Industrial robot
AssigneePanasonic Corporation
InventorsTatsuya Ikeda, Kunitoshi Morita, Toshiyuki Mishima
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Abstract
There is provided an industrial robot which comprises a manipulator having a tool at the tip end, a robot control unit for controlling the manipulator, and a primary teaching device and subsidiary teaching device for controlling the manipulator through the robot control unit, wherein operation capable of being conducted by the subsidiary teaching device is restricted as compared with operation capable of being conducted by the primary teaching device. By realizing the industrial robot, it is possible to prevent a production line worker from executing a function of the robot which is originally to be executed by a supervisor.
Claims6
An industrial robot comprising:
- a manipulator having a tool at a tip end;
- a robot control unit for controlling the manipulator;
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- a primary teaching device and a subsidiary teaching device each for controlling the manipulator through the robot control unit,
- wherein the number of operations that the subsidiary teaching device is allowed to conduct is less than the number of operations that the primary teaching device is allowed to conduct, and
- wherein the robot control unit includes a storage device for storing restrict information indicating valid and invalid operations of the subsidiary teaching device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.