227 results about "Robot wrist" patented technology

A surgical tool includes a tool shaft, and end effector and a wrist that couples the end effector to the tool shaft. The tool includes a drive mechanism configured to effect movement of one or both of the wrist and the end effector in yaw and pitch via independent actuation of four independent cable ends of two or more independent cables that extend between the drive mechanism and the wrist.

Disclosed is a method and system for finding a relationship between a tool-frame of a tool attached at a wrist of a robot and robot kinematics of the robot using an external camera. The position and orientation of the wrist of the robot define a wrist-frame for the robot that is known. The relationship of the tool-frame and/or the Tool Center Point (TCP) of the tool is initially unknown. For an embodiment, the camera captures an image of the tool. An appropriate point on the image is designated as the TCP of the tool. The robot is moved such that the wrist is placed into a plurality of poses. Each pose of the plurality of poses is constrained such that the TCP point on the image falls within a specified geometric constraint (e.g. a point or a line). A TCP of the tool relative to the wrist frame of the robot is calculated as a function of the specified geometric constraint and as a function of the position and orientation of the wrist for each pose of the plurality of poses. An embodiment may define the tool-frame relative to the wrist frame as the calculated TCP relative to the wrist frame. Other embodiments may further refine the calibration of the tool-frame to account for tool orientation and possibly for a tool operation direction. An embodiment may calibrate the camera using a simplified extrinsic technique that obtains the extrinsic parameters of the calibration, but not other calibration parameters.

A workpiece picking device capable of correctly detecting the size of a workpiece. The picking device has a robot capable of picking the same kind of workpieces contained in a work container, a robot controller for controlling the robot, a video camera positioned above the work container so as to widely image the workpieces and an image processor for processing an image obtained by the video camera. The three-dimensional position and posture of each workpiece is measured by a three-dimensional vision sensor arranged on a wrist element of the robot.

The invention discloses a two-degree-of-freedom robot wrist, which relates to a robot wrist and aims to solve the problems of complex structure, heavy weight, high control difficulty and low integration level existing in the conventional robot wrist. One of two input bases of a torque sensor is connected with a first driven bevel gear of a differential mechanism while the other is sleeved on a driven shaft of the differential mechanism; a support block is arranged on a bracket bottom plate of a support bracket; the differential mechanism is supported by the support block and two support arms of the support bracket; a driving frame is connected with the support bracket through a pre-tightening mechanism; first and second drivers are fixed on the driving frame and have opposite transmission directions; the first and second drivers are in transmission connection with first and second driving half shafts of the differential mechanism through first and second toothed belt transmission mechanisms; first and second position sensors are arranged on the first driving half shaft of the differential mechanism; and a tail end circuit board is fixedly arranged on an output base of the torque sensor. The robot wrist has the advantages of simple structure, light overall weight, easy control, high integration level and wrist pitching and deflection degrees of freedom.

The invention discloses a three-degree-of-freedom spherical space robot wrist and relates to a robot wrist. The three-degree-of-freedom spherical space robot wrist solves the problems of complex structure, low integrated level, large own weight and coupling motion of the three-degree-of-freedom robot wrist. In the three-degree-of-freedom spherical space robot wrist, an upper semisphere shaft is rotationally connected with an interface of an end effector; an upper semisphere is rotationally connected with a lower semisphere; the contact surface of the upper semisphere and the lower semisphere is an offset inclined plane; the angle between the offset inclined plane and the horizontal plane is 10 to 25 degrees; an upper semisphere motor and a speed reducing mechanism are fixedly connected with a universal joint shaft through an upper semisphere gear transmission mechanism; the universal joint shaft is fixedly connected with the upper semisphere shaft through an internal universal joint; the upper semisphere shaft is rotationally connected with the interface of the end effector; a lower semisphere motor and the speed reducing mechanism are fixedly connected with a lower semisphere shaft through a lower semisphere gear transmission mechanism; a rotation motor and the speed reducing mechanism are fixedly connected with a turnplate through a rotation gear transmission mechanism; and the turnplate is in transmission connection with the interface of the end effector through an external universal joint. The three-degree-of-freedom spherical space robot wrist is applied to aerospace robots.

The present invention provides methods, apparatus, and systems for a wrist assembly including a housing having a cap and a bottom, at least one pivot at least partially enclosed in the housing and adapted to be coupled to a robot arm, and a belt coupled to the pivot and adapted to rotate the pivot about a bearing. The bottom of the housing is adapted to reflect heat away from the at least one pivot and the bearing.

Described herein is an articulated robot wrist, comprising: a first support, which is to be mounted on a robot component that is rotatable about a first axis; a second support, mounted on said first support in a rotatable way about a second axis inclined with respect to said first axis; a first motor, carried by said first support, the shaft of which is connected in rotation to said second support via a first gear transmission; a third support, mounted on said second support in a rotatable way about a third axis, inclined with respect to said second axis; and a second motor, carried by the second support, the shaft of which is connected in rotation to said third support via a second gear transmission.

A managing structure, for an umbilical member for a work tool of a robot, capable of stabilizing the motion of the umbilical member during the operation of a wrist of the robot and making the work of modifying the system of the robot easier. The umbilical member is introduced into an opening formed at the back of a base of a forearm. The umbilical member extends through a hollow portion of a speed reducer and is drawn from a first opening formed on the side of a first wrist element. A cable for welding current and a tube for supplying shield gas, constituting the umbilical member, are directly connected to a welding torch rotatable about a third axis. A welding wire is guided and fed by a feed roller of a wire feeder and, then, is connected to the welding wire with the cable and the tube. The feed roller is driven by a motor contained within the first wrist element.

A robot wrist for an industrial robot. A wrist housing and a wrist part, designated a tilt, are journalled at the wrist housing. The tilt is rotatable relative to the wrist housing about an axis of rotation and includes a drive unit including a motor with a motor housing. A shell part of the motor housing is designed to connect the tilt to the wrist housing.

A method for controlling a painting system including an industrial robot or manipulator arm arranged with a wrist section and carrying a paint applicator arranged on the robot wrist is described. Paint is applied by the applicator to a substantially circular or elliptical area on the surface, the center of the area being defined as a Tool Center Point. The wrist section is arranged capable of moving and orienting the paint applicator. In the method, the paint applicator is moved by the manipulator arm so that the Tool Center Point moves along a planned path so coating a part of the surface. The planned path may include one or more bends. The path taken by the robot wrist may be controlled to follow a different path from the path taken by the Tool Center Point. A system and a computer program for carrying out the method are also described.

The invention relates to a frame-type decoupling six-component sensor and an application method thereof, which belong to the field of industrial robots. The sensor comprises a fixed platform and a floating platform, wherein, cross beams are respectively arranged on the left and the right ends of the floating platform and are respectively connected with the fixed platform through a longitudinal beam to form a T-shaped beam; and cross beams are respectively arranged on the front and the back sides of the fixed platform and are respectively connected with the floating platform through a longitudinal beam to form an reversed T-shaped beam. The invention can achieve measurement and decoupling of spatial six-component forces, and has the advantages of simple structure, small size, high rigidity, high sensitivity, high accuracy, etc. The invention can be used in the field of robot wrist force sensors, wind tunnel balances, etc.

Increased security of robot operation, efficient use of the floor space in a factory or the like, and simplified facilities are achieved. A process includes defining, in a memory, arm-occupied regions including robot arms and a workpiece and a tool attached to a robot wrist, a virtual safety protection barrier with which the arms are not allowed to come into contact, and a movable range of each robot axis; estimating the coasting angle of each robot axis for which the axis will coast when the robot is stopped due to an emergency stop during execution of a command for moving the robot to a next target position, from an actually measured amount of coasting and the like; determining a post-coasting predicted position of the robot by adding the coasting angles of the axes to the next target position; checking whether or not the arm-occupied regions at the post-coasting predicted position will come into contact with the virtual safety protection barrier, or whether or not the robot axes are within the movable ranges; and performing control to cause the robot to stop moving immediately upon detection of abnormality.

The invention provides a wrist of a robot and the surgical robot. The wrist of the robot comprises a substrate, a hooke joint structure, a first transmission mechanism, a second transmission mechanism and a driving mechanism. The hooke joint structure is arranged on the substrate, and used for fixing a surgical instrument. The driving mechanism drives the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism to move, and the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism drive the hooke joint structure to rotate at the first freedom degree and the second freedom degree respectively. At least one of the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism is a linear transmission mechanism and used for linearly driving the hooke joint structure to move. The rotation of each freedom degree is independently controlled to be driven by the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism. At least one of the first transmission mechanism and the second transmission mechanism is the linear transmission mechanism and used for linearly driving the hooke joint structure to move. Due to the fact that linear driving can be precisely controlled, control precision is high.

An industrial robot including a robot chain of elements, a robot wrist bearing a tool (100) and a continuous internal passage through which one or more cables and/or pipes for the power supply and/or the fluid supply to the tool. The cables and pipes continue without interruption through the passage and through a flange of the robot up to respective connections of said tool, whereby the cables and pipes are arranged completely inside the robot and inside the tool, without the need to provide separate cables and pipes of the tool connected to the cables and the pipes of the robot at the flange of the robot.

A professional glaze spraying six-axis robot belongs to the technical field of robot, and solves the problems of expensiveness, complicated operation and difficult maintenance of a foreign glaze spraying robot system in domestic application. The robot wrists are connected to a fourth, fifth and sixth axis motor through wrist transmission chains; the robot wrists, small arms and a fourth, fifth and sixth shaft seat assembly are orderly connected; the upper part of a big arm assembly is connected with the fourth, fifth and sixth shaft seat assembly through a bearing shaft seat one, and the part is connected with second and third axis large chain wheel assemblies; a second axis motor assembly drives the second large chain wheel assembly to rotate; a second axis cylinder assembly is fixed on a second and third axis box bodies and the second axis large chain wheel assembly; upper part of a third axis driving connecting rod through a bearing two is connected with the fourth, fifth and sixth shaft seats assemblies, and the lower part is connected with a third axis drive bracket through a bearing three; the third axis driving bracket is connected with the third large chain wheel assemblies; and the third axis motor assembly through a chain two drives the third large chain wheel assemblies to rotate. The invention is special for glaze spraying.

The invention belongs to the technical field of automation engineering and relates to an electromagnetic driving two-degrees of freedom spherical robot wrist and a control method thereof. The electromagnetic driving two-degrees of freedom spherical robot wrist is a high-integration driving spherical wrist device, the two output ends of an internal universal joint and an external universal joint passing through the same rotating center are coaxially connected, and a radial magnetizing permanent magnet in a servo mechanism is directly driven by a coaxial servo magnetic moment in a space universal rotary magnetic field to realize side-sway and pitching two-degrees of freedom rotation. The electromagnetic driving two-degrees of freedom spherical robot wrist overcomes the defects of a complicated driving machinery wrist, the wrist driving system is simple and light in structure, high in transmission efficiency, static and dynamic performance and control and response speed, can solve the modeling problem of the existing spherical electromagnetic driving joint three-dimensional complicated magnetic field, realize precise modeling of the spherical electromagnetic driving joint magnetic field and precise decoupling of electromagnetic coupling and mechanical coupling, and remarkably improves the response sensitivity and positioning precision of electromagnetic driving spherical joint control.

The power transmission device includes an internal gear and an external gear that is inscribed in the internal gear and engages with the internal gear, and can transmit an input power to an attachment. The power transmission device further includes: an inner pin for bringing out a relative rotation component between the internal gear and the external gear; and an output flange connected to the inner pin. In this configuration, the inner pin and the output flange are integrally formed as one member, and a mounting hole for connecting the output flange to the attachment is formed in a surface of the output flange that is opposite to the inner pin.

The invention relates to a wrist device for a three degree of freedom (TDOF) underactuated robot. The device comprises a static platform, a movable platform, three branches and two drive power sources, wherein the static platform is hinged with the movable platform through the three branches, and two of the three branches are connected with the two drive power sources respectively; and under driving of the two drive power sources, the movable platform performs three degree of freedom motion through transmission of the three branches.

The invention discloses a side lifting and bottom supporting type carrying manipulator for a transferring box and a carrying method. The manipulator comprises a base, an inserting and bottom supporting mechanism, a side lifting mechanism and a pressing and edge hooking mechanism, wherein the inserting and bottom supporting mechanism, the side lifting mechanism and the pressing and edge hooking mechanism are correspondingly arranged on the base. The carrying method comprises the following steps: lifting one side of the transferring box through the side lifting mechanism so as to form an inclined gap in the bottom part of the transferring box; inserting the inserting and bottom supporting mechanism into the inclination gap and supporting to bottom part of the transferring box; hooking one side, relative to the side lifting mechanism, on the transferring box, through the pressing and edge hooking mechanism, and synchronously compressing the top surface of the transferring box, so as to fix the upper surface, the lower surface, the left surface and the right surface of the transferring box; then driving robot wrists to move to carry the transferring box. The carrying manipulator and the carrying method are specifically designed according to the properties of the general transferring box; each transferring box can be grasped from a surface layer of a stack and then carried to a specified place. Therefore, a plastic transferring box can be automatically removed from the stack, and an existing manual carrying manner is replaced, and as a result, the production efficiency can be effectively improved.

A wrist driving mechanism capable of arranging a large amount of cables and pipes in a robot arm. A robot wrist mechanism having three degrees of freedom is driven by first, second and third drive shafts for transmitting driving forces of first, second and third motors M4, M5 and M6, respectively. The first drive shaft is a hollow shaft for transmitting a rotational driving force from the motor M4 to a first wrist element supported rotatably around the first axis B1. The second and third drive shafts are arranged eccentrically with the first axis B1 in an inner space of the first drive shaft. The second drive shaft transmits a rotational driving force from the motor M5 to a second wrist element supported rotatably around the second axis B2, and the third drive shaft transmits a rotational force from the motor M6 to a third wrist element supported rotatably around the third axis B3. A first gear and a third gear as planet gears and a second gear and a fourth gear as sun gears are provided for avoiding complication of structure due to the eccentric arrangement of the second and third drive shafts.