68 results about "Robot hardware" patented technology

A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for a digital proxy simulation of robotic hardware. In an implementation, a method may include creating a digital proxy simulation for a robotic hardware wherein the digital simulation and the robotic hardware may share a network interface. a user may be provided with an option to switch between the robotic hardware and the digital proxy simulation. The switch may be executed, upon receiving a user selection, between the robotic hardware and the digital proxy simulation, wherein executing the switch includes transferring input and output signals between the digital proxy simulation and the robotic hardware.

Methods and apparatus that provide a hardware abstraction layer (HAL) for a robot are disclosed. A HAL can reside as a software layer or as a firmware layer residing between robot control software and underlying robot hardware and/or an operating system for the hardware. The HAL provides a relatively uniform abstract for aggregates of underlying hardware such that the underlying robotic hardware is transparent to perception and control software, i.e., robot control software. This advantageously permits robot control software to be written in a robot-independent manner. Developers of robot control software are then freed from tedious lower level tasks. Portability is another advantage. For example, the HAL efficiently permits robot control software developed for one robot to be ported to another. In one example, the HAL permits the same navigation algorithm to be ported from a wheeled robot and used on a humanoid legged robot.

The invention discloses a mobile robot autonomous navigation system and method. The mobile robot autonomous navigation system comprises an infrared sensor distance measurement unit, an upper computer, a main controller and a motor, and is characterized in that the infrared sensor distance measurement unit is used for measuring the distance between an obstacle in one or more directions and a mobile robot in real time; the upper computer is used for performing path planning on the mobile robot according to the distance between the obstacle and the mobile robot, generating navigation information and sending the navigation information to the main controller; the main controller is used for controlling the motor to operate according to the navigation information sent by the upper computer so as to enable the motor to drive the mobile robot to perform autonomous walking. By using the mobile robot autonomous navigation system and method, requirements for hardware equipment and working environment of the robot are effectively reduced under the condition of ensuring certain navigation accuracy, and the cost-to-performance ratio of products is improved.

The invention relates to the technical field of robots, in particular to a visual servo positioning and grabbing method, and aims to solve the problem in the prior art that the robot can not precisely position and grab a target object by self. The visual servo positioning and grabbing method comprises the following steps: acquiring an image of the target object; determining the position information of the target object in the image; determining the actual position of the target object in the environment according to the position information; and according to the actual position, controlling a manipulator of the robot to grab the target object. With adoption of the technical scheme, the robot efficiently and precisely positions and grabs the target object by self; and in addition, a hardware system of the robot does not need to be improved, so that limitation of the environment to the hardware system of the robot is lowered.

System and method for allowing execution of control over robot hardware other than specific robot hardware by using control software that does not have features to be applied to the robot hardware other than the specific hardware designed for control. Execution means <bold>102 </highlight>for executing control software makes an inquiry about the presence of robot function means <bold>103 </highlight>requested by control software <bold>101 </highlight>through the use of interface recording means <bold>104 </highlight>and robot function searching means <bold>105. </highlight>If it has been found that the robot function means <bold>103 </highlight>is present, the execution means <bold>102 </highlight>requests the robot function means <bold>103 </highlight>to perform the motion of a robot. If it has been found that the robot function means <bold>103 </highlight>is not present, the request is skipped, or the request is made to similar robot function means <bold>103. </highlight>Alternatively, the request is made to alternative robot function means <bold>103. </highlight>

An articulated robot is controlled by dynamically modifying a combination of a hardware dependent middleware layer and a hardware independent application layer. A memory device for storing a plurality of sets of robot hardware dependent software programs and a memory device for storing a plurality of sets of robot hardware independent software programs are prepared. During execution of software programs, a software program compatible with a robot hardware configuration is introduced from the former memory device, and this software program is dynamically combined with the set of hardware independent software programs. The robot is thus appropriately controlled, meeting the needs of users.

The invention discloses a video-based intelligent patrol robot system. The system is carried on the hardware of a patrol robot, and can be applied indoors and outdoors, and carry out autonomous patrolin transformer substations, machine rooms or shopping malls according to a specified path. The system is mainly divided into an autonomous navigation module, a sensor acquisition module, a video transmission module, an intelligent video analysis module and a robot management module, wherein the autonomous navigation module is capable of detecting an obstacle in front and automatically completingavoidance; the sensor acquisition module is capable of detecting the temperature and humidity data of an environment in front; the video transmission module is capable of recording a high-definition video at a front end and transmitting the high-definition video to a background; the intelligent video analysis module carries out video analysis in the cloud with regard to the video acquired at the front end, and is capable of identifying human face, identifying a specific object, and customizing an identification task according to the filed need, for example, identifying the colors of various indication lamps in a machine room to judge whether the indication lamps are normal or not; and the robot management module manages the position, the state, the electric quantity and other information of the robot, and is capable of carrying out remote control on the robot.

The invention discloses a hexapod robot and a planning method for a foot end track. The hexapod robot comprises a body, six legs distributed on the body, a hardware system and a software system, wherein each leg of the robot is composed of three joints and connection components thereof, and the three joints sequentially are a hip joint, a knee joint and an ankle joint from top to bottom; a bufferstructure is arranged at the tail ends of the six legs separately; and the robot hardware system comprises a remote host control system, a robot body control system, a robot motor bottom drive systemand a vision system, and the software system is realized on the basis of an ROS robot operation system. According to the planning method for the foot end track, the movement of foot ends of the hexapod robot is realized by adjusting the heights of the two end points of a movement track parabola, the height of the vertex, the initial angle of leg raising, and the grounding angle of leg dropping. The planning method for the foot end track specifically comprises an initial leg raising phase, a middle leg swinging and rowing phase and an end leg dropping phase. According to the hexapod robot and the planning method for the foot end track, the obstacle crossing ability and the terrain adaptability of the hexapod robot are improved.

The invention discloses a multi-robot coordinative exploring technology combining autonomy and coordination. N heterogeneous moving robots R1 to Rn achieve coordinative exploration to unknown environment by means of combination of the two autonomy and coordination working modes, and finally achieve total coverage over the unknown environment. According to the technology, at first, the requirementfor hardware of all member robots in the multi-robot system is lowered, and in this way, the production and manufacturing cost of each robot is reduced at the same time. In addition, the robots of different manufacturers and different models can participate into the multi-robot system, and universality of the robots is improved. By means of introduction of the autonomy mode, the situation that allexisting robots work at the mode of the coordinative state is avoided, and the multi-robot is applied to the environment in which the unlimited distance and the unlimited bandwidth communication cannot be ensured.

The embodiment of the invention discloses a remote robot real-time message pushing method, system and device based on Internet cloud services. The remote robot real-time message pushing method comprises user client, robot hardware equipment and cloud service platform architectural design and a communication mode, heartbeat and online management for robot equipment and a retransmission confirmation mechanism for important instructions based on a message tree. By applying the method, system and device disclosed by the embodiment of the invention, remote control and message transfer of Internet and robot products and accurate execution of key instructions can be realized, and the control accuracy and efficiency of Internet robot product are improved.

The invention discloses an ROS-based intelligent wheelchair with an autonomous navigation function, belongs to the field of robots, and includes three parts, i.e., a single-chip microcomputer lower computer system, an ROS upper computer system and a robot hardware platform. The single-chip microcomputer lower computer system part includes a single-chip microcomputer, an encoder, an ultrasonic distance sensor, an accelerometer gyroscope, an electronic compass, a motor, a drive and other modules, and the ROS-based upper computer system includes an industrial control computer running the ROS, a Kinect camera, a handle and a mobile phone app. The industrial control host and the single-chip microcomputer are connected through a USB. The ROS-based robot autonomous navigation system provided by the invention achieves functions of interactive operation, path planning and navigation through the industrial control host, controls a robot (wheelchair) to move through the lower computer and can avoid obstacles in time, improves response speed of the robot (wheelchair) and can complete positioning and navigation.

The invention discloses an intelligent pesticide spraying robot. The intelligent pesticide spraying robot comprises a hardware circuit component, a software algorithm and a mechanical structure. The mechanical structure of the spraying robot comprises a cart plate. The hardware circuit component of the spraying robot mainly comprises an STM main controller. The software algorithm of the spraying robot is a fuzzy control algorithm. The intelligent pesticide spraying robot has the advantages that the distance between a spray nozzle and a plant is detected through an ultrasonic inductor, a controller conveniently controls an electric telescopic rod to adjust the height of the spray nozzle, and the spraying range is enabled to be matched with the area of the plant to achieve an optimal spraying effect; plant information is acquired by an image acquisition camera, and the controller conveniently controls the opening and closing of a solenoid valve and the opening and closing degree, so thatthe pesticide spraying efficiency is improved, and pesticides are reduced; through combination of the fuzzy algorithm and the mechanical structure, the STM32 main controller is enabled to calculate optimal spraying parameters; through internal segmentation design of a pesticide tank, different types of pesticides are stored conveniently at the same time, and accordingly, the using effect of the pesticides is improved.

The invention discloses a robot troubleshooting system. The robot troubleshooting system includes robot hardware, a robot hardware detection module and a terminal APP; the robot hardware includes a mechanical function module and basic function modules; the mechanical function module modulates the mechanical mechanism of the robot hardware so as to facilitate disassembly; the basic function modules are connected with an adapter board through lines and interfaces; and the adapter board carries out signal switching and integration so as to integrate the acquisition of signals and control onto control integration boards, and therefore, module disassembly and replacement can be facilitated. Accordingly, the invention also discloses a robot troubleshooting method. According to the method, the robot hardware detection module is adopted to carry out fault detection and judge modules requiring replacement; the terminal APP directly displays a graph-text maintenance scheme; and therefore, a fault locating process can be intelligentized, the technical threshold and complexity of maintenance can be reduced, the work efficiency of the maintenance is improved, and the difficulty of the maintenance of widely and dispersedly-applied robots can be decreased.

The invention discloses a monocular and binocular combined type high-voltage transmission line hardware fitting online recognition and positioning system and method, and belongs to the technical fieldof robots in the power industry. In the prior art, researches on line patrol robot hardware fitting identification are focused on a monocular identification ranging system, and the method is too tedious in algorithm, poor in real-time performance and low in positioning precision. The implementation of the system comprises the following steps: collecting images along a high-voltage power transmission line; carrying out SVM model training by utilizing the acquired images; establishing an obstacle hardware preset measurement point database by using an obstacle real-time distance measurement technology based on target characteristics; building a visual processing platform by adopting a binocular camera, and carrying out image acquisition along a line; recognizing an obstacle through an SVM multi-cycle multi-classification obstacle recognition method based on a binocular camera; according to the obstacle type, calling a corresponding measurement point from a preset measurement point library to carry out binocular vision distance measurement. Therefore, movement of the line patrol robot is controlled by combining the obstacle type and the distance measurement result, and obstacle crossing is accurate.

A storage library which enables capacity expansion without additional robotics hardware includes a frame, first and second modules having respective cells, and a robot. The frame supports the first module at a first frame length position such that the first cells are positioned at the first frame length position and along the periphery of a channel extending within the frame interior through the frame length. The frame supports the second module when the second module is mounted to the frame such that the second cells are positioned at the second frame length position and along the channel periphery. The robot has a support connected to the frame and a picker movably connected to the support. The picker moves through the channel to manipulate media elements held by the first cells, and to manipulate media elements held by the second cells when the second module is mounted to the frame.

The invention relates to a robot in a two-dimensional tracking robot spraying programming method, the robot tracks real-time movement pulses of a conveying chain and simulates and tracks rotation angle real-time pulses of a workpiece, a problem that robot hardware and software in the prior art including offline programming software cannot directly achieve two-dimensional tracking spraying of workpieces with complex appearances is solved, different spraying angles can be distributed through rotation, and spraying without dead angles is achieved; the robot does not need to walk at a singular angle to the maximum degree, the spraying angle does not need to be changed frequently, the operation time of the unit spraying area is greatly shortened, and operation efficiency is improved; robot lossis reduced; workpiece positioning is changed from a plane state to a three-dimensional state, and the space distance between workpieces can be reduced; the number of workpieces hung each time is increased by 50%; under the same productivity condition, the linear speed can be reduced, the actual operation range of robot tracking is reduced by 50%, the space of a spraying room is reduced, and energy consumption is reduced; the automation of horizontal rotary spraying becomes possible.

A method for establishing a digital map for indoor service robot autonomous navigation includes the steps of measuring indoor environmental characteristic data, and inputting the data to a robot built-in memory; the indoor environmental characteristic data are manually measured and include the indoor length, width and positions of fixed obstacles, then an indoor plane is subjected to lattice division in average, each lattice can serve as a map calculation point, and a map two-dimensional array is compiled according to the measured data and the preset map resolution ratio. The map can be artificially conveniently designed, the method is suitable for indoor commercial environment, and the robot path planning and autonomous navigation and autonomous obstacle avoidance functions can be achieved based on the map; the map is stored by the two-dimensional array, the amount of data is small, requirements to robot hardware are low, an SLAM laser radar is not needed, the cost is reduced, and mapinformation is not limited to a barrier-free state and a barrier state and also can be set as more states.

The present invention provides a humanoid robot with ultrasonic wave eyes. Through matching with a head motion mechanism, a set of ultrasonic sensors are arranged at the eye portions of the humanoid robot to allow the detection angle of the humanoid robot to be wider and have more directivity, reduce the hardware cost and the program complexity of the robot and improve the ornamental value of the humanoid robot. The humanoid robot comprises a humanoid robot head, an ultrasonic ranging module is fixed at the eye portions of the humanoid robot head and comprises two ultrasonic sensors taken as the robot eyes, the robot head has a steering engine capable of driving the head to move, and the steering engine and the ultrasonic ranging module are both connected with a robot main control board which emits control signals to control the synchronous movement of the ultrasonic ranging module and the robot head and emit detection signals to allow the robot to realize the multidirectional ultrasonic scanning detection through the head motion.

The invention discloses an interaction implementation method and system oriented to robot programming. The method comprises the steps that a data acquisition component adapted to a robot control component carries out acquisition of data carried by a tile; the robot control component acquires mapped action description information through the acquired data; and an established robot hardware system performs action control on a corresponding robot device according to the action description information. For the established robot hardware system, under an education scene facing children, robot programming can be realized only under the action of the tile and the data acquisition component without being carried out on terminal devices, the purpose of enlightenment education is achieved, the logical thinking training effect is greatly enhanced, action control is realized for the robot device under the action of the tile and the data acquisition component, a game function of the robot hardwaresystem is endowed, and the effect of enlightenment education in the education field is greatly improved.