Robot monitoring method and robot system
AssigneeKawasaki Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorsYoshitaka MURAMATSU, Koki TAMURA
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Abstract
A robot monitoring method includes: acquiring information related to rotation of wheels of a robot while the robot is traveling along a route in a specific area; calculating, by a calculation circuit, a travel distance of the robot along the route based on the acquired information; calculating, by the calculation circuit, an actual distance corresponding to the route traveled by the robot; and in a case where a difference between the calculated travel distance and the actual distance is greater than a predetermined threshold, generating, by an alert generator, an alert regarding wear of the wheels of the robot.
Claims11
A robot monitoring method comprising:
- acquiring information related to rotation of a wheel of a robot while the robot is traveling along a route in a specific area;
- calculating, by a calculation circuit, a travel distance of the robot along the route based on the acquired information;
- calculating, by the calculation circuit, an actual distance corresponding to the route traveled by the robot;
- and
- in a case where a difference between the calculated travel distance and the actual distance is greater than a predetermined threshold, generating, by an alert generator, an alert regarding wear of the wheel of the robot.
A robot system comprising:
- a robot that travels along a route in a specific area, the robot including a wheel that rolls on a floor surface of the specific area;
- a sensor that outputs a signal related to rotation of the wheel while the robot is traveling along the route;
- a calculation circuit that calculates a travel distance of the robot along the route based on the signal from the sensor, and that calculates an actual distance corresponding to the route traveled by the robot;
- and
- an alert generator that generates an alert regarding wear of the wheel of the robot in a case where a difference between the calculated travel distance and the actual distance is greater than a predetermined threshold.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.