Robot controller, simple installation-type robot, and method of controlling simple installation-type robot
AssigneeSeiko Epson Corporation
InventorDaisuke Kirihara
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Abstract
A robot includes an angular velocity sensor that detects the vibration of a robot. A control device allows the robot to perform a trial operation and acquires the measurement result measured by the angular velocity sensor during the trial operation as vibration information and analyzes the acquired vibration information based on maker evaluating information that is stored in a database. In the maker evaluating information, vibration information and the operating speed appropriate to the installation situation of the robot at which the vibration information is measured are associated with each other. Then, the robot is operated at an operating speed selected based on the analysis result of the vibration information.
Claims8
A robot controller that controls an operation of a robot mounted in a moving device, the robot controller comprising:
- a trial operation performing unit that allows the robot to perform a predetermined trial operation, wherein, during the predetermined trial operation, a vibration of the robot is measured as a measurement result;
- a storage unit storing a plurality of operating speed information, wherein each of the operating speed information associates a respective magnitude of vibration with an operating speed appropriate for the vibration;
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- an operating speed output unit selecting and outputting a desired operating speed of the robot from among the operating speeds of the operating speed information stored in the storage unit based on the measurement result measured during the trial operation.
A simple installation-type robot comprising:
- a robot;
- a robot controller that controls an operation of a robot mounted in a moving device, the robot controller including:
- a trial operation performing unit that allows the robot to perform a predetermined trial operation, wherein, during the predetermined trial operation, a vibration of the robot is measured as a measurement result;
- a storage unit storing a plurality of operating speed information, wherein each of the operating speed information associates a respective magnitude of vibration with an operating speed appropriate for the vibration;
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- an operating speed output unit selecting and outputting a desired operating speed of the robot from among the operating speeds of the operating speed information stored in the storage unit based on the measurement result measured during the trial operation.
A method of controlling a simple installation-type robot in which a robot and a robot controller controlling the robot are mounted in a moving device, the method comprising:
- allowing the robot to perform a predetermined trial operation;
- measuring, during the predetermined trial operation, a vibration of the robot as a measurement result;
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- selecting and outputting a desired operating speed of the robot from among a plurality of operating speed information based on the measurement result measured during the predetermined trial operation, wherein the plurality of operating speed information is predefined and stored in the robot controller, and each of the operating speed information associates a respective magnitude of vibration with an operating speed appropriate for the vibration.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.