To provide a servo controller for an industrial machine allowing construction of a system achieving more excellent power efficiency than a conventional system. A servo controller includes: a driving motor that drives an industrial machine; a load detecting unit that detects a load on the driving motor or the amount of power consumed by the driving motor; a buffer motor that feeds regenerative power to the driving motor on the basis of a result of the detection by the load detecting unit; and a base speed setting unit for recovering the buffer motor to a second base speed set to be lower than a constant first base speed preset for the buffer motor and applied before the regenerative power is fed to the driving motor after the buffer motor is decelerated from the first base speed and the regenerative power is fed to the driving motor.

A modular configurable robot, comprising robot modules comprising a coupling mechanism including an electrical coupling member comprising a network communication signal connection, an arrangement forming upon coupling an orientation signal, an integrated circuit comprising a microcontroller circuit with unique identification code and I/O ports coupled to said electrical coupling to receive orientation electrical signal, a communication slave module comprising ports and registers storing state values of the ports, one port pre-designated as input, the ports being open or closed depending on the port state, the robot comprising a master communication module forming with said slave modules a master slave communication network topology, a server hosting a database of robot module parameters, accessible by unique identification code, said master module retrieving from said communication slave module the unique identification code, and from the database robot module parameters, and from said microcontroller circuit said information of a relative orientation.

The machine tool includes modules and a control portion. Each of the modules includes a main spindle for holding a workpiece and a tool post for holding a tool. The tool is used to machine the workpiece held by the main spindle. The control portion is configured to control to restrict a parallel execution of predetermined machining for the workpiece and machining affected by the predetermined machining and to permit an execution of machining other than the restricted machining.

A control device comprises a plurality of command application units, a plurality of platform units, and a shared memory. The command application units are each provided with a command mediation method designation unit that outputs, to the platform unit, identification information pertaining to a platform unit to be subject to cooperative control and a mediation method classification. The platform units are each provided with: an inter-platform communication unit that transmits a command value, the identification information, and the mediation method classification between the platform units via the shared memory; and a command mediation unit that acquires the command value, the identification information, and the mediation method classification from all platform units to be subject to cooperative control, mediates the command values on the basis of the identification information and the mediation method classification, and outputs the mediated command values to the shared memory.

A distributed motor control system includes motor control devices that individually control motors that coordinately drive an industrial machine. Each of at least two motor control devices of the motor control devices includes processing circuitry that performs sharing processing including sharing coordinated control data, used in coordinated driving of the industrial machine between the at least two motor control devices, via data communication, and control a corresponding motor using the coordinated control data shared via the sharing-processing.

A postprocessor device outputs a machining program for controlling a CNC machine tool. The postprocessor device includes: a characteristic shape recognition unit configured to read information about a characteristic shape to be machined from cutter location data including information about a characteristic shape; a section setting unit configured to set one or more set sections on a tool path in response to the information about the characteristic shape; and a motion generation unit configured to generate a machining program including instruction for changing at least one parameter to be used for controlling at least one axis of the CNC machine tool outside the set section and inside the set section.

The present invention sets a single machining point on a plurality of tool path rows, selects a machining point in a prescribed range with the point to be machined as the center, calculates the tool orientation at the point to be machined by way of averaging the tool orientation of the selected machining point of interest, corrects data pertaining to the tool orientation of the point to be machined by way of the calculated average tool orientation, acquires the shape data of a workpiece to be machined and the shape data of a ball end mill to be used, performs an interference check for the workpiece and the ball end mill on the basis of the corrected tool orientation data, and generates a new tool path on the basis of data pertaining to the corrected tool orientation when no interference between the workpiece and the ball end mill occurs.

A command generation device to control a motor includes command input circuitry configured to receive a first command, first intermediate data calculation circuitry configured to calculate first intermediate data based on the first command, delay time setting circuitry configured to determine a delay time based on the first command, second intermediate data calculation circuitry configured to calculate second intermediate data by smoothing the first intermediate data based on the delay time, and command output circuitry configured to calculate, based on the second intermediate data, a second command according to which the motor is controlled. A first time period during which positioning the motor based on the first command is completed when the first intermediate data is smoothed is longer by the delay time than a second time period during which positioning the motor based on the first command is completed when the first intermediate data is not smoothed.

A numerical controller includes a command analysis unit for analyzing the machining program in which the axis movement command for a plurality of sections is described in one block of the machining program in a reading processing for the one block to specify a plurality of coordinate values or movement amounts, and a block information generation unit for generating the block information for the plurality of sections based on the plurality of coordinate values or movement amounts. Each of one or more addresses is described only once and a plurality of command values corresponding to the respective addresses is described according to a predetermined order in the axis movement command, and the command analysis unit specifies a correlation between the addresses and the command values according to the order.

A synchronization control device (10) includes: a main axis command calculator (Cmm) that calculates a main axis command position based on time-series target position information; a main axis modeler (Mm) that calculates a predicted main axis feedback position by a dynamic characteristic model of a main axis servo control mechanism (20) by inputting the main axis command position, a main axis feedback position, and a predicted main axis command position after a predetermined time calculated based on the target position information; and a driven axis command calculator (Cms) that calculates a driven axis command position based on the predicted main axis feedback position. This configuration achieves synchronization control that improves the accuracy of synchronous drive of the driven axis.