A numerical control device for displaying a user interface screen and receiving input of operations from a user acquires setting of operation buttons for display states of composite components included in the user interface screen, determines the arrangement of the operation buttons for the display states of the user interface screen on the basis of the setting of the operation buttons for the display states of the composite components, detects a change in the display states of the user interface screen, and switches the arrangement of the operation buttons in the user interface screen.

The present disclosure relates to a gear cutting machine having a machine control as well as having at least one display for displaying machine-relevant parameters, wherein the display is multitouch-operable and allows an operator input for controlling the gear cutting machine by multifinger gestures over the display.

A method for operating machinery uses a control unit and a display device for displaying a first user interface of a first application program and at least one second user interface of a second application program. The first user interface and the second user interface form a common display window on the display device.

Setting related to a motor is required to be simplified. An information processing device for performing setting related to a motor includes a generation unit which generates a plurality of pieces of motor information for designating each of a plurality of motors for driving the same control target on the basis of reception of a predetermined user operation, and an assignment unit which assigns each of the generated plurality of pieces of motor information to any one of a plurality of axes defining a predetermined coordinate system.

A pendant is provided as a robot operating apparatus. The pendant includes an operation-input mode detecting unit that detects an operation-input mode of a touch operation inputted to a touch panel. In addition, in the pendant, an action setting unit sets an action direction and a number of actions of an inching action by a robot, based on an action mode associated with the operation-input mode with a predetermined amount of margin. Furthermore, an action command generating unit generates an action command to operate the robot such that the inching operation is performed in the action direction and by the number of actions set by the action setting unit.

A robot operation apparatus includes a touch panel, a display, an operation detecting unit capable of detecting a touch operation or a drag operation on the touch panel, a motion command generating unit that generates a motion command for operating a robot, and a display control unit that controls display content of the display. The motion command generating unit performs a motion speed determining process in which a motion speed of the robot is determined based on a slide distance that is a distance from a start position of a drag operation detected by the operation detecting unit to a current position. The display control unit performs a speed graphics display process in which a speed graphics in which the slide distance and the motion speed of the robot are correlated and that changes in aspect in accompaniment with changes in the slide distance is displayed on the display.

A handheld robot operation unit comprises a basic safety control device, a mobile terminal device, and a holder configured to mount the mobile terminal device on the basic safety control device. The holder comprises at least one adapter device configured to mechanically connect the mobile terminal device to the basic safety control device.

A system includes an environment for programming workpiece inspection operations for a coordinate measurement machine (CMM). The environment includes a user interface comprising a program simulation portion configured to display a 3D view of the workpiece and/or representations of inspection operations to be performed on the workpiece. The user interface further includes auxiliary collision avoidance volume (CAV) creation elements that create CAV's that are represented in the 3D view. The 3D CAVs and/or their representations have integrated graphical modification properties which are controllable in the user interface. The modification properties are activated by selection of a face of the CAV representation, without the explicit activation of a separate modification control element mode or tool. This results in a simplified and intuitive user interface. Users perform a constrained set graphical modifications in the 3D view using an input device, to modify a CAV.

Methods, apparatus, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for training a path of a robot by physically moving the robot, wherein the particular trained path and/or particular robot component movements to achieve the trained path are dependent on which of a plurality of available user interface inputs are selected for the training. The trained path defines a path to be traversed by a reference point of the robot, such as a path to be traversed by a reference point of an end effector of the robot. The particular robot component movements to achieve the trained path include, for example, the orientations of various robot components at each of a plurality of positions along the path, the velocity of various components at each of a plurality of positions along the path, etc.

A method of custom GUI control. Field data is sent to a data acquisition module coupled to a processing block that assembles a serialized object message (SOM) by a selected topic including data values, display sub-controls coupled to an IP data provider that stores the topics, an algorithm for publishing SOMs and a publisher/subscriber pattern including clients. The clients have a GUI application including a custom GUI control subscribed to the IP data provider. The IP data provider publishes SOMs by the selected topic as call-backs over an IP bus shared by the clients including to the first client including an initial SOM which generates the custom GUI control and stores the selected topic as a referable instance for populating GUI components and a subsequent SOM having an updated value, wherein the GUI application accesses the custom GUI control to populate the GUI components by only overwriting the changed values/parameters.