Workpiece transfer system
AssigneeFanuc Corporation
InventorHiroshi Oowatari
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Abstract
To change or update each operating pattern and/or an operating condition according to a workpiece feeding state and/or an operating state of a robot. A workpiece transfer system includes: a workpiece infeed device for feeding a workpiece; a robot for transferring the workpiece being fed; a control device for selecting an operating condition of the robot based on a condition related to the workpiece and/or a condition related to the robot, the control device including a storage unit in which plural operating conditions are stored and a selection unit for selecting, as the operating condition of the robot, an optimum operating condition out of the plural operating conditions.
Claims16
A workpiece transfer system comprising:
- a workpiece infeed device configured to feed at least one workpiece;
- a robot configured to transfer said at least one workpiece that is fed;
- a workpiece outfeed device on which said at least one workpiece transferred by the robot from the workpiece infeed device is to be placed;
- a machine learning device configured to construct a learning model used to indicate an operating condition of the robot;
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- a control device configured to select the operating condition of the robot by applying a condition related to said at least one workpiece and/or a condition related to the robot to the learning model and to control the robot according to the operating condition, wherein
- the machine learning device includes
- an input data obtaining unit configured to obtain, as input data, a correspondence relation between the condition related to said at least one workpiece and/or the condition related to the robot and the operating condition,
- a label obtaining unit configured to obtain, as a label, information indicating whether or not processing performance of the robot is excessive or whether or not the processing performance of the robot is insufficient, and
- a learning unit configured to perform supervised learning based on teaching data constituted by a set of the input data and the label to construct the learning model that is to be used to indicate the operating condition of the robot, and
- the control device includes
- a storage unit in which the learning model obtained from the machine learning device is stored,
- a selection unit configured to select, as the operating condition of the robot, an optimum operating condition based on the learning model, and
- an operation control unit configured to control operation of the robot according to the operating condition selected by the selection unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.