A production machine system includes a production machine having multiple axes and drives. Each drive adjusts a machine element relative to a further machine element with respect to an axis. The machine elements separate the drives from each other, with the drives and the machine elements forming a kinematic chain. A control facility controls the drives to move the machine element relative to the further machine element. A model of the machine element is stored in the control facility and comprises a model parameter of the machine element. A measuring equipment determines a path describing a specific point assigned to the machine element during movement of the machine element. An analysis equipment analyzes the specific path and a correction equipment corrects the model parameter based on the analysis result. To determine the specific path, several, in particular all axes are moved successively starting from a base along the kinematic chain.

An objective is to provide a position and posture adjustment method capable of promptly adjusting the position and the posture of a robot with respect to a workpiece while making variations caused by the operator small. The position and posture adjustment method includes provisional teaching step S1, marker installation step S2 of installing a marker having a head cut conical shape in the workpiece, an initial movement step S3 of moving an arm distal end portion such that the irradiated positions of three laser displacement gauges are arranged within the end surface of the marker, posture modification step S4 of moving the arm distal end portion such that the measured values of the three laser displacement gauges become close to one another, approach step S5 of bringing the arm distal end portion close to the marker along the Z axis, alignment step S6 of causing an axis of the arm distal end portion and a marker axis to coincide with each other by moving the arm distal end portion parallel along a plane perpendicular to the Z axis such that the measured values of the three laser displacement gauges become close to one another, and positioning step S7 of adjusting the position of the arm distal end portion by moving the arm distal end portion along the Z axis.

Methods of correcting positional misalignment of blades in robots, such as dual-bladed robots, are described. The methods include, in one or more embodiments, a robot including moveable arms and an end effector attached to one of the moveable arms, a flag disposed on one of the moveable arms or the end effector, a chamber adapted to be serviced by the end effector, a beam sensor positioned at a distance from the chamber, and correcting misalignment of the end effector wherein the misalignment occurs between an initial linear center-finding location and the estimated center of the chamber. Systems of such electronic device calibration are also disclosed. Numerous other aspects are provided.

The calibration device combines a work object with an industrial robot and a robot tool. The work object uses a pair of beam projecting lasers and three plane projecting lasers, the laser beams intersecting at a laser intersecting point. The laser intersection point of the laser beams and laser planes represent the location of the reference coordinate system which is selected to be the origin of the robot path being downloaded from the off-line programming. Once this off-line programming is created, the work object is placed onto the fixture on the manufacturing shop floor in the same place as the CAD environment. The user then manipulates the TCP into position of the laser intersection point and the laser planes. The robot is then manipulated down a first laser with the TCP recording a second point along a first laser beam and recording a third point along the opposing laser beam.

The robotic work object cell calibration method includes a work object or emitter. Initially, placing the work object is placed in a selected position on a fixture or work piece on the shop floor. The work object emits a pair of beam-projecting lasers which intersect at a tool contact point and act as a crosshair. The robot tool is manipulated into the tool contact point. The work object emits four plane-projecting lasers which are used to adjust the roll, yaw, and pitch of the robot tool relative to the tool contact point. The robotic work object cell calibration method of the present invention increases the accuracy of the off-line programming and decreases robot teaching time.

A system for checking calibration of a multi-axis machine includes a robotic arm and a mount configured to receive a removable machine tool and a controller electronically connected to the multi-axis machine. The removable machine tool includes a removable spray nozzle and a laser housing that is coupled to the machine tool. The laser housing includes a laser affixed inside the housing for emitting a laser beam and a calibration workpiece coupled to a mounting table. The calibration workpiece comprises a plurality of laser sensors disposed along an outer surface of the calibration workpiece. The controller is programmed to point the laser beam at each laser sensor. The laser sensors generate signals that are communicated back to the controller if the laser beam is detected by the laser sensor.

A teaching system (position measurement system) includes a plurality of reflectors provided on a tip of a robot arm, and a measuring device. The measuring device measures a present position of the tip of the robot arm by using reflected light on the reflectors, the reflected light being obtained after irradiation light applied to the reflectors is reflected. The plurality of reflectors each reflect, toward the measuring device, the irradiation light applied from the measuring device located in a direction within a predetermined incidence area. The plurality of reflectors are provided at the tip of the robot arm in such a manner that central directions of the incidence areas of the reflectors are different from each other.

A calibration equipment of a mechanical system includes a light emitter emitting a light beam, a light sensing module, and an operating module. The light sensing module includes a carrier plate, and a plurality of light sensing units located on the carrier plate. The plurality of light sensing units receive the light beam and generate a plurality of image data. The operating module receives the plurality of image data and generates a calibrated kinematic parameter.

A measurement system includes: a measurement apparatus measuring a position of a first member attached to at least one of a processing target and a jig and a position of a second member attached to a movable part of a processing apparatus in a measurement coordinate system; and a measurement control apparatus controlling the measurement apparatus. The measurement control apparatus includes: an arithmetic unit transforming the position of the second member in the measurement coordinate system to a position of the second member in a processing coordinate system based on first position information indicating the position of the first member in the measurement coordinate system and second position information indicating the position of the first member in the processing coordinate system; and a transmission unit transmitting third position information indicating the transformed position of the second member in the processing coordinate system, to a processing control apparatus.

A smart drilling system that includes a controller, a drilling machine with an optical marker, and a tracker station at a fixed spot of a construction site. The drilling machine includes an optical marker. The tracker station acquires the location of the drilling machine and its drill through tracking the optical marker. The drilling machine is moved into positions of multiple different work regions. The tracker station sequentially acquires the location of the multiple different work regions and transmits the acquired location information to the controller, such that, by using the transmitted locations, the controller converts drilling machine coordinates into desired perforation coordinates and recognizes an orientation of the drilling machine. The controller also recognizes a perforable point at a current position of the drilling machine through the location information of the drilling machine.