An approach to positioning one or more robotic arms in an assembly system may be described herein. For example, a system for robotic assembly may include a first robot, a second robot, and a control unit. The control unit may be configured to receive a first target location proximal to a second target location. The locations may indicate where the robots are to position the features. The control unit may be configured to calculate a first calculated location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, measure a first measured location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, determine a first transformation matrix between the first calculated location and the first measured location, reposition the first feature of the first subcomponent to the first target location using the first robot, the repositioning based on the first transformation matrix.

A manipulation controller is provided for reorienting an object by a manipulator of a robotic system. The manipulation controller includes an interface controller configured to acquire measurement data from sensors arranged on the robotic system, at least one processor, and a memory configured to store a computer-implemented method. The instructions of the method include acquiring measurement data from vision sensors and force sensors arranged on the robotic system, determining an input-output relation for the object based on a nonlinear static model representing input-output relationships between contact forces and movements of the object on the workbench, representing interaction between the object and the manipulator using complementarity constraints to capture the contact state between the object and the manipulator, formulating a representation for frictional stability of the object based on the non-linear static model at the external contacts with the workbench; formulating a bilevel optimization problem so as to maximize the frictional stability over a position trajectory of the object being manipulated on the workbench, estimating uncertainty value in physical parameters to be compensated by performing the bilevel optimization problem, solving the bilevel optimization problem using the non-linear optimization solver and generating control data with respect to a sequence of the contact forces being applied to the object by using the manipulator.

An approach to positioning one or more robotic arms in an assembly system may be described herein. For example, a system for robotic assembly may include a first robot, a second robot, and a control unit. The control unit may be configured to receive a first target location proximal to a second target location. The locations may indicate where the robots are to position the features. The control unit may be configured to calculate a first calculated location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, measure a first measured location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, determine a first transformation matrix between the first calculated location and the first measured location, reposition the first feature of the first subcomponent to the first target location using the first robot, the repositioning based on the first transformation matrix.

A computing system may direct a first robotic arm to a first position based on a first set of coordinates. The computing system may cause the first robotic arm to engage with a first structure based on the first position of the first robotic arm. Further, the computing system may direct the first robotic arm to a second position based on a second set of coordinates such that the first structure is brought within a joining proximity of a second structure without a fixture retaining the first structure and without a fixture retaining the second structure, wherein the first structure is configured to be joined with the second structure when the first and second structures are within the joining proximity, the joining proximity being a proximity at which the first and second structures can be joined together.

Accuracy in interference determination between a hand gripping a workpiece and nearby objects is increased. An information processing apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to decide an object to be gripped among a plurality of objects on the basis of a first image of the imaged objects, a specifying unit configured to specify an attention area for determining, when a gripping device grips the object to be gripped, whether the gripping device interferes with objects near the object to be gripped, a controller configured to change an imaging range of an imaging device on the basis of the attention area, and a determination unit configured to determine, when the gripping device grips the object to be gripped, whether the gripping device interferes with the objects near the object to be gripped on the basis of a second image of an object imaged in a changed imaging range.

An approach to positioning one or more robotic arms in an assembly system may be described herein. For example, a system for robotic assembly may include a first robot, a second robot, and a control unit. The control unit may be configured to receive a first target location proximal to a second target location. The locations may indicate where the robots are to position the features. The control unit may be configured to calculate a first calculated location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, measure a first measured location of the first feature of the first subcomponent, determine a first transformation matrix between the first calculated location and the first measured location, reposition the first feature of the first subcomponent to the first target location using the first robot, the repositioning based on the first transformation matrix.

Individual parts or components are tracked as the individual parts or components move through or between a plurally of manufacturing processes or steps after the individual parts or components are separated from the single manufacturing platform (and from each other). The information in a work order associated with the parts is utilized to dynamically make real-time adjustments to any of the plurality of manufacturing processes or steps as the individual parts or components move through or between the plurally of manufacturing processes or steps.

Accuracy in interference determination between a hand gripping a workpiece and nearby objects is increased. An information processing apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to decide an object to be gripped among a plurality of objects on the basis of a first image of the imaged objects, a specifying unit configured to specify an attention area for determining, when a gripping device grips the object to be gripped, whether the gripping device interferes with objects near the object to be gripped, a controller configured to change an imaging range of an imaging device on the basis of the attention area, and a determination unit configured to determine, when the gripping device grips the object to be gripped, whether the gripping device interferes with the objects near the object to be gripped on the basis of a second image of an object imaged in a changed imaging range.

It is proposed to assemble a product on a modular basis from product parts to be assembled, wherein the product assembling being split into two separate operations, by (i) automated machine fetching as well as automated machine placing the product parts part-by-part from a delivery area on optically localized distribution fixtures at a hand-over area in the course of a logistic distribution operation and a distribution fixture placed product part from optically localized distribution fixtures at the hand-over area on optically localized assembly fixtures at an assembly workspace in the course of an assembly operation, (ii) computing and executing by automated machine motion generation primary kinematic machine-motion-sequences and secondary kinematic machine-motion-sequences, (iii) providing an automated machine architecture to enable or ensure, based on a world model for automated machines, a three-dimensional model of an assembly environment, information ANG, of the product and the product parts and an automated machine workflow.

A robot includes: an arm; and a controller that operates the arm, the controller generating a pathway according to a relative position and a relative orientation of: a first object that moves together with the arm; and a second object and according to a first position of the first object.