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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7430456 | Reference point teaching using an end effector to form a witness mark Apparatus and method for reference point teaching for an articulated member, such as a robotic arm. An end effector is moved to form a witness mark on a medium at a target location. An updated reference point for the end effector is generated in relation to a detect... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7413565 | Minimally invasive surgical training using robotics and telecollaboration A medical system that allows a mentor to teach a pupil how to use a robotically controlled medical instrument. The system may include a first handle that can be controlled by a mentor to move the medical instrument. The system may further have a second handle that c... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7403835 | Device and method for programming an industrial robot In a device and method for programming an industrial robot using a simulation program, control commands are issued by a handheld programming device and these commands are visualized on an image surface as movement and/or processing operations by the robot on the bas... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7403837 | Portable device used to at least visualize the process data of a machine, a robot or a technical process A portable device (1) with at least one optical output device (2) for displaying at least process data of a machine, a robot or a technical process, with at least one input device (3) for at least intervening in the operating functions of the de... | 07/22/2008 |
| 7373220 | Robot teaching device A teaching device and a teaching modification device capable of easily attaining conformity between an operation program of a robot prepared by off-line programming and an actual operation of the robot. A layout of a robot system including three-dimensional models o... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7333879 | Offline programming device An offline programming device capable of automatically generating a measuring program by which the time and the workload for making an offline program may be greatly reduced. The offline programming device includes a storing part for storing a plurality of data in r... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7328086 | Robotic tool coupler rapid-connect bus A tool changer comprising a master module and a tool module includes a rapid-connect communication bus between the master and tool modules. A unique tool identification number, along with other tool-related information, may be transmitted from the tool module to the... | 02/05/2008 |
| 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 |
| 7292910 | Method and device for machining a workpiece A method for machining workpieces by means of a multiaxial manipulator, such as an industrial robot, with a tool moved proportionally by a control unit of the manipulator and which can perform characteristic movements with several degrees of freedom is characterized... | 11/06/2007 |
| 7254464 | System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive co... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248944 | Roll-pitch-roll wrist methods for minimally invasive robotic surgery 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... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7211978 | Multiple robot arm tracking and mirror jog A system for performing the method of this invention includes a leader having a robot arm able to articulate about first axes and supporting an end effector. A follower includes a robot arm able to articulate about respective second axes. Servo motors articulate the... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7200260 | Teaching model generating device A workpiece W serving as an object for detection is fixed in place. A camera 20 is mounted to the end of a robot RB. The camera is turned about an axis, which passes through the center position of the workpiece W and is perpendicular to the optical axis of th... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7189049 | Robot unit The present invention relates to a method for rapid transfer of a work object in both the horizontal and vertical directions using a robot unit (10) having a gripping mechanism (12) preferably from one workstation (3) to another (4), the ... | 03/13/2007 |
| 7130718 | Pathcorrection for an industrial robot A method for an industrial robot to increase accuracy in movements of the robot. A first path is formed by bringing a tool supported by the robot to adopt a plurality of generated positions. A plurality of observed positions of the tool moving along the first path a... | 10/31/2006 |
| 7117067 | System and methods for adaptive control of robotic devices Methods for operating robotic devices (i.e., “robots”) that employ adaptive behavior relative to neighboring robots and external (e.g., environmental) conditions. Each robot is capable of receiving, processing, and acting on one or more multi-device primitive co... | 10/03/2006 |
| 7072739 | Data center robotic device A method for operating a data center with a robotic device. In the method, a condition is detected in a location of the data center. The robotic device, which includes a camera and a manipulator, is maneuvered to travel to the location of the data center. The locati... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7050866 | Dynamic controller for controlling a system A method for providing independent static and dynamic models in a prediction, control and optimization environment utilizes an independent static model (20) and an independent dynamic model (22). The static model (20) is a rigorous predictive mo... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7027893 | Robotic tool coupler rapid-connect bus A tool changer comprising a master module and a tool module includes a rapid-connect communication bus between the master and tool modules. A unique tool identification number, along with other tool-related information, may be transmitted from the tool module to the... | 04/11/2006 |
| 7002585 | Graphic display apparatus for robot system 3-D models of various types of objects such as a robot body, and a peripheral equipment, a machine, a part (workpiece), of the robot, are stored in an object library in advance. Dimension line data of an edge line of which dimension can be changed, and constraint co... | 02/21/2006 |
| 6999851 | Robot apparatus and motion controlling method therefor A robot apparatus and a motion controlling method for the robot apparatus wherein a reflex motion or the like can be performed at a high speed while decreasing the calculation amount of and the concentrated calculation load to a control apparatus. The robot has a co... | 02/14/2006 |
| 6995536 | Low cost robot manipulator The present invention discloses a robotic manipulator, comprising at least one joint, each joint having a drive axis and at least one microelectromechanical system (MEMS) inertial sensor aligned with at least one drive axis providing sensing of a relative position o... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6950721 | Positioning substrate for semiconductor process A positioning substrate is used for performing a teaching operation on a transfer mechanism for transferring a target substrate in a semiconductor processing system. The positioning substrate includes a substrate body made of a material selected from the group consi... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6934605 | Palletizer system for selectively palletizing individual or pairs of objects moving along a conveyor A palletizer system is described for transferring a object that are conveyed along a conveyor to a rack, the object having a surface, the palletizer system comprising a camera, a robot transfer subsystem and a control module. The camera is configured to generate ima... | 08/23/2005 |
| 6917856 | Robot It is constructed so as to detect a joint movement position of a robot arm by a position detector and a joint movement speed is calculated from change amounts of the joint movement position and elapsed time and is compared with an allowable movement speed and unlock... | 07/12/2005 |
| 6907317 | Hub for a modular intelligent assist system An intelligent assist system having a modular architecture, coordinated by electronic communication links between the modules is provided. A multi-function hub for use in the assist system includes a physical interface for providing mechanical support within the ass... | 06/14/2005 |
| 6882890 | Industrial controller based on distributable technology objects A method and system for controlling an industrial controller based on technology objects are disclosed. Technology object types may be loaded and instantiated into the run time system of a controller, thereby increasing the functionality and providing technological ... | 04/19/2005 |
| 6853881 | Robot information processing system A robot controller executes an operating program, calculates a position and posture of a robot, and sends the position and posture information to a personal computer (PC). At the PC side, on the basis of this position and posture information, animation display infor... | 02/08/2005 |
| 6826432 | Process for programming an automation application A process for programming an automation application program on an automation equipment programming station, including defining several structured type objects each representing an input-output channel of automation equipment, declaring symbolic input-output variable... | 11/30/2004 |
| 6822412 | Method for calibrating and programming of a robot application A method for programming of a robot application comprising an industrial robot having a robot coordinate system, a tool having a tool coordinate system and a work object (3) to be processed by the tool. The application is programmed by means of a position-mea... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6813542 | Modules for use in an integrated intelligent assist system An intelligent assist system having a modular architecture, coordinated by electronic communication links between the modules. Modules for motion, computation, interface, and programming are disclosed in exemplary embodiments. ... | 11/02/2004 |
| 6799087 | Method and apparatus for providing agent swarm dispersal and separation by directed movement A method, apparatus, and computer program product are presented for directing the movement of an agent in an environment. The operations of the invention comprise determining at least a first zone and direction to objects in at least a portion of the environment aro... | 09/28/2004 |
| 6738691 | Control handle for intelligent assist devices A method and system for controlling an intelligent assist device, robot, or other powered system that is partially or fully directed by the intent of a human operator. The method and system includes measuring a force or motion imparted by the human operator to a con... | 05/18/2004 |
| 6618635 | Programming apparatus A programming apparatus having an arrangement for formulating an automating task to be performed in the form of a programming language for automating apparatuses is described, which simplifies a process error analysis for an analysis unit. For this purpos... | 09/09/2003 |
| 6556891 | Apparatus system and control box for same An apparatus system is provided with at least one robot and with a control unit accommodated in a control cabinet. To improve the integration of robot and technology control units and to utilize synergistic effects, at least one additional, independent el... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6549825 | Alignment apparatus An alignment apparatus which obtains an amount of correction for centering a semiconductor wafer from four points of a wafer edge detected by noncontact proprioceptors in a wafer delivery position P1 where the semiconductor wafer is passed to a... | 04/15/2003 |
| 6522949 | Robot controller When a position deviation of teaching point of a robot manipulator is detected during continuous operation of a robot system, device for correcting the teaching point without stopping continuous operation of the robot system is provided, thereby presentin... | 02/18/2003 |
| 6519507 | Method of teaching robot with traveling axis off-line A method of teaching a robot off-line having a traveling axis, by which the final position and final posture are determined when a robot having a traveling axis stops at an arbitrary position on a traveling axis. The method is able to take an arbitrary po... | 02/11/2003 |
| 6510365 | Carrier system positioning method The invention is a method for positioning a conveying mechanism having a holding portion for semiconductor wafers. Respective provisional position coordinates of an orienting teaching standard position and a container teaching standard positions are input... | 01/21/2003 |
| 6509576 | Method for compensating position of robot using laser measuring instrument Disclosed is a method for compensating the position of a robot using a laser measuring instrument by establishing an origin coordinate system; irradiating laser beams onto reflectors and calculating distances to the reflectors; converting the origin coord... | 01/21/2003 |
