582 results about "Tico Robot" patented technology

A robotic system that includes a robot and a remote station. The remote station can generate control commands that are transmitted to the robot through a broadband network. The control commands can be interpreted by the robot to induce action such as robot movement or focusing a robot camera. The robot can generate reporting commands that are transmitted to the remote station through the broadband network. The reporting commands can provide positional feedback or system reports on the robot.

Provided are robots for managing inventory of arbitrary size, shape, weighted, or other distinct featured items. The robots dynamically and adaptively manage inventory for items stacked atop one another, items stacked behind one another, items that are horizontally arranged, items that are dispensed from a gravity flow dispenser, items that are dispensed from a back-to-front push dispenser, and items that are loosely contained within a bin. The robots have a sensory array from which dimensions of a particular arrangement and dimensions of a particular item in the particular arrangement can be calculated. The calculated dimensions can include length, width, or height of a particular arrangement and a particular item or force imposed by the particular arrangement and mass of the particular item. Based on these dimensions, the robots can dynamically track different item inventories without counting each individual item.

Provided are a multi-joint robot arm, a manipulation force acquiring unit that acquires a manipulation force from a person, the manipulation force acquiring unit disposed on the multi-joint robot arm, an external force acquiring unit that acquires an external force to be applied to a gripped object, the external force acquiring unit disposed on the multi-joint robot arm, an impedance controller that performs impedance control on the multi-joint robot arm based on the manipulation force acquired by the manipulation force acquiring unit and a set impedance parameter, and an assist force correcting unit that corrects a force component vertical to the resistance force of an assist force generated by the impedance controller according to the resistance force generated by friction caused by contact between the gripped object and an external environment.

A robot includes a robot arm, a force sensor, and a control unit configured to control the operation of the robot art. The control unit initializes the force sensor while the robot arm is moving at uniform speed. It is preferable that the control unit initializes the force sensor while the robot arm is moving at the uniform speed and the amplitude of a detection value of the force sensor is smaller than a threshold.

The invention provides a monocular vision material loading and unloading robot system of a numerical control lathe and a method thereof. A traditional material loading and unloading robot of the lathe is utilized, and an industrial camera is mounted at the upper part of a material bin; collected image signals are transmitted to a digital signal processor (DSP); and dimension characteristics of bar materials of the lathe are determined through utilizing the DSP to process the collected images. The grasping scheme of parts is determined according to a comparison of the dimension characteristics and data in a part library in an industrial control computer. The loading and the unloading of the bar material of each type need to be manually taught for the first time; and if the bar material of the type occurs once more, the DSP calls out a material loading and unloading scheme and an intelligent recognizing and grasping scheme of the bar material of the type through comparing the bar material with the images collected in the part library, and sends the schemes to the robot, and then the schemes are executed by the robot, so that intelligent material loading and unloading by the robot is finally realized.

A walking robot having joints which move using a torque servo, a posture of the robot being stably controlled, and a method of controlling a posture of the robot. It is possible to maintain a stable angle of the upper body while keeping an erect posture and balance using the COG of the robot and the inclination and the direction of the upper body and the pelvis of the robot, even in an external variation including external force or an inclination angle of the ground. Even in a state in which terrain information is not known in advance, the robot may keep an erect posture in a direction of gravity. Even when a plane where the robot stands is gradually inclined, the postures of the upper body and the legs of the robot may be kept while actively changing the angle of the ankle joint.

The invention relates to a system of an indoor robot for locating a mobile terminal based on bluetooth technology. The system of the indoor robot for locating the mobile terminal based on bluetooth technology comprises an indoor robot, a server, a bluetooth node and a mobile terminal; the indoor robot receives the instruction from the server for scanning indoor scene, returning the scanned data to the server for establishing initial indoor map; the server sets the icon of the bluetooth node on the obtained indoor map and calculates the corresponding coordinate of the bluetooth node for forming a standard indoor map; setting bluetooth node in practical scene by contrasting the coordinate of the indoor bluetooth node; establishing association relationship between the bluetooth node and the server; the mobile terminal is conneted with the bluetooth node and is used for sending the information of the bluetooth node to the server; the server detects the location of the bluetooth node, which is nearest to the mobile terminal and obtains the coordinate A of the bluetooth node; the absolute coordinate B of the mobile terminal is determined according to the location relationship between the bluetooth node and the mobile terminal; the server sends the information of the coordinate B to the robot; the robot locates the mobile terminal.

The invention relates to a clamping device and method for a two-for-one twister winding bobbin. The clamping device comprises an electric actuator trolley with a lifting platform, a robot is installedon the lifting platform, a telescoping mechanism is fixedly installed on one side of an operating arm of the robot, and a clamping mechanism is installed at the front end of the telescoping mechanism. Two clamping jaws are installed on the head of the clamping mechanism, and a lifting manipulator is installed at the front end of the operating arm of the robot. The clamping device clamps the winding bobbin from a two-for-one twister winding mechanism and then places the winding bobbin to the trolley, and the whole process is automatically controlled; the operation precision is high, the stability is high, manpower is saved, and the production efficiency is greatly improved.

A security robot that boards a mobile unit to protect the mobile unit from theft is provided. The robot has an internal sensor such as an acceleration sensor installed at the robot and generating an output indicative of condition inside the robot, an external sensor such as CCD cameras installed at the robot and generating an output indicative of condition outside the robot, an abnormality degree discriminator discriminating a degree of abnormality that the mobile unit is experiencing based on information obtained from the outputs of the internal sensor and the external sensor, and an action controller taking preventive action in response to the discriminated degree of abnormality. With this, it becomes possible to discriminate the degree of abnormal situations and act accordingly in response.

An arm unit having an improved configuration to simply change stiffness according to varying situations and a robot having the same are provided. The robot includes an arm unit, and a drive unit to drive the arm unit. The arm unit includes a plurality of links to come into rolling contact with one another via at least two regions thereof, and a plurality of wires penetrating the plurality of links to connect the links to one another.

An processor moves an arm to rotate a calibration pattern around three rotation axes linearly independent from each other and to stop at a plurality of rotation positions. A processor causes a camera to capture a pattern image of the calibration pattern at the plurality of rotation positions. A processor estimates parameters of the camera for calculating a coordinate transformation between a target coordinate system and a camera coordinate system using a pattern image captured at the plurality of rotation positions.

The invention discloses a self-adaption path tracking method of an inspection robot. The method comprises the steps that a plurality of magnetic guide rails used for enabling a navigation robot to walk are laid in a working place, the magnetic guide rails form a plurality of actual operating paths of the robot, and magnetic strips are arranged at the monitoring point positions of the operating paths and between the adjacent operating paths; according to the actual operating paths of the working place, an electronic map of the corresponding robot operating path is set up; according to the electronic maps, running original points and stopping points of the robot are set according to the electronic maps, the turning angle from the current inspection operating path to the next inspection operating path is calculated, and an inspection task list is generated; the inspection task list is issued to the robot, and the robot operates on the actual operation paths according to the inspection task list. The method can visually determine the current running path of the robot, and the operating paths of the robot can be reliably tracked.

The invention discloses a full-automatic plate cleaning system, which comprises an AGV (automatic guided vehicle), wherein the AGV is provided with a laser navigation system, the front and back parts of the AGV are respectively provided with a radar scanning head, the AGV is provided with a robot, the front end of the robot is provided with a scraper combining device, and the robot of the AGV automatically travels and positions in a chemical fiber workshop, and automatically cruises and positions according to the position of the area needing plate cleaning, so the automatic plate cleaning is realized. The system has the advantages that the heavy manual plate cleaning is replaced, the uniformity of plate cleaning is guaranteed, the quality of plate surface is guaranteed, and the quality of products is improved; the labor strength of workers is decreased, so the demission rate of workers is reduced; the operation is flexible, the position and attitude of space are flexible, the moving speed is high, the plate cleaning efficiency and quality are high, the system is suitable for flexible automatic production lines, and the purposes of improving production efficiency and saving labor are realized.

The invention discloses a multi-mobile-robot high-precision collaborative tracking method based on an ultra-wideband technology. The method comprises the following steps: a multi-mobile-robot collaborative tracking experiment platform is built under an ROS; a multi-node ranging network is built through an ultra-wideband sensor, and information of the distances between robots and between the robots and an anchor point is obtained at the same time; an ultra-wideband ranging error weakening algorithm based on Bayesian filtering is provided for effectively weakening LOS and NLOS errors of obtained ranging values to restore real distance values; position information of the mobile robots is estimated by adopting a cooperative tracking algorithm, namely, a collaborative particle filtering algorithm based on Gibbs sampling; and real tracks of corresponding motions of the robots are obtained by adopting an OptiTrack motion capturing system, and a collaborative tracking algorithm is evaluated. The LOS and NLOS errors in a complex environment can be effectively weakened; the restored distances are real; the position information of each robot at any moment can be accurately determined; and multi-robot collaborative tracking is realized.

A robot includes: a base; a first arm rotatably coupled to the base about a first axis of rotation; a second arm rotatably coupled to the first arm about a second axis of rotation, the second axis of rotation being an axis perpendicular to the first axis of rotation or being an axis parallel to an axis perpendicular to the first axis of rotation; a third arm rotatably coupled to the second arm about a third axis of rotation, the third axis of rotation being an axis parallel to the second axis of rotation; a first angular velocity sensor installed to the first arm and having an angular velocity detection axis parallel to the first axis of rotation; and a second angular velocity sensor installed to the third arm and having an angular velocity detection axis parallel to the third axis of rotation.

The invention discloses a method for seamless connection of off-line programming and field debugging of a robot, which comprises the following steps: three-dimensional models of a tooling fixture and a robot tool are designed, and the three-dimensional models and a robot model are conducted into off-line programming software; the technological feasibility of the tool fixture, the robot tool and the robot is checked; real objects are arranged at proper positions according to the installation positions of the tool fixture, the robot and the robot tool; the installation situation of the robot tool in the installation situation is guaranteed to be consistent with the actual installation situation; the relative position of a coordinate system of the tooling fixture actually arranged at the proper position in a robot based coordinate system is measured; the installation position of the tooling fixture relative to the robot in the off-line programming software is calibrated according to a measurement result to ensure that the installation situation is consistent with the actual installation situation; and a robot program is generated after the measurement and calibration and is conducted into the robot, and the robot directly utilizes the program to finish the practical production. The program generated by the method can be directly used for practical production, and truly achieves the seamless connection of off-line programming and field debugging.

An intelligent charging device for an electric automobile is provided with a charging pile, a parking frame used for parking the automobile and a movable robot, and a control system, a vision system,a positioning system, a camera and a plurality of sensors are installed on the robot. After the automobile is parked in the parking frame, the robot moves to the charging pile, takes out the charginggun by utilizing a manipulator mounted on the robot, and then drives the charging gun to be inserted into an automobile charging port; in the charging process of the automobile, the robot can leave and provide services for other automobiles; and after the automobile is charged, the robot moves to the automobile again, takes out the charging gun and puts the charging gun back to the charging pile.According to the intelligent charging device for the electric vehicle, the arrangement convenience and utilization rate of the charging pile and the parking frame can be improved; meanwhile, the adjusting mechanism is arranged on the parking frame and used for adjusting the position of the automobile so as to be matched with the robot, the working accuracy can be improved, the use requirements ofvarious automobiles can be met, and therefore the application range of the charging device is widened.

The invention discloses a rail damage detection device and a rail damage detection method. The rail damage detection device comprises a shooting unit, a sensing unit and a robot; the robot comprises a data processing unit, an alarm unit, a communication unit, an information conversion unit and a movement unit, wherein the data processing unit is used for receiving an environment image and an ultrasonic echo signal in real time, and obtaining rail damage information according to the environment image and the ultrasonic echo signal; the alarm unit is used for judging whether the damage information is to-be-alarmed information according to the rail damage information; the communication unit is used for sending the damage information to be alarmed to a control center; the information conversion unit is used for converting a control command sent by the control center into a digital signal which can be recognized by the robot; the movement unit is used for receiving the digital signal and controlling the robot to move. The device can keep off obstacles and detect the rail damage information in real time, and the control personnel can receive the damage detection information and send the control command in the control center, so that the purposes of increasing the damage detection speed, reducing the misjudgment rate, reducing the roadway taking-up time and lowering the manpower cost are attained.