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US 10,800,032 B2Granted
Industrial robot, controller, and method thereof
AssigneeOMRON Corporation
InventorsDaichi Kamisono, Yoshiharu Tani, Kazunori Osako, Toshiyuki Higuchi, Minoru Hashimoto, Masaki Fujita
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Abstract
An industrial robot having high operability for a user is provided. An industrial robot includes a manipulator, a controller which controls an operation of the manipulator, and a detection device attached to the manipulator and detecting a gesture input. The controller executes a process corresponding to the detected gesture input.
Claims17
An industrial robot comprising:
- a manipulator;
- a controller which controls an operation of the manipulator;
- and
- a detection device attached to the manipulator and configured to detect a gesture input, wherein the detection device comprises a sensor or a switch,
- the controller executes a process corresponding to the detected gesture input,
- the detection device is further used for measuring a distance between the manipulator and an object,
- the controller decreases an operation speed of the manipulator compared with a case of the distance being a first distance when the measured distance is a second distance which is shorter than the first distance,
- the controller further decreases the operation speed of the manipulator to zero when the distance between the manipulator and the object is smaller than a predetermined distance, and
- the controller further lengthens the predetermined distance at which the operation speed is zero when the object moves away from the manipulator.
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A method in a controller controlling an operation of a manipulator of an industrial robot, the method comprising:
- a step of determining a pattern of a gesture input to the industrial robot on the basis of an output from a detection device attached to the manipulator, wherein the detection device comprises a sensor or a switch and is used for measuring a distance between the manipulator and an object;
- a step of executing a process corresponding to the pattern which has been detected;
- a step of decreasing an operation speed of the manipulator compared with a case of the distance being a first distance when the measured distance is a second distance which is shorter than the first distance;
- a step of decreasing the operation speed of the manipulator to zero when the distance between the manipulator and the object is smaller than a predetermined distance;
- and
- a step of lengthening the predetermined distance at which the operation speed is zero when the object moves away from the manipulator.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.