Program robots with off-line design
    2.
    发明申请
    Program robots with off-line design 审中-公开
    程序机器人脱机设计

    公开(公告)号:US20060152533A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-13

    申请号:US10502006

    申请日:2002-12-19

    申请人: Dale Read

    发明人: Dale Read

    IPC分类号: G09G5/00

    摘要: A method of programming a robot for operation in a robot manufacturing facility, for example for automobile manufacture, comprises firstly, establishing sets of design data including data relating to dimensions and relative positions of parts of a robot, positions of a robot base and of product handling and transporting equipment in a manufacturing cell and design data relating to dimensions and positions of parts of the proposed product, and secondly establishing a robot program by processing that data. The robot program established comprises data and instructions for movement of defined parts of the robot for manufacturing or assembly tasks to be carried out by the robot in that manufacturing cell. The method further comprises, thirdly, operating a virtual model of the robot in a virtual model of the manufacturing cell to check operability and fourthly, after such adjustment as may be necessary to secure operability at the virtual level, operating the corresponding real robot in the corresponding real cell. The real robot and/or manufacturing cell incorporates beams for sensing the real positions of the operative part or parts of the real robot in relation to the real workpiece or product, supported by the real product handling or transporting equipment. At this stage, the method further comprises determining corrections required to bring the operative part or parts of the robot into the desired positions with respect to the real workpiece supported by the real product handling and transporting equipment in the cell, and applying these corrections to the design data originally processed to establish a revised program for controlling the real robot in the real cell.

    摘要翻译: 一种编程机器人在机器人制造设备中操作的方法,例如用于汽车制造的方法包括首先,建立一组设计数据,包括与机器人部件的尺寸和相对位置有关的数据,机器人基座和产品的位置 在制造单元中处理和运输设备并设计与所提出的产品的部件的尺寸和位置相关的数据,其次通过处理该数据来建立机器人程序。 建立的机器人程序包括用于机器人的限定部分的移动的数据和指令,用于制造或组装任务由机器人在该制造单元中执行。 该方法还包括:第三,在制造单元的虚拟模型中操作机器人的虚拟模型以检查可操作性;第四,在可能需要进行这样的调整以确保虚拟水平的可操作性之后,将对应的真实机器人操作在 相应的真实单元格。 真正的机器人和/或制造单元包括用于感测真实机器人的操作部分或实际位置相对于由实际产品处理或运输设备支撑的实际工件或产品的实际位置的梁。 在这个阶段,该方法还包括确定将机器人的操作部分或部分相对于由实际产品处理和传输设备在单元中支撑的实际工件所需的位置所需的校正,并将这些校正应用于 原始处理的设计数据建立用于控制真实小区中的真实机器人的修改的程序。

    Monitoring System
    3.
    发明申请
    Monitoring System 审中-公开
    监视系统

    公开(公告)号:US20120144032A1

    公开(公告)日:2012-06-07

    申请号:US13391161

    申请日:2010-08-24

    申请人: Dale Read

    发明人: Dale Read

    IPC分类号: G06F15/173 H04W24/00

    摘要: A monitoring unit having at least one interface to receive information from at least one device to be monitored, the monitoring unit further having a data transmitter operable wirelessly to communicate information relating to the at least one device to a remote server, accessible by a user remote from the server.

    摘要翻译: 一种监测单元,具有至少一个接口,用于从至少一个要监视的设备接收信息,所述监测单元还具有数据发射器,所述数据发射器可无线地操作以将与至少一个设备有关的信息传送到远程服务器,由用户远程 从服务器。

    Auto Motion: Robot Guidance for Manufacturing
    4.
    发明申请
    Auto Motion: Robot Guidance for Manufacturing 审中-公开
    汽车运动:机器人制造指导

    公开(公告)号:US20060167587A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-27

    申请号:US10502003

    申请日:2002-10-18

    申请人: Dale Read

    发明人: Dale Read

    IPC分类号: G06F19/00

    摘要: A robot manufacturing facility, for example for use in automobile manufacture, includes at least one robot for acting on a workpiece or intermediate product of a pre-calculated shape and dimensions at a pre-calculated position and orientation relative to a reference frame. The robot includes a body or base structure, at least one end effector movable with respect to the body or base structure for acting on workpieces, means for moving the end effector and sensing means for sensing the position of the each effector. The sensing means preferably includes a laser light source carried by the robot and means for detecting laser light, from said source, reflected from the workpiece. The movement of the end effector is controlled according to a predetermined program, modified in accordance with signals from the sending means, so that the robot is able to compensate for departures from pre-calculated values of the position and orientation and/or shape and/or dimensions of the workpiece.

    摘要翻译: 例如用于汽车制造的机器人制造设备包括至少一个机器人,用于相对于参考框架以预先计算的位置和取向作用在预先计算的形状和尺寸的工件上或中间产品上。 机器人包括主体或基部结构,至少一个端部执行器可相对于主体或基部结构移动,用于作用在工件上,用于移动末端执行器的装置和用于感测每个执行器的位置的感测装置。 感测装置优选地包括由机器人携带的激光源和用于从所述源检测来自工件反射的激光的装置。 末端执行器的移动根据根据来自发送装置的信号进行修改的预定程序来控制,使得机器人能够补偿偏离位置和方向的预先计算的值和/或形状和/ 或工件的尺寸。

    3d virtual manufacturing process
    5.
    发明申请
    3d virtual manufacturing process 审中-公开
    3d虚拟制造流程

    公开(公告)号:US20060155402A1

    公开(公告)日:2006-07-13

    申请号:US10502004

    申请日:2002-11-20

    申请人: Dale Read

    发明人: Dale Read

    IPC分类号: G06F19/00

    摘要: A method of is disclosed of checking the feasibility or other properties of a process involving movement and/or assembly of items or components. The method comprises setting up, within a computer, in terms of corresponding sets of data, a virtual three-dimensional space and, in such space, virtual versions of the items or components concerned, represented by corresponding sets of data, and operating a program in the computer so as to manipulate the virtual items or components in that virtual space. The method makes it possible to determine, by operation of the computer, potential difficulties in manipulating corresponding real items or components in real space. The method can be used to set up, within a computer, a virtual factory in virtual manufacturing premises with dimensions corresponding to the real premises available, with virtual machinery with data as to dimensions, to positioning, movement and timing of such machinery, and virtual personnel with corresponding data as to dimensions, limits of safe movement, speed of movement and the like. It is thus readily possible to adjust the data which is variable, and thus represents degrees of freedom, to arrive at an efficient workable arrangement.

    摘要翻译: 公开了一种检查涉及项目或组件的移动和/或组装的过程的可行性或其它性质的方法。 该方法包括在计算机内根据相应的数据集合,虚拟三维空间和在这样的空间中设置由对应的数据集合表示的相关项目或组件的虚拟版本,以及操作程序 在计算机中,以便操纵该虚拟空间中的虚拟物品或组件。 该方法使得可以通过计算机的操作来确定在实际空间中操纵相应的实际项目或组件的潜在困难。 该方法可用于在计算机内建立虚拟制造场所中的虚拟工厂,其具有与可用的真实场所相对应的尺寸,具有关于尺寸的数据的虚拟机械,以及这些机器的定位,移动和定时以及虚拟 具有尺寸,安全移动限制,运动速度等相应数据的人员。 因此,可以容易地调整可变的数据,从而代表自由度,以达到有效的可操作的布置。