Security-activated robotic tasks
Various methods and systems include exemplary implementations for a security-activated operational component involved in creating or producing or duplicating or processing or testing one or more objects. Possible embodiments include but are not limited to verifying an authorization to control a task or function of a robotic operation system, and responsive to the verification, enabling or disabling one or more operational components of the robotic operation system.
1 . A security method for robotic operational tasks, comprising:
providing access to an authorization associated with a directive to perform one or more robotic operational tasks relating to a proprietary process and/or proprietary operational component and/or a proprietary output;
verifying the authorization; and
responsive to the verification, controlling operation of the robotic operational task via enabling or disabling one or more functions in accordance with the authorization.
2 . The security method of claim 1 further comprising:
monitoring the proprietary process to determine compliance with an applicable predetermined condition.
3 . The security method of claim 1 further comprising:
monitoring the proprietary operational component to determine compliance with an applicable predetermined condition.
4 . The security method of claim 1 further comprising:
monitoring the proprietary output to determine compliance with an applicable predetermined condition.
5 . The security method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining compliance with a predetermined condition based on a qualitative aspect of the robotic operation task.
6 . The security method of claim 1 further comprising:
determining compliance with a predetermined condition based on a quantitative aspect of the robotic operation task.
7 . The method of claim 1 wherein the providing access includes:
providing access to the authorization via an application configured to identify a user associated with the directive to perform the robotic operational task.
8 . The method of claim 7 wherein the providing access to the authorization via the application includes:
obtaining the authorization via the application, the application applying a user credential to provide the authorization.
9 . The method of claim 7 wherein the providing access to the authorization via the application includes:
receiving the authorization from one or more data packets over a network in communication with the robotic operational task, the one or more data packets providing one or more permissions to perform the robotic operational task.
10 . The method of claim 7 wherein the providing access to the authorization via an application includes:
obtaining the authorization from a security device in communication with the robotic operational task, the security device providing one or more permissions to perform the robotic operational task.
11 . The method of claim 10 wherein the obtaining the authorization from the security device includes:
obtaining the authorization from the security device configured as a dongle attached to the robotic operational system, the dongle providing one or more permissions to perform the robotic operational task.
12 . The method of claim 10 wherein the obtaining the authorization from the security device includes:
obtaining the authorization from the security device configured as a wireless communication device associated with the robotic operational task, the wireless communication device providing one or more permissions to perform the robotic operational task.
13 . The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying the authorization includes:
obtaining the directive from a control system operably coupled to the robotic operational task; and
receiving an enabling signal from the control system to perform the robotic operational task and enable reification of one or more objects.
14 . The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying the authorization includes:
comparing the authorization to a stored list of authorization codes accessible to the robotic operational task.
15 . The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying the authorization includes:
obtaining an indication from a control system operably coupled to the robotic operational task, the control system including a digital rights management application.
16 . The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying the authorization includes:
verifying that the authorization is associated with one or more license-governed agreements relating to the robotic operation task, wherein one or more objects are at least partially robotically reproducible via one or more object files that at least partially enable reification of one or more objects.
17 . The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying the authorization includes:
verifying an authorization code associated with a licensing status for one or more objects and/or object data files, the licensing status indicative of one or more of a royalty status, and/or an expiration date pertaining to a license, and/or a number of manufacturing runs permitted according to the license.
18 . The method of claim 1 wherein the verifying the authorization includes:
verifying the authorization to enable a determination of a payment status and/or an authorization status under a reification agreement.
19 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operation task that includes assembly or production or duplication or processing or testing or manufacturing at least partially using one or more of the following: a metal, ABS (Acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene), ABSi (ABS with high impact strength), ABS M-30 (Acrylonitrile/butadiene/styrene), PC (Polycarbonate), PC-ISO (Polycarbonate-ISO), PC/ABS (Polycarbonate/ABS Blend), PPSF (Polyphenylsulfone), clear and/or colored resin.
20 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operational task including reification at least partially using one or more of the following: rapid prototyping, three-dimensional printing, two-dimensional printing, freeform fabrication, solid freeform fabrication, stereolithography.
21 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operational task including reification at least partially using one or more of one or more of the following: stereolithography (SLA), selective laser sintering (SLS), computer numerical control (CNC), fused deposition modeling (FDM), if the authorization meets one or more predetermined conditions.
22 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operational task that includes reification at least partially using three-dimensional manufacturing for one or more of metal, wood, ice, stone, glass, nuclear materials, pharmaceuticals, edible substances, sand, ceramic materials, aluminum, silicon, carbides, silicon nitrides, silicon carbides, metal/ceramic combinations including aluminum/silicon nitride, aluminum/silicon carbide, aluminum/zirconia and aluminum/aluminum nitride including materials alterable by friction, heating and cooling, based on compliance with one or more predetermined conditions.
23 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operational task wherein one or more robotic elements control reification at least partially using two-dimensional manufacturing for one or more of skin, textiles, edible substances, paper, and silicon printing, based on compliance with one or more predetermined conditions.
24 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operation task wherein one or more robotic elements control reification at least partially using subtractive manufacturing that includes one or more of drilling, milling, turning, laser cutting, waterjet cutting, plasma cutting, wire electrical discharge cutting, cold, warm and hot forging metal fabrication, computer numerical controlled fabrication machine, and/or an additive manufacturing and/or an injection molding, based on compliance with one or more predetermined conditions.
25 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
enabling or preventing functioning of a physical component of the robotic operational task based on compliance with one or more predetermined conditions.
26 . The method of claim 25 wherein the enabling or preventing functioning of the physical component includes:
enabling or preventing functioning of the physical component dependent upon the one or more of the following predetermined conditions: a benchmark comparison, a temporal machine qualification, an operation qualification, an event occurrence, and/or a quality certification.
27 . The method of claim 25 wherein the enabling or preventing functioning of the physical component includes:
enabling or preventing the robotic operational task performed by one or more of a chemical process, a product packaging, an injection molding unit, a subtraction machine, an additive manufacturing unit, a two-dimensional production machine, a three-dimensional production machine, a stamping machine, an extruder, a melting machine, a die-casting machine, a solidifying machine, a manufacturing machine, a rapid prototyping machine, a production device.
28 . The method of claim 25 wherein the enabling or preventing functioning of the physical component includes:
obtaining an input including the directive for creating and/or duplicating and/or producing and/or testing and/or assembling and/or manufacturing and/or processing an object in accordance with the authorization.
29 . The method of claim 1 wherein the controlling operation of the robotic operational task includes:
controlling one or more functions involving at least part of one or more of a processor system, an assembly system, a testing system, a manufacturing system, and a production system.
30 . The method of claim 29 wherein the controlling the one or more functions includes:
controlling the one or more functions wherein the robotic operational task performs one or more of constructing, building, structuring, modifying, fabricating, and/or forming.
31 . The method of claim 29 wherein the controlling the one or more functions includes:
controlling the one or more functions wherein the robotic operational task enables one or more of welding, polishing, buffing, deburring, grinding, lapping, fettling, stamping, inserting, framing, laying, wiring, plumbing, roofing, walling, and/or flooring.
32 . The method of claim 1 further comprising a computer-readable medium bearing encoded instructions for executing the security method for robotic operational tasks.