Robot and robot maintenance timing notification method
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsYu Ikeda, Soichi Arita
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Abstract
A robot including a movable portion, a controller, and a storage unit that stores maintenance timing information regarding at least one of the movable portion and the controller. The controller performs predetermined notification processing based on a comparison between elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information. The movable portion and the control apparatus are placed in a predetermined work site on which a second robot is installed. The controller corrects the maintenance timing information or the elapsed time information using information received from the second robot.
Claims8
A robot comprising:
- a movable portion;
- a controller;
- and
- a storage unit that stores maintenance timing information regarding at least one of the movable portion and the controller, the storage unit storing a correction factor for correcting at least one of elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information,
- wherein the controller performs predetermined notification processing based on the elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information, and
- the controller performs a step of correcting the correction factor from a previously-stored value of the correction factor based on information including an environmental value received from a second robot, said environmental value comprising an update to a stored environmental value of the robot, and corrects the at least one of the elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information based on the step of correcting the correction factor.
A maintenance timing notification method for a robot installed in a predetermined work site, the robot including a movable portion, a controller, and a storage unit that stores maintenance timing information regarding at least one of the movable portion and the controller, the method comprising:
- storing, in the storage unit, a correction factor for correcting at least one of elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information;
- comparing, by the controller, the elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information;
- performing, by the controller, a predetermined notification based on a comparison result from the comparison;
- and
- prior to comparing, performing a first step of correcting, by the controller, the correction factor from a previously-stored value of the correction factor based on information including an environmental factor received from the second robot said environmental factor comprising an update to a stored environmental factor of the robot, and a second step of correcting at least one of the elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information based on the first step of correcting the correction factor, said second step of correcting the at least one of the elapsed time information and the maintenance timing information performed after the first step of correcting the correction factor.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.