deformation and/or a mechanical stress and the mechanical vector quantity depends on a force emanating from the tool, and a control device which is communicatively coupled to the sensor device and is adapted to recognize an event and/or a state of the power tool according to a direction and/or change of direction of the mechanical vector quantity detected by the sensor device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FESTOOL GMBH
    Inventors: Markus SCHMID, Marc RUSCH, Uwe WERNER, Remo SOMMER, Tom STAUBLI, Jorg EVERTZ, Luca LORTSCHER, Miriam NIETLISPACH
  • Publication number: 20200206888
    Abstract: A hydrodynamic compression tool comprises a motor which actuates a hydrodynamic group suitable to increase the pressure of a hydraulic fluid acting on an actuation piston connected to jaws, an electronic control system connected to the electric motor and to a user operating member for the actuation of the electric motor. An identification detector in connection with the control circuit detects an identification characteristic of the jaws or inserts housed in the jaws or of an object to be compressed or cut.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Gualtiero Barezzani
  • Publication number: 20200206889
    Abstract: A tool assembly includes a handle and a connection end which is connected to the handle by way of blow molding or ultra-sonic fusion. The connection end can be made by plastic injection molding. The handle can be made by way of blow molding. The connection end has a slot defined axially therein. A blade includes a body and a toothed portion. The toothed portion of the blade is connected to the slot of the connection end. The toothed portion is inserted into the slot of the connection end when the connection end is molded by way of blow molding so that the toothed portion of the blade is connected to the slot of the connection end. The toothed portion has multiple teeth and each tooth includes an inclined edge tapered toward the downward toward the connection end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Shou-Hung Chen
  • Publication number: 20200206890
    Abstract: A tool assembly includes a handle and a connection end which is connected to the handle by way of blow molding or ultra-sonic fusion. The connection end can be made by plastic injection molding. The handle can be made by way of blow molding. The connection end has a slot defined axially therein. A blade includes a body and a toothed portion. The toothed portion of the blade is connected to the slot of the connection end. The toothed portion is inserted into the slot of the connection end when the connection end is molded by way of blow molding so that the toothed portion of the blade is connected to the slot of the connection end. The toothed portion has multiple teeth and each tooth includes an inclined edge tapered toward the downward toward the connection end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Shou-Hung Chen
  • Publication number: 20200206891
    Abstract: A tool storage device is provided, including a base and a seat. The base includes a receiving portion, and the receiving portion includes an accommodation room and a wall defining the accommodation room. The seat is swingably disposed within the accommodation room, and the seat includes a slot and at least one elastic aim. The slot is configured to detachably receive a workpiece, and the at least one elastic arm is disengageably abutted laterally against the wall and configured to urge the workpiece within the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: MING-HUNG LIN
  • Publication number: 20200206892
    Abstract: A system made up of a case and a first container and a second container, both being positionable in the case, each container including a first, second, third and fourth side wall and a bottom for forming an interior area open in a first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Kenth KARLSSON
  • Publication number: 20200206893
    Abstract: A robot system includes a slave unit including a slave-side force detector configured to detect a direction and a magnitude of a reaction force acting on a workpiece held by a work end of a slave arm, a master unit including a master-side force detector configured to detect a direction and a magnitude of an operating force applied by an operator to an operation end of a master arm, and a system controller configured to generate a slave operational command and a master operational command based on the operating force and the reaction force. The system controller includes a regulator configured to correct a moving direction of the work end so that the movement of the work end in a pressing direction of an object is regulated when the reaction force exceeds an acceptable value set beforehand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventors: Nobuyasu SHIMOMURA, Masayuki KAMON, Jun FUJIMORI, Hiroki KINOSHITA, Takuya SHITAKA, Hiroki TAKAHASHI
  • Publication number: 20200206894
    Abstract: A modular movable robot includes a lower plate provided with a traveling unit, an upper plate spaced above the lower plate, a plurality of lower supporting frames vertically elongated between the lower plate and the upper plate, a top plate spaced above the upper plate, a plurality of upper supporting frames vertically elongated between the upper plate and the top plate, and a housing surrounding edges of the lower plate, the upper plate, and the top plate. A longitudinal length of the housing is longer than a horizontal width of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chungin JUNG, Sunho YANG, Eulpyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20200206895
    Abstract: A robot includes a main body provided with a traveling unit, a body display unit disposed on an upper portion of a front side of the main body and elongated in a vertical direction, a head display unit rotatably connected to an upper portion of the body display unit, a rotary motor disposed inside the body display unit, a rotational shaft elongated in a vertical direction and rotated by the rotary motor to rotate the head display unit, and a speaker disposed inside the body display unit, spaced apart from the rotary motor, and overlapping the rotational shaft in a horizontal direction. The robot selectively receives various types of service modules to provide different services.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chungin JUNG, Sunho YANG, Eulpyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20200206896
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a self-moving device (100). The self-moving device (100) includes a body (20), a walking mechanism (40) disposed on the body (20) and configured to drive the self-moving device (100) to walk, a connecting arm (60) connected to the body (20), and a control module (11) configured to control the walking mechanism (40) to drive the self-moving device (100) to walk within a defined area. The connecting arm (60) is selectively connected to at least one of at least two working heads (200) configured to perform different work tasks. The connecting arm (60) includes a connecting structure (64) configured to be connected to the working head (200) and a connecting component (62) configured to connect the connecting structure (64) to the body (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Ka Tat Kelvin Wong, Fengli Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200206897
    Abstract: A link actuation device includes a proximal-end-side link hub, a distal-end-side link hub, three or more link mechanisms each coupling the link hubs such that a posture of the distal-end-side link hub can be changed relative to the proximal-end-side link hub. Each link mechanism includes a proximal-side end link member, a proximal-side intermediate link member, a distal-side intermediate link member, and a distal-side end link member. Actuators for arbitrarily changing the posture and a distance from the distal-end-side link hub to the proximal-end-side link hub are provided to three or more link mechanisms of the three or more link mechanisms. A control unit calculates a rotation angle of the proximal-side end link member according to a targeted posture of the distal-end-side link hub and a targeted distance between the centers of the spherical links, and controls the respective actuators so as to attain the calculated rotation angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: NTN Corporation
    Inventors: Hiroshi Isobe, Naoki Marui, Seigo Sakata, Kenzou Nose
  • Publication number: 20200206898
    Abstract: There are a biped robot gait control method and a biped robot, where the method includes: obtaining six-dimensional force information, and determining a motion state of two legs of the biped robot; calculating a ZMP position of each of two legs of the biped robot; determining a ZMP expected value of each of the two legs in real time; obtaining a compensation angle of an ankle joint of each of the two legs of the biped robot by inputting the ZMP position, a change rate of the ZMP position, the ZMP expected value, and a change rate of the ZMP expected value to an ankle joint smoothing controller so as to perform a close-loop ZMP tracking control on each of the two legs; adjusting a current angle of the ankle joint of each of the two legs of the biped robot in real time; and repeating the forgoing steps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: YOUJUN XIONG, Ligang Ge, Yizhang Liu, Chunyu Chen, Zheng Xie, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20200206899
    Abstract: A human exoskeleton includes a first skeletal structure with a first coupling unit for coupling to a first part of a human body, a second skeletal structure connected to the first skeletal structure in an articulated manner and including a second coupling unit for coupling to a second part of the human body. An adjustment unit acts between the first and second skeletal structures, and includes at least one adjustable flow rate hydraulic actuator unit and a hydraulic unit that acts thereon and which has two pump connections. The first pump connection is fluidly connected to a working chamber of the actuator unit via a pressure line. An outlet line has a flow throttle and a calming tank is downstream of the throttle. The first pump connection is fluidly connected to the second pump connection via the outlet line and the calming tank, the outlet line having a flow therethrough when pressure is applied to the working chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Martin Storz, Gerhard Rinninger
  • Publication number: 20200206900
    Abstract: A wearable chair may include a foot frame configured to support a foot of a user; a shank link configured to rotatably connect to the foot frame; a connecting link provided in front of the shank link and configured to rotatably connect to the foot frame; a knee link configured to rotatably connect to each of the shank link and the connecting link; and a thigh link configured to extend from the knee link. The foot frame, the shank link, the connecting link, and the knee link constitute a four-bar linkage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicants: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Korea University of Technology and Education Industry-University Cooperation Foundation
    Inventors: Minhyung LEE, Youn Baek LEE, Yongjae KIM, Jongwon LEE, Byungjune CHOI
  • Publication number: 20200206901
    Abstract: A robot sealing structure including a shaft end face of a reducer, an attachment surface of an arm member that is to be in surface contact with the shaft end face, a number of bolts that fix the shaft and the arm member to each other in a state in which the shaft end face and the attachment surface are in surface contact; a recessed flat portion that is provided in part of one of the shaft end face and the attachment surface, and a seal member that is disposed on the recessed flat portion, where the recessed flat portion is a portion recessed in a direction along the center axis line of the shaft, with respect to the shaft end face or the attachment surface, and the recessed flat portion is continuous over an entire circumference around the center axis line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Shizuo HARADA
  • Publication number: 20200206902
    Abstract: Provided is a movable robot. The movable robot includes a main body provided with a traveling part; at least one through-hole defined in a top surface of the main body, at least one module guide configured to guide an installation position of a service disposed above the main body, and guide supporter rotatably supporting the module guide inside main body. The module guide may rotate between a first position within the main body and a position protruding upward from the main body through the through-hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: LG ELECTRONICS INC.
    Inventors: Chungin JUNG, Sunho YANG, Eulpyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20200206903
    Abstract: To provide a rotary axis cable wiring structure and a robot having higher usability at the time of assembly and increased reliability as to whether or not cables are properly disposed. A rotary axis cable wiring structure includes a fixed member and a movable member which are rotatable relatively, a cylindrical hollow pipe member disposed between the fixed member and the movable member so as to be rotatable with respect to the movable member, a plurality of cable bundles passed from one of the fixed member and the movable member to the other through the hollow pipe member, first cable fixing means for fixing the cable bundles to the fixed member, and second cable fixing means for fixing the cable bundles to the movable member. Each of the cable bundles includes a plurality of cables, and a cable bundling member having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the hollow pipe member and bundling the plurality of cables in a state where mutual relative arrangement is maintained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Kazutaka NAKAYAMA
  • Publication number: 20200206904
    Abstract: A robot of one aspect includes a first base configuring a trunk portion, a second base configuring a head region, a connecting mechanism that connects the first base and the second base, and a drive unit that drives the connecting mechanism. The drive unit includes motors disposed on the first base. The connecting mechanism includes linking mechanisms that are disposed in parallel to each other and are driven by the motors respectively. Each linking mechanism includes a drive link fixed to a rotary shaft of the motor and a driven link that is connected to the drive link via a first joint and connected to the second base via a second joint. The first joint is a single axis hinge joint, and the second joint is a universal joint.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Tomoaki YOKOYAMA, Kaname HAYASHI
  • Publication number: 20200206905
    Abstract: A parallel-series connection walking robot and a construction method thereof. The parallel-series connection walking robot mainly comprises leg mechanisms A and B; one leg mechanism A is a parallel-series connection leg mechanism (3); the other leg mechanism B is a parallel-series connection leg mechanism (3) or a foot parallel-connection mechanism (1); and the parallel-series connection leg mechanism (3) is formed of a thigh mechanism (3.2) and a foot parallel-connection mechanism (3.1) through serial connection. The two leg mechanisms have a combination of a specific DOF; upper portions of the two leg mechanisms are fixedly connected together; all members are comprised by and intersected with each other, but have independent activity spaces, respectively; and projections of the triangles formed by toes of the two leg mechanisms on a horizontal plane overlap with each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Fangyuan Han
  • Publication number: 20200206906
    Abstract: A parallel link robot includes: a base portion; a movable portion; link portions coupling the base and movable portions; and actuators attached to the base portion and driving the respective link portions. Each of the link portions includes drive links swung around axes by the respective actuators, and two each of the passive links parallel to each other and swingably arranged between the drive link and the each of the movable portions. The robot includes a drive unit disposed parallel to the two passive links of at least one of the link portions and between the passive links and drives a mechanical unit attached to the movable portion. The drive unit is attached to the drive link with a joint, swingably coupling the drive unit to the drive link around at least mutually intersecting axes, on a straight-line coupling swinging center points of the passive links and the drive link.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Hyunchul Souk
  • Publication number: 20200206907
    Abstract: The present disclosure discloses a multi-degree-of-freedom driving arm and a dual-arm robot using the arm, the multi-degree-of-freedom driving arm comprises a single-degree-of-freedom driving module and a plurality of dual-degree-of-freedom driving modules, and the single-degree-of-freedom driving module and the dual-degree-of-freedom driving module located at the innermost side are coupled to each other; the dual-degree-of-freedom driving module has two orthogonal rotational degrees of freedom, and comprises a first driving mechanism that is configured to drive the dual-degree-of-freedom driving module to rotate in the first rotational degree of freedom, and a second driving mechanism that is configured to drive the dual-degree-of-freedom driving module to rotate in the second rotational degree of freedom; the first driving mechanism of the dual-degree-of-freedom driving module located on outer side is disposed on the second driving mechanism of the dual-degree-of-freedom driving module adjacent thereto and
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Xuefeng ZHOU, Zhihao XU, Hongmin WU, Shuai LI, Guanrong TANG, Kaige LI, Taobo CHENG, Dan HUANG
  • Publication number: 20200206908
    Abstract: A processing system for processing objects using a programmable motion device is disclosed. The processing system includes a perception unit for perceiving identifying indicia representative of an identity of a plurality of objects received from an input conveyance system, and an acquisition system for acquiring an object from the plurality of objects at an input area using an end effector of the programmable motion device. The programmable motion device is adapted for assisting in the delivery of the object to an identified processing location. The identified processing location is associated with the identifying indicia and the identified processing location is provided as one of a plurality of processing locations. The system also includes a delivery system for receiving the object in a carrier and for delivering the object toward the identified processing location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Wagner, Kevin Ahearn, John Richard Amend, JR., Benjamin Cohen, Michael Dawson-Haggerty, William Hartman Fort, Christopher Geyer, Jennifer Eileen King, Thomas Koletschka, Michael Cap Koval, Kyle Maroney, Matthew T. Mason, William Chu-Hyon McMahan, Gene Temple Price, Joseph Romano, Daniel Smith, Siddhartha Srinivasa, Prasanna Velagapudi, Thomas Allen
  • Publication number: 20200206909
    Abstract: An assistive robot system includes a lifting mechanism, a movable arm assembly, a processing device, and a non-transitory, processor-readable storage medium in communication with the processing device. The processing device transmits a command to the lifting mechanism to cause the lifting mechanism to move the movable arm assembly such that a container is gripped within the movable arm assembly, transmits a first one or more signals to the movable arm assembly to cause the movable arm assembly to extend in a system longitudinal direction such that the movable arm assembly grips the container. The movable arm assembly is positioned at a release location and transmits a second one or more signals to the movable arm assembly to cause the movable arm assembly to extend in a system lateral direction such that the container gripped within the movable arm assembly is released from the movable arm assembly at the release location.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: Toyota Research Institute, Inc.
    Inventors: Aimee S. Goncalves, Christopher Gidwell, Joseph Bondaryk, Paul W. Baim, Toffee Albina
  • Publication number: 20200206910
    Abstract: A driving assembly of a robotic hand includes an actuator, a fixed member, an elastic member having an end connected to the actuator, two phalanxes rotatably connected to each other through a first revolute joint, one of which is rotatably connected to the fixed member through a second revolute joint, torsion springs mounted to the first revolute joint and the second revolute joint, a first pulling member having two opposite ends that are respectively fixed to the fixed member and the first revolute joint, a second pulling member having two opposite ends that are respectively fixed to the first revolute joint and the second revolute joint, and a third pulling member having two opposite ends that are respectively fixed to the actuator and the second one of the at least two phalanxes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Sicong Liu, Youjun Xiong, Hongyu Ding, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20200206911
    Abstract: A linear object handling structure of a robot that includes a base to be fixed to an installed surface, and a rotary barrel supported to be rotatable around a vertical rotary axis with respect to the base, and is provided with, in a region including the rotary axis, a through hole vertically penetrating through a top board of the base, and a hollow portion having a cylindrical inner surface extending inside the rotary barrel from the through hole along the rotary axis. A mechanism unit cable of the robot passes from an inside of the base to an upper part of the rotary barrel through the through hole and the hollow portion, and is fixed in the inside of the base and at the upper part of the rotary barrel while the mechanism unit cable is bent inside the hollow portion and is pressed against the inner surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventor: Naoki FUJIOKA
  • Publication number: 20200206912
    Abstract: A transmission device is provided, including a first housing, a second housing connected to the first housing, a third housing axially connected to the second housing, an adapter disposed on the third housing, a first power shaft actuating the first housing and the second housing to rotate, a second power shaft actuating the third housing to rotate, and a third power shaft actuating the adapter to rotate. The second and third power shafts are a coaxial structure. The first power shaft is an independent rod. Therefore, a motor loaded with a smaller rotation inertia and being thus cheaper can be used to drive the first power shaft, and the transmission device can have a reduced cost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: INDUSTRIAL TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Meng-He WU, Shang-Te CHEN, Chia-Chung SUNG, Cheng-Yu CHU, Jan-Hao CHEN
  • Publication number: 20200206913
    Abstract: A software compensated robotic system makes use of recurrent neural networks and image processing to control operation and/or movement of an end effector. Images are used to compensate for variations in the response of the robotic system to command signals. This compensation allows for the use of components having lower reproducibility, precision and/or accuracy that would otherwise be practical.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 1, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Adrian Kaehler
  • Publication number: 20200206914
    Abstract: The present disclosure is provides a servo control method as well as an apparatus and a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining a teeth force reduction multiple of a gear of a servo; creating a voltage queue based on the teeth force reduction multiple; calculating a target loading voltage corresponding to a current moment based on a voltage queue; and applying the target loading voltage on a motor of the servo, wherein the target loading voltage is for driving the motor of the servo to rotate. Through the above-mentioned method, the loading voltage can be effectively reduced when the servo is started, thereby protecting teeth of the gear of the servo and increasing the service life of the servo.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yongping Zeng, Youjun Xiong, Zhongliang Wang, Dong Liu, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20200206915
    Abstract: In a robot system, a control device includes a power supplier and a main controller; a robot includes a first controller releasing the braking of a first drive portion by a first braker through a supply of a current from the power supplier and a second controller releasing the braking of a second drive portion by the second braker through a supply of a current from the power supplier; the main controller causes the first controller and the second controllers to release the braking by the first braker and the second braker; a power line coupling the power supplier, the first controller, and the second controller to each other is in a daisy chain coupling; and a first release timing at which the first controller releases the braking by the first braker is different from a second release timing at which the second controller releases the braking by the second braker.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Takema YAMAZAKI
  • Publication number: 20200206916
    Abstract: A robot may include a main body coupled to a traveling unit, a display unit disposed above a front portion of the main body, and a battery incorporated in the main body. The traveling unit may include a wheel having a rotational axis extending in a first direction, and the battery may overlap a vertical plane that extends along the rotational axis. The vertical plane and a center of the battery may be separated by a prescribed distance in a second direction that is orthogonal to the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Chungin JUNG, Sunho YANG, Eulpyo HONG
  • Publication number: 20200206917
    Abstract: A substrate transfer robot, first and second sensors are provided in a hand such that a planar-view intersection point of optical axes is located on a center of a substrate when the hand holds the substrate in planar view, and a control device operates an arm, scans a target placed at a teaching position with the first and second sensors, and acquires the teaching position when the target is located at the planar-view intersection point of the optical axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicants: KAWASAKI JUKOGYO KABUSHIKI KAISHA, KAWASAKI ROBOTICS (USA), INC.
    Inventors: Masaya YOSHIDA, Hajime NAKAHARA, Mark TANG
  • Publication number: 20200206918
    Abstract: The embodiment of the present application provides a machine learning method and apparatus and an object-searching method and apparatus, which are related to the field of artificial intelligence technology and applied to the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Haiming SUN
  • Publication number: 20200206919
    Abstract: An industrial robot system includes: a robot that includes a torque sensor on at least one rotary shaft; and a controller that controls the robot. The controller includes a moment output unit that outputs a value of moment from a posture of the robot or the posture and a motion of the robot, a program storage unit that stores a motion program, a drive control unit that causes each of component parts of the robot to perform a rotating motion around the rotary shaft in accordance with the motion program, and an output calibration unit that associates a torque detection value detected by the torque sensor with the value of moment output from the moment output unit in the rotating motion of each of the component parts around the rotary shaft performed by the drive control unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicant: FANUC CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kazutaka NAKAYAMA, Takahiro IWATAKE
  • Publication number: 20200206920
    Abstract: According to one aspect, a computer-implemented method of discovering processes for robotic process automation (RPA) includes: recording a plurality of event streams, each event stream corresponding to a human user interacting with a computing device to perform one or more tasks; concatenating the event streams; segmenting some or all of the concatenated event streams to generate one or more individual traces performed by the user interacting with the computing device, each trace corresponding to a particular task; clustering the traces according to a task type; identifying, from among some or all of the clustered traces, one or more candidate processes for robotic automation; prioritizing the candidate processes; and selecting at least one of the prioritized candidate processes for robotic automation. Further aspects building upon the above include generating RPA models to perform tasks determined to be processes for RPA. Corresponding systems and computer program products are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jiyong Ma, Stephen Michael Thompson, Jan W. Amtrup
  • Publication number: 20200206921
    Abstract: A robot movement control method and apparatus as well as a robot using the same are provided. The method includes: calculating a distance between a robot and each UWB base station; configuring an internal coordinate system according to a preset position of the UWB base station, and calculating a coordinate of the robot in the internal coordinate system according to a distance between the UWB base station and the robot; combining the coordinate of the robot in the internal coordinate system with localization information of an odometer provided on the robot to obtain a combined robot coordinate; and controlling the robot to move in accordance with a preset target position according to the combined robot coordinate. In such manner, UWB base station localization can be used to control the movement of a robot in a limited scene.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: YOUJUN XIONG, Gaobo Huang, Xiangbin Huang
  • Publication number: 20200206922
    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.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 30, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: YOUJUN XIONG, Jianxin Pang, Lifu Zhang, Wenhua Fan, Dong Liu
  • Publication number: 20200206923
    Abstract: A system for performing interactions within a physical environment including a robot base that undergoes movement relative to the environment, a robot arm mounted to the robot base, the robot arm including an end effector mounted thereon and a tracking system that measures a robot base position indicative of a position of the robot base relative to the environment. A control system acquires an indication of an end effector destination, and repeatedly determines a robot base position using signals from the tracking system, calculates an end effector path extending to the end effector destination at least in part using the robot base position, generates robot control signals based on the end effector path and applies the robot control signals to the robot arm to cause the end effector to be moved along the end effector path towards the destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Pivac, James Gary Robertson
  • Publication number: 20200206924
    Abstract: A system for performing interactions within a physical environment including a robot base that undergoes movement relative to the environment, a robot arm mounted to the robot base, the robot arm including an end effector mounted thereon and a tracking system that measures a robot base position indicative of a position of the robot base relative to the environment. A control system acquires an indication of an end effector destination, determines a reference robot base position, calculates an end effector path extending to the end effector destination and repeatedly determines a current robot base position using signals from the tracking system, calculates robot arm kinematics using the current robot base position and the end effector path and controls the robot arm to cause the end effector to be moved towards the end effector destination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Mark Joseph Pivac, James Gary Robertson
  • Publication number: 20200206925
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides an impedance control method for a biped robot as well as an apparatus and a biped robot using the same. The method includes: correcting an impact force on a landing leg in the two legs of the biped robot using a natural attenuation function, and taking the corrected impact force as an input of an impedance control; obtaining an impedance model of the biped robot; determining a transfer function of the impedance control based on the impedance model; calculating an output of the impedance control based on the input of the impedance control and the transfer function of the impedance control; determining a joint angle of each joint based on the output of the impedance control and a planned pose of the biped robot; and transmitting joint angle information of each joint to motor(s) of the joint to perform the impedance control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Yuesong Wang, Youjun Xiong, Mingguo Zhao
  • Publication number: 20200206926
    Abstract: Provided is a method of coding a robot control device according to a standardized coding format, the method including displaying a format of a syntax to be input in unit of components; with respect to each component in the syntax, displaying one or more candidate component values that are to be input as a value of each component; and completing the syntax based on a user selection on the candidate component values with respect to each component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Hae Wook JEONG, In Zu KANG, Jong Hwa PARK
  • Publication number: 20200206927
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a relocalization method including: obtaining submap boundary points; drawing a first submap based on the submap boundary points; extracting a second submap from the first submap; performing a template matching on a known map based on the second submap to obtain first matching results; obtaining second matching result each corresponding to each of the first matching results based on a positional relationship of the second submap in the first submap: matching boundary points in each of the second matching results with the submap boundary points to filter out third matching results from the second matching results; and selecting one of the third matching results as a relocal i/at ion result. The present disclosure further provides a robot. In the above-mentioned manner, it is capable of realizing a re localization with high accuracy, high preciseness, and low error rate while there are environmental changes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Longbiao Bai, Youjun Xiong, Zhichao Liu, Jian Zhang, Yongsheng Zhao, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20200206928
    Abstract: Safety systems in distributed factory workcells intercommunicate or communicate with a central controller so that when a person, robot or vehicle passes from one workcell or space into another on the same factory floor, the new workcell or space need not repeat the tasks of analysis and classification and can instead immediately integrate the new entrant into the existing workcell or space-monitoring schema. The workcell or space can also communicate attributes such as occlusions, unsafe areas, movement speed, and object trajectories, enabling rapid reaction by the monitoring system of the new workcell or space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Scott Denenberg, Patrick Sobalvarro, Clara Vu, Alberto Moel, Richard A. Kelsey
  • Publication number: 20200206929
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides duplicate servo ID detection methods and a servo for a robot. One of the method includes: transmitting, by the main controller, a query instruction including a specific servo ID to at least two of the servos of the robot through a bus; differentiating feedback information replied by at least two of the servos corresponding to the specific servo ID; and determining, by the main controller, there being at least two of the servos with the same servo ID, if the feedback information not meeting a predetermined verification rule is received. Through the technical solution provided by this embodiment, the detection of duplicate servo ID can be realized, and the servos on the bus that have the same servo ID can be found so us to remind the user of the robot, thereby guaranteeing the normal operation of the robot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Youjun XIONG, Hanyu Sun, Lifu Zhang, Wenhua Fan, Zhongliang Wang, Jianxin Pang
  • Publication number: 20200206930
    Abstract: An accident monitoring system based on UWB-based real-time positioning comprises a UWB tag, a plurality of UWB anchors installed around a processing line and receiving the worker's position from the UWB tag and sensing predetermined information for the processing line, an AP receiving the worker's position and the predetermined information for from the plurality of UWB anchors, a server receiving the worker's position and the predetermined information for from the AP, storing the worker's position and the predetermined information for, and determining whether the worker is in a preset access-limited area, and a programmable logic control (PLC) box, upon receiving proximity information indicating that the worker is the access-limited area from the server through the AP, controlling to stop the industrial robot, the conveyor belt, and the motor in the processing line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Jin Yong Lee, Young Kuk Kwon, Jeong Hun Lee, Young Kwang Kim, Myoung Hoon Choi, Su Jin Lee
  • Publication number: 20200206931
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided for robot control. One embodiment is a method for coordinating operations of robots performing work on a part. The method includes assigning a group of robots to a part, initiating work on the part via the group of robots, determining that a robot within the group is unable to continue performing work at a first location of the part, removing the robot from the group while other robots of the group continue performing the work, adding a functioning robot to the group at a second location that the robot is scheduled to occupy, and continuing work on the part via the group of robots.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 2, 2019
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventor: Samuel F. Pedigo
  • Publication number: 20200206932
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a palletizing control device, system, method and storage medium, and relates to the technical field of logistics. A palletizing control device includes: a prestage position generation module configured to generate a prestage position of an article to be palletized by respectively shifting a placement position of the article to be palletized along a horizontal palletizing direction by a horizontal offset corresponding to the article to be palletized and along a vertical palletizing direction by a vertical offset corresponding to the article to be palletized; and a path generation module configured to generate movement path information representing a straight path from the prestage position of the article to be palletized to the placement position of the article to be palletized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Applicants: BEIJING JINGDONG SHANGKE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., BEIJING JINGDONG CENTURY TRADING CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Guoku SONG, Zongjing YU