IP Library Granted Patent US 11,618,163
Granted Patent B2
US 11,618,163 · App. 16/702,865 · Granted Apr 4, 2023

Industrial robot system

Inventors: Kazutaka Nakayama (Yamanashi, JP); Takahiro Iwatake (Yamanashi, JP)
Assignee: FANUC CORPORATION
B25J9/1633B25J9/163B25J9/1674B25J9/1694
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Patent No.
US 11,618,163
App. No.
16/702,865
Granted
Apr 4, 2023
Kind
B2
Abstract

An industrial robot system includes: a robot that includes a torque sensor on at least one rotary shaft; and a controller that controls the robot. The controller includes a moment output unit that outputs a value of moment from a posture of the robot or the posture and a motion of the robot, a program storage unit that stores a motion program, a drive control unit that causes each of component parts of the robot to perform a rotating motion around the rotary shaft in accordance with the motion program, and an output calibration unit that associates a torque detection value detected by the torque sensor with the value of moment output from the moment output unit in the rotating motion of each of the component parts around the rotary shaft performed by the drive control unit.

Claims (24)

1. An industrial robot system comprising:

a robot that includes a torque sensor on at least one rotary shaft; and

a controller that controls the robot, the controller comprising:

a moment output unit that outputs a value of moment of force generated by an inertia force due to a mass of each component part resulting from a movement of the robot or a gravity applied thereto around the at least one rotary shaft,

a program storage unit that stores a motion program,

a drive control unit that causes each component part of the robot to perform a rotating motion around the at least one rotary shaft in accordance with the motion program stored in the program storage unit, and

an output calibration unit that generates, prior to execution of the motion program, an output characteristic of the torque sensor in which a torque detection value detected by the torque sensor with the value of moment output from the moment output unit in the rotating motion of each component part of the robot around the at least one rotary shaft performed by the drive control unit are associated with each other, and that outputs the generated output characteristic to the drive control unit.

2. The industrial robot system according to claim 1 , wherein the moment output unit has association data between the posture of the robot and the value of moment.

3. The industrial robot system according to claim 1 , wherein the moment output unit calculates the value of moment acting on the torque sensor, generated due to the mass of each component part of the robot and the gravity applied thereto around the at least one rotary shaft, and the output calibration unit associates the calculated value of moment with the torque detection value detected by the torque sensor.

4. The industrial robot system according to claim 1 , wherein the drive control unit performs contact determination for the robot based on the value of moment associated by the output calibration unit with the torque detection value detected by the torque sensor.

5. The industrial robot system according to claim 1 , wherein the drive control unit controls an assist torque at a time of performing an inductive operation by directly holding the component parts of the robot, based on the value of moment associated by the output calibration unit with the torque detection value detected by the torque sensor.

6. The industrial robot system according to claim 1 , wherein the component parts are parts of a mechanical portion in the robot, the parts being caused to move around the at least one rotary shaft.

7. The industrial robot system according to claim 6 , wherein the component parts include a part to be mounted in the mechanical portion of the robot.

8. The industrial robot system according to claim 1 , wherein the torque sensor comprises

torque detection units of two or more systems that detect torques acting on the torque sensor, and the output calibration unit associates each of the torque detection values detected by the torque detection units with the value of moment.

9. An industrial robot system comprising:

a robot that includes a torque sensor on at least one rotary shaft; and

a controller that controls the robot, wherein the controller comprises:

a moment output unit that outputs a value of moment of force generated by an inertia force due to a mass of each component part resulting from a movement of the robot or a gravity applied thereto around the at least one rotary shaft,

a program storage unit that stores a motion program,

a drive control unit that causes each component part of the robot to perform a rotating motion around the at least one rotary shaft in accordance with the motion program stored in the program storage unit, and

an output calibration unit that generates, prior to execution of the motion program, an output characteristic of the torque sensor in which a detection value detected using a physical quantity related to a torque with the value of moment output from the moment output unit in the rotating motion of each component part of the robot around the at least one rotary shaft performed by the drive control unit are associated with each other, and that outputs the generated output characteristic to the drive control unit.

10. The industrial robot system according to claim 9 , wherein the torque sensor comprises

a detection unit that detects the physical quantity related to a torque of each of two or more systems, each system detecting a torque acting on the at least one rotary shaft, and detects the detection value from the physical quantity, and the output calibration unit associates each of the detection values with the value of moment.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 4, 2019
From: NAKAYAMA, KAZUTAKA; IWATAKE, TAKAHIRO
To: FANUC CORPORATION
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Priority Claims (2)
JP JP2018-245014 · Dec 27, 2018 · national
JP JP2019-121733 · Jun 28, 2019 · national
Continuity (1)
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