A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing a program that causes a computer to execute a process, the process includes acquiring information in a log regarding an operating state of a plurality of robots; based on the acquired information in the log, calculating a first load in each time slot related to control of the plurality of robots; when there is a first time slot in which the first load is higher than or equal to a first threshold, extracting a robot that performs a first task, from the plurality of robots, in the first time slot; and changing a time slot for operating the extracted robot.

An AAMP system includes a plurality of AAMP system stations disposed in an environment and configured to perform one or more AAMP processing routines, and a plurality of robots configured to autonomously travel within the environment, where one or more robots from among the plurality of robots include an auxiliary AAMP processing station configured to perform one or more auxiliary AAMP processing routines. The AAMP system includes a controller configured to select an AAMP system station from among the plurality of AAMP system stations to perform the one or more AAMP processing routines based on AAMP system operation data and select a robot from among the plurality of robots to initiate the one or more AAMP processing routines at the selected AAMP system station based on a digital model of the environment and robot operation data, where the robot operation data includes an auxiliary processing state.

Methods and devices for demonstrating three-player pursuit-evasion (PE) game are provided using a hardware-in-loop test-bed. Robots including pursuer robots and an evader robot are arranged on a solid surface. A drone is positioned flying above to oversee the robots to capture a video or an image sequence of the robots. A robot thread process and a drone thread process are implemented by a computer. In the robot thread process, a tracking-by-detection process is perform to provide a state of the robot including a location and a heading direction of the robot; a delay compensation is conducted; and a PE game is called to calculate a robot command. In the drone thread process, a drone control is calculated to make the drone follow an evader robot, the drone control is sent to the drone, and user commands are also checked.

A method for automatically scaling a number of robots leveraging interactive sessions to be used within a system infrastructure, dynamically based on workload, is provided. The method includes: receiving a request for a number of robots to be provisioned within the system infrastructure; validating an availability of the requested number of robots; monitoring a CPU utilization and a memory utilization within the system infrastructure; adjusting the requested number of robots based on the CPU utilization and/or the memory utilization; and releasing the adjusted number of robots for facilitating use thereof to perform corresponding tasks within the system infrastructure.

Provided is a cell controller for controlling an operation of a machining cell including two or more machines and one or more robots as work resources, the cell controller being configured to control the operation of the machining cell based on a production program recorded with one or more processes to be executed at the time of producing only one article of a corresponding item in the machining cell among production programs prepared corresponding to one or more items produced in the machining cell.

A robot system includes: a first robot; a second robot; and circuitry configured to: control the first and second robots to execute a collaborative operation on a work piece; and control, in response to a detection of an irregular state of the first robot during the collaborative operation, the first and second robots to execute a collaborative counteractive operation to eliminate the irregular state.

A numerical controller which can freely and easily specify, as a control point, various positions on a machine configuration and which can easily set coordinate systems in places on the machine configuration. A numerical controller expresses the machine configuration of a control target in graph form where constituent elements are nodes and holds the machine configuration. The numerical controller includes: a control point coordinate system specification portion that specifies, with the identifier, one or more groups of the control point and the coordinate system; a command value determination portion that uses the specified control point and the coordinate system to determine for which control point and on which coordinate system one or more command values commanded in a program correspond to a coordinate value; and a movement command portion that commands a move of the control point such that the coordinate value of the control point is the command value.

To provide a numerical control method and a processing device capable of generating a plurality of machine-specific machining programs, from one machining program to a single workpiece. A numerical control method is to be executed by a computer. The numerical control method includes a generating step of dividing, into a plurality of paths, a machining path of an original NC program for a machine configured to machine a single workpiece, corresponding to contents of machining to the workpiece in the original NC program, and of generating, on the basis of the respective divided machining paths, individual NC programs for machines corresponding to the respective machining paths.

Systems and methods are provided for robot control. One embodiment is a method for coordinating operations of robots performing work on a part. The method includes assigning a group of robots to a part, initiating work on the part via the group of robots, determining that a robot within the group is unable to continue performing work at a first location of the part, removing the robot from the group while other robots of the group continue performing the work, adding a functioning robot to the group at a second location that the robot is scheduled to occupy, and continuing work on the part via the group of robots.

Provided is a robot working in shifts, the robot including a storage unit configured to store received work plan information including a work position, work information, and workload information, and a work log created and received by a preceding work robot, a work processing unit configured to move to a work area and then work on the basis of plane information when only the work plan information is present in the storage unit, a log creation unit configured to detect workload performed through the work processing unit and work position information regarding a work position to which the robot has moved for work, create a work log including the detected workload and work position information, and store the created work log in the storage unit; a rotation determination unit configured to determine a shift rotation cycle; and a communication unit configured to establish a communication link with a subsequent robot and transfer the work log stored in the storage unit to the subsequent robot when the rotation determination unit determines that a shift rotation time comes and the subsequent robot approaches the work area.