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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8060251 | Interface for robot motion control Systems and methods are presented that enable a higher-level software application to control a robot's motion through a generic motion interface. In one embodiment, a system includes a controller, an interface, and a set of robot driver modules. The interface receiv... | 11/15/2011 |
| 7979158 | Blending algorithm for trajectory planning The present exemplary embodiment relates to motion control and planning algorithms to facilitate execution of a series of moves within a motion trajectory. In one example, a trajectory is specified as a sequence of one or more path segments. A velocity profile is ca... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970492 | Mobile robot control system In a mobile robot control system, it is configured to input at least one of the desired position and orientation of the robot at a time when the robot reaches the desired position by manipulation of the operator, to control the motion of the robot based on the input... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966093 | Adaptive mobile robot system with knowledge-driven architecture The invention integrates software and knowledge engineering with robotics technology to improve robot-to-robot and robot-to-human conversational interface and provide on-the-fly translations of situational requirements into adaptive behavior models and further down ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7474940 | Logic circuit and operations providing control path to shared robotic device in automated data storage library Logic circuits and operations respond to received various control signals, including (1) data exchange commands directing the drive to read and/or write data to a media item mounted by the drive, and (2) robotic device management commands. The logic responds to inco... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7447564 | Robot A robot of the present invention moves to a place where a user is, in response to the voice of the user who is calling the robot. Then, when the user presses a switch, the robot recognizes that the user desires to send an urgent call and dials a pre-registered telep... | 11/04/2008 |
| 7437214 | Robot device and method of controlling the same A legged mobile robot can calculate the movement amount between a portion of the robot apparatus that had been in contact with a floor up to now and a next portion of the robot apparatus in contact with the floor using kinematics and to switch transformation to a co... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7421314 | Method and device for controlling robot A method for controlling a robot during an interpolation of a trajectory or motion to any prescribed position, comprises the steps of a) ignoring at least one of the three originally prescribed or interpolated tool center point orientation values; b) finding new too... | 09/02/2008 |
| 7415321 | Robot controller Realized is a robot controller capable of handling a large amount of data of images and so on necessary for advanced intelligence of control while securing a real-time performance with a simple structure. For this purpose, there are provided a motion control device ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7409377 | Accelerated solution of constraint satisfaction problems by partitioning of the variable space Methods, systems and apparatus for modeling a target system includes defining a constraint satisfaction problem (CSP) that characterizes the target system in terms of a set of variables, each having a respective input domain, and initial constraints applicable to th... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7400939 | Robot device, motion control device for robot device and motion control method A motion equation with a boundary condition regarding a future center-of-gravity horizontal trajectory of a robot is solved so that the moment around a horizontal axis at a point within a support polygon is zero when the robot is in contact with a floor or so that h... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7389156 | Autonomous surface cleaning robot for wet and dry cleaning An autonomous floor cleaning robot includes a transport drive and control system arranged for autonomous movement of the robot over a floor for performing cleaning operations. The robot chassis carries a first cleaning zone comprising cleaning elements arranged to s... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7379789 | Gait generating device of legged mobile robot and legged mobile robot controller A permissible range of a restriction object amount, which is a vertical component of a floor reaction force moment or a component of the floor reaction force moment in floor surface normal line direction, or a vertical component of an angular momentum changing rate ... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7359766 | Robot cleaner and operating method thereof A robot cleaner comprises a suction unit installed within a cleaner body, for sucking dirt on a floor; a driving unit for moving the cleaner body; a wheel installed at a bottom of the cleaner body to be contacted with the floor, and rotated by movement of the cleane... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7353076 | Vacuum processing method and vacuum processing apparatus The invention provides a semiconductor processing apparatus having a high throughput capable of appropriately coping with the positional displacement that may occur during transfer of the wafer after correcting the position thereof, without slowing down the transfer... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346428 | Robotic sweeper cleaner with dusting pad An autonomously movable home cleaning robot that incorporates a sweeper and dust bin as well as a dusting assembly in tandem in the direction of movement of the robot. ... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346430 | Image transmission device and method, transmitting device and method, receiving device and method, and robot apparatus An image transmission device and method, a transmitting device and method, a receiving device and method, and robot apparatus are capable of effectively transmitting the image data of multiple channels by using the existing systems which are formed on the premise of... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7346429 | Mobile robot hybrid communication link A mobile robot communication system includes a remote unit, a repeater module and a control station. A cable connects the repeater module to the control station. The remote unit has a wireless receiver/transmitter for sending and receiving commands. The repeater mod... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7337039 | Gait producing device for leg type movable robot There are provided device for determining a desired trajectory of a translation floor reaction force's vertical component of a legged mobile robot 1, a vertical component of the total center-of-gravity acceleration or a body acceleration vertical component of... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337017 | Automation system with affective control The invention relates to an automation system with a programmable controller (6), the programmable controller (6) exhibiting deterministic behavior and being provided to produce at least one first result value (13) from at least one first input ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7337040 | Self-position estimating device for leg type movable robots Based on a detected or estimated value of an actual posture of a predetermined part, such as a body 3, of a robot 1 and a deviation the actual posture from a posture of a desired gait, a posture rotational deviation's variation is determined as the tem... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7330775 | Legged mobile robot controller, legged mobile robot and legged mobile robot control method A legged mobile robot, a legged mobile robot controller and a legged mobile robot control method are provided to perform a loading operation to load a gripped object in parallel on a target place having a height where a stretchable range of arm portions of the legge... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7330774 | Reception system An operation control unit of a reception system includes a visitor ID information DB for storing therein visitor comparison information and visitor ID information including a phone number of a receiver of a visitor; an identifying unit for identifying the visitor wh... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7328087 | Bipedal robot with storage battery A bipedal robot of the present invention has a trunk consisting of an upper trunk and a lower trunk which are rotatable around a rotation axis relative to one another. The upper trunk has shoulders on the right and left sides. An arm is provided at each shoulder. A ... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324870 | Cleaning robot and control method thereof A cleaning robot and a control method thereof in which a cleaning path desired by the user is recognizable by the cleaning robot, thereby being capable of cleaning a cleaning area desired by the user in a pattern desired by the user. The cleaning robot includes a ru... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7324873 | Offline teaching apparatus for robot An offline teaching apparatus including a data acquiring section for acquiring position and orientation data and processing-condition data including interpolation commands, at respective predefined taught points, from an existing first processing program for a first... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321808 | Robot and multiple robot control method When braking of a motion of a part of a first robot is assumed to be started at points in time, a first stop position of the first robot part is estimated at each point in time. When braking of a motion of a part of a second robot is assumed to be started at the poi... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7319919 | Control device and footstep determination device for legged mobile robot A landing position/orientation of a foot (22) to be landed in a landing action of a robot (1) such as a biped mobile robot or the like is estimated, and a desired footstep path for the robot (1) is set up. Based on the estimated landing position... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319918 | Gait generation device for legged mobile robot A gait generation device for setting a translation floor reaction force's horizontal component (component concerning a friction force) applied to a robot 1, a limitation-target quantity, such as a ZMP, and an allowable range, for determining at least a provis... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7319917 | Gait generation device for legged mobile robot A gait generation device for generating a desired gait which includes floating periods in which all the legs 2, 2 of a legged mobile robot 1 float in the air and landing periods in which at least one leg 2 is in contact with a floor which appear... | 01/15/2008 |
| 7313463 | Biomimetic motion and balance controllers for use in prosthetics, orthotics and robotics Systems for controlling the motion of multiple articulated elements connected by one or more joints in an artificial appendage system. Four different embodiments includes a controller that reduces the dimension of joint state space by utilizing biomechanically inspi... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7313461 | Data connectivity with a robotic device A method for data connectivity in a room with a robotic device. In the method, at least one condition is detected with a plurality of sensors and the detected at least one condition is communicated from the sensors to associated access points. One or more of the acc... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7310570 | Medical tele-robotic system A robotic system that includes a remote controlled robot. The robot may include a camera, a monitor and a holonomic platform all attached to a robot housing. The robot may be controlled by a remote control station that also has a camera and a monitor. The remote con... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7308336 | Gait producing device for leg type movable robot An allowable range of a frictional force component, such as a horizontal component of a translation floor reaction force, applied to a legged mobile robot 1 is set, and a provisional movement with a current time gait of the robot 1 is determined so as ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7308335 | Gait generation device and control device for leg type movable robot When generating a gait for a legged mobile robot 1 which has floating periods in which all the legs 2 of the robot float in the air and landing periods in which any of the legs 2 is in contact with the floor appearing alternately, a desired ZMP ... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7299110 | Systems and methods for using statistical techniques to reason with noisy data Systems and methods are presented that enable logical reasoning even in the presence of noisy (inconsistent) data. The knowledge base is processed in order to make it consistent and is also compiled. This processing includes checking and correcting spelling, removin... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7298385 | Method and device for visualizing computer-generated informations To improve the operation of robots in installations reprogramming and emptying an operating sequence to be performed by them, the invention provides a method and a device for visualizing computer-assisted information in an image of the real environment on a viewing ... | 11/20/2007 |
| 7295891 | Method and device for controlling movements in the case of manipulators In a method for controlling the movement of a manipulator associated with an interpretation of a given point sequence of poses (positions and orientations) by splines, the motion components are separately parameterized. Thus, marked, subsequent changes to the orient... | 11/13/2007 |
| 7292913 | Articulated robot In the articulated robot, types of teaching a moving track of the robot can be optionally selected. The articulated robot comprises: a switch for manually selecting a moving axis to move an arm section along the selected axis; a manual pulse generator generating pul... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7292912 | Door knocker control system for a remote controlled teleconferencing robot A robot system that includes a robot and a remote station. The remote station may be a personal computer coupled to the robot through a broadband network. A user at the remote station may receive both video and audio from a camera and microphone of the robot, respec... | 11/06/2007 |
