Robot system
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYasuhiko Hashimoto, Shigetsugu Tanaka, Masayuki Kamon, Yoshihiko Maruyama
Life of this patent
Estimating the term…
Abstract
A robot system includes a robot body configured to perform a work, a robot controlling module configured to control operation of the robot body according to an operator command, a manipulator configured to send the operator command to the robot controlling module according to manipulation by an operator, a motivation information acquiring module configured to acquire motivation information for motivating the operator so that the operator increases an amount of work or a speed of work of the robot body, and a motivation information presenter configured to present to the operator the motivation information acquired by the motivation information acquiring module.
Claims20
A robot system, comprising:
- a robot body configured to perform a work;
- a start-of-work detector configured to detect a start of the work when an end effector of the robot body is located above the start-of-work detector;
- an end-of-work detector configured to detect an end of the work when the end effector of the robot body is located above the end-of-work detector;
- a processor programmed to:
- control operation of the robot body according to a command of an operator;
- and
- acquire, based on information from the start-of-work and end-of work detectors, at least one of an amount of work performed by the robot body and a speed of work performed by the robot body;
- and
- a motivation information presenter configured to present to the operator the acquired at least one of the amount of work and the speed of work.
A method for operating a robot system,
- the robot system comprising:
- a robot body configured to perform a work;
- a start-of-work detector configured to detect a start of the work when an end effector of the robot body is located above the start-of-work detector;
- and
- an end-of-work detector configured to detect an end of the work when the end effector of the robot body is located above the end-of-work detector, and
- the method comprising:
- controlling operation of the robot body according to a command of an operator;
- acquiring, based on information from the start-of-work and end-of work detectors, at least one of an amount of work performed by the robot body and a speed of work performed by the robot body;
- and
- presenting to the operator the acquired at least one of the amount of work and the speed of work.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions for controlling a processor of a robot system,
- the robot system comprising:
- a robot body configured to perform a work;
- a start-of-work detector configured to detect a start of the work when an end effector of the robot body is located above the start-of-work detector;
- and
- an end-of-work detector configured to detect an end of the work when the end effector of the robot body is located above the end-of-work detector, and
- when executed by the processor of the robot system, the stored instructions causing the processor to:
- control operation of the robot body according to a command of an operator;
- acquire, based on information from the start-of-work and end-of work detectors, at least one of an amount of work performed by the robot body and a speed of work performed by the robot body;
- and
- present to the operator the acquired at least one of the amount of work and the speed of work.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.