Robot with camera
AssigneeCanon Kabushiki Kaisha
InventorYuichi Someya
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Abstract
A robot with a camera includes a hand with a finger, a camera disposed on the hand, a robot arm including the hand, and a control portion which searches for a work based on an image obtained by the camera and controls the robot arm. In addition, a unit detects a velocity of the camera, and a unit detects a position of the camera relative to a predicted stopping position of the camera. The control portion permits the camera to take the image used for searching for the work, when the velocity of the camera takes a preset velocity threshold value or lower and the position of the camera relative to the predicted stopping position takes a preset position threshold value or lower.
Claims4
A robot with a camera, comprising:
- a hand with a finger;
- a camera disposed on the hand;
- a robot arm including the hand;
- a control portion which searches for a work based on an image obtained by the camera and controls the robot arm;
- a unit which detects a velocity of the camera;
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- a unit which detects a position of the camera relative to a preset stopping position of the camera,
- with the control portion being configured to control the camera to take the image used for searching for the work, when the velocity of the camera is equal to or lower than a preset velocity threshold value and the position of the camera relative to the preset stopping position is equal to or lower than a preset position threshold value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.