Control apparatus and control method for robot
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorKana KANAZAWA
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Abstract
A control apparatus that controls a plurality of robots, includes a failure prediction part that predicts a time of failure with respect to each component of the robots, a maintenance time adjustment part that adjusts maintenance times of the plurality of robots based on the components for which the times of failure are predicted, and a load adjustment part that adjust workloads of the robots according to the predicted times of failure for activation until the maintenance times.
Claims8
A control apparatus for controlling a plurality of robots, comprising:
- a failure prediction part that predicts a time of failure with respect to each component of the robots;
- a maintenance time adjustment part that adjusts maintenance times of the plurality of robots based on the components for which the times of failure are predicted;
- and
- a load adjustment part that adjusts workloads of the robots according to the predicted times of failure for activation until the maintenance times.
A control method for a plurality of robots executed by a control apparatus, comprising:
- predicting a time of failure with respect to each component of the robots;
- adjusting maintenance times of the plurality of robots based on the components for which the times of failure are predicted;
- and
- adjusting workloads of the robots according to the predicted times of failure for activation until the maintenance times.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.