5421 results about "Future of robotics" patented technology

A medical system that allows a mentor to teach a pupil how to use a robotically controlled medical instrument. The system may include a first handle that can be controlled by a mentor to move the medical instrument. The system may further have a second handle that can be moved by a pupil to control the same instrument. Deviations between movement of the handles by the mentor and the pupil can be provided as force feedback to the pupil and mentor handles. The force feedback pushes the pupil's hand to correspond with the mentor's handle movement. The force feedback will also push the mentor's hand to provide information to the mentor on pupil's movements. The mentor is thus able to guide the pupil's hands through force feedback of the pupil handles to teach the pupil how to use the system.

This invention relates to an apparatus for the projection of a remote conferee's presence into a group meeting environment by using a combination of videoconferencing / teleconferencing and robotics technology. The remote conferee's face is shown substantially life-size on a video monitor. The remote conferee's eyes appear to be looking directly at the viewer. The video monitor can turn left or right to point at the person speaking, automatically or by manual control, to give the impression that the remote conferee is turning his head to look at the person speaking. The video screen can be raised and lowered to give the impression that the remote conferee is standing up and sitting down. An attention-getting mechanism prompts the attention of the other conferees when the remote conferee wants to interrupt or enter a conversation.

The present invention relates to a self-propelled working robot, including a first distance sensor 4a and a second distance sensor 4b (4c) for measuring the distance to an obstacle W in front of the robot. The robot includes first determination means for comparing a first measured distance Dc to the obstacle obtained by the first distance sensor 4a with a predetermined first threshold value to determine the proximity to the obstacle W, second determination means for comparing a second measured distance Dr (DL) to the obstacle W obtained by the second distance sensor 4b (4c) with a predetermined second threshold value to determine the proximity to the obstacle, and changing means for changing the first or second threshold value based on information regarding an inclination angle of the obstacle W obtained from the first and second measured distances.

The present invention provides a general purpose operating system that shows particular usefulness in the robotics and automation fields. The operating system provides individual services and the combination and interconnections of such services using built-in service extensions, built-in completely configurable generic services, and a way to plug in additional service extensions to yield a comprehensive and cohesive framework for developing, configuring, assembling, constructing, deploying, and managing robotics and / or automation applications.

An automated vehicle charging system, that may be done within a service type station, to provide for charging, recharging, or even discharging, of the batteries of an electric vehicle, and generally will include a dispenser, having a cabinet containing all of the instrumentation desired for furnishing the provision of current information relative to the charging of a vehicle, of otherwise, and will include boom means that are highly maneuverable, in order to bring the charging instrument into close proximity of the electrical receptacle of the vehicle being serviced, whether it be at a service type station, or at a curbside type of charging system. Robotics may be used within the structure of these electrical charging systems, to facilitate the charging of any vehicle, by the customer itself, even at a self service type of station.

A rehabilitation system that combines robotics and interactive gaming to facilitate performance of task-specific, repetitive exercise to enable individuals undergoing rehabilitation to improve the performance of coordinated movements of the ankle, and to practice balance activities, is disclosed. More specifically, the rehabilitation system includes at least one two degree-of-freedom robotic, haptic interface for a mammalian foot and interactive gaming hardware that is coupled to a controller, to provide a virtual reality-like environment.

The invention relates to a line navigation amphibious power circuit comprehensive maintenance robot and a circuit maintenance method thereof. The line navigation amphibious power circuit comprehensive maintenance robot comprises a flight subsystem, an online subsystem and an operation subsystem, wherein when the robot is in a flight operation mode, the flight subsystem is used for executing far-distance or short-distance cruising of the power circuit; when the robot is in an online operation mode, the online subsystem is used for realizing the moving of the robot on the power circuit; and when the robot is in the online operation mode, the operation subsystem is used for maintaining the power circuit. According to the scheme, high stability, easy operability and controllability and flexibility of a multi-rotor unmanned aerial vehicle technique are utilized, and the specificity and intelligence of online robot technique are also utilized; and by organic combination of the two techniques, the limitation of each technique is overcome, and the superiority of the two techniques in comprehensive maintenance of strong and smart grid is exerted to a maximum extent.

The invention belongs to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a dirt recognizing system of a cleaning robot and a cleaning method. The dirt recognizing system, namely a detecting unit, comprises a dust recognizing device and an attachment recognizing device. The dust recognizing device, namely a dust sensor, comprises a light transmitting element and a light receiving element. The dirt recognizing device comprises an image acquiring unit and an image processing unit. The cleaning method includes dust suction and floor mopping, dust suction time and power are determined by dust quantity detected in real time, and floor mopping frequency is determined by the quantity of attachment on floors. The system has an ability of actively recognizing dirt, cleaning force and cleaning time can be adjusted in real time according to the dirt quantity, and accordingly the floors are cleaned efficiently on the premise of guaranteeing cleaning quality.

The invention belongs to the technical field of floor sweeping robots, and provides a room map building method and device for a floor sweeping robot. The method comprises the steps that an indoor area is swept in a full coverage mode, and position coordinates of obstacles and a room map are generated according to the full coverage sweeping process; the room map is divided into multiple subareas according to the position coordinates of the obstacles in the room map, and a sweeping path is planned for each subarea; and sweeping is carried out according to the planned sweeping paths, and the position coordinates of the obstacles, the room map and the sweeping paths are updated. By means of the room map building method and device, working efficiency of the floor sweeping robot can be improved. In addition, operation is convenient, implementation is easy, the application range is wide, and usability and practicability are high.

The invention belongs to the field of robotics, and specifically relates to a small highly intellective household service robot. The robot is composed of moving / executing / sensing hardware module and intellective operating software module. The hardware module and software module set up a closed-loop control through visual information and other sensor information, have personification control characteristic, and can imitate the ability of human to complete task. The robot can supply service in complex home environment due to small size and power consumption. The invention physically separates complex intellective operating software functions with small moving / executing / sensing platform of household service robot and qualifies the robot with the abilities of machine vision, audition, highly intellective planning and function extension, which make the robot can complete highly intelli-gentification ground cleaning work; control many kinds of household appliances according to oral command of the host; and transport small household utensils such as compote, tea, slipper, and garbage can according to oral command.

The invention relates to a power transmission tower climbing robot and a power transmission tower routing inspection mode thereof and belongs to the technical field of robots. The robot is formed by a telescopic module, a clamping module and traction modules. The clamping module is divided into an upper clamping module and a lower clamping module, the upper clamping module and the lower clamping module are connected through the telescopic module, and the traction modules are installed on the two sides of the upper clamping module. According to the power transmission tower routing inspection mode of the power transmission tower climbing robot, robots with the corresponding number are installed on corresponding tower piece main materials of a power transmission tower according to routing inspection power transmission tower pieces, the robots of the tower pieces are connected to the corresponding traction modules through traction ropes with detection and maintenance devices, the clamping module and the telescopic module are in linkage to complete climbing and barrier crossing, and thus the detection and maintenance working of the power transmission tower is achieved.

Automatic programming, scheduling, and control of planned activities at “worker nodes” in a distributed environment are provided by a “real-time self tuner” (RTST). The RTST provides self-tuning of controlled interoperation among an interconnected set of distributed components (i.e., worker nodes) including, for example, home appliances, security systems, lighting, sensor networks, medical electronic devices, wearable computers, robotics, industrial controls, wireless communication systems, audio nets, distributed computers, toys, games, etc. The RTST acts as a centralized “planner” that is either one of the nodes or a dedicated computing device. A set of protocols allow applications to communicate with the nodes, and allow one or more nodes to communicate with each other. Self-tuning of the interoperation and scheduling of tasks to be performed at each node uses an on-line sampling driven statistical model and predefined node “behavior patterns” to predict and manage resource requirements needed by each node for completing assigned tasks.

The invention relates to the technical field of cleaning robots, and particularly relates to a base station and a cleaning robot system. The base station provided by the invention is arranged independent of a cleaning robot of the cleaning robot system, and further, the base station comprises a base station body and a mopping-wiping member cleaning device, wherein the mopping-wiping member cleaning device is arranged on the base station body; the mopping-wiping member cleaning device is used for cleaning a mopping-wiping member, which is used for mopping and wiping a ground surface, of the cleaning robot. Based on the base station provided by the invention, the cleaning robot system can realize the automatic cleaning on the mopping-wiping member; a user does not need to frequently replace and wash the mopping-wiping member any more; thus, the further extrication of the user from the cleaning process of the ground surface is facilitated; the cleaning load of the user is lightened; the realization of the more timely cleaning on the mopping-wiping member is also facilitated; the influence on a mopping-wiping effect as the mopping-wiping member is not replaced and washed in time is prevented.

The invention relates to an AGV robot guide deviation correction method and belongs to the robot technology field. The AGV robot guide deviation correction method comprises steps that: step 1, Nth two-dimensional code label information and Nth RFID label information are employed; step 2, the Nth two-dimensional code label information and the Nth RFID label information are read and analyzed; step 3, the present geographic position of a robot is determined; step 4, a deviation state of the robot is determined, if the deviation state does not exist, the step 1 restarts; step 5, a path of the robot is adjusted to control a servo motor system for correcting a walking direction of the robot, after correction, when the robot walks to an N+1 two-dimensional code label or an N+1 RFID label, the step 1 restarts. The guide deviation correction method is applicable to AGV robot path navigation systems including multiple two-dimensional code labels, multiple RFID labels, a two-dimensional image acquisition system, an RFID reading system, a servo motor system, a communication system and an embedded industrial control board, is simple and easy to enforce, can automatically correct the walking direction of the robot and guarantees that the robot smoothly travels along a self path.

The invention discloses a trunk-simulating mechanical arm unit device and belongs to the technical field of robots. The trunk-simulating mechanical arm unit device comprises a base, a plurality of artificial muscle assemblies, a plurality of middle parts, a plurality of springs, an end part and a flexible cover, wherein each artificial muscle assembly comprises a driver, a transmission mechanism and a flexible screw rod assembly. The trunk-simulating mechanical arm unit device has multiple degrees of freedom, can bend, stretch out and draw back in multiple directions, can form various bending spatial shapes, enables a tool connected with the tail end of the trunk-simulating mechanical arm unit device to reach any spatial position, is good in maneuverability, is good in flexibility, is high in safety in the interaction process with people, and meanwhile is light in self-weight, small in size, compact in structure and low in cost. The trunk-simulating mechanical arm unit device can be widely applied to various automatic systems needing mechanical arms.

The invention discloses a double rood beam high-sensitivity six-dimensional moment sensor in the technical field of robots. The double rood beam high-sensitivity six-dimensional moment sensor comprises two rood beams, two dead rings, one outer ring, and a plurality of resistance strain gages; a first rood beam and a second rood beam are arranged outside the outer ring respectively and are used as elastic bodies of the sensor for sensing stress; two dead rings are arranged outside the first rood beam and the second rood beam respectively; the resistance strain gages are adhered to the rood beams; each of the rood beams consists of four identical double-hole parallel sub beams; each double-hole parallel sub beam is provided with an I-shaped through hole; and a center hole is formed in the geometric center of each rood beam. In the double rood beam high-sensitivity six-dimensional moment sensor, floating beams used by the conventional six-dimensional moment sensor and crosstalk caused by the floating beams are removed, multi-component coupling is reduced conveniently and the measurement accuracy is improved.

The invention involves an artificial leg for human-simulating double-foot robot and is within the scope of robot technology. The artificial leg consists of the coax joint, knee joint, anklebone, foot, thigh connecting rod and calf connecting rod, characterized in that a knee joint driving motor is equipped on the thigh connecting rod between the coax joint and the knee joint. The knee joints are two closed-chain structure comprising of four connecting rods. The knee joint driving motor is connected with the rear rods of the four-connecting-rod structure through the parallel four connecting rod mechanism. A stop piece is fixed on the front end of the four-connecting-rod mechanism. An encoder is equipped on the spindle, which is located on the upper end of the four-connecting-rod mechanism. The advantages of this invention are: the distance between the lifted foot and the ground is increased, enhancing the robot's ability of avoid obstacles while it is walking; the calves don't tough the ground during their swinging process, improving the robot's stability and efficiency in walking; the mass distribution in the leg is more similar to that of human being, producing a compact overall structure and high precision in transmission.

The invention belongs to the technical field of polling robots, and provides a rail type polling robot. The rail type polling robot comprises a robot body, a master control unit, an energy module, a detection assembly and a wireless communication module. The robot body comprises at least two sections of vehicle units. Each vehicle unit comprises a motion drive module and a pulley set. The motion drive modules drive the pulley sets to roll on a rail. Every two adjacent vehicle units are connected through a flexible joint and can relatively rotate in the horizontal and / or vertical direction. The robot can run on the turning and / or climbing rail. The robot can detect equipment and the environment near the rail in real time and transmit information to a remote control center, a worker can know the detected information in real time, and a control instruction can be sent to the robot. The detection result of the robot is stable, the worker does not need to get to the field for test, and labor is saved. The robot can rapidly arrive at the field when the fire disaster happens and dangerous gas leaks, and field data and information are obtained.

The invention discloses a wheel-foot combined obstacle detouring non-contact magnetic absorption type wall climbing robot system, belonging to the technical field of robots and comprising a robot frame, a 5-DOF (degree of freedom) robot arm, three groups of mobile absorption mechanisms, linear sliding rails, screws and drive motors, wherein the linear sliding rails, the screws and the drive motors respectively correspond to the three groups of mobile absorption mechanisms; the five-DOF robot arm is arranged above the robot frame; the three groups of linear sliding rails and screws are vertically arranged below the robot frame and two ends thereof are connected with the robot frame and the mobile absorption mechanism respectively; and the drive motor is fixedly connected with the mobile absorption mechanism. The invention solves the technical defects of the existing wall climbing robot in vertical wall surface operation, enables the robot to have the advantages of rapid speed and flexible steering of a wheeled mobile robot and have the characteristics of large magnetic absorption force and good load capacity as well as obstacle detouring capacity, and can satisfy the requirements of motion and operation in complicated environments.

The invention belongs to the technical field of robots, and relates to a crawler-type pipeline robot with active adaptation and self-adaptation functions. A series combination mechanism, which is composed of a screw mechanism, a rocker slider mechanism and a parallelogram mechanism and driven by a stepper motor, is utilized to actively adapt to different pipeline diameters and keep a certain pressure between the crawler and pipeline inner wall. A set of butterfly springs arranged between the screw nut and slider are stressed to generate deformation to automatically adapt to the working conditions of pipeline joints, uneven-surface partial obstacles and the like in the pipeline. Three servomotors drive three sets of synchronous belt wheels to rotate through the transmission of a bevel gear and a cylindrical gear, thereby driving the three bifacial synchronous notched belts used as pipeline robot crawlers to move, and implementing the running function of the pipeline robot. The crawler-type pipeline robot has the simple structure, high operation and running safety, high environmental adaptability and wide application range, is convenient to use, and can work in pipelines with different diameters.

A computing device for state transitions of recursive state machines and a computer-implemented method for the definition, design and deployment of domain recursive state machines for computing devices of that type; such devices are intended for the simulation of large systems involving human and automated components, particularly the type generally called “Enterprise Applications”; such devices are also applicable to a much wider range of fields, such as cognitive modelling or robotics. The commonality between the computing device and the computer-implemented method is the Subject Predicate Object Protocol (SPOP) which is used to capture instructions by the computer-implemented method for the definition, design and deployment of recursive state machines and also is the protocol used by the computing device for state transitions of recursive state machines to communicate inbound and outbound events based on the captured instructions.

The invention relates to a combined type bionic quadruped robot controller, which is in a structure similar to a vertebrate nervous system, wherein the controller is divided into a decision layer, a planning layer and an execution layer which respectively correspond to a higher nervous center, a lower nervous center and a motor nerve of an animal. The decision layer for realizing that the robot senses the working environment and generates corresponding motion decision instructions consists of an ARM9 (advanced RISC (reduced instruction-set computer) machine 9) and an environmental information acquisition system, and a real-time operating system is embedded in the ARM9. The core of the planning layer is a walking pattern generator, and is used for planning and solving the motion parameters of each joint according to the decision instructions from the upper layer. The execution layer for controlling the current, the position and the speed of a driving motor in three closed loops consists of a motor controller using a digital signal processor as the core. Data can be effectively transmitted among the three layers in real time through a dual-port RAM (random-access memory) and a CAN (controller area network) bus network. The combined type bionic quadruped robot controller disclosed by the invention has the characteristics of high reliability, high flexibility, extension easiness and maintenance easiness, and has a broad application prospect in the technical field of bionic legged robots.

The invention discloses a gait planning method for walking of a biped robot along a slope, and belongs to the technical field of robots. The method contains two core theories, namely, non-orthogonal decomposition and synthesis of a three-dimensional linear inverted pendulum and gait planning based on a biped long linear inverted pendulum. The method comprises the steps of gait parameter configuration, non-orthogonal decomposition of a three-dimensional linear inverted pendulum, foot trajectory planning based on three times of spline interpolation, centroid trajectory planning of a sagittal plane and a coronal plane based on a biped long linear inverted pendulum, non-orthogonal synthesis of the centroid trajectories of the sagittal plane and the coronal plane, and solving of joint trajectories of a robot based on inverse kinematics. By adopting the method of the invention, stable walking of a biped robot along all directions of a slope can be effectively achieved. The method is universal, simple in algorithm and high in practicality.

The invention discloses a compliance control method based on collaborative operation of a double-arm robot. The method comprises the steps that a double-arm collaborative control module sets up a dynamic model according to an expected motion trail of target loads and expected force to obtain tail end expected poses and tail end expected force of all mechanical arms; a single-arm control module completes analysis and execution of an expected task instruction to obtain expected angles of all joints of the mechanical arms; and a drive module drives the mechanical arms to complete the task trail according to the planned expected joint angles. The invention further provides a compliance control method based on collaborative operation of the double-arm robot. According to the scheme, master-slave mode and share-based mode strategies are adopted for carrying out public force decomposition on the loads to obtain expected operation force of two mechanical arms, and then a master-slave mode compliance control method and a share-based compliance control method for double-arm collaborative operation are provided. The method is widely applied to the double-arm collaborative control field of robot technologies.

The invention discloses a joint track type travel mechanism, which relates to the technical field of vehicles and robots. To solve low climbing obstacle capability and other problems, the following technical proposal is presented: a joint track type travel mechanism includes a vehicle body (8) and a circuit, and is characterized in that the joint track type travel mechanism also includes four track legs (2), a swing arm, two synchronous belts (10), two sets of drive worm and worm wheel (16), four sets of swing arm worm and worm wheel (17), two drive transmission shafts (5), four swing arm transmission shafts (7), two drive motors (15), four swing arm motors(9), four swing arm driving gears (6), two front synchronous pulleys (2), two rear synchronous pulleys (11) and two rotational shafts (13). The invention has the advantages that a travel mechanism with distinctive style and structure is provided, which has strong climbing obstacle capability, can independently, flexibly and quickly climb the stairs and terrace depending on the mechanical and structural characteristics of the travel mechanism, without manual interference.

The invention relates to the technical field of a cleaning robot, and especially relates to a robot cleaner and a cleaning robot system. According to the cleaning robot provided by the invention, two mopping pieces on a mopping unit can rotate in the same direction or reverse direction around a vertical axial line in relative to a chassis of the cleaning robot, and a collecting opening of a garbage collecting device is arranged in the middle of two mopping units. Thus the relative movement between the mopping piece and the ground during the mopping process includes movement of the whole cleaning robot on the ground and also includes rotating movement of the mopping piece in relative to the ground, thus the mopping force is enhanced, and the mopping effect of the mopping piece is further improved. Besides, the rotating mopping piece can sweep large particles, dust and other garbage on the ground, so that the garbage collecting device can collect garbage collected by the mopping piece of two mopping unit rotated around the vertical axial line, namely, the rotating mopping piece can play the sweeping function at the same time, and the cleaning robot becomes the integrated robot of sweeping and mopping.

A master-slave control flexible continuum robot device and a control method thereof belong to the technical field of robots. The master-slave control flexible continuum robot device comprises a control arm, a mechanical arm and a control system. The mechanical arm is a trunk simulative flexible arm and achieves bending through a plurality of screw-driven flexible rods. A system enables the mechanical arm to complete the same actions by simulating the control actions of operators on the control arm, and therefore simple and visual control on the mechanical arm is achieved. The master-slave control flexible continuum robot device achieves visual master-slave control by aid of the characteristic that the control arm is similar to the mechanical arm and by combining the sensor and the controller; controls the mechanical arm through the scaled-down control arm; effectively reduces the control difficulty and is applicable to remote control operation. In addition, the master-slave control flexible continuum robot device can bend, extend and contract in multiple directions, has unique grabbing, operating and obstacle evading functions, and has a wide application prospect.

A low-cost scaleable turnkey system and method for archiving medical image data. The archive system and method permits the selective storing of medical data (including image data) received from a medical modality (e.g., CT, MRI, etc.) onto a removable medium (e.g., DVD or Blu-ray), which may subsequently be placed via robotics in a magazine within the system housing. In addition to directing the archiving of the medical data as described, software components of the archive system permit a specific medium in a magazine to be addressed, retrieved, and read as needed.

The invention discloses a three-move one-rotation four-freedom degree space parallel connection mechanism and belongs to the technical field of parallel connection robots. The mechanism comprises a moving platform, a fixed platform, a first branch chain, a second branch chain, a third branch chain and a fourth branch chain, wherein the moving platform and the fixed platform are used for installing an actuator, the first branch chain, the second branch chain, the third branch chain and the fourth branch chain are connected between the moving platform and the fixed platform and provided with the same structure, and the first branch chain, the second branch chain, the third branch chain and the fourth branch chain all contain a moving pair which is driven actively; and the first branch chain, the second branch chain, the third branch chain and the fourth branch chain are respectively connected with the fixed platform and the moving platform to form a space parallel connection closed-loop mechanism, the space parallel connection closed-loop mechanism moves through four output moving driving platforms, three-dimensional translation and one-dimensional rotation in the space can be achieved, the space parallel connection mechanism has a structural characteristic of a single platform, a high-speed high-dynamic response characteristic is achieved, and mechanism can be used in a sorting production line to achieve rapid capture motion.

The invention discloses a four-feet electromagnetic adsorption wall climbing robot. The four-feet electromagnetic adsorption wall climbing robot is formed by three parts, i.e. a chassis, walking legs and a foot adsorption apparatus. The walking leg comprises a multi-joint serial-connection mechanism connected onto the chassis and driving mechanisms installed at various joints, and a free end of the multi-joint serial-connection mechanism is connected with the foot adsorption apparatus; the foot adsorption apparatus comprises a plurality of disc mounting plates and electromagnetic suckers which are connected with the multi-joint serial-connection mechanism by virtue of passive ball hinges; and in the wall climbing process of the robot, the rotation action of each joint of the walking leg cooperates with the opening-closing state of an electromagnetic switch, so that the robot flexibly climbs a plane, a cylindrical surface and a spherical surface of any curvature and can flexibly realize the actions such as cornering and transverse movement. By adopting the four-feet electromagnetic adsorption wall climbing robot, the defects in the wall climbing process of a conventional wall climbing robot can be solved, the contradiction between the wall adsorption and the movement operation is well solved, the flexibility and applicability of the wall climbing robot in real engineering application are improved, and the popularization of the robot technology is facilitated.