A vibration analyzer includes a sensor that measures a vibration of an end effector supported by a distal end of a robot, a storage unit that stores a vibration calculation model of the robot, and a control unit configured to perform separation processing for separating a vibration to be reduced that is measured by the sensor into vibration data of the robot and vibration data of the end effector by using the vibration calculation model of the robot.

A method of controlling a robot having a plurality of joints includes measuring load torque applied to a driving-force transmission system of each of the plurality of joints while moving a hand of the robot along a predetermined path, comparing a measurement value of the load torque and an allowable range of each of the joints, and controlling a rate of change in acceleration of the driving-force transmission system of each of the joints, depending on a comparison result, in a next operation in which the hand of the robot is moved along the predetermined path.

A robot controller controls an arm tip end portion of a robot to move at constant predetermined speed on the basis of a movement path including an arc portion, the robot controller including: a centrifugal force calculation unit that calculates a centrifugal force acting on the arm tip end portion as time series data; a transformation unit that performs Fourier transformation with respect to the time series data of the centrifugal force into frequency data; and a speed determination unit that determines the predetermined speed such that a frequency component in a predetermined range including a natural vibration frequency of the robot is equal to or less than a threshold on the basis of frequency data of the centrifugal force.

A vibration suppression device acquires a teaching position, computes a speed plan based on the acquired teaching position and a first acceleration/deceleration parameter, computes data related to deflection occurring during an acceleration/deceleration operation of a robot based on the teaching position and the speed plan, and acquires data indicating a posture at the teaching position. Further, a machine learning unit of the vibration suppression device estimates an acceleration/deceleration parameter with respect to the data related to the deflection and the data related to the posture using the data related to the deflection and the data related to the posture as input data.

A mobile manipulator includes a moving apparatus, a manipulator that is connected to the moving apparatus, a controller configured to control the moving apparatus and the manipulator, and an environment acquisition sensor configured to acquire predetermined environmental data originating from an environment at the movement destination to which the mobile manipulator is moved by the moving apparatus in association with a position at the movement destination, and the controller controls at least one of the moving apparatus and the manipulator based on the environmental data.

To provide a laser welding system that can correct divergence of a laser beam irradiation position with higher precision, and is capable of higher precision laser welding. A remote laser welding system (1) includes: a multi-axis robot (3); a laser head (5) provided to a leading end of an arm (31) of the multi-axis robot (3); a control unit (7) that controls operations of the multi-axis (3) and the laser head (5); and a laser light source (53), in which the laser head (5) includes: two galvano mirrors (51, 52) configured to be rotatable about rotational axes (X1, X2), respectively, and reflect a laser beam; and galvano motors (54) that rotationally drive the galvano mirrors (51, 52), and in which the control unit (7) includes an acceleration sensor (73) that acquires the acceleration of the vibration; and a command correction section (74) that corrects a control command to the galvano motors (54) which rotationally drive the galvano mirrors (51, 52), based on the acceleration of the vibration acquired by the acceleration sensor (73), so as to suppress divergence of the laser beam irradiation position due to vibration.

A vibration control device moves an object by controlling an actuator. The vibration control device controls a position and speed of the actuator, generates a model by modeling the object; and calculates an inverse system output based on the model and the control to provide positive feedback of a position of the object based on the inverse system output.

A robot system 1 including: a robot; a control device which controls the robot; an elongated member attached to a distal end of the robot; a light projection unit attached to one end of the elongated member for emitting light in a longitudinal direction of the elongated member; a plurality of light reception units, arranged at the other end side of the elongated member, configured to receive the light emitted by the light projection unit; and a timer configured to measure time that is necessary for one of the light reception units to receive the light twice, where the control device controls the robot so as to slightly move a proximal end portion of the elongated member in a vibration movement direction of a distal end portion of the elongated member, based on the measured time and an order of light reception by the light reception units.

Input shapers for control inputs to the robotic surgical system and their method of controlling a linkage of a robot with a controller includes receiving a desired joint angle of a joint of the robot; and transmitting a first control signal to a motor to actuate the joint in response to a desired joint velocity, the desired joint velocity being a function of the desired joint angle and a current joint angle of the joint.

A robot control device controls the operation of a robot including a base; a robot arm that has at least three links, at least three joint portions, and at least three drive sources; an inertia sensor; and at least three angle sensors. The robot control device includes a first coordinate system vibration calculation unit; a second coordinate system vibration calculation unit; a weighting unit; a third coordinate system vibration calculation unit; a correction value calculation unit that obtains correction values for correcting the respective drive commands of the drive sources based on vibration information in a third coordinate system, and the respective detected results of the angle sensors; and a drive source control unit that controls the operations of the drive sources based on the respective drive commands of the drive sources, the correction values, and the respective detected results of the angle sensors.