Method of control for an industrial robot
AssigneeTokico Ltd.
InventorTatsuya Rembutsu
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Abstract
A control method for use in industrial robots, and particularly an advantageous control method for use in industrial robots having attached thereto and using work tools (for example, a spray gun having a state in which paint is sprayed and a state in which paint is not sprayed) having a plurality of operational states is disclosed. That is, it is a control method for use in industrial robots which teaches the first data, which determine the path of the robot, and the second data, which determine the position of the switching of the operational state of the work tool attached to the robot in the path, and controls the operation of the work tool by means of the switching of the operational state of the work tool based on the second data during the operation, based on the first data, of the robot.
Claims11
A method for controlling the operation of an industrial robot, said industrial robot comprising:
- a work tool;
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- an operating means for moving and positioning said work tool and for switching the operational state of said work tool, said method comprising the steps of:
- (a) obtaining first data for determining a path of the work tool, said first data comprising time data and position data;
- (b) obtaining second data for determining said operational state of said work tool during the movement of said work tool in said path, said second data consisting of time data;
- (c) inputting said first data and said second data into said operating means;
- (d) moving said work tool along said path based on said first data while controlling the operational state of said work tool based on said second data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.