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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8145355 | Coordinated joint motion control system A coordinated joint control system for controlling a coordinated joint motion system, e.g. an articulated arm of a hydraulic excavator blends automation of routine tasks with real-time human supervisory trajectory correction and selection. One embodiment employs a d... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8032253 | Automatic machine system and wireless communication method thereof In an automatic machine system comprising a mechanism unit (1) including at least one driving mechanism, a controller (2) for controlling a driving operation of the mechanism unit (1), and a teaching unit (3) for operating the mechanism u... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8000838 | Systems and methods that facilitate motion control through coordinate system transformations The subject invention relates to systems and methods that facilitate motion between different coordinate systems in an industrial control environment. The systems and methods accept data in one coordinate system and transform the data to a different coordinate syste... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7979159 | Method and system for determining the relation between a robot coordinate system and a local coordinate system located in the working range of the robot The present invention relates to a method and a system for determining the relation between a local coordinate system located in the working range of an industrial robot (1) and a robot coordinate system. The method includes attaching a first calibration obje... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7962242 | Automated spatial flipping apparatus and system for photomasks and photomasks with pellicles A spatial photomask flipper provides up to four access gates for an unloading of a clamped photomask after its reorientation along a single photomask transfer axis. The clamping frames holding the photomask are secured by a locking control cam that prevents their in... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7890211 | Master-slave manipulator system and apparatus A teleoperator system with telepresence is shown which includes right and left hand controllers (72R and 72L) for control of right and left manipulators (24R and 24L) through use of a servomechanism that includes computer (42). Cam... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7813837 | Robot control system A robot control system for controlling a position and an attitude of a robot head is provided with an operating head held by an operator and a sensor for detecting a position and an attitude of the operating head. An attitude recognition portion of the contro... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7571026 | Mobile apparatus, and control method thereof, control program and supervisory system therefor A mobile apparatus or the like capable of moving or acting by avoiding contact with an object, such as a person, while reducing the possibility of inducing a change of the behavior of the object. It is determined whether or not there is a first spatial element Q | 08/04/2009 |
| 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 |
| 7433760 | Camera and animation controller, systems and methods Embodiments of the invention provide novel controllers for filmmaking and/or animation, as well as systems and methods for their use. In a set of embodiments, a controller has an actuator (e.g., a joystick, etc.) that receives input from a user for controlling an ob... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7430457 | Robot teaching program editing apparatus based on voice input Candidate character strings representing objects disposed in a work cell, models for robot operation instructions which has variable parts, and robot commands related to the objects are defined in advance. By inputting a query such as ‘Workpiece 1 ?’ by voice, t... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7424342 | Transport system A computer in a transport system includes: a shooting part for shooting a first calibration tray by controlling a camera; a tray position computing part for computing a tray position of the first calibration tray within a captured image which the shooting part shot;... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7424341 | Robot system A robot system efficiently performing an operation of moving a robot to close to and/or separate from a target point, such as teaching operation. A camera of a visual sensor is mounted to the robot such that a distal end of an end effector is seen within the field o... | 09/09/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7409265 | Leg-type moving robot and floor reaction force detection device thereof It is arranged such that displacement sensors (70) are installed at a position in or vicinity of elastic members (382), to generate outputs indicating a displacement of the floor contact end of a foot (22) relative to a second joint (18, 20 | 08/05/2008 |
| 7403836 | Automatic work apparatus and automatic work control program The automatic work apparatus extracts the target image of which photos are taken by the left and right CCD cameras, specifies the spatial position of the target and executes an operation to the target by the arm. Two regions, the central region and the peripheral on... | 07/22/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7379790 | Tool memory-based software upgrades for robotic surgery Robotic devices, systems, and methods for use in robotic surgery and other robotic applications, and/or medical instrument devices, systems, and methods includes both a reusable processor and a limited-use robotic tool or medical treatment probe. A memory the limite... | 05/27/2008 |
| 7373219 | Grip strength with tactile feedback for robotic surgery Surgical robots and other telepresence systems have enhanced grip actuation for manipulating tissues and objects with small sizes. A master/slave system is used in which an error signal or gain is artificially altered when grip members are near a closed configuratio... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7353081 | Method and a system for programming an industrial robot A method for programming an industrial robot. The robot is taught a path having waypoints located on or in the vicinity of an object. An image of the object is obtained. Information is obtained about the position of a pointer pointing at points. The position of the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353082 | Method and a system for programming an industrial robot A method and a system for use in connection with off-line programming of an industrial robot. The robot is taught a path having a number of waypoints located on or in the vicinity of at least one object to be processed by the robot. The system includes a tracking sy... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353328 | Memory testing A memory subsystem may be usable in an electronic system. The memory subsystem may comprise a memory controller and a plurality of memory modules coupled to the memory controller. The memory module may be isolated wherein transactions that target the isolated memory... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7349758 | Interactive personalized robot for home use An interactive personalized robotic system for a home environment includes a home network in communication with at least one electronic device. A robot is in communication with the home network and is capable of controlling the at least one electronic device. The ro... | 03/25/2008 |
| 7338434 | Method and system for organ positioning and stabilization This invention provides a heart positioning device, method and system for positioning, manipulating, holding, grasping, immobilizing and/or stabilizing a heart. The heart positioning device may include a suction head and a shaft with a means for remotely changing th... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7339341 | Surgical camera robot The present invention is a miniature camera robot which can be placed entirely within an open space such as an abdominal cavity. The instant camera robot has pan and tilt capabilities, an adjustable focus camera, and a support component for supporting the robot body... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340323 | Industrial robot with controlled flexibility and simulated force for automated assembly An industrial robot that uses a simulated force vector to allow a work piece held by the robot end effector to be mated with a work piece whose location and orientation is not precisely known to the robot. When the end effector makes contact with the location and or... | 03/04/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 7330777 | Robot coordinated control method and system A reference signal is transmitted from one of a plurality of robot control devices connected by communication connecting device to the other robot control device. The timing of generation of an operation basic period signal in each of the other robot control devices... | 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 |
| 7325667 | Systems and methods for feeding articles to and removing articles from an automatic washer Systems, methods, and devices for feeding articles to and removing articles from an automatic washer, for example, a tunnel-type automatic washer are provided. The systems and methods employ conveyors, for example, belt conveyors, gantry-type conveyors, and shuttle-... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
