Provided is a real-time robot controlling system which includes a GPOS (General Purpose Operation System); a RTOS (Real Time Operation System) operated on the GPOS to drive a device controlling system; and one or more devices being controlled in hard real-time connected to the RTOS in a real-time device controlling system, wherein the device controlling system providing a user interface to the GPOS; performing real-time device control processes according to the interface input or time synchronization; and processing communication with the one or more devices according to the control processes.

To provide an industrial robot and a method of operating the same which are capable of appropriately handling, when an abnormal state occurs during an automatic operation of the robot, the abnormal state without significantly degrading the work efficiency. The industrial robot includes a robot main body (1) having a robot arm, a robot control device (7) configured to control operation of the robot main body (1) and an abnormal state detecting device (8) configured to detect abnormality in a work state of the robot main body (1). The robot control device (7) includes an automatic operation performing means (9) for controlling the operation of the robot main body (1) to perform an automatic operation based on a given operation program, and an automatic operation correcting means (10) for correcting the operation of the robot main body (1) in the automatic operation based on a manual control performed by an operator according to a detection result of the abnormal state detecting device (8).

Provided is a real-time robot controlling system which includes a first layer comprising one or more control target devices; a second layer comprising a device control module controlling directly the devices at upper level of the first layer; a third layer comprising a shared memory connected to the device control module at upper level of the second layer; a fourth layer comprising one or more agents performing independent processes using the shared memory at upper level of the third layer; and a fifth layer controlling the one or more agents according to user commands at upper level of the fourth layer.

A robot system includes a robot including a tactile sensor and a hand having the tactile sensor, a tactile information generator configured to generate tactile information defined by a pressure distribution based on pressures detected by a plurality of pressure sensors and spatial positions of the plurality of pressure sensors, and output the tactile information, a manipulator configured to make an operator sense the pressure distribution according to the tactile information outputted from the tactile information generator, and when the operator manipulates the manipulator, output manipulating information according to the manipulation, and a robot controller configured to control operation of the hand of the robot according to the manipulating information outputted from the manipulator.

Robot main body having robotic arm, remote control device including robotic arm operational instruction input part for operator to control by touching, to input operational instruction for robotic arm, and contactless action detecting part configured to detect contactless action including at least one given operation instructing action of operator, and control device communicably connected to remote control device and configured to control operation of robot main body, are provided. Control device includes memory part configured to store operational instruction content data defining an operation mode of robot main body corresponding to at least one operation instructing action, operational instruction content identifying module to identify operation mode of robot main body of the operation instructing action detected by contactless action detecting part based on operational instruction content data, and motion controlling module configured to control operation of robot main body based on operation mode identified by operational instruction content identifying module.

The present invention relates to a multifunctional robot system and method. The multifunctional robot system comprises an independently movable supply station and a plurality of robot units. The supply station comprises a power supply system and a supply station moving device; each robot unit is provided with a robot driving device, an operation execution device and a robot moving device; the supply station is connected with each robot unit respectively through a connecting cable. The multifunctional robot system is provided with the independent supply station, and the execution device of the robot is separated from the driving device thereof and a supply device; the supply station continuously provides raw materials and energy for the robot, the weight and size of the robot side are reduced, and working efficiency is improved.

A robot system includes a robotic arm having an end effector configured to perform a work to a work object, a memory part storing information that causes the end effector to move as scheduled route information, a motion controller configured to operate the robotic arm by using the scheduled route information to move the end effector, a route correcting device configured to generate, by being manipulated, manipulating information to correct a route of the end effector during movement, a camera configured to image the work object, an image generator configured to generate a synthesized image by synthesizing a scheduled route of the end effector obtained from the scheduled route information with a captured image sent from the camera, and a monitor configured to display the synthesized image.

An information sharing system between a plurality of robot systems includes a plurality of robot systems, communicatably connected with each other through a network, and configured to be capable of presetting a given operation of a robot and repeating a correction of the operation, and a storage device, connected with the network and configured to store corrected information containing corrected operating information that is operating information for causing the robot to execute a given operation corrected in at least one of the robot systems. Each of the plurality of robot systems shares the corrected information stored in the storage device and operates the robot based on the sharing corrected information.

In a remote control robot system including a plurality of slave arms, slave arm has a plurality of control modes of an automatic mode in which slave arm is operated based on a task program, a manual mode in which slave arm is operated based on an operator's operation received by a master device, and correctable automatic mode in which slave arm is operated based on task program while operation is sequentially corrected by the operator's operation received by master device. Operation sequence information includes an automatic part in which slave arm performs a work in the automatic mode, and a selected part in which slave arm performs a work in one selected from plurality of control modes, and the selected parts do not overlap with each other in time among the plurality of slave arms. Based on the operation sequence information, the plurality of slave arms are operated.

Increased robotic sophistication and more efficient autonomous operation is implemented by providing separate physical autonomous robots shared and remote access to the sensory array and information from the sensory array of one another. Each robot can access a sensor of any other robot, or scans or other information obtained from the sensor of any other robot. The robots leverage the shared sensory access in order to perform batch order fulfillment, dynamic rearrangement of item or tote locations, and opportunistic charging. These coordinated robotic operations based on the shared sensory access increase the efficiency and productivity of the robots without adding resources or hardware to the robots, increasing the speed of the robots, or increasing the number of deployed robots.