公开(公告)号：US20240012429A1

公开(公告)日：2024-01-11

申请号：US18253528

申请日：2021-11-30

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Zhibo Pang ,  Ognjen Dobrijevic ,  Pawel Wiatr ,  Krister Landernäs

IPC: G05D1/02

CPC classification number: G05D1/0291

Abstract: A safety network for supporting mobile robots in a facility including: one or more zone safety controllers each operating a zone safety loop responsible for a predefined zone of the facility, including monitoring zone safety sensors and taking actions in response to detected safety events with effect in the zone only; a fleet management system configured to perform mobile robot route planning and repeatedly associate each of the one or more mobile robots with a responsible zone safety controller; and wherein each zone safety loop exchanges safety event messages with an onboard safety loop in each mobile robot, for which the zone safety controller is responsible.

公开(公告)号：US20240408762A1

公开(公告)日：2024-12-12

申请号：US18551247

申请日：2021-03-26

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Krister Landernäs ,  Zhibo Pang ,  Ognjen Dobrijevic ,  Pawel Wiatr

IPC: B25J9/16 ,  B25J13/00 ,  G05B19/4155

Abstract: An industrial robot adapted for operation in a factory environment includes: sensors, actuators, a robot controller and a wireless interface configured to establish a sidelink to a further industrial robot or a group of industrial robots after a successful proximity verification. The industrial robot is configured to participate in execution of a utility task, which is carried out in collaboration with the further industrial robot or at least some members of the group of industrial robots, said collaboration including an exchange of operational data over the sidelink. An example utility task is the coordinated transfer of an object by multiple participating industrial robots. Another example is the collecting of map information by multiple participating industrial robots.

公开(公告)号：US20240356686A1

公开(公告)日：2024-10-24

申请号：US18687644

申请日：2021-09-06

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Zhibo Pang ,  Pawel Wiatr ,  Ognjen Dobrijevic ,  Jörgen Gade

IPC: H04L1/22 ,  G05B19/418 ,  H04L43/0829 ,  H04L43/087 ,  H04L43/0888

CPC classification number: H04L1/22 ,  H04L43/0829 ,  H04L43/087 ,  H04L43/0888 ,  G05B19/41855

Abstract: A control network for supporting multiple industrial automation devices which operate in radio coverage of at least one radio access network includes: a processor configured to execute applications; at least two wireless network interfaces, each configured to communicate with the automation devices; and a traffic controller configured to provide a logical connection from an executing application to one of the automation devices by maintaining at least two contemporaneous physical connections using respective wireless network interfaces and the radio access network. The control network is further configured to repeatedly adapt a physical redundancy of the logical connection. In some embodiments, the control network is configured to determine a level of independence between the physical connections on the basis of measurements, and adapt the redundancy accordingly. The level of independence may be determined by comparing time series of a quality-of-service related quantity.

公开(公告)号：US20240187356A1

公开(公告)日：2024-06-06

申请号：US18553775

申请日：2021-04-09

Applicant: ABB Schweiz AG

Inventor： Zhibo Pang ,  Krister Landernäs ,  Ognjen Dobrijevic ,  Pawel Wiatr

IPC: H04L47/83 ,  G01C21/20 ,  G05D1/692 ,  H04L41/147 ,  H04L47/70 ,  H04W4/02

CPC classification number: H04L47/83 ,  G01C21/206 ,  G05D1/692 ,  H04L41/147 ,  H04L47/823 ,  H04W4/02

Abstract: A control network for supporting one or more mobile robots operable in a facility includes: a fleet management system authorized to perform path planning and path execution for the mobile robots; and a network management system authorized to configure and perform resource allocation in an access network, which is operable to provide the mobile robots with wireless connectivity in the facility. The respective authorities of the FMS and NMS are mutually exclusive, and the FMS is configured to generate, on the basis of the path planning, a predictive network resource request and share this with the NMS. A vertical application layer server is configured to generate a network resource request which specifies a future location of said one or more VAL UEs. A network resource management server is configured to generate a QoS forecast for one or more VAL UEs.