Various systems and methods for controlling a robot are described herein.

A control system, method and computer program product cooperate to assist control for an autonomous robot. The system includes a communications interface that exchanges information with the autonomous robot (22). A user interface displays a scene of location in which the autonomous robot (22) is positioned, and also receives an indication of a user selection of a user selected area within the scene. The communications interface transmits an indication of said user selected area to the autonomous robot (22) for further processing of the area by said autonomous robot (22).

Methods and systems for connection-driven generation of robotic user interfaces and modification of robotic properties include detecting a connection of a robotic peripheral to a robot; obtaining a peripheral property set corresponding to the robotic peripheral, wherein the peripheral property set includes one or more properties of the robotic peripheral; modifying, based on the peripheral property set, a robotic property set that includes one or more properties of the robot to provide a modified robotic property set; generating, during runtime, a robotic graphical user interface (“RGUI”) dynamically based on the peripheral property set, wherein the RGUI provides at least one user-accessible interface to control the robot and the robotic peripheral; and controlling, based on the modified robotic property set, the robot and the robotic peripheral in response to user input received via the RGUI.

A robot system includes: a robot; a plurality of operation terminals that receive an input of a password for acquiring operation authority of the robot and an operation input for operating the robot from a user; and a robot controller communicable with the operation terminals . The robot controller drives, in a controlled manner, the robot according to operation from a single operation terminal among the operation terminals . The robot controller includes a password storage unit that stores a password for granting operation authority of the robot to the operation terminal . The robot controller further includes an operation authority grant processing unit that grants operation authority of the robot to a single operation terminal to which a proper predetermined password stored in the password storage unit is first input in a state in which operation authority of the robot is not granted to any operation terminal.

A processor-based system provides a user interface to facilitate generation of motion planning graphs or roadmaps, for example via autonomous generate of additional poses, for example neighboring poses, based on specified seed or origin pose, and/or generate or sub-lattice connecting poses and/or edges to couple separate regions or sub-lattices of the motion planning graph together. Such may include performing collision-checking and/or kinematic checking (e.g., taking into account kinematic constraints of robots being modeled). The resulting motion planning graphs or roadmaps are useful in controlling robots during runtime. Robots may include robots with appendages and/or robots in the form of autonomous vehicles.

An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to simulate a virtual robot and a virtual image pickup apparatus moving in an interlocked manner with each other in a virtual space. The processor is configured to associate setting information of the virtual image pickup apparatus with a teaching point of the virtual robot.

A control system, method and computer program product cooperate to assist control for an autonomous robot. An interface receives recognition information from an autonomous robot, said recognition information including candidate target objects to interact with the autonomous robot. A display control unit causes a display image to be displayed on a display of candidate target objects, wherein at least two of the candidate target objects are displayed with an associated indication of a target object score.

A method includes receiving an indication that a web-based application has been accessed for control of a robotic device by a mobile device, wherein the mobile device comprises one or more sensors to detect movement of the mobile device. The method further includes subscribing the web-based application to at least one motion event web API, wherein the at least one motion event web API listens normalizes motion data from the one or more sensors of the mobile device into one or more standardized motion parameters. The method additionally includes receiving the one or more standardized motion parameters of the mobile device from the at least one motion event web API. The method further includes converting the one or more standardized motion parameters into one or more requested movement commands for the robotic device. The method further includes sending the one or more requested movement commands to the robotic device.

Embodiments included herein are directed towards a system and method for robotic control. The system may include a graphical user interface configured to allow a user to access a data storage unit associated with a robot. The system may further include a configurable portion including the data storage unit, a manipulator controller, and a data transfer layer. The system may also include a generic portion configured to parse the configurable portion to generate a robotic controller.

A program generation device includes a display; at least one memory configured to store an operation symbol including information in relation to an operation command of a robot, and an auxiliary symbol including information in relation to a control command for adding an operation of the robot or for correcting the operation of the robot defined by at least one operation symbol; and at least one processor configured to obtain information in relation to setting of at least one of the operation symbol or the auxiliary symbol, and cause the display to display the operation symbol and the auxiliary symbol so as to align the operation symbol and the auxiliary symbol in order of operations of the robot based on the obtained information in relation to setting.