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Teaching apparatus for robot

US4831548A · kind A · utility

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Filing dateOct 23, 1986
Grant dateMay 16, 1989
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Expiry dateOct 23, 2006

Classification

  • Technology area (CPC G)Physics
  • CPC primaryG05B2219/36017
  • WIPO fieldControl
  • WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

Disclosed is a teaching apparatus for a robot comprising a graphic display capable of displaying characters, symbols, and figures, a pointing device capable of indicating any point on the display screen, a storage for storing character, symbol, and graphic information, and an arithmetic and logic unit for taking in three dimensional data and data of hand coordinates system stored in the storage, calculating a conversion matrix t.sub.v for conversion to data of hand coordinates system and a conversion matrix T.sub.p for projection to the hand coordinates system, converting three dimensional data to two dimensional data according to the thus calculated conversion matrices T.sub.v and T.sub.p, and allowing a display of surroundings viewed from a view point of the robot in motion or at rest to be made on the graphic display.

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