Method and device for controlling a robot

US6522951B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• KUKA Roboter GmbH · DE

Inventors

• Hans Born · Bremen, DE
• Johannes Stelter · Gilching, DE
• Bernhard Steinmetz · Meiningen, DE
• Jens Bunsendahl · Augsburg, DE
• Ralf Koeppe · Hanerau-Hademarschen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 8, 2000
• Grant date: Feb 18, 2003
• Expiry date: Dec 8, 2020

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G05B2219/40414
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A method and a device for controlling a robot on the basis of data from sensors with their own sensor data structures. For solving the problem of adapting to different sensors and their data structures and consequently permitting in simple manner the use of different sensors without intervening in the actual robot control program, according to the system the sensor data are processed to robot control data with a control data structure usable by a system control program and a processing device suitable for the same is provided.