公开(公告)号：US20240293932A1

公开(公告)日：2024-09-05

申请号：US18556962

申请日：2021-04-29

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Per Willför ,  Roger Kulläng ,  Anders Ekelund

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J9/00

CPC classification number: B25J9/1664 ,  B25J9/0081 ,  B25J9/161

Abstract: A method of programming a manipulator, the method including providing a movement path for execution by the manipulator, the movement path having a plurality of points including a start point and an end point and at least one movement segment between the plurality of points; moving the manipulator to a path modifying position; and modifying the movement path from the start point to the end point based on the path modifying position upon receiving a modification input from a user. A control system for programming a manipulator, and an industrial robot including the manipulator and a control system, are also provided.

公开(公告)号：US20240149453A1

公开(公告)日：2024-05-09

申请号：US18549952

申请日：2021-03-16

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Roger Kulläng ,  Anders Ekelund

IPC: B25J9/16

CPC classification number: B25J9/1671

Abstract: The invention is concerned with a robot control system and a method of controlling a robot where the robot control system includes a human-machine interface; a real robot control environment including a real robot and a real robot controller controlling the real robot and a cloud-hosted robot control environment including a virtual robot controller, which is a replica of the real robot controller, where the human-machine interface is configured to transfer a robot change instruction from a user to the cloud-hosted robot control environment, the virtual robot controller is configured to validate the robot change instruction and the real robot controller is configured to apply the validated robot change instruction when controlling the real robot.