The invention relates to a production machine with a control program for visualizing stations and/or machine components, highlighting the speed-determining station and/or the speed-determining machine component in order to optimize the process time. The invention also relates to a method of optimizing the process time for a production machine with such a control program and to a data carrier with such a control program.

An adaptive cyber manufacturing facility method and system is disclosed for performing a task remotely on an object at an adaptive cyber manufacturing facility having a robotic device. The method may include receiving, via a computing device, cyber manufacturing system data; reporting the cyber manufacturing system data to a remote user of the robotic device via a user interface; acquiring user condition data regarding a condition of the user via the computing device; acquiring instructions from the user interface for remotely operating the robotic device to perform the task; automatically selecting a cyber manufacturing system operational mode from a plurality of pre-defined cyber manufacturing system operational modes based on the user condition data; and causing control of the robotic device to perform the task on the object according to the instructions from the user interface based on rules associated with the selected cyber manufacturing system operational mode.

A method includes providing a virtual representation of an environment of a robot, the virtual representation including an object representation of an object in the environment. The method further includes receiving manipulation input from a user to teleoperate the robot for manipulation of the object. The method also includes alerting the user to an alignment dimension based upon the manipulation input, receiving confirmation input from the user to engage the alignment dimension, and constraining at least one dimension of movement of the object according to the alignment dimension.

A powered user interface for a robotic surgical system operates in accordance with a mode of operation in which the actuators are operated to permit motion of the handle in pitch and yaw motion constrained with respect to a virtual fulcrum in a work space of the user interface, and insertion motion is constrained along an axis passing through the virtual fulcrum. In a virtual fulcrum setting mode, a user is prompted to give input to the system selecting a desired point in space for the virtual fulcrum. The selected point in space is then set as the virtual fulcrum

A sequence of input samples that are measures of position or orientation of an input device being held by a user are received. A current output sample of a state of linear quadratic estimator, LQE, is computed that is an estimate of the position or orientation of the input device. The current output sample is computed based on i) a previously computed output sample, and ii) a velocity term. An updated output sample of the state of the LQE is computed, based on i) a previously computed output sample, and ii) a new input sample. Other embodiments are also described and claimed.

A user interface device of a remote control system for a robot and a method using the same are provided. The user interface device includes: a radio frequency (RF) unit for receiving, from a remote control robot, camera data and at least one sensor data detecting a distance; a display unit having a main screen and at least one auxiliary screen; and a controller having an environment evaluation module for determining whether the received camera data are in a normal condition, and having a screen display mode change module for displaying, if the received camera data are in a normal condition, the camera data on the main screen and displaying, if the received camera data are in an abnormal condition, the sensor data on the main screen.

A manipulator system configured to perform a work to a workpiece being moved by a moving device, includes a robotic arm, having one or more joints and to which a tool configured to perform the work to the workpiece is attached, an operating device configured to operate the robotic arm, a first imaging means configured to image the workpiece, while following the movement of the workpiece, a second imaging means fixedly provided in a work area to image a situation of the work to the workpiece, a displaying means configured to display an image imaged by the first imaging means and an image imaged by the second imaging means, and a control device configured to control the operation of the robotic arm based on an operating instruction of the operating device, while detecting a moving amount of the workpiece being moved by the moving device and carrying out a tracking control of the robotic arm according to the moving amount of the workpiece.

A robot system according to the present disclosure includes a robot installed in a work area, a manipulator configured to be gripped by an operator and manipulate the robot, a sensor disposed at a manipulation area and configured to wirelessly detect positional information and posture information on the manipulator, and a control device which calculates a locus of the manipulator based on the positional information and the posture information on the manipulator detected by the sensor, and operates the robot on real time.

A surgical method is provided for use with a teleoperated surgical system (surgical system), the method comprising: recording surgical instrument kinematic information indicative of surgical instrument motion produced within the surgical system during the occurrence of the surgical procedure; determining respective kinematic signatures associated with respective surgical instrument motions; producing an information structure in a computer readable storage device that associates respective kinematic signatures with respective control signals; comparing, during a performance of the surgical procedure surgical instrument kinematic information during the performance with at least one respective kinematic signature; launching, during a performance of the surgical procedure an associated respective control signal in response to a match between surgical instrument kinematics during the performance and a respective kinematic signature.

A surgical robotic system includes a robotic arm having at least one surgical instrument and a control device coupled to the robotic arm and configured to control the robotic arm, the control device including one or more components. The surgical robotic system also includes a power supply having: a tower power supply chassis configured to supply first direct current to the robotic arm; a power distribution unit configured to supply second direct current to the one or more components; a first uninterruptable power supply device coupled to the tower power supply chassis and configured to receive a first alternating current from a first alternating current input; and a second uninterruptable power supply device coupled to the power distribution unit and configured to receive a second alternating current from a second alternating current input.