System, Processing Apparatus, Use of a System and Method for a Gesture-Based Control of an Industrial Robot Comprising a Movable Section

Abstract

The invention relates to a system for controlling an industrial robot, said system comprising the industrial robot, wherein the industrial robot comprises a movable section; at least one optoelectronic sensor, wherein the optoelectronic sensor is attached to the movable section of the industrial robot and is configured to detect a monitored zone in an environment of at least the movable section of the industrial robot and to obtain data about the monitored zone in so doing, in particular to measure said data by means of time-of-flight methods; and a processing apparatus that is configured to recognize, in the obtained data about the monitored zone, a gesture performed in the monitored zone by at least one object, in particular by an operator, and to trigger a control of the industrial robot in accordance with the recognized gesture.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.