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US 11,358,287 B2Granted
Input device and robot control system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorsYuki Ishii, Takashi Satou, Yihua Gu
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Abstract
A compact, intuitively-operable input device for manipulating a robot is provided. Provided is an input device for manipulating a robot. The input device includes: a base; a movable section supported in a three-dimensionally movable manner relative to the base; and a detector that performs detection by resolving an operation amount of the movable section relative to the base into parallel movement amounts along a first axis and a second axis, which extend parallel to a predetermined surface of the base and are orthogonal to each other, and a parallel movement amount along a third axis that is orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis.
Claims12
An input device for manipulating a robot, the input device comprising:
- a base;
- a movable section supported in a three-dimensionally movable manner relative to the base;
- a detector comprising a first movement-amount detector, a second movement-amount detector, and a rotation-amount detector, wherein the first movement-amount detector performs detection by resolving an operation amount of the movable section relative to the base into parallel movement amounts along a first axis and a second axis, which extend parallel to a predetermined surface of the base and are orthogonal to each other, and wherein the second movement-amount detector detects a parallel movement amount along a third axis that is orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis;
- a selection switch that can be switched such that detection values corresponding to the parallel movement amounts along the first to third axes are output as output values with different contents;
- an output channel configured to output information indicating a mode of the selection switch, wherein the mode of the selection switch is set as an output value of the output channel;
- and
- at least one other output channel configured to output a detection value detected by the detector.
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A robot control system comprising:
- an input device for manipulating a robot, the input device comprising:
- a base;
- a movable section supported in a three-dimensinally movable manner relative to the base;
- a detector comprising a first movement-amount detector, a second movement-amount detector, and a rotation-amount detector, wherein the first movement-amount detector performs detection by resolving an operation amount of the movable section relative to the base into parallel movement amounts along a first axis and a second axis, which extend parallel to a predetermined surface of the base and are orthogonal to each other, and wherein the second movement-amount detector detects a parallel movement amount along a third axis that is orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis;
- a selection switch that can be switched such that detection values corresponding to the parallel movement amounts along the first to third axes are output as output values with different contents;
- an output channel configured to output information indicating a mode of the selection switch, wherein the mode of the selection switch is set as an output value of the output channel;
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- at least one other output channel configured to output a detection value detected by the detector;
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- a control device that associates output values, corresponding to the parallel movement amounts along the first to third axes, output from the input device with parallel movement amounts along three orthogonal axes in a coordinate system set at a distal end of the robot.
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A robot control system comprising:
- an input device for manipulating a robot, the input device comprising:
- a base;
- a movable section supported in a three-dimensionally movable manner relative to the base;
- a detector comprising a first movement-amount detector, a second movement-amount detector, and a rotation-amount detector, wherein the first movement-amount detector performs detection by resolving an operation amount of the movable section relative to the base into parallel movement amounts along a first axis and a second axis, which extend parallel to a predetermined surface of the base and are orthogonal to each other, and wherein the second movement-amount detector detects a parallel movement amount along a third axis that is orthogonal to the first axis and the second axis;
- a selection switch that can be switched such that detection values corresponding to the parallel movement amounts along the first to third axes are output as output values with different contents;
- an output channel configured to output information indicating a mode of the selection switch, wherein the mode of the selection switch is set as an output value of the output channel;
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- at least one other output channel configured to output a detection value detected by the detector;
- a control device that associates output values, corresponding to the parallel movement amounts along the first and second axes, output from the input device and an output value corresponding to the rotational movement amount about the third axis with rotational movement amounts about three orthogonal axes in a coordinate system set at a distal end of the robot;
- wherein the movable section is supported in a rotatable manner about the three axes relative to the base;
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- wherein the detector detects operation amounts of the movable section about the three axes as rotational movement amounts about the three axes.
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