A method for controlling a robot includes applying a setpoint force to a contact point; measuring a contact stiffness at the contact point; and slowing down the moving robot using its drives and/or braking the robot to apply the setpoint force to the contact point by the slowing down and/or slowed down robot depending on the measured contact stiffness, wherein the robot is slowed down before the setpoint force is reached.

A position/force controller performs a first conversion for distributing control energy to at least one of velocity or position energy and force energy, in accordance with a function to be realized, based on velocity (or position) and force information, which correspond to information relating to a position based on an operation of an actuator, and information serving as reference of control. The position/force controller calculates at least one of a velocity or position control amount and a force control amount based on at least one of the energies obtained through the distribution. The position/force controller integrates the calculated control amounts, performs a second conversion, and determines input to the actuator. The position/force controller performs a process, corresponding to increasing or decreasing performed on at least one of the velocity or position energy and the force energy together or independently, with satisfaction of a condition set for the control energy.

An object induction system is disclosed for assigning handling parameters to an object. The system includes an analysis system, an association system, and an assignment system. The analysis system includes at least one characteristic perception system for providing perception data regarding an object to be processed. The association system includes an object information database and assigns association data to the object responsive to commonality with of any of the characteristic perception data with any of the characteristic recorded data. The assignment system is for assigning programmable motion device handling parameters to the indicia perception data based on the association data, and includes a workflow management system as well as a separate operational controller.

There is provided a display control method for controlling a display section configured to display a display image including a virtual robot, which is a simulation model of a robot including a robot arm that performs work according to force control, the display control method including a receiving step for receiving information concerning force control parameters including first information concerning a target force, which is a target of force received by the robot arm during the work, and a display step for displaying, in the display image, the virtual robot, a first indicator indicating the first information, and a second indicator indicating second information concerning force applied to the robot arm during the work, the virtual robot, the first indicator, and the second indicator temporally overlapping one another and being distinguished from one another.

This numerical control system 1 comprises: a numerical control device 5 that generates a machine-tool command signal, which is a command to a machine tool 2, in accordance with a machine-tool numerical control program, and generates a robot command signal, which is a command to a robot 3, in accordance with a robot numerical control program described on the basis of a robot coordinate system; and a robot control device 6 that controls an operation of the robot 3 on the basis of the robot command signal. The robot control device 6 acquires a coordinate value of the robot 3 in the robot coordinate system, and transmits the coordinate value as a reference coordinate value to the numerical control device 5. The numerical control device 5 generates the robot command signal on the basis of the reference coordinate value transmitted from the robot control device 6 and the robot numerical control program.

A robot control device includes a generation unit that generates control information for controlling a robot to be controlled for each of a plurality of control cycles for the robot, an acquisition unit that acquires control environment information relevant to the control cycles, a selection unit that selects any one of a plurality of the control information based on the acquired control environment information and a relevance between the control environment information and the control cycles, and a control unit that controls the robot using the selected control information, thereby suitably controlling the robot according to the control environment of the robot in a case where the control cycles of the robot depends on the varying control environment of the robot.

A robot control apparatus controlling a robot includes a control board for controlling operation of the robot, a housing including a plurality of plate materials containing a first plate material and a second plate material and housing the control board in a space surrounded by the plurality of plate materials, an intake port for taking air into the housing, an exhaust port for exhausting the air within the housing to outside, and a cable coupling portion coupling a cable for communication with the robot, wherein the intake port, the exhaust port, and the cable coupling portion are provided in the first plate material, and the second plate material includes an installation surface facing an object on which the housing is installed.

A micro-robot magnetic drive device and a control method based on double closed loop three-dimensional path tracking are disclosed. The method includes: inputting a desired tracking path, obtaining current pose information of a magnetic micro-robot through a camera, and then calculating a position of a center of mass, an actual axial direction, coordinates of a desired position point with the shortest distance from the center of mass on a desired tracking path, and a tangent direction of this point; calculating a horizontal distance, a vertical distance, a direction angle error, and a pitch angle error of the two points according to the actual axial direction, the tangent direction, and disturbance compensation; and obtaining a required rotating magnetic field according to a designed position closed loop controller.

Protection systems, assemblies, and devices are provided. A protection assembly may be configured to transition an end unit of a robot between a first state and a second state. A signal indicating a breaching state may be received. The protection assembly may transition the end unit from the first state to the second state when the signal is received.

A robot system includes a robot arm, encoders configured to acquire position information of the robot arm, a first control section configured to execute control processing for controlling operation of the robot arm, and a second control section provided independently from the first control section and configured to transmit a position information request signal for requesting the position information to the encoders. The second control section transmits an interrupt signal to the first control section according to the transmission of the position information request signal. The first control section executes the control processing based on the interrupt signal and the position information output from the encoders based on the position information request signal.