Touchscreen Teaching Dial With Haptic Feedback for Precise Robot Jogging
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing rotary dial devices for controlling robots and machine tools lack integration with touch-panel-equipped devices, leading to a lack of manipulation feeling and increased likelihood of erroneous operation amounts.
Innovation Solution
A teaching device with a touch-panel display that includes a rotary dial display, rotational manipulation amount obtainment, operation amount designation, and sound/vibration feedback to provide tactile and auditory cues for precise manipulation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a rotary dial is displayed on a touch-panel-equipped device, then the device can be integrated into the control panel, but the operator cannot acquire manipulation feeling and may mistakenly designate manipulation amount
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements sound and vibration feedback mechanisms that activate when the rotary dial is manipulated. The sound output unit emits auditory signals and the vibration output unit produces tactile vibrations in response to rotational manipulation, providing real-time feedback to the operator about the manipulation amount and eliminating the lack of manipulation feeling inherent in touch-screen interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces sound and vibration as intermediary elements between the operator's manual manipulation and the digital display system. These physical feedback mechanisms serve as mediators that bridge the gap between tactile manipulation and visual display, allowing the operator to perceive manipulation amount through multiple senses rather than relying solely on visual feedback.
2Ease of operation
If a rotary dial device is used separately from the touch panel, then manipulation feeling can be achieved, but the device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the rotary dial functionality with the touch panel display device by integrating the rotary dial display section, manipulation amount obtainment section, operation amount designation section, sound output unit, and vibration output unit into a single unified teaching device. This combination allows the system to provide tactile manipulation feeling through sound and vibration feedback while maintaining integration with the touch panel interface, avoiding the need for separate rotary dial hardware.
Applied Scientific Principles
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Function Achieved in This Case
Enhances manipulation accuracy by providing auditory and tactile feedback, reducing misrecognition of operation amounts and improving ease of use, while preventing erroneous operations and abnormal state recognition.
Implementation Method 1
a sound effect or vibration emitting section configured to emit a sound effect or vibration each time the rotary dial is rotationally manipulated by a rotational manipulation amount corresponding to one graduation
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AI summary
The purpose of the present invention is to obtain an manipulation feeling and improve ease of use in a teaching device for industrial machines, including robots and machine tools, in order to accurately designate a manipulation amount without performing manipulation by an erroneous manipulation amount during display of a rotary dial on a touch-panel-equipped device and during control of machinery. This purpose can be achieved by a touch-panel-type teaching device, wherein a rotary dial to which graduations are applied with respect to prescribed manipulation rotation amounts is displayed on a touch-panel-type display screen, an operation amount for the industrial machinery is designated by the rotation manipulation amount of the rotary dial, and a sound effect or vibration is emitted each time the rotary dial is rotationally manipulated by a rotation amount corresponding to one graduation.