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Robot system

US8301299B2 · kind B2 · utility

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Assignee

ABB AG · US

Inventors

Anders Lager · Västerås, SE
Fredrik Kange · Karlskrona, SE
Heiko Koziolek · Karlsruhe, DE
Roland Weiss · Iserlohn, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Sep 21, 2011
Grant date	Oct 30, 2012
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Sep 21, 2031

Classification

Technology area (CPC Y)Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
CPC primaryY02P90/02
WIPO fieldControl
WIPO sectorInstruments

Abstract

A robot system is disclosed which includes at least two robots, each having a related processing unit. The processing units are connected to each other via a network bus for data transmission, and distributed sensors are provided for gathering first and/or second measurement data within a local extension of the robot system. First measurement data gathered by at least one first sensor are transmissible to at least one processing unit related thereto. Second measurement data gathered by at least one second sensor are feedable into the network bus and provided to the at least two processing units connected thereto. The processing units can analyze the second measurement data as a variable dynamic share of workload for feeding result-data of the analysis into the network bus.

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