A teaching device includes: a display unit displaying a first icon showing a first attitude of a robot arm, a second icon showing a second attitude of the robot arm, and a first operation unit for performing an operation of designating a third attitude of the robot arm, the first attitude being a state where an angle formed by a first arm and a second arm of the robot arm is a first angle, the second attitude being a state where the angle formed by the first arm and the second arm is a second angle that is different from the first angle, the third attitude being a state where the angle formed by the first arm and the second arm is a third angle equal to or greater than the first angle and equal to or smaller than the second angle; and an operation program generation unit generating the operation program, based on the third attitude designated at the first operation unit.

Apparatus and methods for training and controlling of, for instance, robotic devices. In one implementation, a robot may be trained by a user using supervised learning. The user may be unable to control all degrees of freedom of the robot simultaneously. The user may interface to the robot via a control apparatus configured to select and operate a subset of the robot's complement of actuators. The robot may comprise an adaptive controller comprising a neuron network. The adaptive controller may be configured to generate actuator control commands based on the user input and output of the learning process. Training of the adaptive controller may comprise partial set training. The user may train the adaptive controller to operate first actuator subset. Subsequent to learning to operate the first subset, the adaptive controller may be trained to operate another subset of degrees of freedom based on user input via the control apparatus.

A method for transferring an end effector of a robot between an end effector pose and a further end effector pose, for at least one axis of the robot includes specifying the same uniform progression of the position of the axis, particularly in advance, for the transfer between the one end effector pose and the one further end effector pose, and for transfers between the one end effector pose and a group of other further end effector poses, more particularly in dependence on activation of a control operating mode. For at least one further axis of the robot, different progressions of the position of the further axis are commanded, more particularly during the transferring, for the transfer between the one end effector pose and the one further end effector pose and the transfer between the one end effector pose and the at least one of the further end effector poses.

To enhance the productivity of an offline teaching work by visualizing the working position, path, and the like of an end effector in offline teaching. A robot teaching device, includes: a teaching point marker display unit configured to display, on a GUI, teaching point markers for marking teaching points in a three-dimensional modeling space in which at least a three-dimensional model of a robot including an end effector and a three-dimensional model of a work piece are arranged, the teaching points serving as target passing points of the end effector; a joined path display unit configured to display, on the GUI, a joined path, which is a path connecting successive points among the teaching points to each other; and a changing point marker display unit configured to display, on the GUI, a changing point marker marking a point at which a working state of the end effector changes.

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 controller of a material handling system performs a method of creating a multidrop pattern of articles for robotic placement in layers on a pallet. A pattern is presented on a user interface of any currently positioned representations of articles on a pallet. A control affordance for inputting drag'n'drop and numeric inputs is presented on the user interface for robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the more than one article in an end effector of a robotic arm for placement of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a first subset of the more than one article. User inputs are received that indicate placement position of a second subset, which is mutually exclusive of the first subset, of the more than one article. The user inputs are converted into a place sequence of robotic control operations to perform a multidrop of the articles by the robotic arm.

An electronic device and method for controlling a robot is provided. The electronic device includes a wireless communication unit, a camera, a touch display, a memory, and a processor configured to be operatively connected to the wireless communication unit, the camera, the touch display, and the memory. The processor is configured to recognize a marker of the robot photographed using the camera; generate an indicator indicating a space around the recognized robot; acquire location information for moving the robot to an area within the indicator by using the touch display; and transmit the acquired location information to the robot to move the robot to a location corresponding to the acquired location information.

An information processing device converts first information for manipulating a robot model inputted into a manipulation terminal connected with a simulation device configured to execute a simulation for causing the robot model to perform a simulated operation and operated by a remote user of the simulation device, into second information for manipulating the robot model of the simulation device, operates the simulation device according to the second information, and causes the manipulation terminal to present information on the operation of the robot model of the simulation device configured to operate according to the second information.

An information providing device has an operation program using information on a structure related to a work robot and information on a processing model related to the structure to execute processing of the processing model by the structure in a virtual space. In addition, the information providing device includes a control section for acquiring data of a development target object including at least one of a new structure and a new processing model from an information processing device used by a developer, executing the operation program using the acquired data of the development target object to execute processing by the development target object in the virtual space, and outputting a processing result by the development target object.

There is provided a simulation method for executing a simulation of a work system composed of multiple modules using a computer, the simulation method including: an acquisition step of acquiring module data in which various data including data relating to shapes of the multiple modules are grouped for each module; a structuring step of structuring a model of the work system in a virtual space by integrating the module data acquired in the acquisition step; and an execution step of executing the simulation using the model structured in the structuring step.